ANANDA RAKHIT

**** ****** ***** *****, ***** Creek, GA 30097

770-***-**** acziub@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ananda-rakhit

CHIEF INFORMATION/TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Seasoned IT executive highly skilled at applying technology solutions/applications, analytics, and process

re-engineering to solve business problems. Extensive accomplishments in e-commerce business

implementations, web optimization and utilizing applications for operational efficiency. Broad technology

credentials include fleet management, price optimization, process re-engineering, and hardware/software

applications/deployment. Industry experience in equipment rentals, transportation, and system design

and technology startups.

EXPERIENCE

N ES RENTALS INC. Deerfield, IL 2006 Present

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7 largest construction equipment provider in the US, privately held by Diamond Castle Holdings, NY.

Chief Information Officer and Vice President

Report to CEO/Chairman of NES Rentals; board meeting participant. Lead functional team of 30

employees and consultants. Accountable for data center, web development, communication tools,

systems reliability, analytical tools and uptime. Annual budget range $5-10 million depending upon

infrastructure upgrade needs.

Maintained and enhanced point-of-sale, financial, employee intranet, telephone systems, and

data centers supporting 75 branches located around the US, resulting in exceptional reliability

and availability.

Fully restructured nesrentals.com to add e-commerce capabilities including end-to-end online

rental and account management accessibility from fixed and mobile devices. Visits increased

>50% and e-commerce revenue grew by 30%, putting customer engagement on par with

larger competitors.

Completed Price Optimization and Fleet Management Systems for buying, allocating, and

selling equipment using Statistical and Operations Research methodologies on large data

sources. Built systems for gathering daily market intelligence from sales and for distributing

price guidance for equipment categories, updated daily via iPads and iPhones. Price

Optimization estimated 2-3% annual improvement in total revenue or $6 million. Fleet

management systems estimated to have impacted earnings by >$5 million per year.

Improved operational efficiency by bar-coding entire 20,000-equipment fleet and tracking

from delivery, to pickup, to maintenance via iPhone apps. Jointly developed telematics

solutions with San Jose, CA hardware company.

AUTOM ATIC D ATA PROCESSING Atlanta, GA 2003 2006

Global provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management solutions that unite HR, payroll,

talent, time, tax, benefits, business outsourcing services, analytics, and compliance.

Vice President/Senior Director Product Development

Managed team of 70 software professionals in Atlanta, New Jersey, and India to enhance and maintain

ADPs cloud-based HR and Benefits Administration products for mid-market segment.

Repaired and enhanced product which scaled to support 300% customer growth in 2 years

with 99.97% reliability. Product came to ADP as an acquisition and involved significant

technical, personnel, and unit cost challenges.

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Improved look-and-feel and made numerous enhancements via 6 product releases in 2

years. Integrated the UI to the ADP Portal to enable seamless access to payroll and benefits

tools for customers.

Built a software development team from scratch at ADPs existing facilities in India, Included

hiring managers and developers, training them on the product remotely and in Atlanta.

C ADENCE DESIGN SYSTEM S San Jose, CA 2001 2002

Cadence is a leading provider of electronic design automation and semiconductor intellectual property.

CTO of IT and Vice President

Recruited by CIO to set IT direction on supporting disparate product development platforms as company

faced challenges in product direction. Worked with business units on IT framework for streamlining

product development.

C ROSSVUE INC. San Jose, CA 2000 2001

Startup with majority funding from Crosspoint Venture Partners. Business included digitized retail

receipts for dispute resolution and cross selling through data mining and analysis.

CTO and Vice President

Managed 70 professionals in US and in Sri Lanka. Deployed solution for Virgin Music Group and

American Express. Appointed President by VC owners during merger with point-of-sale entity.

E - FIRE INC. 2000 2001

Founding Team Member and CTO

E-commerce company in the B2B space of the fire, safety, and security industry.

Helped secure angel investor funding, VC term sheet, and letter of intent from a Fortune 500

company. Developed platform technical architecture.

U NITED A IRLINES Elk Grove Village, Illinois 1988 2000

$20 billion global airline and diversified transportation services company.

Director Architecture and Flight Ops Systems 1995 2000

Reporting to the CIO, led large teams in Chicago, other US locations, and India with a total budget of over

$35 million.

Led IT team to work with marketing in building united.com website for selling tickets. This

pioneering site, generating $700 million in ticket revenues in its first year, was named best

airline travel site by Gomez advisors. Included development and implementation of speech

recognition solutions.

Modernized Uniteds Operations Control Center with workstations providing unified access to

weather tools, mathematical models for real-time flight data and crew schedule repair and

access to legacy applications.

Developed a Cargo Data Warehouse and a meal-ordering system for 70 worldwide locations

saving $2 million in costs.

Launched Skytech Solutions in India as a joint venture between United and the TCG group

for transportation software development. Coordinated all business, legal, and technology

aspects of company formation and served on its board of directors. The business grew to

100 employees within a year.

Section Manager, Staff Analyst 1988 1995

Worked in Operations Research unit, pioneered the use of analytical tools and systems for daily flight

operations with several noteworthy accomplishments.

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Advanced flight planning system saving $30 million in fuel costs.

Jointly built systems for managing schedule disruptions with University of Texas scientists.

Real-Time graphical gate management platform deployed at Chicago, San Francisco, Los

Angeles, and Dulles airports to streamline Uniteds gate operations.

Developed algorithm system to efficiently route over 500 aircraft for maintenance.

C OAL INDIA, LTD. Kolkata, India 1979 1980

Worlds largest coal mining company with mining and processing operations throughout India.

Safety Officer Trainee

Reporting to the mine manager, assisted senior officers in supervising safety operations in underground

coal mine.

EDUCATION

PhD Systems Engineering University of Arizona, Tucson, 1988

MTech Industrial Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, 1982

BTech Mining Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, 1979

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/BOARD ROLES

Advisory Board member of Ayantra, LLC, a Fremont, CA-based Telematics Company

Founded Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS)

Skytech Solutions Member of the Board of Directors, 1999 2000

ANANDA RAKHIT Addendum

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

IT Takes an Aerial Lift Company to New Heights. Interview with Peter High published in CIO Insights

Oct 2015 issue.

"A Decision Support Framework for Airline Flight Cancellations and Delays," with co-authors.

Transportation Science, vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 266-280, Operations Research Society of America (1993),

United States.

System Operations Advisor: A Real-Time Decision Support System for Managing Airline Operations as

United Airlines," principal author. Interfaces 26:2 Mar.-Apr., pp. 50-58, Institute for Operations Research

and the Management Sciences (1996).

Modeling of an airline operations control center as a queueing network, with co-authors.

Conference Paper, July 1998 IEEE American Control Conference.

A Stagewise Compromise Programming Framework for Multi-stage Multiple Objective Decision Making

Problems," principal author. Control Theory and Advanced Technology, special issue on Multi-objective

Discrete Dynamic Systems, pp. 413- 441.

Sequential rank-one/rank-two updates for quasi-Newton differential dynamic programming, principal

author. Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 11, pp. 95-101, 1990.

Quoted in various publications, for example, Inbound Logistics, Computerworld and CIO Insight.

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