**One of Top 50 Candidates in the Country - Nominated to be on the Corporate Boards by the AgendaWeek, The Financial Times Group publication *
I am a veteran of Big Data, having created and led Data Science teams couple of times in my career, I have a winning formula for building and mentoring such teams who can add value to a business. I have developed a global reputation in Big Data, implementing powerful solutions through expertise in all aspects of the data pyramid that works well with business strategy and organizational strategy.
I have extensive Management Consulting and Corporate Leadership experience in various companies including Fortune 100 to start-ups. I have worked with clients in Australia, Japan, India, US and Europe.
As a thought leader, I was appointed as a Senior Fellow at the International Cyber Security Center at George Mason University, Virginia.
I have a passion for building and leading high-powered teams to deliver data-driven results improving products, services, and business processes. The established record of contributions I've made to my employers has added greatly to their top-line growth and bottom-line profitability.
I am currently mentoring teams and serving as acting CTO of 4 angel-funded start ups: Enformed (Saas platform for retail-rebates), Foodem (eCommerce), Sustainable Star (Solar Energy), and OKCoPay (Healthcare).
President-Elect & Board Member of DC Chapter of TiE (TiE is world's largest entrepreneurial network).
Leadership : Executive, Team, R&D, Data and Analytics, Technology
Verticals: Technology, Media, Finance, Health-care, Non-Profits, Education, Retails, etc.
B2B & B2C Platforms, Social & Digital Media , eCommerce Solutions,
Mobile & Web Technolgies, 24x7 Operations
Technology: Cloud / Virtualization, Big Data Mining & Analytics, Scalable Solutions,
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Text and Data Mining, SaaS Deployment
Chief Data Scientist @ Leading the Big Data and Data Science initiative. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Houston, Texas AreaFounder @ Leadership Coaching, Mentoring and Advising CXO's of private, public and start-up companies in US, India and other places. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Senior Fellow - International Cyber Security Center @ Research and Advising on areas : Cybersecurity framework for smart grids, Self cleansing intrusion tolerance, early warning systems in IT, etc. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Adjunct Professor @ • Teach Digital Media Certificate courses: Advanced Analytics – Web, Mobile and Social, and eCommerce Strategy. From January 2011 to Present (5 years) Washington D.C. Metro AreaVP Data Science @ One of the Senior Member of the Industry Principals Group (earlier known as Acxiom Institute), in the Global Consulting Division. Responsible for providing Strategy, Technology and Data Science expertise to clients of Acxiom, mostly Fortune 100 companies and also global clients.
- Evangelize Big Data and Data Science and help pre-sales organization to enable them to sell Acxiom services/products.
- Speak at conferences on big data related topics, use cases etc. (some of conferences for 2013 were Global Big Data Conference, Open Analytics, Customer Analytics, MoDevEast, etc.)
- Provide Advisory and Consulting Services to Federal agencies or their contractors.
- Co-created Big Data Maturity Model
- Lead Marketing Maturity Model Consulting for clients
- Author various white papers and collaterals and presentations
- Train in Hadoop, R, Pig, Hive, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc. From December 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 2 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaManaging Director @ Technology Consultant to CXOs: CEOs/CIOs/CTOs/CDOs, Investment Groups, and Private Equity Firms.
• Spearheaded data, cloud, and disaster recovery strategy for Bell Systems24 ($1.2B) in Tokyo, Japan. Developed KPI Dashboards for building an advanced analytics platform and coached team concerning the implementation and use of data analytics.
• Conducted a research project for comScore (NASDAQ:SCOR) resulting in the development of algorithms to enhance data mining results for FMCG companies.
• Launched Mobile Device Strategy for mTour, including technical due diligence, data model, collection, cleaning, transforming, and user interface for a variety of mobile devices. Developed and deployed Mobile Analytics using Pentaho for monetizing the ‘data’.
• Co-founder and Acting CTO/CAO of Enformed, Inc., an angel funded, beta launched SaaS platform to mine large scale retail data for converting rebates into cash-back on retail purchases. Built on patent pending technology (File #25144-3, Joint Inventor).
• Board Member of OKCoPay, an internet startup in the health care sector. Built a technology team and was principal architect for the data mining and technical aspects of the portal.
• Acting CTO of Sustainable Star, LLC, a privately held renewable energy company.
• Acting CTO of Foodem.com, a B2B Internet startup that connects food distributors, food manufacturers, and farms with wholesale food buyers. Winner of “TiE DC VC Pitch” competition, profiled in The Washington Post. From October 2007 to December 2012 (5 years 3 months) Adjunct Professor @ • Teach “Managing Information Systems in Global Environments” – Search, Web, Ecommerce, Mobile Technologies; ERP, CRM, SCM, Database, Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence, and KPI Dashboards. From August 2007 to November 2012 (5 years 4 months) Chief Knowledge Officer & Vice President of Analytics @ • Reported to the CEO & Chairman, provided strategic leadership to teams of researchers and analytics experts working in the areas of Market Analysis, Market Research, Predictive Analysis, Web Analytics, Customer Advocacy, and Competitor Analysis, Business Analysis, Merger & Acquisition. P&L responsibility for ecommerce channel.
• Led team that revamped entire ecommerce channel ($220M) in a technology upgrade from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, integrating social media and search technologies. Leveraged affinity modeling, clustering, and cohort analysis to maximize revenue and profit margin. Site voted a “Best Redesign” Award for 2009 by The Web Marketing Association.
• Conceived & deployed Search Engine Optimization Ecosystem to increase web traffic to the ecommerce storefront.
* Key member of the IP/ Patent Committee
• Initiated strategic partnerships with various startups, including ZOHO, Flokio, and MailerMailer.
• Implemented open source technologies and hybrid onshore-offshore 24/7 agile development methodology for launching products cost effectively and in record time.
• Led pricing experiments, customer profiling and propensity modeling, affinity analysis, upsell online paid search optimization, sales attribution to partners and affiliates, usability research, and fraud detection.
• Cut $3M in annual costs through optimizing processes and reverse auctioning. From August 2008 to November 2009 (1 year 4 months) Senior Research Scientist & Head, AOL Research Labs, US & India @ • Founding member of AOL Research Lab in the US. Reported to the Global Head of Research and charged with establishing research units in India and China with top scientists from Stanford University and India. Areas of focus were Search Technologies, Image Recognition, and Mobile Technologies.
• Developed the technology plan and implementation details for AOL’s Web 2.0 social networking.
• Pioneered highly scalable, self-healing analytics platforms based on Hadoop & Mapreduce utilizing commodity hardware for data mining of multi-terabytes of internet data from diverse sources, including Omniture and comScore.
• Led both research and operation teams to study the feasibility of new prototypes, including Celebrity Look Alike and Mobile & Personalization applications. From January 2006 to December 2007 (2 years) Technical Manager, Global Systems and Network Operations @ • Led a team of data analysts, algorithm developers, and business intelligence professionals charged with improving performance and customer experience of AOL web properties, products and services, in a 24xforever environment.
• Improved work efficiency by 300% while reducing workforce by 60%.
• Held P&L responsibility for $20M+ in hardware, software, and telecommunication costs.
• Instrumental in AOL winning a legal action against UOL (NetZero), through data analysis and reporting.
• Developed dual boot computer configuration to collect the ‘consumer audience (last-mile)’ metrics in Windows environment and secure transfer of data in Linux mode.
• Spearheaded the improvement of performance and quality of AOL Portals, Search, Commerce, Community Channels, Streaming Videos, Radio@AOL, Personal Finance, and Real Estate. From April 2002 to January 2006 (3 years 10 months) Technical Team Lead, Systems Operations, @ • Led operations team to run multiple web properties with over 20-30 million users per day.
• Managed design, development and successful rollout of the first defect analysis and quality improvement system within AOL Systems Operations, using Six-Sigma methodology.
• Achieved annual cost savings of $104M by developing analytics tools for reporting “Terms of Service Violators.” From October 1999 to April 2002 (2 years 7 months)
MBA @ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business From 2005 to 2006 Ph.D., Chemistry (Theoretical and Computational Science) @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 1985 to 1990 Satyam Ph.D is skilled in: Data Mining, Data Analytics, Big Data, Emerging Technologies, Mobile Applications, cCommerce, 24x7 Operations, Pattern Recognition, Text Mining, Prediction, Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Business Intelligence, Perl
Websites:
http://www.networksolutions.com,
http://chiefknowledgeguru.com,
http://priyadarshy.com