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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Successfully solved business problems using analytics solutions for Health Care, Pharmacy provider, patient care, Supply chain, Operations Analytics, Retail Analytics & marketing Analytics.Leading team of data scientist and engineers driving campaign analytics for large health insurance provider in US to predict propensity to convert for 12 campaign outcomes resulting in improved member experience, response and customer satisfaction.Build 12 deep learning/machine learning models involving highly imbalanced datasets spanning different LOB’s related to Clinical, Pharmacy and retail campaigns resulting in average gain of about 3X and 10% reduction in member outreaches.

Bangalore

Lead team of data scientist & Engineers to develop end-to-end Machine Learning driven solutions in platforms to improve IT operations (AIOps). Developed Deep learning models to predict failures in servers, applications and data center infrastructure. Identifying deeper insights and patterns in causes of failures through text mining & NLP on logs from servers, applications, middle ware components and detecting anomalies. Data center predictive failure - Influenced by my Patent, advising on predicting failures in data center systems like CRAC, UPS and servers using deep learning algorithms. 4 US Patents filed in the area of predictive failure analytics and robotics.

Bengaluru Area, India

Thought leadership & influenced business leaders in creating new service offerings on Cognitive Maintenance Advisor to predict failures in mission critical facilities using IOT & Analytics, influenced by my patent (Patent No US 9568923)Leading data center IOT & analytics project for 10 data centers in APAC region deploying 6000+ wireless sensors covering 200k sft resulting in 825 MWh energy savings, 52K hours of operational efforts. Conceptualized, architected and implemented machine learning model to predict failures in data center. Applied neural networks to predict failures of chillers and temperature anomalies. Developed a model to predict data center PUE using neural network based on power and cooling data collected from various sensors, BMS systems and infrastructure equipment’s. Developed a linear regression model to predict time to failure in a data center due to temperature rise. Predicting failures of Hard drives based on SMART data for more than 30k disks using SVM. Designed a robotic based IOT monitoring system to create temperature map of the data center.

Bangaon Area, India

Adept at the presales process, coordinating with all stake holders (Sales, operations, internal delivery, operations, pricing, client presentation & transition) to ensure high quality proposal submission. Successfully worked on colocation pre-sales and solution design for large finance customers ranging in Canada with TCV ranging from $50K to over $2 million.

Bangaon Area, India

·Led deployment of IOT based monitoring and management system for 10 DC’s in India, APAC region covering total area of 200k Sqft resulting in 825 MWh energy savings, 52000 hours of operational efforts. ·Successfully completed 30+ data center energy efficiency projects using Measurement & management technology (MMT), total 120 ksqft resulting in a total savings of 7000 MWh annual energy. ·IT optimization and business case analysis for large telecom - Server consolidation of 168 servers to 15 servers, 90% reduction in Server footprint, 70% energy reduction & annual savings of $2 Million.

Bangaon Area, India

· Supply Chain Analytics (WALMART Labs): Supplier performance ranking ( US 230 suppliers for 190 dairy products) using Analytical Hierarchical process (AHP) and supplier cost optimization using Goal programming achieved savings of $ 14 Million USD annually. Awarded among top 4 projects out of 20 analytics projects. · Healthcare Analytics: Classification of breast cancer tumors as Malignant or Benign using machine learning models – Logistic Regression, SVM, PCA dimensionality reduction resulting in 96% accuracy.· Marketing Analytics: Developed Machine learning algorithm for driving CRM in online E-commerce site for large software client using logistic regression, SVM and Ada boost for a large data set with 950 features. The model provided a 4X lift by targeting 30% of the customers · Machine Learning: Predicting areas prone to forest fire using Machine learning based on the learning features including various sensor data achieving predictive accuracy of 90%. · Deep Learning: Image classification based on training & testing of flower image data using deep neural networks using Python achieving accuracy of 87%.

Houston, Texas Area

Onsite Thermal Designer Engineer for HP Houston, USA, Performed Thermal Design for HP products like dense servers, Desktop servers, Storage systems etc., using Flotherm. Responsible for thermal testing, Validation with Flotherm data, Heat sinks optimization. Also involved with modeling and validation of vapor chamber heat sink and heat pipe based heat sinks. Offshore Thermal Lead for HP involved in thermal management & Design for various HP servers (1U, 2U), Storage systems & Blade servers using HP high speed fans. Heat sink optimization for Vapor chamber heat sinks, heat pipe based heat sinks and validation with wind tunnel test data.

Bengaluru Area, India

Thermal management & Design for various servers (1U, 2U), Storage systems & Blade servers using Flotherm. Heat sink optimization for Vapor chamber heat sinks, heat pipe based heat sinks and validation with wind tunnel test data. Responsible for thermal testing of Server, Telecom equipments. Thermal Management for Telecom ATCA chassis in compliance. Design involved flow calculation, fan selection, pressure drop and flow characterization per board for 16 slot chassis. Board level thermal analysis for various network boards.

United States

Research on 3-D FE model of a cell using ABAQUS, buckling analysis, FORTRAN subroutines to calculate bulk modulus. Awarded “Best Graduate Researcher for the year 2003” for outstanding performance in research work and CAE activities.

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Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

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