Pravin Kancherla

312-***-**** acfv94@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

• Technology/Strategy Professional with extensive experience in product management

and design that spans small to large scale businesses; internally and as a

consultant. Experience in wide variety of business domains that include healthcare,

finance and technology with demonstrated ability to bring products from

conception to commercialization.

• Demonstrated cross functional leadership, strong team building skills and

keen sense for team dynamics with consistent ability to deliver projects on time,

within budget with high quality and predictability .

• Brings entrepreneurial spirit with tenacity to drive decisions in uncertainty.

Demonstrated ability to utilize hypothesis driven problem solving and strong

analytical skills to drive insights that provide creative, pragmatic solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to engage C-level executives and Senior Management

in all aspects of business management (strategy, finance, IT, growth opportunities,

working capital, cost management and other operational issues) with the foresight to

think through the impact of decisions.

• Skilled in strategy, corporate/business development, industry/competitive

analysis, valuation and due diligence.

EDUCATION

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Master of Business Administration - Concentration in Finance, Management and Strategy 2011

• Relevant Courses: Business/Marketing Strategy, Managerial Leadership, Financial Decisions,

Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Entrepreneurship and New Ventures, Turnaround Management,

International Business.

• Corporate valuation and financial modeling workshop - Training the Street, Inc.

University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA

Master of Science in Computer Science

2002

College of Engineering, Osmania University Hyderabad, AP, India

• Bachelor of Engineering

1998

EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant, Chicago 2012 – Present

Strategy Consultant

Advised on go-to-market strategy and valuation for a Chicago based small

business looking to raise venture capital. Also conducted market research and exit

strategy for the firm.

Provided strategy and investment advice for the Partners at a boutique consulting

firm looking to diversify and expand.

Sourced deals for VC firms and made introductions to couple of startup firms in

Life Science and Gaming technology industry.

Pravin Kancherla (cont.)

Conducted market/industry research and developed investment thesis for

Technology, Healthcare and Life Science industries. Applied the research to invest

and develop portfolio allocation.

Performed due diligence, exit/valuation analysis and strategic planning for

OnShift, a VC backed portfolio firm, by developing a bottom-up revenue growth

model. The analysis helped with forecasting, planning and defining sales goals

which provided clarity on strategic initiatives needed to develop technical and

marketing capabilities.

Evaluated and analyzed an investment proposal from Cleveland Clinic for Early

Stage Partners. Provided recommendations of alternate investments to support

efficient capital allocation, based on industry analysis of M&A and VC Healthcare

investment trends.

GE Healthcare, Barrington, IL 2006 – 2012

Product Management Lead/Project Manager

Over a 5 year period, developed a next generation Electronic Medical Record

(EMR) infrastructure product that generated $250MM in R&D capitalization.

Rescued clinical documentation project and ensured adherence to agile practices

that resulted in delivering the project ahead of schedule ($1MM in savings) and

which allowed absorption of additional scope while improving productivity.

Demonstrated cross functional leadership through all aspects of product

management/development that included developing requirements analysis/user

stories working with multiple stake holders, project planning, estimation, testing,

implementation, validation/verification and risk mitigation strategies.

Collaborated with globally dispersed teams comprising of 200 engineers and 10

component teams to design and develop an application suite for clinical

documentation and patient management.

Demonstrated strong leadership and team building skills through

coaching/mentoring a team of 25 software engineers; challenged assumptions and

asked insightful questions that clarified design to provide stronger solutions.

New Generation Consultants and SR International Inc, Chicago, IL May 2005 – Nov 2006

Consultant/Architect

Quickly aligned with client specific needs and delivered enhancements to

Hedge Accounting applications to Quantitative Risk Management Inc. and Federal

Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

Provided strategic direction to senior management and, led the architecture

and implementation team to deliver a project for Fortis Clearing America three

months ahead of schedule, providing flexibility in an M&A situation as well as

savings of $350K.

Led a team of 15 engineers and delivered Centralized Parking Management

System for Equity Office Properties (EOP), on time and at budget of $5MM.

Pravin Kancherla (cont.)

Star Software Systems, Warner Robins, GA Jan 2002 – Apr 2005

Software Engineer/Project Lead

Ensured the delivery of a robust and high quality automated centralized system

to track over $330 million of contract repair requirements and which generated

$2MM in revenue.

Delivered an ROI of $8MM to the client through Unified Financial Activities

System that integrated different Product Directorate’s (PD's) Activity Based Costing

(ABC) Model with information gathered from various financial systems.

Designed and implemented recovery, repair and reclamation program that

provided accountability and visibility of $1.5B in inventory and helped track and

control material across different facilities and installations of the customer.

Led the product definition, design and implementation of Adaptive Image

Retrieval System (AIRS) and Image Annotation tool to develop the product from

concept to market, aimed at commercializing research work done at University of

Louisiana.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Technologies: C#.NET, ASP.NET, WinForms, SmartClient Applications, Enterprise

Library, WebServices, MSMQ, MSXML, XAML, WPF, .NET Remoting, Nunit, NunitAsp, NMock, VS

.NET, Visio, IIS, SQL Server Reporting Services, Windows Forms, VC++.NET

Java Technologies: J2EE (Servlets, JNI, RMI, Java Mail, JMS, EJB, JNDI), JSP, Log4J,

Oracle9iAS Toplink Mapping Work Bench (relational object modeling), Junit, JMock, Spring, Spring

DM, OSGI, Hibernate, Coherence Cache, Web Services, SOA, EAI, REST, JSON, jQuery, Android

Framework, Hadoop, Cloud Computing.

Smart Card Technologies: MS PC/SC API, ISO 7816, PCSC Smart Card Specification, CardLogix

WinPlex API, Mcard API

Other Technologies: XML, XSLT, XPATH, XStream, C, C++, OTCL, HL7

Databases: Oracle 9/10/11 (SQL, PL/SQL), MS SQL Server 2005

Operating Systems: Unix (Sun Solaris 8.0, Linux), Windows 2000/XP, Cygwin

Packages/Tools: Maven, Apache Ant 1.5, Tomcat, IIS, Rational Rose, JDeveloper, Eclipse,

Java Service, (VSS)Visual Source Safe 6.0, Enterprise Architect, Accurev

Others: Oracle Applications 11.5(OM, HRMS, GL, AP, AR, CM), Concurrent Programming, Oracle

9i DS(Discoverer 4.0, Reports Developer)

Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile (XP/Scrum), Object Oriented Analysis and Design

(OOAD), Design Patterns (MVC, MVP, Abstract Factory, Singleton, Dependency Injection ).

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Organized GE ICare-2008 fund raising campaign to raise $27K with 60% participation at

Barrington.

• Volunteered for Chicago Food Depository, Junior Achievement Program and TiE

mid-west chapter.

• Co-chair for professional development committee at Kellogg Alumni Club of

Chicago. (FY 2012)

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