AJITH GANAPATHI HEGDE

adjlzn@r.postjobfree.com 929-***-**** github.com/ajithgh linkedin.com/in/ajithghegde EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Master of Science in Management of Technology

New York, USA

Sept 2019 – May 2021 (exp.)

Courses: Business Analytics, Data Engg., Data Viz., Programming for BI, Decision Models, Acc. & Finance, Economics GPA: 3.86/4.00 SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Mysore, India Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Production Engineering Aug 2014 – May 2018 Courses: Marketing, Lean Mfg., Supply Chain Management, Operations research, SQC, Statistics, Mathematics GPA: 8.84/10.00 TECHNICAL SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Technical Skills: R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, PowerPivot & Solver in Excel, MS Suite, G Suite, Monday.com, ProjectLibre

• MOOCs: Fundamentals of Tableau, Accounting for Decision-Making-IIMBx, People Mgmt., Product Mgmt., Project Management

• Certifications: Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt – issued by TUM School of Management PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

MEND NUTRITION, R&D and Innovation Project Manager Intern, New York Jun 2020 - Present

• Initiated expansion of firm’s IP portfolio by filing 3 trademarks in USA & 1 in 33 other countries; created an IP management dashboard

• Collaborated with company’s cross functional teams to execute R&D activities partnering with hospitals, DoD and university partners

• Migrated activities onto Monday; integrated using Zapier and other platforms including Pipedrive & shopify for efficient management

• Developed 3 RTD Products; created company’s upstream supply chain for RTDs; adhered to compliance; collaborated with science board

• Gathered over 3000 email-Ids of PTs in different regions across USA using Python’s Beautiful Soup module in less than a day for BD CHARTWELLS HIGHER ED DINING SERVICES, Financial Analyst - Intern, New York Sep 2019 - Jun 2020

• Identified key drivers for QSR’s sales and meal plan participation using Decision models and forecasted sales and budget for a semester

• Performed financial planning & analysis to identify over $200,000 in cost reduction; Summarized findings succinctly to executives

• Generated and developed actual sales reports in comparison to budget using excel for 20 units and visualized revenue streams with Tableau

• Monitored KPIs, analyzed trends in sales by surveys to assess the progress of sales on MS Excel; also sold over 125 mealplans in 3 weeks INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, Plant Engineer, Bangalore Nov 2018 - Aug 2019

• Implemented change management & Kaizen for best practice documentation; produced accurate collateral using G Suite & MS office

• Acted as liaison between Directors, researchers, staff and end-users for supply chain management; monitored & improved processes

• Initiated new system for inventory management of helium gas & liquid helium resulting over 12,000,000/month (US $ 160,000)

• Resolved a problem involving layout aspects that lead to new shift and a more organized, safe plant layout, Increased production by 50% JSS HOSPITAL, Project Intern, Mysore Jan 2018 - May 2018

• Lead a team of four, maintaining project coordination, acted as external consultants, Market research and form reports for the management

• Achieved savings of 33%/annum ($15,714) through electricity bills and 28%/annum ($3,450) through T3, T4 & TSH laboratory reagents

• Published results in IJMPE titled “Method study on laboratory reagents’ consumption in Tertiary Healthcare firms to increase Productivity” ACADEMIC PROJECTS & COMPETITIONS

PREDICTING MOVIE SUCCESS & ANALYSIZNG TRENDS (Github) Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

• Managed a team of 5; organized milestones; scrapped data & provided unique recommendations to stakeholders for growth & sustenance

• Improved fit & analysis by enhancing data through kNN-imputation; feature engineering over 25+ attributes & using text analytics in R DECODING AIRBNB’S OCCUPANCY RATES IN NYC DURING COVID Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

• Investigated & exposed opportunities in short-term rentals & hotel Industries; provided unique perspective to Airbnb hosts on occupancy

• Analyzed & ranked top attributes that affects Occupancy rates and RevPAR for Airbnb hosts using tools such as Tableau, Alteryx & Excel PREDICTING LOAN DEFAULTORS (Github) Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

• Built classification models to detect clients with repayment issues using 292k records; improved models using sampling & external datasets

• Formed different recommendations to marketing & operations alike based on RF-model written in R-studio with over 90% accuracy INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: EFFECT OF AI ON AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Mar 2020 - May 2020

• Lead a team of 4, conducted industry analysis to establish and verify key trends in automotive industry; generated insightful report

• Visualized trends, revenue growth against population & GDP (Pre-Covid); forecasted impact of AI on different geographies & segments OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OF STARBUCKS: Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

• Gathered data from multiple public sources; analyzed 10 different Operation Management decisions & highlighted improvements

• Shortlisted several bottlenecks for efficiency; proposed an RFID based solution for online orders & takeaways to be efficient and faster

• Also proposed virtual queuing supported by new layout changes to support mobile delivery that can help deliver nearly 2 times more orders LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE and EXTRA-CIRRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• CFO and founding member of NYU- INFORMS chapter; Increased membership activity; handled financial, legal & digital activities

• Steward for NYU’s GSOC – Local 2110 Union; worked with Labor negotiation team to obtain Health benefits; cast managements

• Volunteered with several organization through New York Cares to help organize, Arrange and distribute food camps and deliveries

• Volunteered as NYU Graduate Orientation leader; conducted 8 virtual events to 1000+ students from different parts of the globe