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Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Lead Engineering initatives FedEx Ground- Canada’s Hubs.• Develop Operational plans, Volume Forecast, Undertake continuous improvement initiatives to increases productivity & efficiency of Facility Operations.•Responsible for developing and implementing processes, tools & plans to aid in operation’s short, mid & long term capacity planning.• Planning Ground and Air network consolidation. • Identify operational and network issues, analyze potential solutions and oversee implementation.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Worked on continuous improvement projects for transportation network of Oil & Gas clients.• Identified logistics network optimization and cost savings opportunities within a client’s network.• Improved the existing crossdock solution by identifying leakage and potential consolidation of direct routes in Hub & spoke network.• Designed the transportation network for optimum consolidation, scheduling, equipment utilization, mileage reduction, route planning. • Worked on process improvement initiatives for operations team.• Designed BI metrics in a way to accurately reflect business processes and drive correct business decisions (PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx). • Utilized management and engineering methodologies, tools, root cause analysis and waste reduction.• Developed logical solutions, assessed implementation alternatives and formulated approaches to achieve targets.

Houston, Texas

- Analyzing large quantity of data to help team make decisions that improve the supply chain and drive value to company and customers.- Measure the carrier’s performance especially with OTIF metrics for retail customers.- Manage carrier scorecards, KPIs, Create Dashboards, manage database with tools such as tableau, Microsoft Access.- Create Alteryx workflows to manage and integrate internal and external data sources. - Identifying continuous improvement opportunity in transportation network using engineering and analytics techniques. - Optimize customer’s daily dispatch orders based on their priorities and plant capacity.- Perform statistical analysis, forecasting and solving man made issues in transportation network.

Houston, Texas Area

• Collaborated with research team to improve transportation supply chain at port of entry for commercial trade containers transported via rail and trucks from land borders (Test bed- Laredo, TX) as a part of DHS project. • Identify causes for border delays,reasons for long cargo processing times for the continuous improvement of system.• Data gathering and interpretation of border wait time for commercial vehicles at port of entries on U.S Mexico border.• Research on government initiatives such as cargo pre-inspection, NAFTA, also modern trucking technologies, vehicle tracking systems, U.S Mexico customs procedure and trade corridors.

Houston, Texas Area

• Collaborated with research team in evaluating operational effectiveness & increasing efficiency of cargo security technologies at sea-ports (Test bed- Port of Houston) for a DHS project.• Conducted data mining, multi factor ANOVA, post-hoc test, hierarchical cluster analysis.• Performed statistical analysis on operational data of various sea ports across the country.• Determined the efficiency of inbound cargo operations at Sea-ports, investigated causes for delays.• Conducted literature review on concurrent risk management & time optimization techniques in transportation, theory of constraints, principles of scientific management & their implementation in practical scenarios.

-Managing & Coordinating admission Interviews as well as other events for University of Houston- College of Pharmacy.-Assisting in the Office of Student Services at College of Pharmacy.-Guiding and assisting students through the admission procedure.-Maintaining a database of enrolled candidates using Excel.

Master’S Degree, Industrial Engineering, 3.66

Activities and Societies: Working as Research Assistant at Center for logistics and transportation policy- University of Houston

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 8.05/10

Activities and Societies: Coordinator at Training and Placement Cell, SVIT-Vasad