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California, United States

• Managing team of analysts in providing quantitative analysis, new client onboarding, and client support to optimize battery energy storage and renewable energy resource bidding in live operations in Wholesale.
• Providing clients with expertise in the areas of energy systems modeling for risk management and asset valuation.
• Devising new approaches to represent results that provide support for decision analysis.
• Assimilating complex information into readily understood reports and presentations.
• Leading scoping of new features for power market operations.
• Identifying and recommending battery energy storage companies on strategies to maximize revenue, optimize energy bidding and achieve energy efficient operations.

Palo Alto, California

PhD research at the intersection of engineering, economics and policy using an interdisciplinary approach that combined life-cycle analysis, engineering simulation of both transportation and the power sector, and integrated assessment modeling to compute the net life-cycle health, environmental and climate change monetized damages associated with different.

Determined decrease of ~3750 air pollution attributable deaths and reduction in annual climate and health damages of $59 billion at 100% medium and heavy-duty vehicle electrification with entirely renewable grid charging using InMAP.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Assessed the accessibility and utilization of zero emission vehicle public charging/fueling infrastructure in disadvantaged and low-income communities in California using geospatial tools and network analysis.
• Assisted with using engineering principles, analyzing zero emission vehicle registration data and parcel housing data from publicly available sources and identifying possible association with disadvantaged and.

Greater New York City Area

• Enhanced and optimized the settlements product that allowed the user to generate close to 50 monthly invoices totaling about 20 million US Dollars for the Electricity Transmission Service.
• Formulated and applied mathematical modeling and optimization tools to interpret and solve customer requirements.
• Applied forecasting techniques, data mining and statistical analysis to examine and interpret data.
• Designed Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) using Java scripting for energy and utility clients.
• Optimized the ability of the product to handle 5-min settlement data from the initially hourly settlement data in the California ISO (Independent System Operator) Energy Wholesale Market which added a tenfold.
• Developed intuitive user interface for viewing and drilling into allocation and settlement statements.

Norman, Oklahoma

• Collected and analyzed data to develop and improve decision support of PCI products for Energy and Utility companies.
• Analyzed engineering and business requirements of clients to improve their computer systems and workflows.
• Developed Transmission Settlement Module in PCI Software for clients to facilitate their membership in the CAISO EIM Market.
• Provided application support and consulting to internal and external clients on the proper use of PCI products.
• Improved the quality and enhanced the features of PCI software products by working with application development teams.
• Performed software installation, deployment, integration, customization, support and maintenance services for PCI clients.

Central Electricity Authority, Ministry Of Power

The project aims at creating detailed literature and providing critical review of India’s Geothermal and Shale gas capabilities. The unlocking of domestic shale gas reserves could help India meet its growing energy demand besides reducing its dependence on expensive energy imports in turn resulting in the development of domestic shale gas industry boosting.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Carnegie Mellon Process Systems Engineering (PSE) group represents the largest one in the United States. The research work of the PSE group is focused in four major areas: Optimization, Design, Operations, and Control. Research in Optimization includes theoretical and methodological advances in large-scale nonlinear programming, mixed-integer and.

Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India

• North American multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate employing around 107K people and total assets of $73B. Led cross-functional manufacturing projects to reduce defects, improve quality and drive.
• Led a lean six-sigma DMAIC initiative that reduced laminate scrap from 39 Kg/day to 20 Kg/day, resulting in net annualized productivity savings of $41K.
• Drove a 30% reduction in legal customer complaints by launching a quality improvement program that categorized the key customer complaints and focused on error-proofing the packaging lines.
• Defined the Six Sigma Quality standards for a new Infinity Proficient Software that determined the key product quality attributes such as particle size, viscosity, etc.
• Overcame stiff resistance through a collaborative and learning approach to deploy the new tools on the shop-floor. Led several cycles of improvement in joint collaboration with the operators.Manufacturing:
• Mapped the plant operations that contributed to chocolate powder waste and led improvement initiatives focused on automation of feeder lines and correction of leakage in storage tanks; Initiative reduced chocolate.

Jamnagar, Gujarat, India

• Global 500 Company with businesses across energy, petrochemicals, textiles and natural resources and total assets of $59B. Undertook three live and diverse projects on troubleshooting with Central Technical Services.
• Calculated economical thickness of insulation, projected heat loss and heat saving in Crude/Vacuum Distillation Unit of $38K per annum.
• Determined Pressure drop across the brine line using Process & Instrumentation Diagram and Isometrics.
• Pressure Safety Valve Calculations for fire exposure case using KBC simulation software (Petro-SIM) and General Arrangement Drawings.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Energy Resources Engineering, 3.8/4.0

Master'S Of Science, Chemical Engineering, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Communication Chair, Chemical Engineering Masters Student Association (CHEMSA)

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering, 78% (First Division With Honors)

Activities and Societies: Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering (IIChE), Annual Cultural, Technical Fests and Alumni meets.National.