Babu Kumaran

Ideated, designed, lead development, launched and scaled multiple technology businesses.

• Commercial products and intellectual property using Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (Text NLP) and Augmented Reality (Mobile SDK) technology are sold-off to multiple enterprise clients.
• Also built startups (mobile apps) in the areas promoting altruism and waste reduction with more than 20,000 users.

• Enhanced the Global Business Travel organization’s business insight through integration of value quantification methodologies with internal and external data sources that helps sales and client general managers articulate and defend offers
• Translated customer data into pricing strategies and Producing advanced MIS, data capabilities, and actionable insights that directly helped VPs, SVPs and CFO to make business decisions
• Responsible for development of business intelligence infrastructure that integrates Client Sales data (Salesforce), Pricing Pro-forma data, Client Profitability data (OLAP data cubes) and other key proprietary & publicly available data
• Provided regular executive level reporting on the value delivered to global clients and on the drivers of profitability and customer satisfaction
• Utilized market analysis, predictive analytics, competitive intelligence and customer relationships to identify opportunities to price our products and services intelligently

• Identified reengineering opportunities and successfully implemented Six Sigma solution to improve the Turnkey based supply chain by streamlining the vendor management system of plastic card production
• Developed CBAs, End-to-end Process map of retail channel, time fence for master production schedule, and constructed timeline & critical path for new and existing products; Used Oracle based MRP system

Worked with nine different public health service providers across Arizona enabling successful data integration and report generation

• Conducted descriptive and statistical analyses to help derive insights on the efficiency of the substance abuse related family welfare programs

Created and executed marketing strategies for training programs across education institutions in different parts of the country

• Provided insights for the improvement of operational efficiency and provided successful investment strategies

Worked with a team of resident Scientists on deriving algorithms for Computer vision and Pattern recognition using Statistical Data Analysis, Data Mining, Machine learning

Assisted research projects and authored research papers published in international journals

• Worked in the university lab for Industrial Process Optimization (Algorithms and Mechatronics) and Artificial Intelligence (Neural Network Systems).
• International Publications:
• Sensor Fault Diagnosis in State Feedback Systems using Artificial Neural Networks
• Nov 1, 2007, Journal on Intelligent Electronic Systems, Vol.1, No.1, November 2007
• An approach to the minimisation of make-span in the textile industry using Ant Colony Optimisation Algorithm, International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2010 Vol.7 No.2, Inderscience publishers
• 2 more publications/presentations in International Conferences