Sumit Grover
Indian, 26, Independent Consultant working on writing Business plans, MBA in Finance and a B.S. in Information Systems Honors.
| Headline: | Innocent Bystander |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Industries: | Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Management, Marketing, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Next step: | I want to work for an internet/Technology startup a natural fit with an extensive programming experience and Business knowledge and experience. |
| Groups: | Startup Weekend |
| Visas: | US, India |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Employment opportunities, Helping friends, Internships, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities |
| Schools: | Indiana University System - Indiana University-Bloomington |
FULL BIO
Independent Consultant with an MBA in Finance from a Top 15 program and experience in Community Development and Marketing. Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and extensive experience in driving Software Development Life Cycle and managing client relation
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Independent |
| Position: | Independent Consultant |
| Time period: | July 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Preparing a business plan to enter new market for a supply chain and logistic company in the safety equipment market serving pharmaceutical clients. The assignment includes performing market and industry analysis to identify potential niche, detailed competitor analysis, identifying and valuing potential acquisition targets and financial analysis for profitability. |
| Employer: | Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA |
| Position: | MBA Student Intern, Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partnerships |
| Time period: | June 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | Collaborated with various technology alliances for Sun to identify competitive disadvantages and designing a successful strategy to improve customer satisfaction on issue resolution. Designed and developed central knowledge sharing web 2.0 communities by directly interacting with various technical and sales managers from across the globe. Responsible for on-boarding various teams for the initiative, weekly meetings and status updates with senior management. Served on the intern committee and took part in organizing various intern events.
• Commended for timely execution of the system for 5 different Independent Software Alliance (ISV) groups • Analyzed low customer satisfaction of Multi-Threaded servers to identify relevant target segments. Developed a financial alignment model for a potential revenue increase of 25% |
| Employer: | Comverse Technologies, India ($1.5B telecom services company) |
| Position: | Software Development Engineer, Sustained Engineering |
| Time period: | December 2005 - July 2007 |
| Description: | Managed on-time release, go-live and issue resolution for over 40 worldwide clients of the Kenan FX Telecom billing product by interacting with cross-functional teams. Responsible for communicating complex functionalities in easy to understand format to customer. Complete ownership of Functional Requirement Documentation (FRD), proposal development, negotiation and timely execution and implementation. Imparted training to new hires and developed ideas for knowledge management. Lead volunteer and active contributor for organization wide committees.
• Won $1 million contract with Australia’s leading subscription television provider • Saved $200,000 per year in training cost for a French telecom services company by aligning our product to requirements • Reduced employee transportation expense by 15% by re-negotiating contracts with vendors |
| Employer: | Infosys Technologies, India ($2B IT services company) |
| Position: | Software Programmer, Research and Development |
| Time period: | September 2004 - December 2005 |
| Description: | Contributed to development of an Intelligent Production Support Platform as a member of the R&D team. Responsible for feature development based on the customer feedback and communications with Stanford University. Primary tasks included requirement analysis, development, problem resolution, customer training, and product implementation.
• Product and features gave an advantage over competitive products leading to an additional revenue of $50 Million • Saved 100 man hours/week in transaction processing for a large U.S. retailer over 3 month period |
EDUCATION
| University: | Indiana University System - Indiana University-Bloomington |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Finance, MBA |
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