Consultant at iGATE Global Solutions
Bangalore Area, India
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- Consultant at iGATE Global Solutions
- Past
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- Account Manager at Photon Infotech
- MBA (Autumns) Intern - Presales at Photon Infotech
- MBA Intern, Research Program at Dun & Bradstreet
- MBA Intern (DOCC-Social internship) at UNICEF
- Education
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- S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business
- College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
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Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Summary
- An engineer turned MBA, with a passion to leverage IT to enhance business productivity
- Currently working with iGATE, Bangalore as a Consultant
- Have experience of managing three Fortune 500 accounts for Photon, an internet consulting company in capacity of an account manager
- Key skills include IT Solutions Consulting, Account Management, Pre-Sales and Solution Sales
- Special Interests are Web 2.0, Financial Economics, Business Intelligence and Decision Sciences and Risk Management
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Specialties:
Data Analytics, Web 2.0/Social Media Marketing, Problem Solving, Economic Analysis
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Experience
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Consultant
iGATE Global Solutions
(Public Company; IGTE; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Build solutions for clients that leverage the power of Information Technology to enhance their business productivity/efficiency
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Account Manager
Photon Infotech
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — October 2009 (8 months)
Managed Cisco, J&J and State Street Bank accounts for Photon
Handled multiple aspects of Strategic Account Management - from positioning our firm within the account, creating strategic presentations, Consultative Selling and ensuring customer satisfaction for existing projects
Responsible for Account mining/Corporate BD to up-sell and cross-sell into the accounts
Played the role of the Alliance Manager for Mark Logic; Was responsible end-end for striking the partnership with Mark Logic. Photon is the 6th Indian company to parter with M L
Deployed a vendor management tool BATS (Billing and Tracking System) within Photon for handling Cisco relationship
Worked as Project Manager for Cisco - Connected Home Project -
MBA (Autumns) Intern - Presales
Photon Infotech
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — November 2008 (3 months)
Studied RFPs, performed feasibility study and categorized the same based on certain filtering criteria
Designed Marketing Collaterals including case studies, brochures and expertise documents
Prepared Project Estimates in consultation with the delivery team and senior presales consultants
Consulted the client on the right engagement model based on the business problem and scope of the solution
Worked on Proposal Presentations for clients with the presales manager -
MBA Intern, Research Program
Dun & Bradstreet
(Public Company; DNB; Information Services industry)
July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)
Interned in the Economic Analysis Group
Researched on macroeconomic risk, financial risk, resource risk and demand supply scenario of few sectors including Alloy Steel, Paints & Varnishes and Alcoholic Beverages
Presented Economic Outlook reports on these sectors -
MBA Intern (DOCC-Social internship)
UNICEF
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)
Consulting(Process and Systems Consulting) and Data Analytics
Studied the Integrated Micro Planning process and identified the gaps in the system
Implemented a Business Intelligence framework to enable sound decision support
Provided a ‘Concept and Systems’ roadmap for Integrated Child Tracking System
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Education
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S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
MBA , Systems , 2007 — 2009
- Founder and Coordinator, Management Consulting Club
- Head, Knowledge Awareness Committee (ITEACOM)
- Founder and Evangelist, G3 (Go Green Group)
- Member of Editorial Board, E-Drive-Annual magazine- Activities and Societies:
- ITEACOM, MCC
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Pamplin College of Business
MIT , Business Systems , 2007 — 2008
- Business System Analysis and Design
- Datawarehouse design for businesses
- Database Mining and Analytics
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College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
BE , Electronics & Communication , 2003 — 2007
- Principal Consultant, Students Quality Club 2006
- Editor-in-chief, PULSE- quarterly magazine of Dept of ECE
- Founding core member of 'Kurukshetra' inaugural edition 2007
- Head, Events - Kurukshetra 2007
- Presented 4 papers and won 1st prize at various symposiums
- Participated in Project Design events and won several 1st Prizes- Activities and Societies:
- SQC, CEG Tech Forum, ECEA(Vision)
Additional Information
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Websites:
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Interests:
Web, Data Analytics, Financial Economics
Kartik Chandrasekharan’s Honors:
- All India Rank 1 in Tamil Nadu Engineering CET (TNPCEE) with a score of 99.55%, 2003
- Only person in Tamil Nadu to score 100% marks in Maths paper of Engineering CET(TNPCEE) out of 1.5 lakh students, 2003
- State Rank 4 in 12th Board Exams (TN) with a score of 98.67%, 2003
- National Talent Search Exam (NTSE) state level scholar 2001
- Cleared the first level of Indian National Mathematics Olympiad 2001
- First Prize in Case Study - Q Quest2007, Anna University
- Won a Sony Playstation 3 (Second Position) in Directi Case Study competition for Top 10 B-Schools, 2009
- Gold Medal in SPJIMR Sports meet for Tug-of-War event, 2008
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