Prem K. Murugan

Management Consultant & Analytics Manager

*Note: Due to certain security constraints and proprietary nature of some of my work, I cannot reveal the names of few of my employers and details about my work in some domains in an open forum. If interested, please let me know by sending an email at the bottom of this page. I will send my complete CV. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Professional Highlights

EU based Fintech company* (Present; Munich): Distinguished Quant Advisor

The firm offers software driven dynamically optimized portfolios with prime focus on intelligent risk management technology.

Advise and oversee development of an across-the-board Machine Learning based investment strategy for enhanced risk-adjusted returns

Horváth & Partners (Stuttgart): Senior Associate Consultant & Quantitative Mentor

Horváth & Partners is a leading European management consulting firm headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Devised a competitive benchmarking strategy to assess a client's manufacturing effectiveness by comparison with top-drawer contract manufacturers.
Recommmended an operating consolidation model of governance driven by machine learning based data discovery for a chemical manufacturing client to address production inefficiencies in plant operations. Resulted in reduction of overhead costs and a 21% increase in effiiciency.
Supervised development of a consequence model for jet fire LOC scenario firmly entrenched in meteorological data for a QRA client.
Advised a large retail chain client in implementing a KPI based daily pricing optimization protocol for stock keeping units in excess of nearly 17000 distributed everywhere (leading to 8% increase in revenue).
Analyzed technology industry profitability to identify attractive growth vectors for large tech client and highlight key differences between profit/power concentration in different verticals.
Conceived and developed a feasibility trial program of client initiative in the automotive sector to facilitate provision of supply chain operational support services.
Advised and helped drive Series B fundraising for a startup client resulting in a €30M+ financing from one of the largest global investment management corporations in the world.
Provided strategic and financial advice to aid multiple clients in determining appropriate response to potentially disruptive trends; topics covered include cloud computing, mobile commerce, cross-border eCommerce, etc.
Promoted and influenced the creation of an independent cross-industry model development, analysis and guidance subsidiary.
Consistently received strong reviews with ratings of “frequently exceeds expectations” and “upward trajectory”.

The Company* (Stuttgart, Germany): Senior Analyst

Program Management - Managed company element projects using PMI framework.
Data Mining/Knowledge Management - Methodology Design, Implementation & Deployment. Tradecraft development support.

University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany): Research Engineer

Developed a suite of Probabilistic Machine Learning based reverse engineering algorithms to unravel complex network properties in high-throughput biological data.
Licensed the algorithms and software tools to a major Fortune 500 American pharmaceutical conglomerate.
Formulated and implemented an entropy driven decision tree framework to enhance knowledge discovery in engineering simulations.

Other Consultancy Projects

SRAM & MRAM Group (Chennai, India):

SRAM & MRAM Group is an organization with diverse business interests headquartered in London, UK.

Helped with creation of a Predictive Analytics Unit and served as mentor for a wide range of projects.
Conceived, formulated and advanced implementation of election modeling strategies for multi-party elections in India, Germany and South Africa for political lobbying entities.
Developed an algorithm to render constituency shape files from Election Commission of India's polling booth information to map state and parliamentary elections.
Created and managed a Sports Analytics division and developed predictive neural network models (with LSTM architecture) for three T20 domestic cricket leagues (IPl, TNPL, Big Bash)
IPL 2017 model had an accuracy of 81% and TNPL 2017 model's accuracy stood at 92%.

ProZone & Sportal-NWT Group (London, UK):

Prozone was a pioneer in game and performance tracking. It was acquired by STATS LLC in 2015. Sportal was a subsidiary of NWT Group, a Mayfair - London based company that provided predictive analytics solutions in sports to media, investors and public.

Mentored the design and implementation of an optimal, multifaceted live data acquisition protocol for EPL football games towards developing a predictive model.
Managed and analyzed prediction models of EPL games for an English media entity. Best model had an accuracy of 79%.

Education

University of Hagen (Hagen, Germany): Masters in Physics, Emphasis on Theoretical Physics

Thesis: Tidal disruption events - Analysis & Simulation

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, India): Masters in Chemical Engineering, Emphasis on Mathematical Modeling & Simulation

Thesis: Simulation studies of a cell cycle model of budding yeast - Analysis and coupling with metabolic model

Honors:

Skills/Others

Strategic insight into manufacturing (diverse) industry and analytics landscape.
Strong coding experience in C/C++, FORTRAN, Haskell, R, Python, Perl & shell.
Advocate for BSD UNIX (Sample). Comfortable with Proprietary UNIX (Oracle Solaris, HP UX), Linux.
Good experience with MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, QGIS, ArcGIS, GRASS.
Volunteering and documentation experience in various open source projects (ROOT, GEANT4, DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Lunar Linux & Sorcerer OS)
Fluent in German & Japanese. Conversational in Mandarin and Diné.

Additional Interests

Research and analyze UAP hot spot and physical evidence cases.
Investigate Navajo Skinwalker and Wendigo sightings and encounters.
Critically analyze SciFi movies (Example) and anime.