Aakanksha Bhardwaj
Corporate Strategy- Small Business (VP) at Bank of the West
Corporate Strategy- SMB
16+ years of experience with fortune 500 companies, in Strategy Consulting, Solution Delivery and Process Re-engineering of technology solutions.
-	7+ years experience in driving Corporate Strategy Initiatives and bringing alignment between Product, Marketing and Sales groups
-      7+ years’ experience with Process Re-engineering, Product Analysis in Finance, Sales and Marketing domain.
-	5+ years of success, delivering projects on time and within budget through both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
-	3+ years’ experience in Solution Architecture for technology sales.
-	Two time Entrepreneur, passionate about Innovation, Product Development and Design.
Bank of the West
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bank-of-the-west
Corporate Strategy- Small Business (VP)
-	Identified, and developed Data and Research Driven Strategies for growth, that resulted in 20% YoY customer growth in SMB segment and an exceptional Customer NPS Score
-	Conducted Market Research, identified evolving Market Trends in Micro Lending and Retail SMB Segments.
-	Bring Strategic Initiatives to life by bringing alignment between Executives, Product, Marketing and Sales teams
-	Provide in-depth data analysis to support data driven decision making
-	Support Go-To Market Strategies with data analysis
-	Part of Customer UX initiative working on Customer Centered Design 
-	Conduct Customer and Market Research to find Product Market Fit using Lean Strategies
-	Creates Business Cases for different initiatives with ROI analysis
-	Leading multiple Data Quality and Process Improvement Initiatives 
-	Led large compliance projects bringing alignment between cross functional teams
-	Successfully Implemented technical projects with complex use cases
San Ramon
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VMware
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmware
Senior Product Analyst
-	Led redesign of end-to-end process for lead generation, qualifying, negotiating and closing sales as part of Lead to Cash Process Re-engineering using Salesforce and Model N.
-	Built business case for process efficiency leveraging Stakeholder inputs and various data sources leading to 35% reduction in Lead to Cash Process
-	Led Scrum team responsible for Process Re-engineering in SalesForce environment. 
-	Manage projects from start to finish using Agile Methodology
-	Facilitated and conducted user interviews, UX design sessions, Architecture meeting and requirement sessions.
Palo Alto
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Symantec
https://www.linkedin.com/company/symantec
BI Strategy Analyst & Project Manager
-	Integral part of M&A team, working on process and Data Integration between Symantec and MessageLabs, UK Company acquired by Symantec.
-	Worked closely with Executives to define product business requirements and produced comprehensive, detailed development documentation including functional requirements, process flows, wireframes and user stories.
-	Built business case for process improvement and rationalization for M&A to be executed efficiently.
-	Responsible for liaising with head office M&A team, addressing all merger related issues
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Sybase
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sybase
BI Pre-Sales Consultant
-	Field Sales consultant, responsible for solution architecture for potential customers.
-	Presenting at conferences, delivering executive presentations and demos to customers
-	Identify customer needs and persuasively present solution proposals to executive teams resulting in successful deals.
-	Create ROI analysis for potential customers
-	Conduct trainings, workshops, presentations, and product demonstrations for customers.
-	Worked with product management and engineering teams to bring field feedback to build better products and services.
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Oracle
https://www.linkedin.com/company/oracle
BI Pre Sales Consultant
-	Analyze and evaluate customer’s infrastructure, needs, expectations, and design Oracle Technology Infrastructure Solution.
-	Assist in development and implementation of marketing plans for lead generation.
-	Conducted Training programs to educate sales professionals regarding Products and Services.
-	Analyze and present results of different Sales and Marketing Initiatives and Campaigns.
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Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Stanford University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/stanford-university/
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Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing & Data Mining
Masters
University of Greenwich
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Computer Science
Bachelors of Science
Chaudhary Charan Singh University
https://www.linkedin.com/school/chaudhary-charan-singh-university/
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Fremont, CA
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Naveen M.
Data Engineering@Instacart
San Francisco, CA
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Kiran Cherupalli
Data Analyst at Silicon Valley Bank
Santa Clara, CA
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Micaela Peralta
Research Analyst at Primary Insight LLC.
Miami, FL
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Cookie Prospecting
"A Sweet Way To Grow Sales"
Greater Chicago Area
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Harry Caraway
Data Warehouse Architect at Wells Fargo
Charlotte, NC
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Cindy Vasicek
Reporting Manager - Enterprise Risk Intelligence - Data & Reporting
San Francisco Bay Area
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Greg Delamore, VP Technology Manager
Wells Fargo Bank
Charlotte, NC
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Mark Sweatt
Senior Data Management Analyst at Wells Fargo
Atlanta, GA
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Umashankar T.
Sr Enterpeise Solution Architect Cloud Platform
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
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Prabhjyot Singh
Data Quality Manager and Data Governance Platform Owner at Bank of the West
San Ramon, CA
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Nitin Gadhe
BI Product Manager | Business Analyst | Data Analyst | Microsoft Power BI | IBM Cognos Analytics | Tableau | Snowflake | Azure Cloud- Business Intelligence and Data warehousing Consultant
Jersey City, NJ
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Sandeep Shayini
Principal Analyst | Customer Success Analytics at DocuSign
San Francisco Bay Area
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Sidharth kapoor, PMP®, ITIL®
Sr Program Manager at Salesforce
Mountain View, CA
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Frank Mustari
Taxpayer Advocate
Alexandria, VA
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N Raju D
Certified Sr. Consultant - BI & Advanced Analytics ( Power BI + Cognos +Tableau)
Greater Boston
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Pedro Rios
Sr. Lead Consultant at Cisco - Business Intelligence, Data Science & Engineering
Miami, FL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-bruner-data-warehouse-architect-and-modeller-556347
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Saving the world, one data warehouse at a time...
Tulsa Metropolitan Area
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Sudharshan Seerapu
Customer Success Director at Tableau, a Salesforce Company
San Francisco Bay Area
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        Aakanksha is passionate about finding answers to both spoken and unspoken questions. She is collaborative and willing to share her expertise, while also comfortable learning from others. I’m always impressed with her enthusiasm for new challenges and thoughtful analyses. I highly recommend Aakanksha for business, data and strategic analysis.  Jerrold Allen
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aakanksha's work has really impressed me! She led a project team I was working with through many detail requirements gathering meetings. She also created and presented a QA kick off deck for the team and explained the entire QA and UAT process to the project team. I hope I can work with Aakanksha again!
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