Product Management, & Strategy, Business Development, User Research, IBM Watson, Deloitte Client Engagements, Masters in Computer Science • Won the IBM Watson Competition held at OSU; Chosen to represent the Univ at the NYC Finals. #WatsonUnivComp: Video demonstration of application #WatsonUnivComp - click on the link http://bit.ly/1Is1xEr • Product Management – IBM • Graduate Teaching Assistant - Modeling & Business-related problem solving Expertise: Product Management & Strategy, IBM Watson, Client Engagements

Graduate Teaching Assistant - Graduate Student (Masters in Computer Science) @ Graduate Teaching Assistant - Modeling & Business-related problem solving GPA : 3.7 IBM Watson Competition Finalist 2014 Fall 2014 • Won the IBM Watson Competition held at the Ohio State University and was chosen to represent the university at the National Finals at New York City and competed with winning teams from 8 other top tier universities including Stanford, CMU, University of California-Berkeley, University of Texas-Austin and others for a $100,000 reward to release the project globally and bring it to life in January 2015. • #WatsonUnivComp : Video demonstration of application click on the link http://bit.ly/1Is1xEr From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) IBM @ • Product Management From May 2015 to August 2015 (4 months) Product Solutions @ • Defined product success measurement by analysis and automation of operational metrics thereby improving performance. From August 2014 to March 2015 (8 months) Product Strategy @ IBM Watson Competition Finalist 2014 9 top tier Universities including Stanford, CMU, UC -Berkeley, UT –Austin and others competed for a $100,000 reward to release a project globally. • “You Do U” : #WatsonUnivComp http://bit.ly/1Is1xEr Placed 1st at the IBM Watson Competition held at the OSU and was chosen to represent the university at the NYC Finals. • Successfully pitched executives to evangelize & launch product to OSU and plan to expand it to the top 10 US universities and Desire2Learn which finances approx. $85 Million and caters to over 750 institutions with over 10 million users. From September 2014 to January 2015 (5 months) Product Solutions @ One of the largest financial services organizations in the US with a total revenue of over $30 billion and total assets of over $153 billion. • Led a 6-member team and utilized agile approach & launched Defect Data Analysis product resulting in reduced time closure. From September 2014 to December 2014 (4 months) Columbus, Ohio AreaBusiness & Technology - Solutions @ • Achieved reduction in time by launching a real time product leveraging Mule Studio under the CloudMix team. • Successfully increased client satisfaction through two moderate pivots, redefining strategy and shifting team to new vision. From February 2014 to June 2014 (5 months) Product Solutions @ • Launched product Dashboard that enhanced user engagement by increasing the visualization tracking requests of over 1500 people. From June 2013 to July 2013 (2 months) Product Strategy @ • Conceived of & rolled out better agile development practices for the team in order to improve productivity including regular bug triaging. From February 2013 to February 2013 (1 month)

Master's Degree, Computer Science, Course begins in Fall 2014 @ The Ohio State University From 2014 to 2016 Bachelor's Degree, Information Science/Studies, Secured Distinction @ R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore From 2010 to 2014 High School, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Secured Distinction 90.25% (Computer science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) @ Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College From 2008 to 2010 High School, Computer Science, Secured an aggregate of 93.14% overall and 94% (Maths and Science) in ICSE @ St Francis Xavier’s Girls High School - Indian School Certificate Examination (ICSE -10th) From 1996 to 2008 Aku Srikanth is skilled in: Programming, Java, JavaScript, C++, C++ Language, Databases, Data Warehousing, Coding Languages, Unix, PHP, SQL, HTML, HTML 5, CSS, CSS Javascript