Abhi Seth Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Arlington, Va, Us

Galway, Ie

Galway, Ie

As Vice President of Data, Insights & Analytics at TE Connectivity, a $16B electronics manufacturer, Abhi leads the global data management, advanced analytics and business insights team. Key responsibilities include championing growth and margin expansion through strategic use of data, building new customer and revenue streams, development of future data analytics platform and talent across the enterprise to deliver proven analytics success at scale.• Developed & rolled out TE’s 1st Enterprise Analytics Strategy (EAS) with sponsorship from TE’s Executive team. Refreshed analytics operating & engagement model to maximize analytics ROI.• Created advanced analytics & cloud ops center of excellence starting ground up. Expanded analytics practice globally (US, India & Philippines & Poland) for better talent access.• Launched enterprise data governance, data quality & taxonomy teams with focus on curating and improving completeness and quality of business critical master data assets, rolling out data definitions and improving product taxonomy to drive a better customer experience. • Spearheaded TE’s cloud platform journey. Built in-house cloud competency ground up & successfully launched TE EDGE cloud platform, enabling speed and scale of insights, fast self-service access to certified data sets and enabled dismantling of data siloes.• Successfully rolled out Hub-Spoke analytics model scaling analytics Value & embedding talent across TE’s 10 business units & key corporate functions.• Scaled AI applications globally driving customer & revenue growth through marketing & sales, operating income savings through a better-connected digital supply chain and enabling dynamic pricing & demand planning.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Sr Director, Analytics COE, Honeywell AerospaceCreated aerospace analytics center of excellence starting ground up to a global analytics practice delivering $140M+ in realized value and a 10X+ ROI within 24 months. • Recipient of 2018 ANNY Excellence in Analytics award by IIA (International Institute of Analytics), Atlanta, GA & runner up in Innovation of the Year at 2018 Aviation Awards Conference, Dubai, UAE.• Facilitated executive leadership training sessions that elevated analytics awareness within the C-Suite and created top-down support to use analytics to enable top business priorities. • Built & successfully monetized analytics solutions delivering predictive maintenance and fuel efficiency benefits to Honeywell’s airline customers. • Drove digital transformation through agile implementation of analytics across Supply Chain, Pricing, Demand Planning, Aftermarket and other functions.• Established best practices for customer and business engagement, analytics opportunity identification, intake and prioritization. • Drove organizational maturity for both enterprise and connected analytics execution and deployment establishing big data environment including data engineering, analytics workbench, production and support. • Defined Analytics KPIs for C-Suite reporting. • Defined global job roles, actively led recruitment, onboarding, retention and mentoring of data science talent across key global sites. • Actively participated in M&A pursuits to expand the aerospace digital portfolio.

Irving, Texas, Us

As a direct report to the Caterpillar's Chief Analytics Officer, Abhi leads monetization of data & analytics solutions globally across Caterpillar's customers in construction, mining, marine & energy industries. He provides leadership to global team of data scientists & visualization experts in the development and deployment of analytics solutions to customers. Abhi also leads roadmap & strategy development to embed analytics across Caterpillar businesses. • Supported analytics engagements with Caterpillar customers by leading technical engagements with senior executive helping articulate how data & analytics solutions will enable business strategies.• Developed methodology to identify & capture analytics business value driving prioritization, case for investment & maximizing analytics ROI. • Sponsored projects, provided regular oversight to ensure analytics solutions were validated, successfully delivered and embedded to deliver value.• Successfully competed in and won a 12-week analytics challenge against one of the world’s largest industrial IoT providers. Managed/led a team of 75+ including data scientists, marketing, visualization, & domain experts, analyzing large datasets from multiple sources (machines, maintenance scheduling, mine management systems, repair data, operator data, weather, etc.). Demonstrated transformative impact on mining equipment availability & site productivity leveraging predictive modeling solutions to impact for one of the largest mining companies.

Irving, Texas, Us

Responsible for broad project portfolio to define & deploy enterprise wide analytics & simulation strategy. Lead cross functional teams on key projects in digital analytics. • Generated $250M+ in incremental sales leads using analytics on large datasets from multiple sources (past customer & dealer data) to establish patterns for customers with high likelihood for purchase. Analytics solution was well received by business partner & was successfully deployed. • Established critical KPI definitions, measures and provided executives the ability to easily track enterprise spend for outsourced work. Developed analytical model, rules library and visualization dashboards to successfully classify global spend data.

Irving, Texas, Us

Manage product strategy for $6B+ excavator product lineup, lead high priority projects & drive the culture of data driven decision making. Optimizing World Wide Distribution for Excavator Products - Delivered $115M in incremental profit by leading a special project to address $1.2 billion of excess inventory. - Applied analytics on large data sets of global product configurations, volumes and distribution center inventories, identified root causes, developed a refreshed distribution strategy. Led a globally distributed cross-functional team, derived cost savings by reducing product configurations, optimizing utilization and global footprint of distribution centers. Presented results and recommendations to executives and completed global strategy implementation in an accelerated schedule of 60 days. Customer Economics Analytics - Led a team of marketing and analytics members and developed Owning & Operating (O&O) Cost Models for Excavator Products. Used field data from customers across the globe (purchase price, fuel, maintenance, repair cost etc.) to calculate the impact of key drivers on O&O Cost. Modeled thousands of iterations using Monte-Carlo simulations to identify sensitivity among key contributors and their impact on customer’s discounted cash flow for Caterpillar Vs. Competitor products. Product Management- Successfully launched & managed the Next Generation NPI (new product introduction) Program for $6+ Billion dollar Excavator model lineup at Caterpillar Japan Ltd. - Successfully launched NPI program; analyzed business & marketing data to establish a compelling burning platform for executive leadership. Led a cross-functional team, developed an innovative program strategy to leverage opportunities across end-to-end value chain. Conducted comprehensive financial analysis to evaluate program viability and established financial targets for each product platform to meet long-term profitability goals.

Irving, Texas, Us

Predicting Product Issues early using immersive Virtual Reality (VR) - Developed innovative VR solutions to allow 1:1 scale immersive 3D experience of future products. Immersive 3D simulations provided a multi-disciplinary collaboration platform to engage customers, designers, assembly workers and service technicians to experience and evaluate future products and predict issues related to operator interface, visibility, product assembly and service early in the design phase. Delivered multi-million dollars in cost savings by preventing issue discovery and rework in iron. - Managed VR research program, developed a multi-year strategy roadmap, managed program funding, project portfolio & ensured resource allocation and timely completion of deliverables. - Expanded VR technology footprint within Caterpillar from 1 VR center in R&D Division to 12 VR centers at Caterpillar facilities in US, Europe, Japan, India and China within a 4-year timeframe.Facility Design & Process Modeling - Redesigned cab assembly facility. Doubled assembly facility throughput, minimized shop floor inventory and delivered savings of $3.2M/year in facility operations cost. Developed and executed a shop floor study, mapped existing process and captured times for each assembly step. Optimized line layout, developed new assembly processes and eliminated material flow, ergonomics, accessibility and process issues using 3D process simulation. Optimizing Asia’s Facility Footprint for Undercarriage Products - Led a project with team members in China, India, Japan and US to identify optimal location for new undercarriage facility in China. Developed an end-to-end transportation analytics model and led field data collection for key model inputs. Worked with stakeholders to develop analyze several location scenarios for total freight and inventory costs and provided recommendation for the new facility location, which was established in Xuzhou, China in 2012.

- Received $360K in research grant from industry - Lead a research team of 2 graduate & 5 undergraduate students. - Conducted research, managed projects, funds, deliverables & published key findings in peer-reviewed international journals & conferences.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering & Human Computer Interaction

Master Of Science (M.S.), Industrial Technology

Bachelor Of Technology, Production Engineering