Ana Ananthakumar, Mba, Csm Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Chicago, IL, US

- Saved annual cost by leading a highly technical and cross-functional project to change entire database to be independent of Heroku Connect- Led a project to improve customer NPS by defining corrective actions and preventive actions from product operations

San Mateo, CA, US

• Increased loan profitability by iteratively creating ML models for lifetime-value, cost, and fee sensitivity
• Increased revenue and marketshare with initiative that expanded credit access to underserved
• Created a zero-to-one product to respond to macroeconomic instability through supply and demand models, evangelized and resourced this team from 1 eng and 1 scientist to 3 managers, 7 engs, 2 scientists, and 1 analyst
• Launched self-service platform that reduced 95% the time to launch experiments, models, and lending partners
• Defined metrics and initiatives to improve ML integrity, mitigating disparate impact to protected groups
• Developed vision and OKRs for ML org as vertical product lead for 135 members by organizing on-sites and workshops as the team size doubled within a year; sustained this change through agile coaching and mentoring

Chicago, IL, US

• Groupon Connect is a product area with triple digit growth, which is primary focus of company and consistently mentioned in shareholder letter multiple times.
• Launched Groupon's developer portal, a 0 to 1 product, by creating a self service portal for external supply partners to integrate with our platform and minimize the time it takes to integrate with Groupon from 6.
• Automated the accounting and payments back end for North America and Europe
• Standardized the customer experience in the front end so that it feels native for 2 business verticals
• Pioneered best in class agile practices and built the platform muscle by delivering tangible output every sprint (2 weeks) despite being a horizontal platform. Held workshops on agile that was widely distributed across.
• Worked with a globally distributed team - Germany, US, Australia, UK, India

Chicago, IL, US

• Product Manager for machine learning algorithms that predict the best supply in 13 countries using cutting edge technology (NLP, deep learning, and ensemble models)Leading an agile team of data scientists to build.
• Improved gross profit, by creating 6 machine learning models to predict best merchants and deals, using buying patterns, geo data, and social media; filed patents (US 62/844,522 and US 62/897,171)
• Increased sales rep’s productivity by 48%, by creating a customizable platform that automated sales pipeline, and allowed running multiple machine learning models in parallel; filed patents
• Built control panel, for model evaluation and manipulation, and improved product adoption
• Increased gross profit, by rolling out product to 14 countries, by factoring in local market conditions

Evanston, Illinois, US

• Master of Business Administration degree, June ‘17, majoring in Operations, Finance and Economics
• Achievements: Kellogg Growth Scholarship ($100K, merit scholarship) | GPA: 3.8 (Dean’s list twice) | GMAT 760
• Leadership: CIM Exec (executive committee of 6-day orientation program for class of 2018, 500+ students, $200K budget), Vice President of Business Leadership Club, Academics Committee of Student Association
• Research: Supply chain strategy for online vs in store; Market entry for smart locks (product management related); Impact of Samsung recall
• Tutoring: MBA tutor for two core courses: Business Analytics II and Operations Management
• Spring Associate: Due diligence for University's Innovation and New Ventures Office (promotes startups via VCs)

Chicago, IL, US

• IFM (Intelligent Flying Machines – B2B Industrial Drone DaaS Startup)
• Designed UI and UX with 21 use cases for IFM’s digital product using a wireframe and led a team of engineers to improve 3rd generation drone to a 4th generation end to end solution for workers and managers
• Developed go to market roadmap by designing short and long term strategy for distribution, marketing, regulatory, scaling, valuation and pricing, through primary (23 customer interviews), and secondary research
• Identified 89 business risks through FMEA analysis, and improved design to minimize overall risk exposure

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Drove Lean Management schedule of business unit.
• Created Kaizen (continuous improvement) culture by establishing teams and monthly rewards schemes – delivered improvements in capacity (+33%), technical efficiency (86% to 98%) and quality (91% to 97%)
• Improved ranking of factory from #146 to #1 among 270 Unilever factories globally in 14 months by working with 9 functions across 6 countries every week to analyze problems, benchmark one other, and share learnings
• Led team that won People’s Choice Award at South Asia Kaizen Competition – first ever Sri Lankan win, resulting in recognition by Chairperson and Global Chief Supply Chain Officer, won Unsung Hero Award
• Established business unit as regional benchmark for Lean Manufacturing by doubling performance score in 9 months, highest in South Asia – score decides all managers’ performance, and 2015 capital allocation

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Headed Manufacturing unit, and overlooked 4 junior managers, and 4 staff members. I took this role along with my pre-existing role as Process Engineer.
• Led a diverse manufacturing division as Manufacturing Manager for 5 months (senior management position), managed 4 shift managers, 4 staff officers, 2 graduate trainees, and 97 production workers
• Forecasted demand and created sales and operations plan (S&OP) for factory, and achieved operational reliability of 95% (+7%) and plan compliance of 99% (+6%), by making manufacturing process more flexible
• Negotiated with customer to gain market-share (+6%) for Lipton Iced Tea
• Strategically sourced raw material tea from 45 suppliers and reduced costs by $50K
• Coached 11 junior managers to navigate career path (6 promotions and 1 role expansion) – conducted 15 technical workshops, each covering an average of 50 trainees including managers and workers

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Prevented shut down of 200-person factory by mapping and re-engineering process through research, saved $350K and unlocked 13% capacity through debottlenecking processes, and prioritized using Pareto principle
• Presented strategic business case to executives from global leadership team and obtained orders till 2019
• Obtained highest score in elite talent development program for thirty high performers (Unilever’s miniMBA)

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Highly selective (0.2% acceptance) rotational leadership program in 5 departments.
• Supply Chain: Delivered 10% cost savings at distribution center; re-engineered distribution model and increased sales by 0.6% ($1.5MM); reduced material inventory by 6.5 days; influenced teams across 8 functions
• Operations: Won annual Chairman’s award by project managing on time delivery of $700K business
• Finance: Created models to reduce material variance, factory floor rejects and over time
• Marketing and Sales (2 departments): Brand Manager for largest brand – executed $90K marketing campaign

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations, Finance And Economics

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Magna Cum Laude, Electrical Engineering