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Cupertino, California

• Partnering with SDM business planning users to understand their challenges and anticipatetheir business need including new processes, tools and management systems.• Collaborating with SDM business planning users and IS&T to drive adoption of planningtools/capabilities that Apple has invested in;• Representing business users to develop and prioritize business requirements as we enhanceour tools and processes for both supply & demand planning;• Influencing decision and managing change across variety of stakeholders;• Using business expertise to challenge and resolve differences and driving for consistency andscalability across lines of businesses and across teams;• Developing business use cases to ensure business needs are clearly understood by relevantstakeholders, and testing approaches to ensure that proposed solutions deliver on businessrequirements prior to roll-out;• Helping our cross functional partner teams remain focused on what matters the most, andensure that they have appropriate business support for deliver commitments;• Assisting in development of training strategy and tools for business users and adapting ourtraining approach appropriately given increased integration of complex tools into ourbusiness processes;• Regularly communicating project status to SDM leadership team and to all SDM productteams;• Facilitating project related testing, roll-out, post-mortem work; • Measuring and racking results to determine if planned business benefits are realized.

Santa Clara, California

• Participated in design and delivery phases for robust, implementable solutions for complexsupply chain planning requirements using modeling approaches.• Led small projects to implement new and enhance existing functionalities includingarticulating requirements and translating them into effective solutions.• System design analyses, testing, and training.• Created prototypes or proof of concepts as part of some research on optimization-based orsimulation-based systems.• Applied optimization, simulation, statistical and data analytic techniques to develop strategicdecision management tools.• Created business and product scenarios to help the BU improve NVIDIA's profitability andmarket share.• Researched and created network/business models.• Performed quantitative analysis.

Sunnyvale, Ca

• In charge of complete system testing from IS&T and Business prospective.• Working on a gurobi-python model for supply chain optimization for client Apple Inc.• Responsible to communicate with business users for capturing business requirements, as well as with developers to assist designing appropriate model functionality.• Core understanding of the mathematical model designed to optimize different objectives, based on business users requirements.• Responsible for complete Q/A, root cause analysis for different business use cases and for every new functionality developed, to ensure correct system behavior.• Provide functional support to supervisor and Apple SDM business users.• Assist business users/planners to understand optimization results, debug errors and othermodel related issues.• Involved in WW SDM projects for various Apple products and processes.

Sunnyvale, California

Working on Supply Chain optimization for a Fortune 500 company, Apple Inc. Major responsibilities include designing Business Process analysis, Designing Mathematical Model and coding the same using Gurobi-Python optimizer. Verifying and validating math model designs and coding.

Campbell, Ca

• In charge of maintaining the application of complete Systems Engineering approach in every project planned and proposal made.• Highly involved in functional requirement gathering, creating business requirement document and design document as well as maintenance plans.• Supervising the development of system context diagrams, business use cases and requirement traceability matrix using applicable SysML and UML modeling standards.• Participate with cross functional teams for resource allocation, project planning and, cost estimation activities.• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable regulated standards from DoD/ISO.

Melbourne, Florida Area

• Involved in research for optimizing and improving transportation networks, particularly in aviation industry. • Participated in research involving major challenges of supply chain networks with increasing automated processes.• Contributed for the research involving usage of drones for last mile delivery, in a supply chain network. Mainly worked on FAA regulations, human factors, system performance and possible safety breaches for drone applications.• Collected and scrutinized large data to examine airport operations and air traffic characteristics. • Developed a mathematical optimization model for aircraft taxiway routing using linear multicommodity flow network concept, implemented the same using GAMS and Gurobi optimizers, verified and validated using real world air traffic data. • Analyzed results and conducted statistical analysis to propose recommendations for process improvements and draw conclusions.• Provided teaching assistance for graduate level course of System Analysis & Simulation, conducted labs to teach Simulation & Optimization softwares, and assisted in project designing and implementation.

Surat Area, India

• Worked with cross functional teams on creating project proposal, and planning.• Part of the dashboard development team to analyze trends and demands in Petroleum industry, across the globe. Used this data to propose changes in business strategies.• Analyzed data from cost analyst, developed data load templates, VBA macros, metrics, dashboard, and procedures for users.• Generated analysis reports to track weekly and monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for dashboards.• Developed VBA macros for data validation and cleansing for uploading data into the PLM database.

Mumbai Area, India

• Designed Instrumentation deliverables - layouts using SPI Intools & Auto CAD.• Examined - Approved inter-department engineering and procurement documents.• Assessed and placed Purchase Orders, Technical Bid Evaluation and Pre-Bidding for projects proposal.• Led department in transition from ISO 8000 to ISO 9001-2000 standards and clear all internal and external audits.• Worked closely with Project Management Department for project planning.

Master'S Degree, Systems Engineering, Gpa - 4.0

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honor SocietyGraduate Research Assistant for System Simulation and Modelling. Working.

Master Of Science (Msc), Engineering/Industrial Management, Gpa : 3.5

Activities and Societies: Spanish Language Committee, Indian Student Association, Process Simulation Team, Women in Business & Leadership.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Instrumentation & Control, First Class

Activities and Societies: Developing College Magazine, Organizing College Tech Fest, Roterac, Volunteering for teachigThoroughly studied.