Akash Pandey

Email: akash952@gmail.com, Contact: 09311053853 Objective My goal is to meet challenges at workplace, innovate in a creative & collaborative environment to contribute my expertise in order to consistently go beyond expectations towards a rewarding career Professional Experience Strategic Analysis India Pvt. Ltd, Gurgaon Consultant Key Responsibility Areas: Involved in research for industries such as Automobiles, Agro-chemicals and Industrial chemicals, Defence and Packaging industry My work primarily consists of market/industry competitive analysis, trend analysis, benchmarking and profiling Conduct due diligence through Qualitative and Quantitative research (through both secondary and primary sources) Preparing deliverables for clients (word memo, power point presentations and excel documents) Conducting and analysis of both in-depth interviews, and cold calls with experts, and consumers across domains Involvement in end-to-end project management, entailing a variety of business problems, such as market entry, opportunity assessment, competitive intelligence, partner due-diligence, forecasting, etc July, 2010 to present CTC: 3.1 Lakhs

Key Projects Experience: Automobile Industry Competitive assessment of a target company in Indian defense automobile sector for a major automobile manufacturer in India Overall operational analysis of a key commercial vehicle manufacturer in India including its plant profitability, export operation, dealership network, profitability analysis for its two models and raw material sourcing scenario Manpower mapping for eight automobile manufacturer in India Packaging Industry An overall assessment of the packaging market for the target products in India both currently and forecast up to 2012 Agrochemical Industry Competitive assessment of selective manufacturers of agrochemical in India. Prepared the complete profile of the companies and full product costing for a target agrochemical Detailed assessment of a target company in the crop science business in India from the short and long term perspective so that client has the information required to devise effective growth strategies Academic Qualification Master of Business Administration (MBA-IT), 2010 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad B.Sc. (Physics & Maths), 2007 Udai Pratap Autonomous College, Varanasi Higher School Certificate (H.S.C), 2004 Udai Pratap Inter College, Varanasi Senior School Certificate (S.S.C), 2002

Prasad Inter College, Varanasi Projects Undertaken (Academic)

Research paper over Cloud Computing: Exploring the Scope. Accepted by the Cornell University Library, USA under section Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Details: - Business viability and scope in retail sector, Cost benefit analysis, Return on investment (ROI), Security and risk concerns, information security framework (ISO 27001)

Research project over marketing strategy of Virgin Mobile in India Details: - Study of marketing strategy adopted its requirement, Advantages and loopholes, Critical factors responsible for the failure of Virgin Brand

Term paper with deep analysis done on specific supply chain components of automobile sector majorly down-stream in India Details: - Structure of the supply chain for automobile sector, major components and essential properties, analysis of the supply chain design for two automobile companies

Software Engineering and Project Management (SPM) Project on offering website creation services through a website builder site Details: - Incorporates user ID and login facility, different website templates, (Tools used: Dreamweaver, MS Access, Java, Flash)

Defined a quantitative decision model pertaining to transportation scheduling with linear programming

Area of Interest

Industrial research and strategic Formulation Logistics and supply chain management

Extra Curricular Activities

NCC B certificate Attended the BASIC LEADERSHIP CAMP organized at Gandhinagar, Gujarat

A member of the website development team in IIIT Allahabad

Member of management committee at cultural festival (Effervescence) of IIITAllahabad An active member of Prayaas committee at IIIT Allahabad Member of the B-Cognizance Team, the e-magazine of IIIT Allahabad Member of Organizing Team for Cultural & Technical Fest Effervescence 2008, IIIT Allahabad Volunteer of the Noble Laureate Science Conclave 2008 IIIT Allahabad.

Software Knowledge

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Vista Applications: Macromedia Suite, Miktex, TXC Centre, Photoshop, Tora, Office Suite, SPSS Databases: MS Access, SQL