Prateek Kumar Email & Phone Number

Ashburn, Va, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Manage, retain, and grow a portfolio of Insurance and Financial Services clients.▪ Partner with CXOs to define and execute their data modernization and analytics roadmap.▪ Cultivate partnerships with hyperscalers and product vendors to pitch joint solutions to customers.▪ Lead execution and delivery of high-quality Data Science, BI, and Data/ML Engineering solutions resulting in measurable business impact aligned to customer priorities.▪ For a leading financial services company, leveraged Databricks Lakehouse AI architecture to modernize the Data & AI platform, establish an MLOps framework and execute Generative AI based solution for intelligent search and summarization using LLMs.▪ For a leading Insurance company, partnered with the Enterprise Data & Analytics office to build predictive models to identify at-risk customers. Improved retention rate for Advisors/CCA by 15% and identified ~$1 billion Assets Under Management (AUM) that can be secured through data-driven retention strategies.▪ For a leading Insurance company, Automated Underwriting for over 50% of applications, leveraging risk-prediction models.

Washington, Dc, Us

Consulting through KYM Advisors• Directed a large federal contract ($35 million, team of 70+) with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Data Management and Data Analytics consulting services to the Chief Data office (CDO).• Designed a 3-year Data Strategy for USCIS (DHS agency), including plans for stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management to drive adoption across the agency. • Defined the data literacy roadmap and execution to train over 500+ participants from different program offices (BUs). Organized Communities of Practice (CoP), information sessions, surveys, Tableau Day and Datathons.• Operationalized the advanced analytics strategy to build, experiment and deploy reusable AI/ML frameworks and statistical regression models (R, python) to reduce fraud and automate case processing for 500K cases.• Instituted an enterprise dashboard strategy in Tableau to provide near real-time actionable insights to USCIS leadership and operational metrics to 15,000 analysts for faster data driven decision making. • Established a decentralized data governance and metadata management model using Collibra to optimize data sharing workflows, centrally govern policies and data catalog, and maintain enterprise data standards. • Centralized the Data Quality issue intake process and improved quality of enterprise reporting dataset to 99%. • Supervised a team of 30 data engineers, data scientist and BI analysts to develop automated data pipelines in Databricks using python/spark and dbt, integrating data from multiple source systems like AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, ServiceNow and Data Lake to visualize through Tableau dashboards & reports.• Facilitated data platform modernization and architecture discussions with cross-functional information technology (IT) teams including migration to cloud, infrastructure, and evaluating new SaaS solutions.

Washington, Dc, Us

Consulting through Salient CRGT• Executed a $80M contract (cross-functional team of 50+) with the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) to architect and implement an integrated enterprise data warehouse, modernize the business intelligence and data reporting landscape, design data models, build ETL pipelines and testing scripts to migrate 1,000+ business object reports to ~50 tableau dashboards. Reduced O&M cost by 20% and increased adoption by 35% with better self-service.• Directed 8 scrum teams of data engineers, business intelligence analysts, data analysts, business analysts, data architects and program managers.• Developed a data governance framework to map and test end-to-end business processes and controls, enterprise-wide data standards, and drive data stewardship across 100+ stakeholders from 24 subject areas. • Implemented PM best practices including strategic planning, financial forecasting and P&L, scope management, risk management, quality, documentation, and program governance (controls).

• Built a cross-industry data & analytics portfolio of $15 million from ground up with 100% customer retention rate.• Partnered with Sales to formalize customer success and go-to-market strategy, business review (MBR) and CRM plans, forecasting revenue models and pipeline, pricing strategy, market analysis and vendor partnerships. • Amplified the business relationship with one of our biggest customers, boosting revenue by over 500% and expanding the engagement across geographic regions, technology landscape and lines of business. • Directed global delivery team of 200+ data consultants, programs leads and solution architects. Mentored and groomed next generation of leaders in the organization.• Facilitated discussions with solution architects, subject matter experts (SMEs), product vendors, and internal COEs, to ensure customers get the latest and greatest product features, innovative solutions, accelerators, automations, and best practices.• Partnered with C-level executives to define and deliver technical roadmaps, data strategy and scalable solutions to complex business issues. • For a large data syndicator (Nielsen), delivered large global initiatives, including legacy platform consolidation & modernization, and building a next-gen cloud-based analytics platform for 100K users.• For a Global Bank (UBS), setup a BI center-of-excellence (CoE) to standardize the highly fragmented BI landscape (Business Objects, Tableau, MicroStrategy), and drive self-service adoption for business users. Reduced licensing costs by ~ $14 million.• For a US fashion retailer (Stein Mart), implemented Cloud First strategy with real-time data integration of enterprise data warehouse with the Azure data lake. Increased adoption through design thinking and data visualization.• For different education institutions, modernized the analytics landscape, enabling access to actionable insights around admissions data and student experience.

New York, Ny, Us

• Anchored the Audience measurement strategy and financial reporting guidelines for regulatory key performance indicators (KPIs). Conducted training sessions for business and technical stakeholders globally to educate them and drive adoption.• Streamlined the end-to-end reporting process by 50%, while maintaining a SOX compliance rating of over 97%.• Facilitated meetings to collaborate with global cross-functional teams to resolve data anomalies with clickstream data from the Data Management Platform (DMP). • Championed an enterprise-wide analytics effort to scan all of AOL’s web properties (~ 450 domains) for Omniture tags using Adobe Analytics. Worked with the business to achieve accuracy and completeness of 99%.• Provided people management, mentorship, and career development guidance to a global team of 10 business analysts, BI developers, and data quality analysts. Trained the team on SQL, Ab Initio Data Profiler and SAS.

New York, Ny, Us

• Instituted an enterprise-wide data governance framework creating the charter, governance council and data steward structure, metadata and master data management policies, and security controls.• Increased revenue by 10%, creating a predictive model on CDP data to target marketing campaigns for declining dial-up users.• Reduced AOL’s credit liability by 200M by recommending business process improvements to the billing process.• Led the data quality effort for various data migration projects including financial data from legacy systems to SAP, Customer data from Redbrick to Netezza, and Ad inventory data to DoubleClick. • Managed a global team of 5 business analysts, BI developers, and data quality analysts.

Germantown, Md, Us

• Test and optimize business applications for best performance over broadband (VSAT) network • Developed and managed a Broadband Alliance program to certify solutions and technology partners

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Stanford Certified Project Manager (Scpm), Advanced Project Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics