Deepika Ahuja Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Abra is a fintech co., global app platform where you can invest trade, earn interest and borrow in cryptocurrencies.Geared toward expanding and building a global financial system, Abra’s vision is to be a fully regulated and licensed global bank offering services for digital assets that is easily accessible to everyone.I manage data and analytics vertical at Abra, providing insights and support across the breadth of analytics areas – customer analytics, statistical models, A/B testing, workflow development for automation, BI & Reporting.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• End to end project management support to stakeholders including gathering requirements, developing business cases, facilitating meetings, market research, financial analysis, presentations and business recommendations to management.• Led data analytics for sourcing negotiations and strategic decision-making including data modelling, forecasting, sensitivity analysis and cost-benefit analysis.• Designed and implemented new process workflows resulting in standardized monthly savings reporting and forecasting for executive leadership. • Optimization and cost savings for business units by analysis of managed and un-managed spend data across procurement categories.• Managed the annual planning cycle to build procurement strategy with the business and forecast the spend and savings profile for multiple vendors.• Communicated with senior leadership (Senior VPs, Directors) and other business unit managers to present analysis, scorecards and recommendations. Tools Used: Tableau, SQL, MS Excel (ETL(Power Query, Power Pivot), What-if Analysis, Data Models), MS PowerPoint, Ariba (SAP Procurement Software)

Richmond, B.C., Ca

• Gathered, analyzed and translated business needs into technical and functional requirements and implemented solutions for $10+M worth of projects.• Provided assessment and advisory solutions on business processes based on clients’ requirements.• Transferred archaic and manually implemented client data models from Excel to ZEMA with automated pricing curves, forecasting curves, analytics reports and dashboards.• Developed, tested and implemented price-forecasting models for energy commodities (time series analysis, predictive analysis).• Conducted data validation and wrangling for multi-source trading and pricing data to improve data integrity.• Knowledge and process transfer to clients by conducting training, demonstration and Q&A sessions with teams.Tools Used: MS Excel (Solver, Data Analysis, What-if Analysis, Data Models), SQL, ZEMA (data management software for energy commodities)

Chandigarh, In

•Imparted training to under-graduate (Engineering and Computer application) students of various colleges and universities.•Prepared students (1500 in total), 50-300 students per batch for Aptitude, Quantitative Ability, Analytical and Logical Reasoning for various competitive examination.•Content Development of Quantitative and Logical Reasoning training modules.•Key editor of the Campus placement guide published by Tata McGraw-Hill, India.

Houston, Texas, Us

•Developed a “Multimodal Order Splitting Algorithm” to build a scalable model considering various attributes like transportation modes, cross border trade, penalty, revenues etc. to efficiently perform perfect order fulfilment and optimize whole supply chain.•Prepared process models and data flow diagrams for the algorithm design. •Knowledge transfer to the software development team.•Usability: This algorithm eliminates the requirement of Third Party Logistics and everything is done in-house offering more flexibility in terms of decision making and control.

•Projects: Design and Execution of electrical systems in Thermal Power Plant (TPP) projects with rating >1200 MW, worth over 1.8 billion USD.•Project management: Planning, monitoring and devising strategies, thus eliminating delays in project delivery.•Consulting: Led the transition from external technical consultants for various processes to in-house teams by improving employee productivity which reduced schedule delays by 10% and over $300K in annual financial gain.•Project Lead for various sub-projects of Electrical Department as a part of Engineering and Design Team.•Bidding and Cost Analysis: Preparation of Design Reports, Request for proposal, Specifications including Tender drawings and Bid analysis on basis of Technical as well as commercial specifications.•Contract Management: Evaluated supply contracts and negotiated for material supplies for technical specifications.•Techno-economic studies and cost optimization activities for TPPs.•Site Coordination: Providing technical, non-technical and commercial support to site team by regular visits for construction and commissioning activities. •Client engagement: Requirement gathering and analysis with government and private agencies.•Vendor Engagement: Single point contact, regular coordination and follow-up with vendors across India by ensuring quality and timely delivery of supplies.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations/Supply-Chain

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering