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Ujvalla Gupta

Electronics and Communications graduate from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, currently pursuing MBA at UC Davis.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, Management, Marketing
Groups: Big Bang! Business Plan Competition
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: University of California System - Davis

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd, India
Position: Senior Business Analyst; Business Analyst
Time period: June 2006 - April 2008
Description: Industry Experience
- Analyzed industry trends in oilsands refining and emerging alternative energy sources such as coal-bed methane, wind, and biofuels.
- Developed competitor profiles including key business initiatives, R&D activities and strategic partnerships with national oil companies
- Evaluated and made recommendations on new technologies for upstream oil and gas operations
- Assessed regulatory practices in emerging overseas business segments

Project Management
- Served as client relationship manager and led initiatives on retaining and acquiring new clients
- Provided custom market research and business/strategy analysis to the consulting arm of a global European oil and gas major in a team lead role; responsible for generating $150,000 revenues (20% of annual group revenues)
- Managed and integrated operations in India, China and Chile; decreased project cycle time by 33% resulting in operational cost savings of $55,000
- Assisted client in developing business strategies and exploring business opportunities; identified 15 customer drivers for client to be used as a sales toolkit
- Led employee training initiatives on effective client communication and project proposal writing
- Conceptualized and implemented ‘5-day’ feedback cycle for efficient project execution; decreased ‘project re-work’ cost by 20% per project resulting in operational cost savings of $55,000/annum

Awards
- Awarded Evalueserve ‘Excellence in Team Work’ for team building and motivation initiatives
- Awarded highest rating consistently during quarterly evaluation cycle among team leads for efficient and results-driven management

Leadership
- Founded Energy Forum to disseminate industry knowledge and identify key research areas for client; generated $90,000 in new business through developing value proposition for client
- Conceptualized and put into circulation Energy Newsletter; adopted as a marketing tool by Evalueserve and replicated by other functional groups within the company

Employer: Coca Cola India Ltd., India
Position: Marketing Intern
Time period: May 2004 - July 2004
Description: - Worked with a team to develop a novel method to automatically detect and report failure modes of a new vending machine launched by Coca Cola.
- Worked with the marketing team to create an advertising campaign and implementation strategy for the machine for the school

EDUCATION

University: University of California System - Davis
Time period: 2007 - 2010
Degree: Strategic and Operations Management, Marketing, MBA

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  • Sam Wainer

    Second Year MBA with experience in marketing and sales forecasting for new-to-the-world products and services. Functional expertise in client management, statistical analysis and advanced survey research methods.