Thuener Silva

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ABOUT THUENER SILVA

Recently joined Anaplan as Principal AI Product Manager, I\'m exited to dive into this new challenge and humble to be trusted with this opportunity.I was the Head of Optimization Offering at EPAM, where I lead multi-million dollar engagements for various companies, on both pre-sales and project coordination. I guide our clients through the adoption of AI and Optimization technologies to enable data-driven decision-making and strategic growth. • 15+ years of project coordination for multiple companies • 17+ years of experience in innovation and development projects• Diverse business knowledge: delivered projects on pharma, financial services, oil and gas, energy, media and telecommunications• Expertise in several areas: asset allocation, portfolio optimization, media planning, supply chain, fraud detection, risk assessment, churn detection and production optimization• Hold a doctor\'s and master\'s degrees in computer science with an emphasis in optimization and machine learning. • Knowledge from many data science disciplines, like optimization, machine learning, computer vision, real-time analytics, decision under uncertainty, stochastic optimization, and process miningKey achievements:• As Head of Optimization Offering at EPAM, I lead multi-million dollar engagements for various companies, bring millions of savings for our clients.• Won awards for impact from global companies (Petrobras, P&G and Bayer).• Led a team that constructed media budget distribution that saved $13M in annual savings by optimizing media spending on multiple countries for a large CPG company, leading to 17% more efficient plans.• Constructed the AI Inventory Optimization model, showing that a big pharma company could save millions of dollars by reducing inventory (4-11% cost reduction).• Chief Data Scientist for several innovation projects, responsible for coordinating and orientating a team of researchers and developers. Return on investment of all the streams together in the first year of 14x, and 50x was estimated for the second year. Our group earned several innovation awards from the company innovation research centre.• Coordinated an R&D project for an oil and gas company, showing that it can increase production by almost 1.5% if the optimization model accounts for the uncertainty. Showed proven ability to- Strategic Planning & Ownership- Innovation Driven & Problem-Solver- Leadership & Inspiring people- Business Emphasis & Customer Focus