• Project management and Business strategy - Established standard processes, streamlined changeovers, created process and compliance monitoring dashboards, and conducted employee training to deliver improvement in line efficiency for a multinational CPG organization. - Developed strategies to optimize procurement function by conducting market research and internal data & process review, for a commercial fleet operator. - Created a strategic plan for an advanced digital factory by leveraging Gen-AI use cases like content generation for RFPs, product design; insight extraction like auto order and line balancing; and interaction like bots for customer service.• Analysis and structured problem solving - Conducted benchmarking utilizing industry-wide data for employee count & revenue, generated insights to optimize service-ops employee count. Identified potential cost savings in FTE costs. - Developed an analytical model to calculate equipment efficiency (OEE) and established a structured process, enabling management to monitor and make decisions daily vs weekly to improve production planning forecasting. - Conducted due diligence for an acquisition target by developing an analytical model to validate a potential pathway to profitability, by reduction in scrap for an advanced precision parts manufacturer.• Training and development - Facilitated training to develop key stakeholders for the project management tool Wave, defined KPIs, timelines & responsibilities, leading to 25% improvement in initiative completion rate.

• Operations Project Management - Supported a cross-functional team to develop a new B2B product with tailored functionality. - Conducted ideation sessions with the customer, trained operators, scaled production, and delivered post launch customer support. - Assisted commissioning of multiple process lines by providing ramp-up support and product functionality optimization. - Led a cross functional team to establish cycle breaks, created SOPs and provided on-hands training to the teams.• Strategy and transformation - Increased plant process capacity by 10% by analyzing line data and calculating optimum efficiency for each step of the process, identifying bottleneck, and implementing a capital project with ROI of 1 year. • Systems Design - Reduced time required for food recall exercises by implementing digitalization of data recording at a packaging plant. Project resulted in ease of access to records for audits/investigations and created functionality for trending data.• Training and development - Established a structured program for milk receiving and antibiotic testing training and scheduled practice sessions for operators to obtain and maintain state certifications resulting in 50% increase in passing rate. - Created and implemented a tactical plan and on-job support to site QA team for SAP adoption. - Created and conducted food safety trainings for multiple sites.