Six Sigma, PMP, Business Analysis, Project Management

Akhilesh Kumar

Ph: +1-647-***-**** Email: **.*****@*****.***

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Canadian Open Work Permit till January 2017

Career Summary

● Entrepreneurial DNA Currently buof an investor backed technology company.

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● 10 yrs of experience in driving strategic usiness transformation engagements

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● Subject Matter Expert: ocurement and supply chain process re engineering rograms.

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● Program Leader ed high impact cross functional teams.

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● Expertise in leading orporate Operational Excellence Program

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● CXO Engagement nteraction & Advisory., I

● Global work experience orked in US, Dubai, India.

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Key Career Achievements

● Successfully increased st Money valuation f Urbanzeak Inc to over $800K

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● Hired and onboarded a key leadership employee t Urbanzeak Inc : Postdoctoral Research

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Scholar in Computation Algorithm joined as Chief Data Scientist

● Successfully improved the tal Spend under Management y 27%, reduced averick Spend y

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17% and reduced pplier base y 32% for a leading bank in Middle East. (Genpact)

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● Quality Employee of the Year 2007, C BRAVO Special Recognition award r Excellence –

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2008, ecial Recognition Award 2009 (Carrier Corporation)

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● Successfully led Carrier Corporation, UAE to CE Silver Certification 2011

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● Reduced overall holding inventory by $20Mn 9 months and proved inventory turns y 3

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● Led a project to re engineer the nancial Forecasting and Planning process hich lead to

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considerable impact on Forecast Accuracy (Carrier)

● Responsible for leading a large scale rvice Business Transformation Project ich had a

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tangible impact on IT(+3%) nd ustomer Satisfaction (+4 basis pts) arrier)

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● Lead a large scale ld staff restructuring engagement esponsible for driving a man capital

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assessment exercise using a Performance Potential Matrix arrier)

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● Member of Passport review board for TEA (Service Workflow Management) implementation

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● Member of Passport review board for P Re Engineering Program (Carrier)

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Education

● BE (2003) – Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering om Regional

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Engineering College, Trichy

● Six Sigma Black Belt ertification

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● Achieving Competitive Excellence Quality Program Associate Certification

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● PMP roject Management Professional) Certification

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● Trained on IBA urce to Pay platform

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● Certified O 9001:2008 ead Auditor

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● Trained on Advanced MS Excel, MS Visio & MS Project

Global Work Experience

Urbanzeak Inc, New York/India

Chief Executive Officer

Sept 2012 Present Date

● Business leader t a Big Data based technology company. Responsible for driving an Idea to a

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successful business.

● Drive Corporate Strategy nd the business planning. Responsible for building the business model

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and perfecting the oduct Market fit

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● Responsible for driving the rative Lean Product Development Program

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● Drive ustomer Acquisition Strategies nd lead the To Market

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● Responsible for vestor due diligence egotiations and vestor relations

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Genpact LLC (A Subsidiary of GE), India

Associate Vice President Supply Chain Practice

May 2012 Sept 2012

● Lead procurement and supply chain transformation programs r global clients across global

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geographies and industry verticals

● Lead the pply chain diagnostics and solutioning process r global clients

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● Drive cross functional teams in ocurement operations enablement

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● Refinement of existing urce to Pay Practice Framework develop best practice repositories,

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refinement of existing schema, benchmarks and insights.

● Responsible for implementing an integrated erational excellence framework (CMP – Common

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Minimum Program) ithin the supply chain practice.

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Carrier Corporation (United Technologies Corporation), UAE

Senior Manager Business Transformation & Operational Excellence

Nov 2008 Apr 2012

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different strategic business units.

● Change management leader sponsible to drive change & operational excellence across different

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value streams.

● Conduct rocess assessments, identify opportunities and devise strategic solutions

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● Management Representative for ACE chieving Competitive Excellence – UTC’s Global Quality

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● Lead lue Stream Process Management vents for an Implementation

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● Responsible for implementation of alance scorecard model drive rformance management

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within Middle East operations

Carrier Corporation (United Technologies Corporation), UAE

Assistant Manager Procurement & Inventory

Aug 2006 Nov 2008

● Supplier selection, pplier capability assessment nd riodic supplier evaluation

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● Responsible for ventory turnover targets nd periodic ventory forecasting EMEA HQ

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● Pilot the nual Inventory Procurement Plan ocal point for all management reports

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● Co Pilot ACE (UTC’s Operating System for Operational Excellence)

● Drive AP MM Re engineering projects y identifying procurement workflow improvements

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● Ownership of the aterial master

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Saint Gobain Glass, India

Product Engineer

June 2003 Aug 2006

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