Shikhar Gupta Email & Phone Number

detmo focuses on strategic sourcing for mid-size manufacturing firms. Our platform offers a suite of powerful features to help procurement teams streamline their processes and make data-driven decisions: 1. Spend analysis dashboard and action center for uncovering high-impact sourcing opportunities 2. Collaborative sourcing project management with a Kanban board view 3. Multivariate supplier evaluation using statistical analysis and AI/MLIn the future, we plan to expand our offering with simplified AI & ML-enabled and automated RFx processes, commodity cost comparison analytics, vendor negotiation tools, and contract management capabilities.

About: emma simplifies how companies interact with the cloud platforms by providing cloud and DevOps services in a no-code multi-cloud environment.Research:1. User Research: Led interviews with customers and sales to gather user pain points and triage to feature additions/enhancements2. Instilled a user research culture: utilizing interviews, sales call analyses, and feedback reviews.3. Established a user research repository, providing continuous insights to other teams.Market/Competitor Research: performing extensive product feature research on AWS, Azure, GCPVision and Road-mapping:1. Agile backlog management: INVEST, 3C Model based on leadership, customer feedback, and market changes2. Request Prioritization: RICE, Impact/EffortFeature shipping:1. Security/Access Management: Integrated ed25519 type encryption SSH key authentication and management to multi-cloud compute instances on the platform in addition to RSA encryption2. Access Management: UX: Improved compute instances connection user experience with SSH and RDP connection types3. API Management {0-1}: Developed Administrative and Cloud Infrastructure management REST API and CLI for all the services provided by the SaaS platform4. Developed REST API endpoint, method, and actions standardization process for the dev team5. Uptime/Reliability {0-1}: Implemented fully billing integrated Reserved IP management system for multiple cloud providersCollaboration:1. UX Design: Increased UI resilience by developing and implementing risk mitigation behavior in edge cases2. Engineering: Introduced TDD, CRC and developed POCs for K8s load balancerUser Adoption/Communications:1. Conceptualized, developed, and implemented a new in-app and stand-alone URL-mapped company platform knowledge base2. Worked with the marketing team on product videos, marketing articles, announcements, corporate communications, white papers, and promotions3. Developed white papers used for pre-sales regarding Azure arc

• Management: Hired and led a team of 16 people, from scratch, to build a vertical to cater full-stack analytics, web development, and automation to diverse clients using DevOps tools and methodologies.• Business Process Optimization of entire business processes, workflows, and activities using business analytics, SAP HANA, MSSQL Server, PowerBI, Python, Appian & machine learning• End to end planning and Execution of multiple automation projects that increased efficiency by 70%, accuracy by 98%, and slashed man-hours by 95%• IT Strategy: Implemented ERP, inventory management, knowledge management, and team management information systems for the company and managed a budget of Rs. 20L• IT solutions: Developed decision-making tools by business processes mapping, analyzing, and cannibalization of information systems for business intelligence requirements.• Process Creation: Revenue generation and cost savings of $5+ million/yr by creating and documenting processes for product end of life/licensing transition and product obsolescence • Pre-sales: Boosted sales 15% by providing product and time-based analysis of customers, revenue, obsolescence, problem reports, unique part inventory, and non-conformance issues• Developed comprehensive SharePoint websites for product lifecycle, product management, and marketing business units to streamline information flow and reduce email traffic by 75%• Business Solutions: Using data analytics, increased run-out date of highly critical parts by 3 quarters, analyzed cost-effective remote warehouse solutions in California• Hired technical resources for MIS, data science, business analytics, web development, and enterprise resource planning systems for different multicultural and international clients.

Chandigarh Area, India

Sacramento, California Area

• Requirement gathering and interacting with stakeholders to provide them with support, solutions, functional enhancements using business intelligence tools like Oracle 10g developer suite and Excel.• Demonstrated system to stakeholders/clients and developed implementation guides and user training.• Performed root cause analysis to streamline production workflow by optimizations of PL/SQL stored procedures and migrations, improving system performance and netting financial reports 60% faster.• Designed and developed Oracle PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, and Database Triggers and involved in creating and updating Packages to meet business requirements.

San Francisco Bay Area

* Planned and documented baselines, active and passive compliance exercises, mitigation plans, change management, recovery plans and backup strategies for medium impact utility protected cyber assets.* Provided Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system support for electric utility operations and ensured compliance of North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) critical infrastructure protection standards for SCADA and subsystems.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

• Performed GAP, stakeholder, business rules, impact analysis on healthcare data with financial revenue over $9M• Interacted with stakeholders to improve, implement and automate business financial processes & transactions.• Outlined, documented and built technical system architecture & database application for management of Healthcare finances with SAP reporting capabilities using MSSQL Server, MS Access and SAP Crystal Reports.• Charted out dashboards, metrics, and reports in SAP Business Objects and MS Excel for financial reconciliation.* Achieved simple and complex financial calculator functions in C/C++ applications thus reducing 20% work hours.* Created a Java and MS Access application for making adjustments and maintenance of financial database.* Performed regression analysis in R on the financial and the survey data using current variables for forecasting.* Charted out technical layouts of reports in SAP Business Objects and created them for financial reconciliation.• Salesforce and Oracle trainings on AR, AP (Accounts Payables), GL, Procurement and Contract modules.• Maintaining Student Health Services Financial database electronically.• Optimizing the legacy Student Health Services financial and reporting system • Designing a new financial system which is an integration of many different small systems.• Creating design and technical architecture of the new system.• Design and create a reporting system based on the new system developed.• Maintenance and updating of the new system.

College Station, Texas, United States

Fostering Communications through Center on Conflict & Development at Texas A&M University.Management, Improvement & Optimization of the Web Outreach Project.* Worked closely with coordinators for management, improvement & optimization of the Web Outreach Project.* Collaborated with people in conflict-ridden countries such as Ghana, Congo & Nepal to mitigate conflict.

India

Implemented Oracle ERP R12 Suite and provided Support for multi-national financial and product firms.* Collaborated with business users, clients to gather and document business requirements for the system and delivered new features and integrations using SDLC (Agile) methodologies and resolved legacy issues.* Designed and implemented 17+ technical system components like conversions, in and outbound interfaces, ETL on financial modules like Account Receivables, General Ledger & Order Management.* Led the offshore team of six as a critical resource to support ERP environment by resolving user tickets. * Automated the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process to efficiently place orders with vendors and process invoices thus slashing requisition request cycle time by 80% and reducing 15 work hours/week.* Transformed business requirements and ERP SLDC process into documentation like business requirement document (BRD), best practices checklist, requirement traceability matrix, unit test plans (UTP) and user acceptance test (UAT) plans, system design, functional design, process, and workflows.* Executed a program for idea generation which led to a multi-million dollar ERP support contract.* Requirement gathering and interacting with stakeholders to provide them with support, solutions, functional enhancements using business intelligence tools like Oracle 10g developer suite and Excel.* Demonstrated system to clients and developed implementation guides and user trainings.* Performed root cause analysis to streamline production work-flow by optimizations of PL/SQL stored procedures, improving system performance and netting financial reports 50% faster.* Conceptualized a plan with the team to integrate PL/SQL scripts, BI Reports, XML Check printing and discoverer reports, used for analysis and forecasting trends, for 15% value addition to the business.* Received awards for business operations and value creation.

* Awarded Employee of the Month for leading a team of interns for Oracle financial database software support.* Transformed business requirements and EBS SLDC process into documentation like MD50, MD70, TE70 & IGs.* Created and dealt with tables, complex SQL queries, Correlated sub queries, Nested Queries, Views, exception handling, performance tuning and Function Based Indexes for effective Business Application Development.

Bangalore

• Created a MATLAB system with GUI : Early Detection in War based on Direction Finding research documentation

Master Of Science (Ms), Engineering Systems Management

Activities and Societies: Joined IGSA and Aggies International AmbassadorsCoursework: Project Management, Systems Management and Thinking.

Postgraduate Degree, Devops, Passed

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: Literary Society Technical Society CICR(Creativity & Innovation Cell In Robotics)During the span of my B. Tech..