About me
Anitha Vallikunnel
3/3/2018
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Hello!
I’m Anitha Vallikunnel, a MS in Business Analytics student at the Lindner College of Business. 53 months of experience at Deloitte and technical startups in India have exposed me to multifaceted business problems. Having seen the influence of data in corporate decisions, it excites me to take up high impact business problems and facilitate the consumption of insights by applying the art of structured problem solving. I also happen to be an accidental artist and a book worm. If you are interested in discussing analytics or art or books, connect with me!
Academic Background
- B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India)
- M.S. in Business Analytics (University of Cincinnati, OH)
Professional Background
My break into Consulting at Deloitte was a game changer. I started my career as a Business Technology Analyst for a large Healthcare payer in the US. I built business intelligence dashboards with Key Performance Indicators accessed by the clientele leadership team to take critical business decisions.
While I tapped into the knowledge Deloitte provided me, I realized that there is a need to understand business closely. The prospect of finding a needle in the proverbial data haystack and building products that have a promising impact on society prompted me to join Smartpocket, one of the 25 startups featured in Google Launchpad, India. My craving to work on data analytics, statistics grew stronger and my role became more challenging when Smartpocket was acquired by Goodbox - a startup building mobile payment solutions in India. I was working as Data analyst at GreedyGame, native advertising platform for mobile games and apps before joining UC.
Currently I am a Graduate Assistant at Center for Business Analytics at UC
Volunteering Experience
Thread lead for Deloitte Impact Day : Impact Day is a celebration of Deloitte’s year-round commitment to local communities. Member firms around the world host Impact Day activities where Deloitte professionals spend the day volunteering. I organised day long activity at a nearby Govt. school.
Thread lead for ENGiNES : ENGiNES is one of the Community Involvement (CI) initiatives sponsored by Deloitte. ENGiNES primarily focuses on education and employability of underprivileged kids. I have lead a number of initiatives like Teach the Kids, Summer Camp for extra curricular activities etc.
Teaching Volunteer at Make A Difference : Make A Difference is a disruptive startup in the education space, having transformed 3000+ young volunteers and imparted quality education to 5000+ underprivileged children in 23 cities across India. I was an active volunteer and had a year long commitment to teach a class of 7 children.
Experience with R
Since I used python heavily for analytics during my career, my experience with R is minimal. I have been learning R from Coursera and working with it as a part of the course curriculum.
Experience with Other Analytical Softwares
- Python
- SQL
- SAS