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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Partnered with C-level executives to define and deliver technical roadmaps, data strategy and scalable solutions to complex business issues.

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.
• 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