Duluth High School

University of Florida

Consultant @ Protiviti

Duluth, Georgia, United States

Protiviti

Consultant

- Implemented product discovery to investigate the deliveries space and understand the problem of pallet stacking within space and a pallet stacking guide solution to help facilitate efficient and proper pallet stacking in all stores, facilitating $11MM sales previously missed due to this problem and saving $2MM in delivery costs

The Home Depot

Supply Chain Product Management Intern

- Communicated with upper-level management on various business issues across multiple divisions to understand the need of a common service which would help eradicate failed deliveries by validating customer addresses
-  Led an Agile team of three software developers to develop a tool to improve latency of validation calls by 200 milliseconds, increase accuracy of validation calls, and help retain $62MM per year in labor reallocation and market share

Supply Chain Software Engineering Intern

- Consulted undergraduate and graduate students on career-decisions to provide career success to over 14,000 students at the University of Florida by advising students in salary negotiations, full/part-time employment, and internship/co-op security
-  Conducted mock interviews and critiques on resumes, cover letters, graduate applications and personal statements
-  Presented to 15 different organizations each semester on fostering employer relations and professional development

UF Career Resource Center

Career Ambassador

- Built relationships and communicated with the Vice President to the Senior Managers to understand the pain points and the business’s demands with crash/error reporting and sales metrics/analytics.
-  Developed a full-stack, custom-monitoring application with a minimum viable product (MVP) by using JavaScript and the SpringBoot framework, coupled with Google Charts API-
-  Automated visibility to $2MM in daily sales and profit/loss trends, reducing labor by 8 hrs./week, approximately $16,000/year
-  Engaged in an agile scrum-methodology as a project lead by using two-week sprint iterations while conducting product reviews with Business clients and adapting the application to their feedback while collaborating with architects, engineers, and respective business/IT directors.

Home Services User Experience Intern

- Conduct thorough research and create a strategy to network to the most cost-efficient affiliate programs and price comparison engines in order to generate site traffic, increasing website traffic.
-  Diagnose a problem in Amazon uploads and program a solution to mass upload products to Amazon while keeping the margin of error less than 3% by using Python, resulting in the revival of the Amazon account.
-  Generated additional $10,000 revenue through E-Commerce via Amazon

Tilak K Patel