Karthika Gupta Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

South Elgin, IL, US

Working with the Social Media Manager and interacting with all digital, social, and creative teams to develop and implement social media initiatives.

CulturallyOurs is a platform for people to collectively explore, showcase and celebrate lifestyle, food, art, travel and culture from around the world. This is done through audio and visual media. We share personal narratives and stories in the podcast, create thought provoking and informative visuals and articles through the journal, and offer immersive.

I am a lifestyle, culture and travel photographer based in Chicago – home to deep dish pizzas and cubs baseball. For me, photography is a wonderful medium of expression - from emotions, relationships to brand experiences and customer acquisition. As a visual strategist and content creator, I work closely with my clients to help them convey their story and.

Dvara Magazine is a quarterly published coffee table print book that documents visual stories about India – her culture, traditions, places, art and food in a visually appealing format and with a modern flare. Dvara is an inspirational guide to all things India and Indian-fusion. Printed on 100% white recycled stock paper, each issue focuses on stories in.

New York, New York, US

• Business Development and Innovation program manager for the Inbound phone channels within Citi Retail Services. Working on initiatives that improve channel performance and profitability.Specific responsibilities include
• Concept development of new products and services in the sales channels to extend utility beyond existing product set and expanding customer universe resulting in improved profitability.
• Ideation lead and manager of a Test Center that allows various portfolios and product managers to “test” new concepts prior to BAU roll-out thereby enabling optimal utility of resources for winning projects.
• Prepare and present financial performance and key metrics for initiatives between the business units to senior management; gain buy-in, commitment and support from senior management.
• Launched sales channel for partner portfolios (valued at $50MM). Managed project with matrixed team of Operations, Partners, Product managers, IT Development and Testing.

New York, New York, US

• Two year Management Associate Program - experiences in Risk Management, Marketing and Customer & Card Retention. Specific responsibilities include
• Chief of Staff Role for Customer and Card Retention Channel valued at $200MM - managed special projects that expanded the scope of the channel, improved channel profitability and enhanced customer experience. Also.
• Marketing Program Manager for Sears Retail Partnership with a budget of $4.4MM - launched a direct marketing strategy for new card members via leading cross-functional internal and external teams in development of new.
• Risk Management Analyst for the Retail Private Label group - Prepared the first ever monthly financial performance of all the Risk strategy initiatives across the Retail Portfolios to present a Year over Year view of.

• International internship for a small business entrepreneur serving the consumer and commercial market for aquariums; business valued at $0.3MM
• Evaluated Aquaria’s revenue and cost structure and identified ways to increase its market share
• Refined Aquaria’s goals based on its strengths, weaknesses, and business drivers
• Prepared a business plan with strategic and tactical objectives and presented it to the CEO which was adopted and implemented in 2007
• Established a marketing campaign aimed at promoting brand awareness and loyalty within the customer base

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Project Manager managing projects for the Corporate Marketing Division
• Facilitated discussions with department directors and prioritized projects based on strategic vision and goals which led to effectively utilize department budget
• Led a cross-functional team of eight to execute a marketing communications channel redesign, resulting in a 15% increase in the readership of the company’s Intranet
• Received an ‘Outstanding Leadership’ award within three months of joining the company for a Business Requirements document that was used by senior management to sell a $1.5M project to the CIO

• Business Analysis for projects in the Pharmaceutical vertical for CSC
• Piloted and promoted the Business Process Solutions group in Abbott’s Global Technology Services division by creating a business case for and educated the various teams on business analysis tools, techniques and.
• Ascertained business requirements for the automation of a manual Succession Planning system that was used by the Executive Development department within Abbott’s Corporate Human Resources function

Montreal, Quebec, CA

• Systems Analysis for several large financial services institutions both domestically and internationally
• Identified new feature sets for proprietary financial services systems resulting in a 70% increase in client’s adoption of technology.
• Led business analysis tasks for two high-profile mergers in the financial services industry leading to seamless integration of systems, earning two promotions in fewer than two years.
• Managed a client team of five senior testers to automate testing for a large Malaysian bank leading to a 30% reduction in error ticketing by the application support team
• Increased stakeholder commitment in projects by periodic presentation of progress to senior management

Mba, Strategy, General Management, Economics

Master Of Science, Applied Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science Engineering

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