Nitish Kumar, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• This role spans across wide ranging tasks covering corporate long-range and budget planning, market intelligence and forecasting, group and business unit strategy, investor relations, and Management, Board and external reporting• Enabling management team and key operational leaders make informed, effective decisions. Support business growth by providing timely advice, performing analytical activities, offering comprehensive commentary, and working with key business functions to define… Show more • This role spans across wide ranging tasks covering corporate long-range and budget planning, market intelligence and forecasting, group and business unit strategy, investor relations, and Management, Board and external reporting• Enabling management team and key operational leaders make informed, effective decisions. Support business growth by providing timely advice, performing analytical activities, offering comprehensive commentary, and working with key business functions to define future strategies• Support the development and implementation of integrated planning and portfolio management (PPM) process and associated data governance framework. Worked closely with leadership to introduce quarterly business reviews of company performance• Support internal and external reporting to the Board and the investors, including monthly and quarterly business reports and half-year and full-year results• Maintain view of top industry trends, competitor analysis, and external threats, and TPG Telecom’s strategic focus areas, providing thought leadership, industry research, insights, analysis and recommendations• Support portfolio reviews, including assessments of M&A and divestment opportunities• Internal consulting to support business units across a breadth of topics such as industry benchmarking, competitor sales channels and strategies, drivers of decision making etc. Show less

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

• Primary and proprietary research tasks on thematic reports in the telco, media and technology sectors. Have authored 50+ research reports and forecasts till date • Building and maintaining market models that include telco market models for multiple markets, advertising expenditure market, data centre market and 5G mobile and fixed wireless forecasts• Client engagements and consulting assignments for NBN, Optus, Government of Victoria, Chorus and other clients• Marketing campaigns… Show more • Primary and proprietary research tasks on thematic reports in the telco, media and technology sectors. Have authored 50+ research reports and forecasts till date • Building and maintaining market models that include telco market models for multiple markets, advertising expenditure market, data centre market and 5G mobile and fixed wireless forecasts• Client engagements and consulting assignments for NBN, Optus, Government of Victoria, Chorus and other clients• Marketing campaigns and production of weekly and quarterly newsletters using Mailchimp and WooCommerce• Website management and maintenance and uploading of research reports on website using WordPress• Subscriber management through Mailchimp and WordPress. Handle customer engagement while managing strong customer relationships and build rapport. Ensure all deliverables are on track. Gauge customers’ levels of engagement with the company and provide feedback to the management regarding product and service improvements• Drafting and conducting national and regional surveys, data analysis post-survey and report writing by utilising tools such as SPSS and Decipher. Seven market surveys conducted so far• Attending conferences, workshops and events and drafting critical and descriptive reports about them• Own relationships to promote customer success activities i.e. onboarding, professional services, customer support and renewals Show less

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities: Research, teaching, student supervision, seminars, publications and conferences, science outreach activities.• 19 peer-reviewed journal articles. Identified at least three major knowledge gaps, planned an approach to address this and published results.• Two best paper of the year awards (out of >1000 papers) and three invited conference talks. A field-weighted citation index of 1.93 (93% more impactful research outputs than the world’s average).• Mentored the… Show more Responsibilities: Research, teaching, student supervision, seminars, publications and conferences, science outreach activities.• 19 peer-reviewed journal articles. Identified at least three major knowledge gaps, planned an approach to address this and published results.• Two best paper of the year awards (out of >1000 papers) and three invited conference talks. A field-weighted citation index of 1.93 (93% more impactful research outputs than the world’s average).• Mentored the research of one PhD, one Masters and three visiting students.• Initiated new collaborations with eight leading universities in Europe and USA, leading to frequent exchanges of expertise.• Founded and organised the first two editions of UNSW Summer School on Ferroelectrics, a first of its kind in Australia (2018 and 2019) Show less

Responsibilities: Research in advanced ceramics and courses in materials, mechanical and electrical engineering, statistics and sports.• Graduated with a GPA of 3.9/4 with Best Graduate Researcher Award. • 12 peer-reviewed journal articles.• Three other major competitive awards and fellowships: o Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship Award. (2016) o First Prize at American Society for Metals Student Competition. (2013) o College of Engineering Fellowship… Show more Responsibilities: Research in advanced ceramics and courses in materials, mechanical and electrical engineering, statistics and sports.• Graduated with a GPA of 3.9/4 with Best Graduate Researcher Award. • 12 peer-reviewed journal articles.• Three other major competitive awards and fellowships: o Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship Award. (2016) o First Prize at American Society for Metals Student Competition. (2013) o College of Engineering Fellowship. (2011)• Dissertation: Cutting edge research to use defects in materials for energy storage leading to one US patent application and one commercial device by an American company. Show less

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate students, research mentor for high school and Masters students.• Taught six mechanical engineering and two materials science courses.• Mentored six high school students under a SESEY program to provide research and college experience to girls and minorities.

Darmstadt, Germany

Forged new collaborations and devised new methods to analyse and utilise defects in materials (3 journal articles)

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Built new relationships and optimised process parameters to obtain right actuator material for their inkjet printers.

Hyderabad Area, India

Managed 10+ staff in a group to manufacture metal alloys and improved productivity.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science, 3.9/4

Courses in materials science and general science and engineering. • 12 journal articles • Best Graduate Researcher Award

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Materials And Metallurgical Engineering, 8/10

Courses in engineering, business, sciences and humanities at the most reputed engineering college in India. • Standardised test.