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Stockholm County, Sweden

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden

Established in 1961 and now owned by 11 of the largest insurance companies in the Nordic, SOS International offers a wide range of solutions in the form of worldwide medical, travel and roadside assistance as well as healthcare solutions. Counting more than 1200 employees, SOS International represents 30 nationalities and combined the employees speak more than 37 different languages.My main responsibilities included:• Designed and implemented intuitive and impactful Tableau and Power BI dashboard visualizations, enabling stakeholders to effortlessly comprehend trends, thereby facilitating data-driven decision-making.• Developed automated data flows utilizing Power Automate, Alteryx and SQL to extract raw data transform into refined datasets for convenient analysis; reducing monthly LOE on manual reporting by half.• Acted as a sole contact between the DK team (regional HQ) and the local team (SE) and helped making SE independent of DK for data reporting and analysis, resulting in significant FTE cost reduction.• Implemented automated supplier rating system to improve decision making while selecting service providers, resulting in improved business performance and reduced supplier costs.• Established data management and reporting SOPs to ensure effectively documented guidelines for reporting.• Conducted several data literacy training sessions for more than 44 personnel, aimed at improving the team’s ability to interpret customer data and eventually improve data-driven decision making across all departments.

Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Dicecamp is a brand of Dice Analytics, aimed at upskilling youth on industry-demanded tech skills and ensuring their jobs placements.• Conducted professional training of more than 8 batches (100+ individuals) of young and mid-career professionals from different industries so that they could perform advanced data analysis using Excel, Power BI & SQL.• Designed practical exercises utilizing case studies and open industrial datasets to delve into real-life data and extract valuable insights; while demonstrating best industrial practices.• Practically demonstrated industrial forecasting of automotive production and sales data utilizing past trends and incorporating seasonal, inflation and other factors to increase accuracy and precision.• Explained the use of various business strategy frameworks and terminologies in reference to data-driven business planning and decision making.

Virginia, United States

iENGINEERING Corporation provides specialized custom-built technology solutions for public and private clients based all across the world. Currently it has local presence in four countries and is working directly with the US Governmental agencies as well as several small and big businesses spread across different parts of the world. • Achieved successful delivery of several major projects and dozens of smaller projects globally, achieving high customer satisfaction and client retention rate.• Served as the account manager with over a dozen client organizations to understand their data processes and proposed technology solutions for end-to-end digitalization and automation.• Performed visits to remote locations globally for requirements analysis, elicitation and assessment. Researched various technology products and helped them shape their technology strategy and integration roadmap.• Managed a multitude of stakeholders in complex projects acting as a bridge between project managers, engineers and customers during the entire design, development and roll-out process.

Virginia, United States

• Started as the lone business developer for the firm aiming to expand to new markets; worked with the designers to rebrand the online presence resulting in increased traffic to the website and social media pages.• Reported directly to the CEO and MD to develop two-year strategy to increase presence in local markets and attract top-tier engineering talent, resulting in significant reduction in employee churn within 2 years. • Travelled across the MENA regions to meet C-Level executives and business decision makers to deliver presentations and conduct product demonstrations.• Signed joint agreements with regional technology companies and suppliers to sign exclusive agreements resulting in consistently increased revenues from 2018 till 2022.• Recruited and trained a team of six resources within business development to scale operations and expand to additional markets and clients across North America.• Worked with the engineering teams to ideate and design new products for process automation for logistics and transportation industry. Achieved over 8.2 Million in funding by angel investors and organizations.• Pitched our products in local and international competitions and won multiple awards for innovation and technological excellence.

Jacobabad District, Sindh, Pakistan

ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in the three businesses of electricity, natural gas and energy services. Uch Power Complex is owned & run by ENGIE International. (http://www.engie.com/en/)• Assisted in performing documentation and monitoring of routine maintenance activities using IBM Maximo ERP. • Improved financial budgeting and forecasting by analysing historical trends and recommending improved preventive and corrective maintenance schedules in accordance with OEM & HSE Procedures.• Conducted extensive market and technical analysis to assist in the procurement process of spares and supplies for heavy machinery equipment (Gas Turbines, Steam turbine, HRSGs & BOP) and improved the accuracy of budgeting forecast.• Assisted in the documentation and on-site supervision of annual shutdown maintenance of GE Frame-9E GTs (5x127MW), 5xHRSGs, GE ST (1x190MW) & Fuji ST (1x133MW).

Pakistan

Learn-O-Bots is an Ed-Tech Startup that aims to promote STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) Education in Pakistan’s youngest lot by conducting training sessions in the fields of Robotics, Programming, 3D Modelling & Printing, Astronomy & Renewable Energy. The key objective of the company to impart the training with a core emphasis on fun-learning. (www.learnobots.com)My key achievements during this tenure were:• Designed a complete robot-base from concept till final prototype for a cost-effective modular programmable robot aimed to teach STEM concepts to school-going kids. • The first prototype was designed and printed within 2 months with final variation ready for batch-production by 3rd month; the robot was also featured later in Hackaday (https://hackaday.io/project/27024-codibot). • Conducted over 80 training sessions for Robotics, 3D Printing, Renewable Energy & Programming for school going kids imparting training of STEM concepts with interactive activities and challenges.• Designed a solar house kit for kids to experiment with solar plates & light their own LEDs & miniature fans using tiny Solar plates (listed in https://learnobots.com/diy-kits/)• Proposed and implemented design improvements in other robotic kits resulting in more than 30% reduction in production costs and 1.5x faster production times.

Master'S Degree, Innovation & Industrial Management

Awarded Richard C. Malmsten Memorial Foundation Scholarship Worth 100,000 SEK for two years.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering

Higher Secondary School Certificate, Pre-Engineering, A

Activities and Societies: Debating

Secondary School Certificate, Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology), A+