SUSHMITHA
KANUKURTHI
ANALYTICS LEADER MENTOR & COACH
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
● Seasoned Analytics Leader with
15+ years experience; known for
inclusive leadership style and strong
business acumen
● Expertise in developing
comprehensive data science
strategies via thorough planning,
execution, and balancing mission
critical work vs long term priorities
● Experience spearheading the
consulting arm worth multi-million
dollars for over 15 client relationships
● Coached C-suite leaders to
implement robust data governance
mechanisms across their companies
● Developed multi-year roadmaps to
move Fortune 500 clients up the
analytics value chain from reporting
to AI-ML based decision making
● Evangelized analytics across
cross-functional teams spanning IT,
Marketing, Digital, Sales, and
Engineering
● Built world class teams by:
Mentoring 100+ data scientists,
consultants, and engineers.
Responsible for goal setting,
establishing 360 degree feedback
mechanism; hiring, onboarding,
and firing
Grew teams from nascent
accounts to multi-million dollar
relationships
CONTACT DETAILS
LINKEDIN PROFILE
adgrhu@r.postjobfree.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
The Pregnancy Pause Sep’19-Present
Fractal Analytics, Associate Director Mar’12-Sep’19
● Pioneered the consulting arm for a $3bn CPG client; managed a 20 member distributed team to drive digital transformation by simplifying data access for 100+ users in the company. Developed a 3-year roadmap for analytics strategy. Deliverables include:
Collaborated with 6 VPs across diverse business functions and identified 20 use cases; eliminated the need for nearly 100 reports
Conducted design thinking workshops for senior leadership, recommended changes to existing BI technology stack; moved client from Excel to Tableau and drove change management within the organization to seamlessly adopt new technology
Partnered with data engineering to establish ETL mappings and built data models for 17+ data sources using star schemas. Established governance mechanism for storing, processing and cataloging of data
Assessed data quality across all data sources; automated data validations to increase accuracy of existing insights
Conceptualized, designed, and implemented KPIs for company wide analytics solutions and executive reporting
● Led the insights arm for a $16bn client; drove real-time decision making by reducing delivery cycle from 1 month to 2 days IBM India, Advisory Senior Consultant Sep’08-Mar’12
● Deployed a Regression based targeting model across 21 countries in Asia, which helped capture 40% more revenues for their servers Marketics Technologies, Lead statistician Nov’06-Aug’08
● Recommended a CHAID based customer targeting exercise for a catalog campaign for a leading retail giant in India; implemented a design of experiments resulting in additional $3.2mm in revenues Genpact, Consultant Jun’05-Nov’06
Citigroup Global Services Jun’01-Oct’02
SKILLS
● Leadership: Strategic thinking, People Management
● Data science: Regression, Decision trees, Clustering, A/B testing, Time Series Forecasting, Dashboarding & Visualization
● Technical: SQL (MS SQL Svr, Hive), Tableau, Python, R, SAS EDUCATION [INDIA]
M.A. Economics [Gokhale Institute] 2003-2005
B.A. Economics [Ethiraj College] 1998-2001