Abhishek Shah

Digital Service Innovation, Digital Transformation, Managing Disruptive Technology, Corporate Startup Lab, Organizational Design and Implementation, Intermediate Statistics, Object Oriented Programming, Database Management Systems.

• Corporate Startup Lab Fellow at Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Tepper School of Business.
• Educational Program Assistant at Center for Leadership Studies, Carnegie Mellon University.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Negotiation (94-800) at Heinz College of Information Systems.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Entrepreneurship (94-807) at Heinz College of Information Systems.

Object Oriented Programming, Database Management, Software Engineering and Project Management, Information Systems and Engineering Economics, Web Technologies.

• Represented the institution at various national, state and district level competitions, winning 5+ awards.
• Participated and won awards at numerous intra and inter-college competitions.
• Member of the Product Innovation Lab @ PVGCOET by IIT, Bombay.
• Developed web applications for college related activities.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to build the digital consumer experience for Life Insurance (0 to 1) by performing market and customer research, defining user stories, prioritizing features, and post-launch product management.
• Enhanced 57% growth in conversion rates and generated 28% more leads by reducing drop-off by gathering and validating product feedback through A/B testing and surveys for entry points of life, home, and auto insurance.
• Boosted sales by ~20% by recommending strategic initiatives and owning the product roadmap for B2B tools (Widgets, APIs & Webhooks) by fostering partnerships with key stakeholders to comprehend pain points and future needs.
• Piloted the first automated page generation feature at Bubble to scale long tail keyword page generation based on cheapest insurance quotes in 100+ cities across the United States, leading to a new revenue source for SEO that helped grow net new revenue.
• Improved conversion rates by 4% and increased user satisfaction by 79% by identifying and communicating improvements through Google Analytics dashboards, which correlated with performance metrics related to customer attrition and other KPIs.
• Achieved CTR of 3.8% and an overall monthly increase in new visitors by 18% by researching and implementing HTML5 display ads.
• Aligned diverse stakeholders and teams: engineering, user experience, data, product marketing, and business strategy to communicate the status and progress towards product vision and road map metrics through a weekly email digest for leadership.

• Increased revenue by over 70% in 6 months by creating an omnichannel reporting platform to measure online marketing campaigns, helping us scale from a limited number of campaigns to hundreds of campaigns a week.
• Improved average collaborations per creator by 25% by transforming performance-based campaign metrics, user statistics, and channel demographics data into actionable insights to build comprehensive profiles and matches between Brands and Creators.
• Handled end-to-end campaign activities – Influencer interaction, designing, executing & analyzing the performance post-completion.

• Selected as a part of the 2023 Corporate Startup Project Course Cohort.
• Worked in a multi-disciplinary team to develop Robotics Solutions for Carlisle Construction Materials.
• Conducted extensive research on consumer needs and preferences to ensure better outcomes for customers in the construction industry.
• Developed a detailed business model and explored new market opportunities for Robotics Solutions.
• Generated customer profiles to better understand the target market and their requirements.
• Successfully produced a viable prototype of the Robotics Solutions.
• Presented and pitched the Robotics Solutions to high-level executives, highlighting their benefits and potential impact on the industry.

• Developed ETL programs using Informatica for migrating data from VSAM (Mainframe) to Oracle. Reviewed and analyzed functional requirements, mapping documents and performed unit testing at various levels of the ETL.
• Developed AWS CDK applications to migrate on-prem data to AWS S3 buckets for analysis by the data engineering team.

• Collaborated within an agile team structure as a web developer for development of ‘Declaration of Consent’ project – a portal for documenting, storing and retrieval of declaration of consents collected by MBIL, DFS and Authorized Dealers.
• Assisted in development of Sales Planning Simulation tool, which acts as an important intermediator between production planning and sales planning.
• Designed and optimized process documentation for processes to be automated using RPA.
• Authored Business Requirement Documentation for digitization of the ‘Homologation’ project.

• Assisting in creating curriculum and seminars around leadership for students across all colleges at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Led the website content development in collaboration with the College of Engineering (COE) Marketing and Communications Office.
• Working closely with the leadership of the Center for Leadership Studies to translate content into user-friendly web pages.
• Spearheading the development of the alumni network, course materials, and center offerings.
• Research & mapping of current institutional models and trends around Leadership studies.

• Building ViB (Venture in a Box) – specializing in providing support and platforms for corporate innovation programs that need to scale beyond experimentation.

• Founded the TED Club at PVG’s COET and acquired license from the TED Conferences to conduct a TEDx event.
• Recruited and spearheaded a team of 30 members and spread passion for TEDx throughout the institute.
• Organized TEDxPVGCOET, an independently organized TED event with great success.

• Recruited and managed a team of 50 students from the Computer Engineering Department at PVG’s COET.
• Facilitated a 60% increase in membership registrations compared to the previous year.
• Organized and conducted 40+ events throughout the year for students and faculty at PVG’s COET.

• First prize at District Level Mini Project Competition organized by Cummins College of Engineering.
• All India Rank 4 at National Level competition ‘Placement Heat’ conducted by Talent Battle.
• Various Inter and Intra College awards for technical and non-technical competitions.

• Developed a rule-based surveillance and interpretation system using machine learning and computer vision for real time analysis of images, videos and data recorded by surveillance cameras.
• Designed a cross-platform web application using Django for better UX.
• Analyzed various models and finalized the Faster-RCNN with RESNET 50 model for best performance of our test case.

• Developed a cross-platform web application for assessing and analyzing the scientific literacy of the general population.
• Demonstrated innovativeness by developing graphics-only quizzes to mitigate the language barrier.
• Designed and developed an admin portal with various interactive charts, graphs and maps for the ministry personnel.

• Designed a complete accident alert system consisting of an Arduino module and an android application.
• Programmed the Arduino module to communicate with the CAN bus of vehicles and parse data to be sent to the android application.
• Developed an android application to act as a SOS device in case of accidents. Other modules like vehicle tele-metrics, woman safety and black box systems were also developed.

• Web Developer – Sumitra Ramrao Nagarkatti Foundation
• App Developer – Bhoomi Jalsandharan Udayami
• Fundraiser – Muskurahat Foundation