Jhansi Pilli
**** ** ******* **, *********, OR, *7124, Cell: 217-***-****, E-mail: ******.*****@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A highly motivated professional committed to a long-term career in supply chain management, strategic planning, and
operations management. My professional experience includes robust engineering background, strong analytical, problem
solving, oral and communication skills, ability to work in teams, excellent knowledge of supply chain and logistics
principles and four years’ experience in project management, preparing and presenting data analysis and report writing.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Portland State University, and GPA: 3.9/4.0 December 2012
Area of Focus: Supply Chain Management & Logistics
Honors: Awarded two-year graduate assistantship
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering (MS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2006
Honors: Awarded full financial aid
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering (B-Tech), Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), Chennai, India May 2003
Honors: Ranked among top 1% out of 200,000 students in IIT-JEE, 1999
RELEVANT COURSE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Sustainable Operations - Littlefield simulation – Our team won this competition with the most cash at the end of the
game. Littlefield is an online competitive simulation focusing on capacity, utilization, inventory & lead-time management.
Global Integrated Supply Chain Management - Analyzed and made superior managerial decisions for real business
supply and logistics cases (~14) in this case study based course that integrates all of the fundamental concepts
Sourcing Strategy & Planning - Best Sourcing Practices Project – Completed a collective study of real life application of
sourcing/operational strategies that worked for Nike identifying the key best practices.
MBA Consulting Project - Worked as a capstone consultant at Earth Advantage Institute. Determined Home Asset Portal
(HAPii) app feasibility and suggested appropriate next steps by performing financial analysis with emphasis on NPV, IRR
and ROI in order to successfully fund and ultimately launch the product.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project and People Management
• Worked with team members and project managers in developing environmental sustainable solutions for various soil
and groundwater contaminated sites in Illinois
• Managed preparing a qualitative report evaluating viability of monitored natural attenuation under a tight deadline
• Developed and trained on-field technical teams on procedures to conduct a dissolved gas sampling for a multi-
million project in Illinois
• Managed field data procurement logistics and maintained balanced scorecard and dashboard and sustained project
performance against schedule
• Established scope of work for subcontractors, prepared cost estimates, negotiated costs and managed subcontractors
during project execution phase
Communication: Reports/Presentations
• Developed a future business plan and provided strategic guidance to the management at Portland Festival Ballet
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Job Safety Analysis (JSAs) related to groundwater and soil
vapor remediation systems
• Prepared quarterly & annual groundwater investigation reports to submit to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Problem Solving and Analytical
• Performed an advanced statistical analysis on soil sample data in MS Excel
• Performed extensive environmental data analysis: Created bar graphs and charts in MS Excel and tables, queries and
reports in MS Access for internal reporting and frequent quality checks
Financial Analysis
• Performed financial analysis on the on-going operations and NPV analysis to evaluate long-term financial costs and
benefits for Portland Festival Ballet School’s new facility.
• Worked as a graduate assistant to a finance professor and an accounting professor at Portland State University
assisting in financial analysis and research for the development of teaching materials.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Graduate Assistant, Portland State University, Portland, OR Sep 2010 – June 2012
Volunteer Management Intern, Portland Festival Ballet, Beaverton, OR Aug 2011 – Nov 2011
Staff Engineer II, CH2M HILL, Tempe, AZ July 2008 – June 2010
Environmental Engineer I, URS Corporation, Chicago, IL June 2006 – June 2008