Shankar Calambakkam

Shankar Calambakkam

Atlanta Metropolitan Area
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As a leading Strategic Digital Leader my expertise lies in translating innovative ideas…

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Experience

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    The Hartford

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    Atlanta Metropolitan Area

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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    Greater Atlanta Area

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    Parsippany,NJ

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    New London/Norwich, Connecticut Area

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    Greater Atlanta Area

Education

  • Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Graphic

    Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

    * Executive MBA degree with concentration in Global Business. I completed an international residency in Beijing and Shanghai, Meeting with Executives to understand the global business strategy executed from some of their largest companies, such as China Mobile, Lenovo as well as American companies who have entered the Chinese market.

    * First place award for the global business capstone project for providing consulting for a real world problem for a Fortune 500 company to compete with…

    * Executive MBA degree with concentration in Global Business. I completed an international residency in Beijing and Shanghai, Meeting with Executives to understand the global business strategy executed from some of their largest companies, such as China Mobile, Lenovo as well as American companies who have entered the Chinese market.

    * First place award for the global business capstone project for providing consulting for a real world problem for a Fortune 500 company to compete with disruptor like Apple and Google in connected car industry.

    * Competed in The ACG Cup 2014 - ACG is a case study competition designed to give students from leading MBA programs across the country real world experience and invaluable insights into mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory and private equity.

  • Activities and Societies: Vice President of Indian Student Association

    Studied Operating system, eCommerce, SDLC, Computer programming, networks, Database management and Data Mining tools and techniques.

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member

    Together Friends org

    - Present 1 year 1 month

    https://togetherfriends.org/

  • SIM National Chapter - Enterprise Architecture Steering Committee Member

    https://www.simnet.org/ea/home

    - Present 9 months

    Science and Technology

  • TAG- Data & AI - Executive Committee Member

    https://www.tagonline.org/societies/data-science-analytics/

    - Present 9 months

    Science and Technology

  • Private Directors Association® - Atlanta Chapter Graphic

    Member

    Private Directors Association® - Atlanta Chapter

    - Present 5 months

  • Kettering Graphic

    Member

    Kettering

    - Present 4 months

  • Assistant Scout Master

    Troop 2000

    - Present 1 year 2 months

    Eagle Advisor - Mentoring Life Scouts Eagle projects by assisting them to learn project management 101.

    Merit Badge Counselor - Public Speaking, Communication, Cooking Sustainability, Cycling, Camping, Skating, Traffic Safety

    Led 2 crew of 16 members for Scouts High Adventure Seabase at St.Thomas,Summer 2023

  • FinOps Foundation Graphic

    Community Member

    FinOps Foundation

    - Present 2 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

  • Committee Member

    Scouts Troop 2000

    - 4 years 11 months

    Conduct Board of Review for scouts for rank advancements - Preparing teenager for future board meetings

    Eagle Advisor - Mentoring Life scouts eagle projects by assisting them to learn project management 101.

    Merit Badge Counselor - Public Speaking, Sustainability, Cycling, Skating, Traffic Safety

  • Board of Director -VP

    Cambridge Heights Academy

    - 3 years 2 months

    Education

    www.cambridgeheights.org

    Cambridge Heights Academy is designed to strengthen the lives of students who are in elementary, middle and high school. Our program focuses on five priority areas, inclusive of academic excellence, character development, leadership, technology and physical wellness. Our environment allows students to become engaged learners and provides them with the skill to become positive risk takers. Most importantly, the culture of our program helps students to be…

    www.cambridgeheights.org

    Cambridge Heights Academy is designed to strengthen the lives of students who are in elementary, middle and high school. Our program focuses on five priority areas, inclusive of academic excellence, character development, leadership, technology and physical wellness. Our environment allows students to become engaged learners and provides them with the skill to become positive risk takers. Most importantly, the culture of our program helps students to be supported academically, acquire confidence in themselves and their abilities, learn healthy and virtuous habits, and develop a sense of personal responsibility and a commitment to the larger community.

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    Member of Executive MBA Alumni Advisory Committee

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    - 1 year 9 months

    Education

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    Volunteer Involvement Program (VIP)

    United Way of Greater Atlanta

    - 5 months

    Education

    United Way’s VIP is a 10-week, 40-hour training program designed to develop and enhance leadership skills, increase diverse volunteer participation in nonprofit board and leadership positions, in the greater Atlanta communities. VIP gives participants the tools to serve as effective board members of local nonprofit agencies. Workshops include fundraising, strategic planning, marketing, and financial and legal decision making.

  • Den Leader

    cub scout pack 1099

    - 1 year 7 months

Courses

  • Business Regulations

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  • Cross Cultural Communications

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  • Ethical Decision Making

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  • Financial Management

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  • Financial and Managerial Accounting

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  • Global Economics

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  • Global Strategy Project

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  • Global Supply Chain

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  • International Business Negotiations

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  • International Finance

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  • Leadership and Org Behavior

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  • Managing the Global Workforces

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  • Manufacturing and service Operation Management

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  • Marketing and Consumer Behavior

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  • Product Strategies in Global Markets

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  • Strategic Management

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  • Sustainable Business Strategies

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Honors & Awards

  • Innovator Award

    MARTA’s Employee Recognition Program 2021

    Shankar was honored at MARTA's Employee Recognition Program 2021 as an Individual Innovator Award winner. The award is for spearheading the effort to identify and implement an Idea & Innovation Management Software that enabled MARTA's internal employees and the external public to ideas. https://ideas.itsmarta.com/

  • First Place - Global Strategy Project

    Dean - Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

    Provide a Business solution to a real time issue encountered by the sponsoring company. This is the capstone project which is a three term long real time Management Consulting project which has similar challenges posed to McKinsey or BAIN . The work involved framing and re-framing the strategic issue, data gathering, business model building, interviews with C-suite and VP level executives, analyzing the data, develop implementation focused recommendation.

  • Special Achievement Award

    Director of Infrastructure

    For Teamwork:Facilitated across cross-functional team to resolve a issue which is absolutely critical in supporting our customer milestones.

  • Aegis Above and Beyond Award

    Customer Program Management Team

    On behalf of the Aegis Program Management Team, we would like to congratulate you on being a recipient of the Aegis Above and Beyond award. You have played a valuable role in moving us closer to successful deployment of the Argus Safety system platform. Thank you for your dedication and motivation and we look forward to our ongoing partnership.

  • Special Achievement Award

    Issuer: VP,IT

    You are being commended for a job well done. Quintiles appreciates your dedication to work worth doing!

  • Distinguished Perfomance Award

    Issuer : Program Director

    Selected to receive the highest recoginition for outstanding performance through Quintiles's Work Worth Doing Recognition Rewards - Distinguished Perfomance Award

Languages

  • English

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  • Tamil

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Society for Information Management (SIM) Atlanta Chapter

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  • ISACA

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  • Toastmasters International

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  • member of PMI Atlanta Chapter

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