Gaurav Kakkar Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia Area

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Developed and implemented daily inventory reporting and management tools in Excel environment.• Business development strategies.

Blacksburg, Virginia

Worked for Department of Sustainable Biomaterials researching with the focus on exports and market diversification for factory built wooden construction systems to developing countries. The study aimed at developing a viable strategy driving business plan to use panelized construction system in massive social housing projects in urban markets of developing countries in Latin America.

Blacksburg, Va, United States

• Deliver a range of teaching and assessment activities including tutorials directed towards the delivery of subjects at undergraduate level• Apply departmental processes related to peer advising/mentoring• Support with faculty research projects; engage in literature searches• Contribute to the development of appropriate teaching materials to ensure content and methods of delivery meet learning objectives• Participate in the assessment process using a variety of methods and techniques and provide effective timely and appropriate feedback to students to support their learning• Supervise practical work advising on skills methods and techniques to assist the transfer of knowledge

Ahemdabad

Abellon's representative in Work Program III of US-India Joint Consortium for Development of Sustainable Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuels.My responsibilities in this project included:-a) Economic evaluation and modeling of feedstock cultivation from marginal ecology of Gujarat state of India to be used for the production of Biofuel.b) Life Cycle Assessment of a biofuel value chain using SimaPro.c) Supply chain design and optimization for the production of lignocellulosic biofuel from the feedstock cultivated in marginal ecology of Gujarat state of India. Mathematical models were optimized using Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP). The models were also coupled with QGIS to use the geographical data and with Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Development of a logistic model for calculating final costs of energy or any value added product produced using biomass as a substrate and thus determine its economic feasibility. This model can also be used for a fiscal comparison between different conversion processes or doing sensitivity analysis on a single process.

Ms In Industrial Engineering And Forest Products, Production And Supply Chain Management, 3.85

Activities and Societies: Treasurer & Fund Raising Chair, Indian Student Association (ISA) at Virginia Tech. Member, SBIO Graduate Student.

Master Of Technology (M.Tech.), Industrial Biotechnology, 7.53

Activities and Societies: Member of college Basketball team, Convener 'Slam Dunk'13': Inter-collegiate basketball tournament hosted.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Biotechnology, First Division With Honours.

Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology. Graduated with honors.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Inter and Intra zonal Sainik School sports tournaments, Inter House Literary events.