Research & Development/$87K/Siri


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Experience

R&D Staff
Decision Engineering, Oak Ridge, TN -Present

  • Drafting a data collection methodology and an implementable Verification and Validation plan for Air cargo security screening simulation model.
  • Performing research in the areas of homeland security on various supply chain issues and others.

Senior Research Manager
Marketing Insights and Customer Strategy, WAL-MART STORES INC Bentonville, AR (Sept. 08-Sept 09)

  • Performing supply chain analysis on customer satisfaction and trends to predict demand with respect to various socio economic variables.
  • Research on price gap analysis with respect to competitors in order to define an optimal pricing strategy for Wal-Mart stores
  • Conducting research in the area of customer segmentation using video analytics and hierarchical techniques,
  • Responsible for all ad-hoc statistical and customer centered analytics for business intelligence.
  • As a member of concerned team I am primarily responsible for interfacing with clients, suppliers, senior management and colleagues on various issues while researching various models/strategies, designing, developing and implementing quantitative solutions for the business.

Internships

Oak Ridge National Laboratory- Computer Science and Engineering Division: June -August 2005 & 2006

  • Product Testing - Cronbach's alpha was used to predict the reliability of the metrics and the RFID tags tested.
  • Product Developer - Developed a demand estimation and shelf space allocation model using Bayesian statistics and game theory
  • Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessels Ltd., May-July (‟00) : Reduced the idle time and scrap by redesigning the shop floor layout.
  • Coromandel Fertilizers Pvt.Ltd. August „00 - April ‟01: Designed a system dynamic model.

Project Leader
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (FALL 2007-SPRING 2008)

  • Forecasting and developing bills of material for Knoxville Utility Board (KUB).
  • Manage and appropriately allocate time ,resources and cross functional teams to various projects by analyzing the needs.
  • Supervise a team of 5 master‟s students in their thesis formulations and analysis of company and academic projects.
  • Lean and Supply Chain assessment of Johnson and Johnson (contact lenses) & Tennessee Tube Bending .
  • Transportation and logistics modeling for Behlen Corporation.
  • Modeled an engineering economic analysis optimization system for security measures at a hypothetical national laboratory.

Education

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Ph.D. Industrial & Information Engineering May 2008. GPA 4.0
• Forecasted demand faced by a manufacturer using Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques.
• Optimal pricing and shelf space allocation using Game theory for a single retailer two manufacturers and two retailer two manufacturers‟ problems.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, Knoxville, TN. M.S. Statistics August 2006. GPA 3.9
• Advanced times series, reliability, regression analysis, forecasting, DOE and theoretical statistics.
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, Clemson, SC. M.S. Industrial Engineering August 2003. GPA 3.3
• Specialization in Human Factors (Inspection Performance in quality control).
ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, Visakhapatnam, India. B.E. Mechanical Engineering August 2001 GPA 3.75
• Proposed a "Corporate Planning System Dynamics" model aimed at improvising and optimizing the process of sulphuric acid production -supported by the Coromandel Fertilizers Ltd. (MNC) - leading producer of fertilizers.