Desai Ankur V | PGP 16114

Male | 27 years
Educational Background
PGDM IIM Ahmedabad 3.316/4.33 Among top 25% in the Batch 2017
B.Tech (Electrical) NIT, Surat 9.24/10 2nd among 78 students 2012
Class XII (GSEB) S.D.R.U.M. School, Surat 87.40% 1st among 45 students 2008
Class X (GSEB) S.D.R.U.M. School, Surat 91.43% 2 among 60 students
nd 2006
Elective Market Research and Information System (Rank 1) Forecasting Techniques (Rank 7) Strategic Management
Subjects Consumer Behaviour (Rank 3) Supply Chain Thinking (Rank 11) (Rank 16)
Professional Experience: Senior O&M Engineer, Indian Oil Corporation Limited ( Aug ’12 – May ’16 ) (45 Months)
 Received “Reward & Recognition” award twice from Director, Pipelines; (1/15 of 33,000 employees)
Achievements  Saved INR 60 lac and achieved 25% increase in system fault tolerance by commissioning softstarter
 Reduced 75% Shutdown time, saved INR 20 lac by developing software based tracker for pipeline scraper
 Reduced Manpower deployment by 25% & energy losses by 10% by automating power transformers
Strategic
Innitiatives  Conceptualized plan to annually save INR 72 lac by Electricity Trading initiative
 Designed reactive power compensation system with potential savings of INR 18 lac per annum
 Leader of Electrical Maintenance (4 members) & Mainline Maintenance (6 members) team for 32 months
Roles and
Responsibilities  Station Technical Lead of Fire Fighting network augmentation project worth INR 50 crore
 Mentored & Trained 7 new recruits at station level for 3 years to ensure their smooth transition into roles
Microsoft GSMO, Summer Intern ( March ’17 – April ’17 ) (02 Months)
Responsibilities  Derived Insights from interaction with Business Decision Makers and CXOs on Productivity Gaps and Blockers
 Initiated the customer contact and carved out 3 qualified business leads in 2-month span
 Created classification matrix of Product acceptance blockers & Identification of low hanging opportunities
Achievements
 Created successful business value proposition with ROI for new productivity tools for enterprise customers
 Identified customer need, charted out recommendations to upsell and strategy to scale out the Go To Market
Reculta, General Management Intern ( November ’17 – December’17 ) (02 Months)
Responsibilities  General Management Intern, responsible for Valuation Analysis and product Pitch & Sales
 Carried out valuation analysis and identified fund raising opportunities for Reculta.
 Conceptualized fundraising through crowdfunding by Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for Reculta.
Achievements
 Assessed firm’s compatibility and carried out feasibility analysis for funding through Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
 Created news feed ranking algorithm on the lines of EdgeRank by identifying key influencer parameters.
Project Courses and Independent Projects
Prof. Anish  Project Title: Modeling high-resolution spatial poverty distribution using satellite images
Sugathan, BP  Created algorithm for image classification with accuracy of 75% by Convolution neural network. 2017

Prof. Amit  Project Title: To develop BMC for a marketplace for recruiting blue-collar workers
Karna, CIIE  Studied network effects, lock-in mechanisms and dynamics in a multi-sided platform 2017
Research Publication and Scholastic Achievements
 Light Research & Technology, SAGE Journals: Authored a Paper on Harmonics Analysis
Publications 2011
 Developed a numerical method for interpolation estimation used in JAVA programming
Academic  Silver Medalist of the Electrical Engineering Department, SVNIT during Undergraduation 2012
Achievement  Secured admission for Masters of Science from University of Maryland & University of Toronto 2014-15
Competitive  99.97 percentile in CAT ’15 among 2.18 lac students & Secured Admission offers from IIM A,B,C 2015
Examination  Scored 322/340 in GRE with 169/170 in Quantitative section (97 percentile globally) 2013
Positions of Responsibility
 1 of 19 selected core team member from 287 applications for TRBS '17 that witnessed 22000 footfall
The Red Bricks
Summit’ 2017  Coordinated with 24 clubs to schedule 51 events with least overlap, instrumental to lending 22k footfall 2017
 Managed service delivery of 9 vendors for logistics of TRBS with a budget of INR 99.4 lacs
PM & Tech.  1/14 Core team member; conducted PM opportunities related guidance session attended by 55
Club 2017
 Organised a Product Management Workshop by Microsoft attended by 120+ students with team of 4
Sports  Manager for “Learn a Sport” initiative & responsible for organizing the coaching facility for 8 sports
Committee 2017
 Responsible for accommodation Logistics and Hospitality for participants of Shaurya’17
Social  Spearheaded team of 10 to spread awareness of Swachh Bharat Mission in 50 schools of Patan
Initiatives 2012-16
 Sensitized ~6000 villagers from 50 villages towards hydrocarbon spillage & fire prevention
Extra-Curricular Achievements
 Captain of the college Kabaddi team for Inter IIM sports meet- Sangharsh’18 2017
Sports  Player of the tournament (Kabaddi) in All India Inter NIT sports meet (among 15 teams) 2011
 Led Athletics team to victory among 20 participating teams in All India Inter NIT sports meet 2011
 Gold Medalist in Shot-put, Hammer Throw and Discus Throw in Gujarat Engineering Sports meet 2009
+91 81416 67545 ⌂ MSH 20 Room 04, IIM Ahmedabad, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, 380 015  p16ankurd@iima.ac.in