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• Powered turnaround of Shine from Loss making company to EBITDA Positive• Launched Data Science team & built the roadmap for data driven culture in the organization• Deployed AI at scale by effective collaboration b/w tech, product & data science• Enabled B2B (Recruiter) & B2C functions (Candidate & Learning) with data driven insights

• Led a team of data scientists & data engineers working on product development, AI infusion in products/process, text/NLP advancements, mainstreaming machine learning at core, Image/Video Analytics implementation, Proof of concept delivery ownership, open source adoption and leading data science trainings.• Digital Product innovation:➢ IMAGNo Developed an inhouse image analytics product “ÏMAGN”. It uses Machine Learning(SVM) and Deep Learning(CNN) to automatically identify damaged area from drone captured rooftop images and estimates the insurance claims damage.o IMAGN is developed as one stop solution for image analytics. It would be used for social media analytics and extensively for insurance, healthcare, retail & CPG verticals• Sales & Business development:o Devised strategy for smart collection for Utility client which helped winning largest utility deal with TCV of ~ $$ 27 MM.o Developed the Image Analytics solution for a Top 5 US insurance firm, which was adjudged the best among all the competitors.• Proof of concept (POC) delivery:o Market Mix Model for a pharmaceutical firm – Development of MMM which involved the complex methodologies of SEM and finding intermittent variables along with the original variables impacting sales. o Fraud detection for a US Bank – Development of Fraud model to capture online fraud for a US Bank, This project helped us setting up Fraud detection team (5 FTE) in Gurgaono Personality Trait identification for UK media firm– Identifying personality archetypes/Traits of 40k celebrities using social media data, News/blogs/forums data, Wikipedia, media mentionso 77 Categories classification for UK media firm– Deep Learning Algorithm was used for classification of given text (2 MM tweets) into 77 categories

• Delivered a world class online Data Science program for ~ 300 experienced professionals• Owned the technical aspect of 100 hours of data science content, • Taught banking analytics to professionals through online videos/webinars

• Took complete transition from CTO (Chief Technical Officer)• Responsible for delivery of all Data Analytics projects (Marketing Analytics, Risk Analytics, Social Media Analytics, Big Data & HDFS, Data Visualization & MIS Reporting)

- Added 1st Banking logo for WNS in Australia beating 4 Analytics companies- Led a team of Data Scientists to deliver High End Advanced Analytics Pilot Projects1. Advanced Analytics pilot project for an Australian Bank o Developed 9 Logistic Models using 3 different techniques and 2 Survival Models (Cox proportional Hazard Regression) for the mortgage portfolio helping bank predict the monthly default probability of Retail/Business customers

- Led the Advanced Analytics for BFS vertical managing multiple teams (3) comprising 50+ Advanced Analytics professionals spread across multiple locations (Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai) in India for Super Regional US based Banks - Helped setting up the Retention Analytics Team and Next Best Activity/Analytics Road map for UK Based Insurance client- Core Member of Due diligence Team for Dubai based bank- Launched a campaign targeting strategic US banks for analytics services and Developed BFS Analytics center of Excellence offerings for new BFS Prospects

- Developed the Best in class 20+ Advanced Analytics Team of Highly qualified Professionals (Mostly from IIT/ISI/DSE) from scratch for US based Bank- Managed Functional units (Modeling, E Commerce & Web Analytics, CRM, Data Analytics) for all LOB (Auto Finance, Auto Auction, Mortgage, Deposit) for US based Bank- Performed the dual role of Building the Advanced Analytics Team and working on various innovative complex Modelling projects as an individual contributor.1. Survival Model (Cox proportional Hazard Regression) for Mortgage Portfolio o Developed a Survival Model predicting month-on-month default probabilities for customers opted for Mortgage Modification Plan o Reduced customer Attrition by 12% over one year timeframe resulting in revenue protection of $ 1.2 MM 2. Retention Response Model for Mortgage Portfolio o Developed a Logistic regression Model with dual objective of increasing response rates and restricting attrition rates at the same time o Revenue generation of $ 1MM due to reduction of sleeping customers by 10% 3. Next Best Product for Mortgage Portfolio o Developed 12 Logistic Models and 1 Multinomial Logistic Model for predicting customer’s likelihood of best Mortgage product/Transaction Type o Model helped increasing response rate by 30% resulting in revenue generation in the order of USD 2.5 MM

- Developed Acquisition strategy o Developed Credit Index/Fraud Index using 4 different Model scores (Application score, FICO Score, Fraud score, ASA Score) and derived a Master Index for Product Assignment & Credit Limit Assignment - Mentor for new/experienced hires for Modeling Techniques- Initiated Statistics classes for R&A Team

1. Developed True Name Fraud (TNF) Model & Fraud Strategy - Built TNF Model using Logistic Regression @ Acquisition phase; Used “Reject inferencing” to infer performance of Declined Population - Reduced 30% TNF cases with revenue loss protection in the order of $ 1.5 MM 2. Developed Credit Limit decrease strategy- CLD Strategy using HRT (High Risk Trigger score), Utilization and open to buy causing to lose no more than $ 8 of good sales for $ 1 of bad charge off avoidance.3. Developed Authorization strategy- Manual referral Authorization strategy that helped reducing referral volumes by 40% resulting reductions in loss exposure of $ 1MM and increased sales up to $ 12 MM

- Developed Customer Segmentation for PowerSport Portfolio - Solved the complexity of clustering project by improving the existing methodology and reducing the project time by at least 3 days

- Developed 20 best in class response Models using Supervised classification algorithms for various Cross sell/Up Sell offers for international markets (Mexico, Canada, Italy, UK, Japan and Australia) reducing marketing spend by ~ 50% and capturing ~ 90% responders- Developed Best in class BT (Balance Transfer) Models for Mexico and Australia for the first time which were the highlights of Executive Dashboard for CXOs.