Hovhannes Khandanyan

Hovhannes Khandanyan

Manager, Data and Analytics, PhD
France
English, French, Russian, Armenian

About Me

I am a strong believer that organizations can gain lasting competitive advantage thanks to value generation with Data and AI at scale - a clear alpha asset.

In that context, I have steered my journey to gain expertise i…

Experience

General Manager Engineering

Ernst & Young
Apr 2018 - Present · 8 years 3 months

Delivered strategic advising through 15 engagements to global and mid-to-large size companies across 9 industry sectors aimed at helping them unlock the value of data as a key enabler to achieve massive impact by realizing new revenue opportunities, reducing risks and creating efficiencies (combined worth of delivered projects $7.5M). Participated in recruitment and team development. Ran Business Dev activities (Propositions, Offerings, pitches, White papers, webinars, etc...)

Manager, Analytics

EY Consulting, Paris, France
Jan 2018 - Present · 8 years 6 months

Delivered strategic advising through 14 engagements to global and mid-to-large size companies across 10 industry sectors.
Helped clients unlock the value of data to realize new revenue opportunities, reduce risks, and create efficiencies.
Participated in recruitment and team development.
Ran business development activities including propositions, offerings, pitches, white papers, and webinars.
Led a team that provided a global automobile manufacturer data management services such as data structuring, enterprise data modeling, and data cataloging.
Established product vision, value proposition, and roadmap.
Recruited team members.
Managed MVP delivery on pilot scope and subsequent iterative enhancement of the services.
Helped a player in the global gases industry establish MDM B-Case, gather requirements for MDM/SIM tooling, and build end-to-end architecture design for MDM.
For an NGO, led the design, built and deployed in production a new product enabling a core business process to run 10x faster through upgraded data architecture, data quality management, and process redesign and automation.
Led the design, development, testing, and run of an ML-based solution allowing the marketing team of a hospitality chain to score sales leads and increase lead conversion rate by 1 point.
Managed the design and development of a solution for tracing parcels enabling a large postal service provider to recover €2M of leaked value due to VAT overpayment.
Used the triple diamond model to establish parcel traceability gaps related to master data.
Defined solution architecture, gathered product requirements, and established roadmap to drive development.
Steered zero-to-one development of an AI-empowered stock optimization product for a global electrical equipment manufacturer and deployed it in production.
Built product vision, main features, and development roadmap.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Senior Manager

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 years

Managed entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up like environment: a strategic product aimed at boosting firm’s top line, brand equity & comp. differentiation. Filed an innovation patent to protect the firm's competitive positioning. Built-up a team of 10 people around it. Presented at 7 industry conferences to support firm’s positioning as industry thought leader. Scaled the product to serve global markets. Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 · 3 years

Led a team of developers to design and build a co-work platform used by 20+ research groups.

Graduate Research Assistant

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 · 2 years

Conducted a fundamental research program to build an innovative methodology to gain precision on intensity measurement for fundamental physics processes.

Senior Manager, Big Data Analytics

Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Paris, France

Managed the entire lifecycle of Traveler360 platform in a start-up-like environment.
Built a team of 10 people around the platform.
Presented at 7 industry conferences to support the firm's positioning as an industry thought leader.
Scaled the product to serve global markets.
Supported sales motion to secure 6-digit sales.
Established product vision and strategy, target client segments, and value proposition.
Led zero-to-one product development process.
Gathered product requirements.
Conducted design thinking workshops to design solution concept.
Created product roadmap.
Built and tested MVP and ran a pilot on a limited scope.
Scaled up the product through iterative industrialization of product components via an agile approach.
Created an after-sales support team to help clients maximize value gained with the product and proactively gather client feedback.

Skills

Business Analytics Information Systems Management Oracle Product Oversight and Strategy Project Leadership Structured Query Language (SQL) Business Growth Client Engagement Management Collaboration Skills Communication Strategies Interpersonal Communication Data Repository Employee Relationship Social Skills Management Skill Marketing Skill Marketing Skills Partner Relationships Problem Solving Skill Problem Solving Skills Product Requirement PRODUCT STRATEGY Vendor Relationships Data Analysis Skills Data Gathering Master Data Management Product Lifecycle Management User Acceptance Testing Change Management Crisis Response Data Strategy Data Governance Data Modeling Interfaces Data Quality Data Catalog Agile Project Management Client Management Business Intelligence Dashboarding Data Visualization Informatica Alteryx Dataiku Celonis Azure DevOps DAX SPARQL Python Power BI Tableau Scrum Master PSPO Azure Power Automate Data Factory SQL Server Azure Web Apps Microsoft Dynamics 354 Spark Excel Hive Triple Diamond FMEA
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