Ankur Arora

Ankur Arora

San Mateo, California, United States
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About

Product leader with 13+ years of experience aligning user needs and business goals with…

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Articles by Ankur

  • Product Manager in Tech Org

    Product Manager in Tech Org

    There has been a growing trend for companies to call themselves Technology companies, irrespective of what these…

  • Product Matrices for Stakeholders

    Product Matrices for Stakeholders

    In today’s world, everyone tracks matrices, and these matrices are either aligned to market or to product, either are…

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  • Casual & carefree official communication

    Casual & carefree official communication

    Why do many team members don't want to speak or ask questions? Why do same people have different learning curves in…

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Experience

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Education

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    University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business

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    Activities and Societies: 1st Prize Purdue Case competition | | 1st Prize Rutgers case competition | | 2nd Prize: CFA research challenge | | 3rd Place: APICS Case Competition Regional Round | | Finalist NSCC Consulting Case Competition, Canada | | Presented Poster for Block Chain @ Symposium (Katz Annual Supply Chain Event).

    Beta Gamma Sigma honors award | | Outstanding Student award
    Vice President: Operations Club | | Case Writer for Katz case competition

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    Activities and Societies: • 1st Prize: Autonomous car driving competition using matlab programming. • 3rd prize: Corporate Maneuvers • Finalist B-plan competition • Won Sudoku finals • Designed 4 new Antenna Models using FEKO and Matlab as BTP project. • Treasurer- Resonance 07, Logistics Team Coordinator for Moksha’07

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Using Technology to Automate Education

    International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning

    The Automated Education System (AES), which incorporates powerful Short Messaging Service
    (SMS) technology, has the potential to solve many technical problems existing in the present
    education system.

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Patents

  • Copyright for "Automation of battery sizing calculations".

    IN 7019/2012-COSW

Honors & Awards

  • Achiver from Power Sector

    Director Power

    Led a cross-domain team for identifying and developing applications for faster/better project execution. Out of 49,000 employees, Awarded as 1 out of 10 “Achievers from Power Sector” for Year 2017.

  • RCA AWARD

    Resolution of Mismatch in material Requirement from Planning to Execution

    Analysed the root cause of Mismatch of cables, Lighting and Cabling in Project Execution using Quality Tools, Site Audit, Process Analysis and Observation, leading to Shortage requirement reduced by 75%. Delay time reduced by 25% and Inventory Storage time by 10%

  • Tech Savvy Person

    BHEL

    Awarded “Tech Savvy Person” award for my unit for helping to expand and winning first order for solar plant in smart city at Surat. It led to opening of new area of work, as Govt. of India has special focus on Smart Cities and BHEL active participation is a win-win for BHEL and Govt. of India.

  • Impress Awards

    BHEL

    Won 5 Impress Awards for Process Improvement, Engineering Optimization, and Stakeholder management.

Test Scores

  • Toefl

    Score: 105

  • GMAT

    Score: 710

  • Combined Entrance Exam

    Score: 530

    All India Rank 30 out of 200,000 students

  • AIEEE Exam

    Score: 2106

    Scored 2106 rank out of 900,000 applicants in India

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • APICS Pittsburgh Chapter

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  • CFA Pittsburgh Society

    Member

  • PMI Pittsburgh Chapter

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