Archit Sharma

• Developed a new strategy for improving selection, pricing, and delivery outcomes for third-party sellers connecting to Amazon through software providers (Integrators) across Sweden, Poland, Netherlands, and Turkey. • Collected and analyzed over 4000 different data points from internal and external data sources to document the (1) Types of Integrators (2) Market Opportunity (3) Current process & (4) identify gaps. • Developed 7 detailed recommendations (5 Short Term and 2 Long term) which could lead to potential revenue gains of ~$240m (short-term) to ~$978m(long-term).

Achieved a ~15% increase in project efficiency and improved alignment with business objectives by spearheading the development and implementation of a framework to prioritize projects

• Liaised and negotiated between in country users, business teams, and support teams to help define requirements for Transaction & Card Services in TMRW – UOB’s mobile-only bank - in Thailand & Indonesia • Developed the business case to digitize card services by quantifying trade-offs, demonstrating long-term benefits and estimating IT investment to secure approval and implementation budget • Delivered the application on time and in budget by closely managing the project through agile deliver practice including daily standups, sprint reports, identifying risks, and proactively tracking and highlighting bugs

• Led a study to identify key trends and changes in the business environment and devise a mix of digital strategies to use these changes to grow UOB’s Retail Banking franchise in emerging ASEAN markets • Spearheaded the launch a UOB Mighty FX, a digitally issued a multi-currency account, which had an NPS score of 7 and 8k account openings in the first month

• Joined UOB as Management Associate with five rotations in Group Technology, Personal Financial Services(PFS), Channels and Digitization (GCD), Global Markets Structuring and Asset Management Operations, thereby gaining exposure from the front office to the back office in the Retail and Wholesale parts of the bank • During my rotation with Group Technology, I worked closely with the trading support team and market risk management team to implement customized improvements MUREX, a cross asset trading, risk and back office management platform. • During my rotation with PFS, I worked on developing a mobile strategy for improving connections with young customers. I specifically helped develop the targets and strategy behind the “Dine” feature on the UOB mobile application. • During my rotation with GCD, I help develop an algorithm called “Pattern of Life” that used location data from the customer to better predict which branch they would be banking at and therefore which personal bankers should call them. • During my rotation with Global Markets Structuring, I worked with the Credit Derivative Team on Reverse Repurchase Agreements, developing a new model to factor in changes in Counterparty Credit Risk into the repo pricing.

• Developed an Extract Transform Load (ETL) process on Informatica to reconcile all futures, forwards and options traded on NASDAQ market with internal records. • Worked on an experimental machine learning project that analyzed Market Sentiment for equity stocks from articles on Bloomberg and Reuters using Natural Language Processing. • Was chosen to be the Intern Leader for all Interns in Singapore.

Teaching Assistant for Enterprise Web Solutions for term 2 of AY 2013-2014. - Helped the professor with administrative duties such as grading, supervision and recording attendance. - Held regular consultation session with students to address any concerns, queries and doubts they had

I was selected by the TED organization to curate Singapore Management University's first TEDx conference. As the founder I was responsible for procuring the TED license and ensuring all TED rules were followed. Furthermore I liaised internally with my college administration as well externally with 8 different vendors to procure and fund all the logistics activities related to organizing the event.

I was select by Microsoft Singapore to be their student ambassador across all colleges in Singapore for their Office 365 suite of products. During my tenure, I interacted with college students, to promote MS Office 2013 on tablet devices. To help popularize and explain the product I conducted presentations and workshops in school and colleges. Furthermore I recorded user feedback about the product and presented it in a usable format to Microsoft. For the duration I worked, I was one of the top performers, having achieved all targets before the assigned deadline.

MBA with a specialization in Finance

Part of the Exco that organized the BSCM in December 2012 . Fouder of TEDxSingaporeManagementUniversity

Captain of the school Badminton Team. Member of the school Football Team