Owned CTSH's 3 year quarterly P&L projection, architecting model to dynamically generate >24,000 pro forma line items across reporting segments via 30+ interworking operating performance drivers. First of its kind, comprehensive logical representation of the business, packaged with a friendly UI & assumption guardrails, invented a handheld FP&A tool to conduct richer thought partnership w/ leaders during annual planning, simplify scenario testing, and detect horizon EPS risks.

Thought leader who brings structure, creativity, & analytical horsepower to high-stakes, cross-functional strategy projects informing enterprise decisions around e.g., GTM / sales / commercial planning, new product / R&D prioritization, organization & operating Model design, target setting, corporate budget allocations, and strategic investments e.g., Generative AI.Curiosity and problem solving output has led to new strategic commitments made to the Board of Directors, and work has been cited on earnings calls and published in investor materials.

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a public Fortune 200 company whose 350K associates deliver $19B of IT & Operations services to hundreds of the world's largest and most innovative companies. Corporate Strategy is a CEO-directed, centralized global team that functions as an in-house management consultancy.Strategy projects sharpen the perspective of Cognizant's senior-most leadership cohort to drive client-centric, profitable growth in a competitive and evolving B2B technology ecosystem.

[GTM Strategy, B2B SaaS Co] Facilitated Go-To-Market reinvention for Top 10 software vendor, translating a newly-refreshed account coverage model into a 5-year sales capacity plan by role x product x segment: charting the path for $1B+ Sales & Marketing spend to triple annual contract value in 5 years while returning 10bps p.a. to earnings. (Excited to see company on track in year 4!) [Software R&D Strategy, Semiconductor Co] Equipped engineering leadership with an opportunity to reprioritize $80M+ spend on low-level software development via detailed competitor benchmarking and landscaping the tech ecosystem to find emerging software control points for e.g., cloud-to-edge computing, AI use cases to design chips for.[ESG Strategy, Blue Chip Retailer] Delivered detailed, bottom-up, flexible model to quantify Scope 2 & 3 carbon footprint across each of their physical, e-commerce, and hybrid channels on a per-item and per-basket basis; enabled Sustainability leadership to prioritize specific carbon reduction levers based on system-level impact. Trained director-level clients on the tool & developed annual refresh process.[Growth Strategy, E-Commerce Unicorn] Delivered comprehensive market overview of a $5B apparel sub-sector to help the President of Digital Fashion-aaS Co evaluate a potential new adjacency. [New Product Strategy, CPG Unicorn] Delivered market requirements for Consumer Tech Co to develop a new lower-cost product for emerging markets, based on affordability modeling of 800M+ global consumers and qualitative secondary ethnography research on 10 major developing markets.[Partnership Strategy, Healthcare Payer & Provider] Sized economic tradeoff a major health insurer faced deepening a value-based care partnership with Provider Network A, given Network B would retaliate with their pricing, by analyzing 1M+ anonymized patient visits across multiple variables.

Gave weekly ~25-student discussion sessions for a challenging major-required microeconomics course based on multivariable calculus-based modeling. Used storytelling techniques to motivate mathematical models of rational individual / firm behavior, then manipulated the model to derive optimal strategies: explaining how variables interacted by giving them human-like qualities.

Facilitated community service-based courses within Duke's Spanish department: Helped direct an after-school program, Learning Juntos, that help non-English speaking parents engage with their children's early formal US education. Facilitated a field trip to rural eastern North Carolina to connect students with migrant farmworkers. Led reflections to challenge students on community engagement.

Created new firm IP by developing a linear regression-based tool to isolate & size the most critical equity valuation drivers for big ag producers. Coordinated expert interviews and provided nightly updates to help deliver a commercial due diligence in the IoT sector. Supported a pro-bono (Inspire) engagement on K-12 career-readiness programs for a public charter school network.

Supported data gathering and product requirements alignment to develop a Tableau dashboard tracking the M&A / financials / forecasts of the top ~100 players in cloud, security, network, & SW.

Summer in Hyderabad, India working at a B2B mobile app development startup: Developed marketing materials, App Store descriptions, press releases, and web content as part of major re-brand. Acquired invaluable cross-cultural business skills and startup experience, and a love of India/n culture.

City-facilitated internship with Charlotte office of North Carolina's first female governor Bev. E. Perdue. Conducted research & engaged in regional community events on behalf of Gov. Perdue's admin.