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Austin, TX, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Co-ordinate with multiple teams including Sales, Solution Development, Software and R & D to design, develop and implement algorithm solutions
• Lead process design for supply chain applications in warehouse environments.
• Lead a project team of 2-3 people to perform data analysis, mathematical modeling, and simulation
• Mentor junior Operations Research engineers to present analysis/design results with internal and external stakeholders
• Lead and perform work on R&D effort including creating data input, modeling current process and product, designing future process and product, and modeling future process and product
• Optimization lead for Micro Fulfillment Centers (MFC). Responsible for implementing the production algorithms for maximum productivity and throughput.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Developed generalized simulation models and algorithms using JAVA and Python for optimizing operations in the warehouse industry.
• Analyzed multiple warehouse facilities to determine optimum workflow decisions and manpower resources.
• Created data analysis tools to identify and analyze warehouse metrics.
• Simulated different picking techniques to identify the best one based on the facility's order profile.
• Created and Implemented Operations Research algorithms at production sites.
• Developed advanced prediction models using statistics and machine learning models.

West Lafayette, IN, US

• Teaching Assistant for IE 336 - Operations Research - Stochastic Models
• Conducted office hours and tutored a class comprising of 130 students.
• Graded and prepared questions & solutions for home-works and tests.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Simulated the operations in the maintenance facility using ARENA to identify the bottleneck steps and to evaluate options for increased capacity.
• Created a manpower scheduling tool based on the time study of maintenance activities in the unit.
• Created a Spaghetti diagram for the current facility layout and analyzed the current state of the material, information and process flow in the plant using Value Stream mapping tool.
• Created a vacation scheduling database system for employees in MS Access.
• Created a cost calculator tool to estimate the cost of production of in-house decals.
• Created a database system for planning team using user forms in MS Excel.

West Lafayette, IN, US

Created a cost calculator template for preschool installations in around 50 military naval base regions around the world. Used excel user forms, VBA and macros.

Hyderabad, TS, IN

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Simulated the entire Coker Gas plant to maintain product specifications in case of various emergency scenarios in the unit related to column failure.
• Built statistical refinery model for predicting product yields with input feed properties.
• Automated Statistical Daily report, specifying key parameters of the unit using VBA and macros for Excel. Report preparation time reduced from 1 hour to 5 min.
• Identified root cause as Column Overhead temperature for coke deposition inside overhead vapour lines using RCA which led to unplanned shutdown of the unit. Modified unit parameters to avoid unplanned shutdowns in the.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN

• Carried out heat and mass balancing for the Spray dried, Freeze dried and Agglomeration instant coffee manufacturing plants.

Master’S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Intermediate, Maths, Physics, Chemistry

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