From: Chiranth Channappa



Summary

• Education: MBA from top-tier b-school (Indian School of Business); Engineer in Electronics & Comm.

• Experience: Five years in consulting and software services industry (retail and technology verticals)

• Interpersonal skills: Effective virtual teaming, communications, presentation, and mentoring skills

• Analytical Skills: 99th percentile in GMAT, with a score of 770

Education

INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS HYDERABAD, INDIA

PGP in Management (Specialization in Strategic Marketing and Operations & IT Management) April 2007

• Developed a predictive model to estimate automobile’s price in secondary market based on “asking price” information on second-hand cars from an Internet-based database of second-hand cars

o Developed robust model with error of Rs 10,000 for top 37% data; prospective applications include development of a “price-suggestion” feature for second-hand cars

o Created a “crawler” to automate process to download and organize data from source website

• Developed business plan for web-based system to bridge web & print publishers to bloggers; semi-finalist in ISB Business Plan competition

• Finalist in Ashwamedha competition at IIM, Indore. The competition tested aptitude, general ability, psychometric, and team skills; was one of 30 finalists from 960 participants across 30 business schools

PES Institute of Technology Bangalore, India

BE in Electronics & Communication July 2002

• Designed algorithms to detect speech in a given sample of sound and ensured applicability in Voice over IP systems; published five research papers on these algorithms, including Comparison of Voice Activity Detection Algorithms for Voice over IP, at the 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communication, ISCC2002, July 2002, Sicily

• Ranked 2nd across all students in Placement Process Re-Engineering, a university-wide training program on System Programming and Web Technologies conducted by PESIT

Work Experience

DELOITTE & TOUCHE AERS INDIA PVT LTD HYDERABAD, INDIA

Senior Consultant, Deloitte & Touche May 2007 till Aug 2008 (1 year & 3 months)

Role: Development of Consultative Services around Risk Management, such as Finance Transformation, M&A Consultative Services, IT Internal Audit, and Governance Risk & Compliance for Deloitte & Touche’s Enterprise Risk Services (ERS) practice

Project Management

• Identified teaming opportunities across different divisions within Deloitte for the Finance Transformation service offering by analysing revenue data across all clients; presented results of analysis to the Partner Sponsor of the service offering to facilitate greater teaming initiatives

• Managed project to cleanse raw data and build database of contact information of Directors of various companies, as part of a targeting program undertaken by Deloitte

o Established process to incorporate multiple versions of source data by data gathering teams

o Managed team of analysts without prior experience in technological platform used

• Managed process to report Finance Transformation pursuits & revenues; coordinated with practitioners across all regions of Deloitte to streamline process to consolidate pursuit KPIs

Methodology Development

• Built risk-based methodology for Financial Close & Reporting (FCR) process improvement; standardized methodology for future FCR improvement engagements to be carried out by Deloitte

• Built a methodology to demonstrate Deloitte’s Risk Consulting capability during M&A Integration; tool is now an integral part of firm’s proposals for M&A Integration engagements

Sales / Eminence Tools Development

• Developed tool to differentiate capabilities of Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) products across vendors and thus recommend a suitable product acquisition strategy to clients

• Designed internal website for SAP-GRC practice using proprietary “Deep Dive” methodology

• Developed a Webcast program to build eminence for the GRC practice within Deloitte

Strategy & Business Case Development

• Developed FY ’09 strategy for Reporting Advisory Services (RAS) practice; identified growth areas and potential interaction with other service offerings through interviews with senior practitioners

• Developed business case to provide advisory services to Audit Committees; accelerated development of the business case to meet stringent deadline

Training

• Built IFRS conversion methodology training for Deloitte’s practitioners

• Managed development of components of training for SAP’s GRC software products

Adea International Pvt Ltd (formerly Netkraft Pvt Ltd) Bangalore, India

Senior Software Engineer Aug 2002 to April 2006 (3 years & 9 months)

Role: Software Engineer / Business Analyst

Client: SDL / Trados, a Global Information Management solution provider

• Reverse-engineered Adobe’s InDesign file format, adding new features to client’s document management software suite; led exhaustive analysis to limit deviation on development project to less than a week, compared to over a month on similarly-sized project

Client: Homebase Ltd, a DIY retailer

• Managed client’s database of over 10m customers while on secondment:

o Managed direct marketing mailings worth over £15m to 1.8m customers per mailing

o Implemented segmentation of customers during mailing based on business requirements

o Reduced mailing lead time from 6 to 4 weeks within first month of this role

• Mapped requirements of client’s direct-marketing program to IT processes during installation of iMarketer analytics package; identified 4 defects in prior requirements, saving 1 week in lead time

• Authored whitepaper on implementation of reward-based customer loyalty programs; the document now serves as a benchmark for all projects undertaken by Adea in this field

• Managed and monitored batch processes in client’s customer loyalty program; responsible for ensuring successful completion of batch processes on a daily basis; maintained SLA of 100% for over 3 continuous months to resolve issues

Additional

• DESIGNED AND EXECUTED TRAINING PROGRAM, “WRITING EFFECTIVE E-MAILS” AT DELOITTE & TOUCHE FOR 10 PRACTITIONERS. PROGRAM RECEIVED AN AVERAGE RATING OF 4.5 OUT OF 5

• Trained new hires at Deloitte & Touche Innovation on facilitating teleconferences

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