Salil Kumar
Noida
Summary
Seasoned business leader with 8.5 years of diverse experience in operations, strategy and analytics. Demonstrated ability to innovate and drive business growth through strategic planning, leveraging entrepreneurial mindset and leadership skills to build cohesive teams and navigate dynamic market challenges.
Proven track record in business analytics at EXL and JP Morgan Chase, delivering data-driven solutions for global clients. Skilled in strategic decision-making and hands-on execution, emphasizing problem-solving, accountability, and scalable outcomes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder
My Storage Space
08.2020 - Current
- Spearheaded the launch of My Storage Space, a storage solutions company for individuals & SMEs, focusing on convenience, security and transparency
- Bootstrapped to $400k+ revenue, establishing and scaling operations to 6 cities in the process, onboarding 1700+ clients across B2C & B2B segment
- Introduced new technologies into daily operations which led to increased productivity levels throughout the company.
- Developed innovative sales and marketing strategies to facilitate business expansion.
- Led cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Built and maintained strong, cohesive team by recruiting top talent and fostering supportive work environment.
- Developed strong partnerships with other businesses to allow for collaboration and more significant opportunities for growth.
- Led the strategic planning process to define business goals and ensure alignment across all departments.
Chief Operating Officer
Urban Nomads
02.2021 - 12.2021
- Streamlined operational processes to enhance efficiency, identifying financial leakages and reduce costs.
- Collaborated with executive leadership to drive organizational change and innovation initiatives.
- Spearheaded technology integration projects, enhancing data analytics capabilities for decision-making processes.
- Developed and monitored key performance indicators to assess operational effectiveness.
- Oversaw day-to-day operations to keep organization running smoothly while meeting business goals.
- Drove revenue growth with the successful launch of new products and services to meet customer needs.
- Established KPIs for each department to track progress towards organizational goals effectively.
- Oversaw company expansion from 1 to 7 units, leading property scouting, staff audits, establishment of SOP, realignment with organizational goals.
Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
11.2019 - 12.2020
- Analyzed complex data sets to identify trends and provide actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
- Developed comprehensive reports using advanced analytical tools, facilitating informed executive-level presentations.
- Streamlined data collection processes, reducing redundancy and increasing overall accuracy of reporting metrics.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope and objectives, aligning deliverables with business goals.
- Led training sessions for junior analysts, fostering knowledge-sharing and skill development.
- Built a fully automated Tableau dashboard combining with Alteryx to integrate data from 25+ data sources, enabling 1250+ bankers and C-suite leaders across 56 regions in the USA to track 45+ key metrics for more effective goal setting and performance monitoring.
Senior Business Analyst
EXL Analytics
04.2019 - 10.2019
- Analyzed business requirements to identify opportunities for process optimization and efficiency improvements.
- Led cross-functional teams in implementing data-driven solutions to enhance operational performance and decision-making.
- Mentored junior analysts, fostering skill development and promoting best practices in data analysis and reporting.
- Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
- Social Media Analytics- Developed social media analytics solutions for multiple brand pages with overall followership of 1B; solutions ranged from ingestion to dashboard development leveraging Python, APIs, Amazon S3, Redshift and Tableau
- Data Visualization – Created tableau dashboards for various business verticals leveraging SQL, Presto and Qubole as part of Visualization CoE
Business Analyst
EXL Analytics
09.2017 - 03.2019
- Reverse Geocoding Analysis- Leveraged multithreading in Python to bulk reverse geocode 600 million lat-long coordinates to track and calculate taxes based on duration spent in a particular location within a short span of 4 weeks
- Data Visualization- Reduced load time of two existing Tableau dashboards by over 75% and developed mobile & tablet versions of the same with further reduced load times within a short span of 2 weeks
- Wire Framing – Created wire-frames for dashboards using Moqups and Balsamiq as part of intial stage of dashboard development
- Big Data Adoption – Part of a team helping migrate data from Amazon Redshift to a cloud-native platform Qubole; leading
efforts to familiarize self and team with Hive, Presto and Spark; migrating current automated Python scripts to PySpark - Report Migration – Migrated large recurring reports from PPT and developed interactive self-serve dashboards in Tableau to deliver insights which were obscure in the previous versions
Education
B.Tech - Telecommunication Engineering
R.V. College of Engineering
05.2017
High School Diploma -
Abhinav Public School
New Delhi, India05-2013
Skills
- Analytics– SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, Qlikview, Google Looker Studio, MS-Excel, Powerpoint
- Project Management Methodology – Agile, Scrum, Jira
- Stakeholder management
- Team leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Marketing
- Operations management
- Entrepreneurial and innovative
- Organizational structuring
- Data-driven decision making
Affiliations
- Client Service Excellence, May 2020 - Issued by JP Morgan Chase,
- Center of Excellence Award, May 2019 - Issued by EXL
- Cruizer Weight Champion Award, Nov 2018 - Issued by Client
- Startup India Recognition for My Storage Space
- Recognition by Whatshot Bengaluru for My Storage Space
- Recognition by KaroStartup for My Storage Space
Timeline
Chief Operating Officer
Urban Nomads
02.2021 - 12.2021
Founder
My Storage Space
08.2020 - Current
Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
11.2019 - 12.2020
Senior Business Analyst
EXL Analytics
04.2019 - 10.2019
Business Analyst
EXL Analytics
09.2017 - 03.2019
B.Tech - Telecommunication Engineering
R.V. College of Engineering
High School Diploma -
Abhinav Public School
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