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Gurugram, Haryana, India

Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir (Union Territory), India

Redwood City, California, United States

• Worked in a team of 4 to analyze company processes, identify bottlenecks and implement company-wide solutions
• Proposed and led the implementation of a tool to manage project resource allocation to improve project manhour forecasting in the company
• Piloted AI-driven scheduling techniques on projects to identify constructibility issues on projects
• Worked with the interiors group of the company on 3 projects to manage vendors, subcontractors and project staff
• Streamlined the process of tracking quantities and costs to accurately estimate productivity for future projects
• Prepared LEED submittals and priced over 50 change orders; Improved the process for tracking material and time

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Trained in Lean Construction and Takt Planning and developed a product roadmap to transform lean construction management approach into a 7-D project management software
• Worked in a team of 5 to define the vision, prioritize functionalities & design overall system for LCM Digital - a SaaS project planning software
• Identified business cases for different software requirements and helped in prioritizing the requirements for MVP
• Communicated the vision to the developers by developing visual prototypes and detailing UATs and requirements documents
• Developed the logic for implementing task sequencing and scheduling on the last planner board in the software

San Francisco Bay Area

Life Cycle Assessment

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed a python-based framework to integrate heterogeneous data from spatial, typological, and temporal data from cities
• Formulated algorithms to identify relationships between various systems in a city to facilitate municipal decision making by reconstruction them in a graph database
• Publication: Urban Data Integration (UDI) using Proximity Relationship Learning for Design, Management and Operations of Sustainable Urban Systems, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering ‘18

Mumbai Area, India

• Project 1: Automation of treasury desk monitoring and auditing of Over The Counter (OTC) trades
• Developed a python-based tool for verification of settlement, brokerage, termsheet and trades
• Achieved monthly savings of 5 man-days by expediting the process 15 times; program employed in routine bank auditsProject 2: Development of open source price management tool for an oil firm
• Engineered R-based equation solver resulting in annual savings of INR 10 lakh on purchase of commercial software

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Inspected installation of diaphragm wall, curtain wall and pile foundation at Phase I of a twin tower project
• Proposed 10% reduction in labour costs with software based installation of facade; proposal incorporated in Phase II
• Engineered innovative solution to add 4 floors to existing 52-floor building by replacing shear walls with hollow bricks
• Received Certificate of Appreciation from Project Manager, Mr. Marc Lagouardette

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Frequency analysis of cracked beams under dynamic loads
• Designed analytical model to obtain natural frequency of beams with cracks of different depths and locations
• Validated the model against a numerical model with accuracy of 99.4%; application incrack detection and localization
• Received letter of Recommendation for Exemplary Research

IIT Bombay

• Techfest is Asia's Largest Science and Technology festival held annually in the month of December
• Spearheaded ISMOKE (I Support the Movement to Kill Cancer) campaign in Delhi region ► Coordinated a team of 30 students in Delhi for creating cancer awareness in various colleges ► Organized lectures on smoking by.
• Was an integral part of structuring a deal worth $ 27,000 with a renowned sports brand
• Negotiated deals with hotels for accommodation during Techfest

Mumbai Area, India

• Coordinated a team of 20 students for publicizing various shows of the popular youth TV channel in Ahmedabad
• Launched MTV Campus Ambassadors Programme in Ahmedabad, reaching out to over 20000 students
• Received on-air credits in MTV Splitsvilla (a popular TV reality show)

Master’S Degree, Sustainable Design And Construction

Activities and Societies: Design Build Institute of America, SDC Leadership Board

Bachelor’S Degree (Gold Medalist), Civil Engineering (Honors) And Minor In Computer Science And Engineering, 9.74/10

Activities and Societies: Department Mentorship Programme, Aquatics Team, Sports Council● Ranked 1st in the Civil Engineering Department.

High School, Science

● Topped the school with highest marks in the high school examination ● Among the top 1% scorers in the CBSE board examination-2012