Harish Rajagopalan+ 91-8056171442| harishr.pgpm15c@greatlakes.edu.in

Profile Summary

PGPM in Marketing from Great Lakes Institute of management Chennai – 2015 batch 32 months of experience at Wipro in IT services with expertise in client engagement, project design and business

analysis

Professional Experience

Wipro Technologies Project Engineer August 2011 to April 2014

Interacting with strategic users and clients to deliver product functionality intended to meet prevailing and forthcoming business needs

Coordinated with teams across functions, managing and leveraging the collective capabilities of the members Key member of the team responsible for developing a new automation framework, which reduced the cost of

purchasing new proprietary software ($28000 ~ for 8 licenses) Led an initiative with a team of 6 members to completely remove manual intervention and optimize the resource

consumption by 60%

Ramped up the internal teams to align with customer's requirements and help create a winning response

Professional Accolades

“Feather in my Cap “ award winner for exceeding expectations

“PRODIGY” award winner for coming up with an innovative idea of creating an open source framework

Academic Achievements

Degree Year Institute, University/ Board % /CGPA

PGPM(Marketing) 2015 Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai Pursuing

B. E (CSE) 2011 College Of Engineering Guindy, Anna University 6.64/10.00

H.S.C 2007 VidyaMandir Senior Secondary School, CBSE 74.60%

S.S.C. 2005 VidyaMandir Senior Secondary School, CBSE 84.60%

Well versed in Lean and Six Sigma Methodology (Green Belt Certified)

Performed synthesis of superconductor and demonstrated levitation in IIT Madras

Presented a paper on Gesture Recognition in Krukshetra 2011 - Techno-Management symposium of CEG

Academic Projects

Market Research to evaluate the drivers of IPL viewership through regression and factor analysis. Identified entertainment and ambience as the major driving factors

Empirical Study on factors that drive “Viral Videos on YouTube”. Brand, Humor and Compulsion were the primary factors contributing to videos going viral

Conducted a Market Survey analyzing buying behavior of consumers purchasing Hitachi Air Conditioners in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu. Young individuals preferred online research, the elderly preferred referrals from their known ones in friends/family

Study of Micromax in Indian Market to understand the Brand perception in the minds of consumers. Micromax was found to be prominent player in rural market and emerging player in urban market.

Other Achievements

Led Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) Division 4 Cricket team and won the runners up title. Bagged the award for the best all rounder

Won the title for Highest Revenue Earning Team in “Paisa Vasool” – GLIM Entrepreneurship Fest 2014 Represented GLIM in XLerate 2015 – Inter-college sports and cultural fest organized by XLRI, Jamshedpur Organizing Secretary for TECHOFES 2011- All India Inter College Cultural Fest featuring 1000 + students

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai