Sushmita Amarnath Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Build SaaS products for Property and Casualty based insurance companies• Defined product requirements and collaborated with the UI team on schematics and mockups to build insurance software product for homeowners’ line of business.• Synthesized customer requirements into technical requirements and collaborated with engineering to prioritize requirements, define user stories and acceptance criteria as part of various release cycles in an Agile environment.• Defined user stories and perform acceptance tests to ensure feature quality.

Champaign, Il, Us

● Social Media Analytics - Advertisement Optimization Actively working on to optimize advertising expense by 30% on various social media platform using machine learning models to target customers based on clustering algorithm● System Analysis and Design – Student Housing Information System Built an information system to help incoming students find temporary accommodation and connect them with property managers to find permanent housing. Worked on gathering business requirements, preparing application design specifications documents, wireframes and bridging the gap between business and technical teams.● Database Management System - Maker-Lab Led a team of five to optimize the database of a 3D printing lab in the College of Business by implementing an improved and extensible system which reduced data redundancy by an approximate 40%.

Champaign, Il, Us

Assisted the instructor with in-class assignments and group projects for the iMBA program in UIUC

Duluth, Georgia, Us

Technology Practicum• Developed a product roadmap to build a go-to-market launch strategy for a logistic software solution increasing the customer base by 10%.• Conducted competitive analysis, market research and customer interviews to create marketing message and position the product in the market.• Implemented pricing and promotional strategy for the software that increased the revenue by 5%.

Champaign, Il, Us

Indian Graduate Student Association • Conceptualized an information system to help incoming students find temporary accommodation and connect them with property managers to find permanent housing eventually increasing the conversion rate of the customers by 10%. • Collaborated with the students to gather requirements, prepared application design specifications documents, wireframes and bridged the gap between the business and technical team. Maker Lab • Led a team of five to optimize the database of a 3D printing lab in the College of Business by implementing an improved and an extensible system which reduced data redundancy by an approximate 40%.

Bengaluru, Karnatka, In

• Analyzed client requirements to identify functional validation scenarios for various clients like Shell and Credit Suisse • Conducted full product redesign including conducting usability reviews, user designs, managing design changes and leveraging data supported design changes resulting in revenue growth from $5000/month to $8000/month • Built strategic plans & implemented solutions for resolving product issues discovered during UAT saving $3500/month. • Contributed to delivering automated test scripts with high quality and reducing the manual testing by 60% resulting in faster agile release cycles. • As a self-managed resource, implemented tests, reported defects directly to the client with viable solutions for the defects.

1. Developed the dashboard of an Enterprise Resource Planning tool, used company-wide.2. Created knowledge transfer and new hire documentation.

Master'S Degree, Technology Management

Be, Computer Science Engineering