Shivani M. Palekar Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

After a fulfilling 8 year stint in the US, I made the tough but ultimately meaningful decision to relocate to London. This move allows me to be closer to family, gain international work experience in the EMEA region, and embark on the exciting new journey of supporting the energy transition by helping energy providers tackle their data and digitalisation challenges.As a leader in Guidehouse’s Energy Providers practice, I am responsible for the delivery of one of our largest engagements in the EMEA region (by scope and revenue) - the Digital Platform for Leakage Analytics (DPLA), an innovation project with ~£9.5M of funding from the UK government through Ofgem and Innovate UK's Strategic Innovation Fund.

Greater Chicago Area

Leading the establishment of a $30M+ Integrated Property Tax System across multiple agencies at Cook County from initiation to deployment. Directed the establishment of an overall program plan and program governance structure, defined program management templates and tools (including schedule, risk register and cost model), and worked closely with agency leadership on benefits realization and business process improvement.Developed and executed an agency-wide change, training and behavioral measurement plan for over 4000 end users at the Texas Office of the Attorney General to ensure leadership alignment and end user adoption, as the lead change consultant for an HR and Payroll ERP system modernization.Led IT strategy and implementation efforts for the New York’s Governor’s Office of Storm recovery to enhance and improve tech solutions delivery, and solutions design and architecture to support the delivery of over $1B worth of disaster recovery funds.Supported the operations and change management for the State of Michigan’s enterprise information management program, to improve operational efficiency, promote transparency, and enable constituent-centric service delivery, across multiple agencies.Designed a technology roadmap to support the New York State Division of Budget in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of fleet management operations across 8 state agencies. Conducted a current state assessment, researched leading practices, and analyzed the feasibility to potential solutions to inform the implementation of a statewide fleet management solution.Developed project management and compliance management tools for the City of New Jersey, Division of Community Development, to support the administration of HUD funds, streamline processes, and to enable the Division to track, manage, and report on its grant activities.

Greater Chicago Area

Bpeace is the nonprofit network of business volunteers who work with entrepreneurs in violence-affected communities to scale their businesses, create significant employment for all and expand the economic power of women. More Jobs Mean Less Violence.®As a pro bono consultant, I share functional expertise in marketing, product development, organizational and change management, customer relations and operations to entrepreneurs with momentum (known as Fast Runners, because they're in the best position to create jobs for others in their community).Enabling carefully selected entrepreneurs to create more jobs, especially for women, increases community capacity and stability--and reduces the poverty and desperation that so often seed violence.

Greater Chicago Area

• For one of the USA's largest school districts, I designed and developed new performance indicators and reporting practices to improve visibility into programmatic health and student outcomes of diverse learners by collaborating with a multi-functional team of district business leaders, subject matter specialists and IT staff• For a regional integrated health care delivery system, I conducted a supply chain analytics capability assessment; capturing data & analytics needs, identifying critical reporting and analytics capability gaps and developing a value-driven designed roadmap to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of analytics activities in the short and long-term.• For one of the world's leading cosmetic companies looking to make a strategic acquisition, I played a key part in the diligence process by analysing the target company's sales executive's efficiency and presenting the results in the form of easily comprehensible dashboard visualizations to facilitate the decision making process.• For a leading national bank, I defined a suite of common marketing return metrics and designed a set of common reporting templates to support more informed decision-making of marketing investments.• For a large regional bank, I enhanced the client's complaint reporting capability to be more impactful and actionable by refocusing on the enterprise narrative and incorporating an industry perspective to complement their internal data

Ann Arbor

• Grader for the courses EECS 203 (Discrete Mathematics), IOE 265 (Probability and Statistics for Engineers) and IOE 425 (Lean Manufacturing and Services)• Grades all submitted problem sets as per instructor’s guidelines in a timely manner so that problem sets can be returned on a regular schedule• Maintains a record of all student scores and provides feedback to the instructors regarding students’ performance

Greater Chicago Area

As an experienced associate summer intern at the Advisory Analytics practice in the Deals Analytics Apps team, I worked with a team of management consultants to integrate big data, advanced analytics, and compelling visualizations in tangible and intuitive software packages. • Identification of value drivers for a construction supply distributor to enable best practice sharing across product lines and geographieso Collaborated on a consulting engagement for a distributor of building supply materials to identify, quantify and visualize business opportunities in the areas of salesforce benchmarking and best practice dissemination, relative market share by geography, development of a “relationship index” to increase customer lifetime value (CLV) and tracking effectiveness of promotional pricing by ROI measurement.• Sell-side project for a private equity firmo Created over $400,000 in revenue via the resulting Analytics Appo Identified diagnostics for analysis and key performance indicators to mitigate business issues for a firm specialized in the provision of litigation and deposition support.o Segmented customers and products by K-means clustering to identify cross selling opportunitieso Researched industry trends and forecasts to evaluate alignment of business trends with industry

Greater Detroit Area

The Zingerman's Community of Businesses (ZCoB) is a family of small food related companies and entrepreneurial ventures located in the Ann Arbor Area. The online shop for Zingerman’s food, gifts and more; Zingerman's Mail Order (ZMO) sends extraordinary, traditionally made foods anywhere in America.The purpose of the improvement kata project was to increase the amount of saleable cheese obtained from each wheel of cheese by achieving a 50% reduction in the quantity of cheese wasted due to miscuts.It is considered a challenge because miscuts occur frequently, especially during the holiday season, and result in monetary losses as the cheese which is undercut (in terms of weight) cannot be sold.Acted as a lean coach for the operators of the Cheese Room at ZMO under the guidance of Dr. Jeffrey Liker.Our team achieved several accomplishments over a course of 8 weeks with ZMO. • Conducted a current state analysis of the cheese cutting process and identified the three main types of cheeses with improvement opportunities, and focused our Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) exercises on these areas that resulted in significant waste reduction• Increased the yield in the overall cheese waste volume by 17% through our 3 PDCA exercises, which translates to 14% cost reduction in cheese waste• Developed a standardized waste reporting procedures to monitor the current state of cheeses. The model will take inputs from the team, calculate the important output metrics, and generate run charts for the team• Facilitated communication between the operators in the Cheese Team to ensure that all available resources and data are transparent to everyone on the team

Mumbai Area, India

- Risk Advisory Services | Climate Change and Sustainability Services Investigated challenges in the sectors of water supply and sanitation for five major urban agglomerates of Maharashtra, developed solutions by conducting case studies on international best practices and incorporated the analysis into a city assessment.Identified ICT interventions for the mitigation of challenges faced across the value chain by the Indian water sector and incorporated the analysis in a thought leadership for the creation of smart cities.Reviewed risk management framework and compliance levels with EU regulations with regards to behavioural safety at assembly locations for an Environment, Health and Safety audit for a leading German automotive manufacturer. Researched and summarized trends in corporate social responsibility initiatives across public and private sector firms

Dubai

• Assisted the Commissioning Manager on building automation projects such as : Burj Al Salam Towers and Dubai Healthcare City project• Created the data point schedules, control schematics and sequence of operations for the above mentioned projects• Developed software and control logic for the integration of sensors and devices using communication protocols• Gained hands-on experience on software development, project designing, and commissioning processes

Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

• Worked on PLC S7 – 3000 (programming and hardware design), drives technology and design of SCADA architecture.• Studied the implementation of process automation in the industrial sector by means of the aforementioned technologies.• Observed the manufacturing processes for industrial controls and switching devices at the plant in Kalwa in order to gain a better perspective of the industrial automation sector.

Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, Uae

• Processed shipping documentation and managed the inventory database by means of SQL.• Assisted in the implementation of the Kanban system of lean manufacturing at the pressure transmitter assembly line which increased the warehouse output and decreased inventory storage costs.

Master'S Degree, Industrial And Operations Engineering

Activities and Societies: INFORMS, Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach, GradSWE

Bachelor Of Engineering With Honors, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Council, IEEE, ASME, Editorial Board, Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Athletics.