HARDIK PANCHAL

AI driven startup that was founded in 2018. Responsible for building best-in-class cloud based Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision technology platform to analyze vast amounts of unstructured data and images.

• Leading development and evolution of Cloud Based Machine Learning and Data Science Platform (>$5M revenue), IoT Solutions Business (>$1M revenue).
• Managing team of 20; supervising 3 product managers and leading broader cross-functional organization of 6 engineers, 3 machine learning scientists, 5 data scientists, and 3 business analysts.
• Executed to find best practice for growth potentials helping raise $10 million in Series B funding.
• Built vision, strategy, and roadmap of integrating with multiple AI and computer vision services adding 19 new clients to platform.
• Increased sales from $1.2 to $2.5 million through deployment of multiple operations strategies, that yielded 62% of 2019's annual revenue.
• Established and rolled out better development practices increasing productivity by 20%, by process improvements, product strategy, defining product roadmaps, product features, and timeline estimates.
• Provided Strategic direction & communicated technical and business concepts confidently to stakeholders and executives.
• Championed agile software development lifecycle with best agile engineering practices for product success (planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, acceptance testing).
• Inherently collaborated with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineering, design, operations, business development, and executive to bring products and features to market.

• Planned and managed service contracts worth $5 million.
• Identified cost-effective vendors and set up favorable contracts, saving $2 million per year by streamlining contract bidding and procurement processes to assure best prices for materials and services.
• Provided Strategic direction & communicated technical and business objectives to stakeholders for procurement of services worth $1M.
• Formulated cost savings of $1 million by diminishing process gaps and supervising workflow using operational and cost metrics.
• Supervised the ordering of all Class I items for daily operations that served over 1,500 Joint Service Members.
• Mentored and guided a team with 20 logistics personnel on business development decision-making to optimize profitability, strategy, and communications planning.

Led the machine learning and analytics technologies at Swedish Hospitals. I helped ship different machine learning products, from conception phase through design, engineering, and productization, including identifying great product and partnership opportunities.

• Built a new organization of 10 people, growing data science products engagement by 80% .
• Led the growth of 3 portfolios worth over $10 million.
• Drove execution of automated data abstraction work streams for terabytes of data, improving efficiency by 60%, saving >$3 million in hospital productivity.
• Ranked in top 5% of employee performance for 3 years.
• Developed capacity strategy & plans that drove architecture improvements and cluster designs in production.
• Integrated market analysis, research and usability studies into product requirements increasing the quality of operations flows by 30%.
• Devised, implemented, and analyzed metrics and measures that inform the success of products.
• Owned critical business systems and relationships with key stakeholders and communicated frequently with executive leadership to drive projects/programs through the complete project lifecycle.

• Developed Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing ML models for improving patient outcomes, saving $2 million in hospital costs.
• Introduced new data model for capturing and storing data, enabling hospitals to scale quickly, while providing high levels of security for sensitive information and meeting compliance requirements.
• Collaborated with customers, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs for a successful product launch.
• Partnered with UX designers to design tools that make very complex workflows simple for end users.

• Implemented therapeutic regiments involving medications and other interventions to mitigate symptoms and prevent reoccurrence.
• Developed EDC and e-pro app which captured patient data reducing chemotherapy related adverse events by 60%.