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Aditya Sundaresan

Aditya Sundaresan

Operations manager and Tutor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Robotics/AI Product Manager | INSEAD

  • Education

    • Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre

      2019 - 2020
      Minor Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

      As part of this intense one month program, I learnt various skills required to start and grow a small business, as well as developed an entrepreneurial mindset and outlook. Major takeaways included marketing strategies, negotiation skills, accounting skills, growth strategies, balancing equities and debt, and much more.One of the most important aspects of this was a business simulation (Capsim) that taught me the basics of how to manage the finances of a growing company with the most… Show more As part of this intense one month program, I learnt various skills required to start and grow a small business, as well as developed an entrepreneurial mindset and outlook. Major takeaways included marketing strategies, negotiation skills, accounting skills, growth strategies, balancing equities and debt, and much more.One of the most important aspects of this was a business simulation (Capsim) that taught me the basics of how to manage the finances of a growing company with the most hands on experience possible.Currently finishing the minor by implementing a business idea. Show less

    • Bombay Scottish School

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      ICSE Std X

    • Nanyang Technological University

      2018 - 2022
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE(mechanical engineering - Robotics), Second major in Business Minor in Entrepreneurship

      Activities and Societies: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Club(2018-2020),(United Nations Students' Association (Delegations Wing, 2018-19) Fencing club(2018-20), Entrepreneurship Society(2018-21), Astronomy Club(2018-19)

    • INSEAD

      2022 - 2023
      Master in management Business Administration and Management, General

    • Pace Junior Science College

      2016 - 2018
      HSC (Std. XII) Science 96%

  • Experience

    • Community Outreach Programme (CORP)

      Apr 2015 - May 2015
      Operations manager and Tutor

      In this capacity, I managed a part of the daily operations of a children’s shelter run by CORP and taught children MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel as well as basic python programming.

    • NTU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Club (NTUMAE Club)

      Sept 2019 - Aug 2020
      Financial Secretary

      - Top leader within the club and set the club’s direction for the year- Guided the club’s COVID-19 crisis response, rescheduling events and moving them online, ensuring supply of sanitizer to all students on campus, etc.- Mentored and spearheaded the 11 member business management team, to conceptualize, create and sell club merchandise such as t-shirts, gaining product - development experience- Created 6% YoY growth in merchandise sales for the club in the first sale period through better product design and revamped marketing and product positioning- Control the finances of the club, including sponsorships and event finances for events with 800+ attendees Show less

    • Animal Kingdom

      Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
      Co-Founder and CFO

      - As part of the minor in entrepreneurship program, co-founded a small apparel business- Achieved four-figure revenue within 2 months of launch through aggressive and targeted guerilla marketing campaign- Achieved social media virality among the NTU community within days of launching a Guerilla marketing campaign.- Handled accounting, funding, revenue, and re-investment for the company, and was part of the core marketing team and assisted with ideation for the successful marketing campaign. Show less

    • Nanyang Technological University Singapore

      Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

      - Envisioned and implemented a robotic system based on a stereocamera (Ensenso N35) and a single robotic arm (Franka Emika Panda) to flatten and fold clothes.- Designed and developed the vision, arm control, textile object handling pipelines (software/computer vision/machine learning)- Designed and created a special end effector (concept, CAD, 3D printed) to interact with textile/flexible objects- Developed a software agent to handle target state (cloth state) and perform different actions based on process state and target object configuration- Developed custom, highly optimized software for quick robot arm - camera extrinsic calibration- Created a unified and optimized software pipeline to monitor, troubleshoot and manage networking issues between multiple hardware devices in realtime- Used C, python, shell scripting(bash), Linux, ROS Show less - Lead a research project under the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, titled “A quantitative analysis of the influence of Covid-19 on the media portrayal of robots”- Automated the data mining process and improved article sourcing efficiency by 200% by building a web crawler to search for articles on specific topics written in a given timeframe- Design and apply sentiment analysis pipelines to articles to quantify subjective data(news articles and other text sources) on media portrayal of various topics, reducing time required for article evaluation by 50% and improving research objectivity- The research paper was accepted to the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) based on rigorousness of method and significance of findings Show less

      • Robotics researcher/developer (bachelor's thesis/Final year project)

        Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

      • PR Student Researcher (Quantitative, NLP based research)

        Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

    • The China Navigation Company

      May 2020 - Jul 2020
      Sustainability Consultant (Work attachment)

      - Lead a multifunctional team and coordinated with stakeholders within as well as outside the company to evaluate long term fuel sustainability for China Navigation Company, affecting 30 million tonnes of cargo every year- Developed an integrated future sustainability plan for China Navigation Company, including recommendations to switch to completely new fuels and engines, in addition to other innovations such as Flettner rotors, to achieve an estimated 85-90% reduction in carbon emissions for only a 10% increase in CAPEX for one year and 3% decrease in annual operational expenditure.- Recommendations picked up by upper management of China Navigation Company for implementation over the next 4-5 years- Work attachment was part of the CDL-GCNS Young SDG Leaders Case competition, where the team achieved 3rd place based on the work attachment recommendations Show less

    • Singapore FinTech Festival

      Sept 2020 - Dec 2020
      Fintech Intern

      - Research and prepare brochures for event audiences as well as content reports for event analytics - Interview leaders from around the world in the FinTech industry - Responsible for the development and maintenance of a virtual “zone” in the festival, including ensuring all booths run smoothly, crisis response in case of technical difficulties, and event analytics

    • Unilever

      Jan 2021 - Sept 2021

      • Led a global, multi-functional team of 12 to create product roadmap for data lake & internal analytics tools for Unilever’s global packaging supply chain (affecting €600M+ of SKUs/month)- Led team to understand the new product innovation process for brands in multiple verticals, and designed/developed innovation costing tools, reducing time to introduction of new products by 6 weeks• Created machine learning tools to predict demand spikes/dips based on brand activations in multiple geographies, and developed an automated campaign evaluation tool, used by 10+ global brands within 1st quarter of launch• Designed new UI optimization process involving A/B testing & user action tracking; achieved product usage growth of 12% over 6 months, user retention increase of 40%+ & direct logistics savings impact of ~1.2% over 1st quarter Show less

      • Digitalisation product manager

        Jun 2021 - Sept 2021

      • Global Supply Chain digitalisation product management intern (Gen-Next)

        Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

    • Fabrica AI

      Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
      Product Manager

    • Stealth

      Jun 2024 - now
      Technical Product Manager, Robotics

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Aditya Sundaresan
      Winner | JobTech Track| iNTUition v8.0 Hackathon, 2022 - Feb 2022 Used multiple NLP approaches to build accesibility tags for job postings on the Indeed . com website.View more details at https://devpost.com/software/intellijob
    • Awarded to Aditya Sundaresan
      Runner Up at CDL-GCNS Young SDG Leaders award Global Compact Network Singapore Sep 2020 Round 1- Led a team of 3 to analyze the operations and business processes of City Developments Limited and make recommendations to improve resource efficiency by 3%, promote sustainable business practices, and integrate a circular economy into the business- Qualified for the finals based on originality, feasibility and innovativeness of the recommendations and depth of analysisFinal Round- Led the team to evaluate long term fuel sustainability for China Navigation Company… Show more Round 1- Led a team of 3 to analyze the operations and business processes of City Developments Limited and make recommendations to improve resource efficiency by 3%, promote sustainable business practices, and integrate a circular economy into the business- Qualified for the finals based on originality, feasibility and innovativeness of the recommendations and depth of analysisFinal Round- Led the team to evaluate long term fuel sustainability for China Navigation Company, affecting 30 million tonnes of cargo every year- Developed an integrated future sustainability plan for China Navigation Company, including recommendations to switch to completely new fuels and engines, in addition to other innovations such as Flettner rotors, to achieve an estimated 85-90% reduction in carbon emissions for only a 10% increase in CAPEX for one year and 3% decrease in annual operational expenditure.- Achieved runner up position based on thoroughness of analysis and research as well as feasibility and impact potential of recommendations- Recommendations picked up by upper management of China Navigation Company for implementation over the next 4-5 years Show less
    • Awarded to Aditya Sundaresan
      Best Performing Team Global Brand Planning Competition (GBPC) Jun 2019 I was part of the team that won the best-performing team (English) award at the global brand planning competition (GBPC) organized by the Global Chinese Marketing Federation(GCMF).