Academic Experience
  1. August 2019 - : Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
  2. August 2015 - May 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems and Analytics, Farmer School of Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA 
  3. August 2009 - July 2015: Doctoral Student and Research Assistant, Center for Process Innovation, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Industry Experience
Chaitanya has rich industry experience in Information Technology and Operations in various industries including manufacturing, railroad, telecommunications, aviation, and healthcare. He has worked as a programmer, database administrator and procurement analyst. In his role as a procurement analyst, he played a key role in multi-million dollars procurement projects. He has also worked on a research project with a fortune 100 multinational firm headquartered in the east coast of the United States. His industry experience has greatly influenced his research projects.

Georgia-Pacific Corporation 
(Fortune 100 Company)
Atlanta, GA 
(Feb 2009- Aug 2009)
Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
  • Analyzed current needs pertaining to a specific range of products.
  • Computed and analyzed the current market price
  • Selected vendors for RFP, through the RFI
  • Performed Pre-Bid analysis of the price across different products and price distributions
  • Filtered suppliers to participate in reverse auctions
  • Divided products in to different auction buckets for bidding
Achievements
  • Conducted 16 reverse auctions for procurement project worth $100 Million
  • Solely responsible for 3 reverse auctions
  • Single handedly and successfully managed projects worth $10 Million
  • Achieved 34% savings on a $4.00 million spend product category
  • Extensive data analysis and timely completion of critical tasks
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Atlanta, GA 
(Aug 2008- Feb 2009)
IT (Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence) 
  • Provided development and production support for consumer product group data warehouse and business intelligence technical team
  • Monitored technical support queues
  • Developed and modified database code in PL\SQL, T-SQL and Ab Initio
  • Worked on application enhancements and resolving production Issues
BNSF Railway Company
(Fortune 200 Company)
Fort Worth, TX 
(May 2008 - Aug 2008)
Database Administration Mainframe Technology Services
Mainframe Database Administration Services 
  • Worked on Data Modeling projects using ERwin Data Modeler
  • Reorganized and modified Data Resource Management Wiki
  • Obtained Web Enabled Database Services missing column and table definitions for Data Management’s Metadata Repository
  • Exposed to Mainframe, Performance, Teradata and Logical Database Administration
MidTier Database Administration Services
  • Created a process to check and compare the actual table size (or row count) with the estimated table size using DB2 Control Center
  • Worked extensively on Data Definition, Manipulation, Control Languages and Korn Shell Scripts and programming
Achievements
  • Most BNSF Spirit Award
Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing
Atlanta, GA 
(Jan 2007 - Dec 2007)
Database Design and Maintenance
  • Finalized design and implemented the Undergraduate, Masters and PhD student database for school of nursing
  • Updated and revamped with the databases with new primary key
  • Designed a new database in for faculty at school of nursing to help them in their research and survey on Mother’s Demographic data
Biju Patnaik International Airport
Bhubaneswar, India 
(May 2004 - Aug 2004)
Air Traffic Control Intern
  • Routine inspection and maintenance of the air traffic control radars and flight navigation systems
  • Routine inspection and maintenance of the airport security scanner
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited 
(State Owned Telecommunications Company) Cuttack, India 
(May 2003 - Aug 2003)
Telecommunications Intern
  • Installed cellphone towers
  • Worked on identifying rush hour high volume areas and selective allocation of the E-10B Telephone Exchange System bandwidth