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Dubai, AE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• As an AI Resident, I am working on designing, and implementing Artificial Intelligence & machine learning models on various projects from organizations all around the world ranging from fields such as natural language.
• Leveraged transfer learning approach for a computer vision application and successfully met company metrics to package app size <20 MB with F1 score >0.9
• Implemented NLP task to optimize HR’s hiring drive with search and re-ranking algorithms achieving similarity scores >0.95
• Forecasted 7 stock movement using LSTM (3.02% MAPE accuracy) and back-tested trading strategy that returned 1.65% quarterly earnings
• Preprocessed & delivered a robust model to predict customer’s propensity to purchase a term deposit for a bank with F1 score >0.90 and 5 fold-cross validation.
• Tested and optimized a company’s survey with 5 different classifiers to deliver best performance and recommended solutions to improve predictions outside model tuning.

United Arab Emirates

• Led and worked closely with EM’s leadership team in digitally transforming data solution delivery for Goodyear's consumer, truck, & OTR division across the Middle East & Africa region
• Spearheaded and executed digital transformation of Supply Chain division across all 3 Goodyear PBUs
• Sustainably anchored Supply Chain's automation & reporting needs, reduced delivery & retrieval downtime by 4hrs on a daily basis
• Onboarded ~80 people onto the Tableau Server as part of change management & digital transformation
• Communicated & trained >30 sales reps on dashboard utility for customer visits & communication
• Developed, combined, & automated reports involving pricing, industry, & sales data for leadership, Product & Sales Ops teams across the MEA region

United Arab Emirates

• Formulated and sourced the necessary datasets from internal tools and platforms
• Identified root problems, defined analytical objectives, and formalized data requirements for various types of analyses
• Combined and analyzed disparate data sources to deliver a robust self-service analytics platform for the leadership team
• Designed & developed dashboards to derive insights using predefined KPIs on client performance

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Executed multiple $1000-$10000 lab operations on field for various fortune 500 clients
• Supervised and executed $5000-$15000 Mercury RATA jobs for compliance and performance testing
• Lead lab support for project managers on $300K-$500K EPA regulated testing projects such as RATAs, MATS, and flares
• Executed HPLC, Hg spectroscope, pH meter ops. and more on field & lab
• Prepared reagents and standardized solutions for calibration and sample analysis
• Calibrated lab equipments and maintained records on a quarterly basis

Ruston, Louisiana

• My work focused on efficient synthesis of copper and copper oxide nanowires for optoelectronic and flexible electronic applications. As part of this work,I,
• Authored and published one research paper on thermal management studies and energy transport investigations
• Optimized techniques for synthesis of high density copper and copper oxide nanowires using alumina
• Developed and recommended improved anodizing, electroplating, and wet chemical etching pathways
• Designed, installed, and optimized techniques for synthesis of high density Cu and CuO nanowires by reducing process operation by 24 hours
• Trained at operating four point probe, analytical balances, high temperature furnace, centrifuge systems, sputtering systems, simple microscopes with two years of experience in chemical processing and research principles

Ruston, Louisiana

• Project manager of project: Grapheno. A five member team competing at the Top Dawg Idea Pitch Competition and the Top Dawg New Venture Championship Competition at Louisiana Tech University. The primary goal of Grapheno.
• One year experience in business pitching, project management, and market research operations
• Won third place managing five member alumni team out of 23 competing teams
• Assisted in raising $20,000 grant/seed capital from Innovation Enterprise Fund to kick start Grapheno

Hugoton, Kansas

• Abengoa Bioenergy Biomass of Kansas (ABBK), is north America’s first commercial scale 2G cellulosic bio-refinery that has been engineered and constructed to produce 21 MWh of renewable electricity and 25 million.
• Coordinated with operators and operated on shell and tube heat exchangers for channelizing fluid flow and CIP offline systems
• Drew ethanol samples from off spec tank and distillation area to perform titration, moisture content analysis, and acidity and alkalinity test for quality testing
• Modeled rectifying column’s temperature profile to determine optimum fusel draw composition and concentration from column trays
• Trained at lock out-tag out procedures for various components like pumps and hand valves for boiler feed water heating systems and ion-exchange beds
• Corrected P&IDs and labeled over 25 major equipments, pipes, sensors and valves for maintenance and operations department for lock out and tag out procedures

Ruston, Louisiana

- Tutored two students Thermodynamics for five to ten hours a week.- Graded student assignments, three times a week, and provided necessary feedback - Updated student grades on a weekly basis for preserving individual record

Valdosta, Georgia

My duty as a technical sales associate was to keep track of day to day perfume and cologne sales to meet everyday sales target. My primary responsibilities were as follows:- Boosted monthly sales by 20% and trained two new employees- Catered to all the required needs of the customers like price negotiation, quality assurance, delivery services, and.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Chemical Engineering,

Postgraduate Degree, Data Science