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Abhishek Samuel

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Hi there! This is Abhishek Samuel and welcome to my profile. I work for Ford Motor Company as a Product Manager and Software Consultant. I'm a public speaker and train people with in communication and leadership skills. I'm passionate about solving problems, ideating for the future, presentation mastery and building trust as a team. I'm an audiophile and love to hear and play music. I love to travel around and meet people and share interesting and meaningful conversations.

I’m a strong believer of the following quote, that keeps me running no matter what success or failure comes on my way,

“Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say why not”

  • Name: Abhishek Samuel
  • Address: 49A/1, Sadras Road, Vengapakkam,
    Tamil Nadu, India
  • Zip code: 603 102
  • Email: abhisheksamuel16@gmail.com
  • Phone: +91 9600 425 452
    +91 8939 161 171

Education

2017-2018

Master of Technology in Software Systems with Specialization in Data Analytics

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

  • Introduction to enterprise grade software architecture, software modelling and data structure techniques.
  • Data analytics specialization involving advanced data mining techniques machine learning, distributed data communication and storage methodologies.
  • Chose a wide variety of electives ranging from medical electronics to avionics to advanced digital signal processing.
  • 2010-2014

    Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering

    Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

  • Learnt the concepts and design of electronics and communications systems from scratch.
  • Specialized in various projects involving embedded systems.
  • A state of the art project involving blockchain technology to check part validity for the final dissertation.
  • Experience

    2017-Current

    Product Manager

    Ford Motor Company

  • Product Manager for Purchase Materials and Scheduling Agreements team. Responsible for gathering business requirements from Conference Room Pilots, preparing POCs and frameworks, overseeing Functional Specifications, Object delivery, SITs, UATs, Production Cutover, launch and audits.
  • SAP Functional Consultant for Enhancements to developed products and triaging incidents for post launch Hypercare. Also responsible for overseeing day to day operations and future roadmap of the Product.
  • Responsible for managing Agile Ceremonies like Product planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Standups and Iteration Retrospectives.
  • Agile Process Coach for the portfolio – to enable teams to transform into a Product-Driven Organization adapting Agile methodologies.
  • 2014-2017

    Programmer Analyst

    Cognizant Technology Solutions

  • Offshore contractor for Liberty Mutual Insurance Inc. Responsible for L2/L3 tasks in the Agency Management module of Distribution and Marketing Portfolio.
  • Works include Code/Bug fixes, new functional enhancements and production support in Mainframe applications and support for Midrange and Informatica based applications.
  • Provided automation opportunities and pilot initiatives for the project.
  • Projects

    2018

    Part Validity in Supply Chain Management using Blockchain

    Birla Institute of Technology & Science

    Created an end to end POC to prevent duplicate parts problem in automotive industry by using a homogeneous system of record through blockchain. POC aimed at the possibility of creating such a system, defining the pros and cons and create a consulting case for better blockchain implementations in the future.

    2018

    Smart Temporary Access Management

    Ford Motor Company

    Created a temporary access management framework for whole global business services of Ford based out of Chennai and implemented it as a Pilot in record 9 months.

    2017

    Customized Ford Pass App for Emerging Markets

    Ford Motor Company

    Design and pitch for a customized Ford Pass app based on the original Ford Pass App in US market. This project was done with the requirements of emerging markets in consideration with detailed budget and revenue calculations.

    2014-2015

    Embedded web server based control of a dual mode operated remote surveillance & monitoring vehicle and performance analysis using Hardware in the Loop Simulation

    Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

    Creation of a dual mode operated security vehicle that can be used for assault as well as a lift and carry device based on object tracking. The whole performance of the vehicle was tested based on hardware in the loop simulation.

    Services

    Services

    I provide the following boquet of services with excellence equivalent to the Industry standards

    Blog

    My Blog

    My musings on life, technology, management and others

    Turn the Tables

    August 02, 2020

    A company was bleeding assets and cash like anything during the year 2006. Declining sales, slumping profit margins ...

    Wish!

    February 16, 2022

    I wish I could get BMW 320D! I wish I could fine dine at ITC! I wish I could buy that Omega watch! I wish I could go for a ...

    Why Lead Generation is Key for Business Growth

    Sept. 12, 2019 Admin 3

    A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.

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    Address

    #49A/1, Sadras Road, Vengapakkam - 603 102

    Contact Number

    +91 9600 425 452

    Email Address

    im.abhsam@gmail.com