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DETAILED CV CONTENTS OBJECTIVE ...... 1 PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS ...... 2 CORE COMPENTENCIES ...... 2 TOOLS & SOFTWARE ...... 2 WORK EXPERIENCE ...... 3 Accenture, Inc./Acquity Group, LLC. – Sr. Enterprise Architect – Chicago, IL Sept. 2006 – Current ...... 3 Mindware Inc. – Founder & CEO – Detroit, MI Sept. 1996 – Sept. 2006 ...... 5 BDrive Inc. – Founder & CTO – Santa Clara, CA Jan. 2000 – Sept. 2005 ...... 5 Analysis and Design Application Company (adapco) Sept. 1989 - Sept. 1996 ...... 7 Universal Analytics, Inc. (UAI) Mar 1988 – Aug. 1989 ...... 7 KEY PUBLICATIONS ...... 7 SOFTWARE PRODUCTIONS ...... 8 EDUCATION ...... 8
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OBJECTIVE Senior Level Executive, Enterprise Visionary, Product Development & Engineering Head, or Domain Leadership Level position in a dynamic & collaborative environment to strategize, plan, architect, develop and manage next generation integrated engineering, technology and business systems.
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 25+ years of total job experience, 10+ years as a Founder, CEO and CTO of two IT start-ups. 15+ years Industry expertise in Information Technology (Enterprise Architecture, e-Commerce, Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Search, Mobile, Social Media and Analytics), Database Design, Research & Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Automotive & Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Retail and Health Care. Architected and managed the development of Knowledge Management Frameworks and Enterprise Portals encompassing the full life-cycle of strategy, concept, pilot, development, production and maintenance (@ Ford & GM). Formulated transfer of technologies, personnel skills matrix and knowledge bases after mergers and acquisitions to maximize shareholder value (after Ford’s buy-out of Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo). Coordinated with planners, stakeholders, architects, developers and end users to create web-based IT infrastructures utilizing J2EE, XML, RDBMS and SOA technologies in a global and diverse setting. Managed Complexity by integrating with backend disparate systems like PDM, PIM, ERP, Finance, HR, CRM, CAE & Test and Legacy, e-Commerce, Content Management Systems and e-Learning. 10+ years in Advanced Engineering and Analytics: CAD, Modeling, Graphics, CAE Simulation and Post- Processing utilizing Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Parallel Processing and utilizing High-end Processors & Supercomputers.
CORE COMPENTENCIES Championed, led and delivered customer-focused, highly-customizable, interactive and web-based infrastructures utilizing the latest state-of-the-art solutions in Engineering, Information Technology and User Experience: Strategy & Planning Enterprise Architecture ID & Assessment CMMi, UML, MDA, XP & Agile Methods Requirements Management & Traceability Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) PLM Portal Creation & Customization SOA and MVC Frameworks New Product Development & Design Data Modeling, EAI and Object Mapping Computer Aided Engineering Web-based User Interface Design Engineering Analysis & Testing Software Version Control and Deployment Competitive Benchmarking Lessons Learned & Best Practices Warranty Analysis Web Content Management (WCM) Process, Performance & Quality Ecommerce (PCM & Transaction Management) Improvement Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Quality Assurance Analytics and Reporting
TOOLS & SOFTWARE Web Content Management (WCM) Adobe CQ, Autonomy (Interwoven), Vignette, Magnolia Digital Asset Management (DAM) MediaBin, Celum, Adobe CQ DAM, Scene7 (Interface) Ecommerce hybris, ATG Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAP (integration) Analytics Omniture, Google Analytics, Coremetrics Search Google Search Appliance (GSA), Endeca, Autonomy Database Oracle, mySQL, Hypersonic (HSQLDB), MS SQL Server Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) ANSYS, NASTRAN, Star-CD, Fluent Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Metaphase, Windchill, Dassault Systemes PLM (MatrixOne)
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WORK EXPERIENCE Accenture, Inc/Acquity Group, LLC. – Sr. Enterprise Architect – Chicago, IL Sept. 2006 – Current Involved in consulting at various client sites doing strategy, planning, requirements analysis, architecture, build and test in Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Direct Marketing, CRM and SOA. These were for the automotive, retail, energy, health care, life sciences, entertainment, media & interactive marketing, hospitality and investment, credit & banking, and retail sectors. Whole Foods Market www.wholefoodsmarket.com – Digital Strategy to enable and implement Ecommerce & Loyalty Program. Was responsible for assessing current state vs future needs and solutioning the details of the Loyalty Program with interaction between POS, SFDC, Aimia SmartButton, Janrain and ExactTarget. DuPont, Inc www.dupont.com – Digital Strategy initially focusing on Marketing Automation of the Lead Generation to Close process. Created Roadmap to assess current state and initiatives to coordinate the flow of data and content to the appropriate channels and create an Analytics dashboard and BI toolkit to analyze information flow. Systems reviewed were existing Interwoven platform, future state Adobe CQ experience management & hybris Ecommerce for B2B & partner relations, Marketing Automation tools (Eloqua and Marketo) and the integration and interaction of these systems with Exact Target, SFDC and SAP. Bose Corporation www.bose.com – Global Digital Platform Selection and Architecture. In the process of solutioning the next Bose Digital presence to include B2C, B2B and B2B2C on-line properties to service Partners, Dealers and end consumers with product information, service details and a move to the next generation on-line depiction model with social integration and two-way device communications. Included integration with their SAP backend, defining the catalog management system and the integration of WCM and eCommerce with third party services with a global deployment model Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Inc www.thermofisher.,com – Complete re-architecture of Ecommerce and Marketing platforms using SAP, hybris, Adobe CQ and Endeca to represent core and third party products with aggregation from various Business Units, quote configurations, punch out globalization considerations. Was responsible for the end-to-end Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure definitions, Integration sequencing, Deployment Management and the Systems Management definition. Defined the Logical, System Context, Detailed design, Blueprints and the Environment definitions, and participated in the Application design of the hybris (PCM & Ecommerce), CQ (WCM & DAM), Endeca components, their integration and the integration to backend and frontend systems. Newell Rubbermaid www.newellrubbermaid.com – Digital Action Strategy and Roadmap to integrate all their 33 brands organized by 11 Global Business Units to correspond to a unified Enterprise Architecture comprising of a single instance of SAP to manage New Product Information and its cascade to Product Content Management, e-Commerce systems, and the Marketplace based on Direct and Indirect, B2B and B2C customers. Also suggest way forward platforms for mobile, tablet and social interactions. In the implementation phase, was responsible for creating the Master Catalog, Brand Catalogs, Customer Catalogs and the Syndication Model, and the integration with backend systems (SAP & BUs) for product definition and order fulfillment. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) www.ul.com – redefinition of their content management infrastructure and creation of a global web platform for information dissemination. Roadmap analysis and vendor selection for content management, information access and web analytics streams. Complete define, design, build, test, implement and global rollout of the web site with multi-language and locale considerations. This site was the Stevie Award winner for overall site design and user experience. Used Autonomy Interwoven tools to construct the site. Configured Google Search Appliance (GSA) with multiple collections (locale, language and region based) to index the site. Was also responsible for analysis and roadmap to migrate their extranet (MyHome @UL) from Oracle Portal to a more robust, scalable and secure structure. Guitar Center www.musiciansfriend.com, www.guitarcenter.com, www.harnomycenteral.com,... – Theme out the Future state for the interacting systems – PIM, ERP, DW, Procurement, Inventory, Store Front, e-Commerce, Marketplace, Social, Analytics etc. to come up with a unified service oriented enterprise bus that coordinates the services. Designed and Piloted the theme for Enterprise Architecture for representation of Current State, Capabilities Matrix Heat Map and Future Reference Architecture. American Express (AMEX) www.americanexpress.com – responsible for defining the new Catalog Structure for the Membership Rewards and other Loyalty Programs sites so that Basis catalogs are created by the Partner, Master Catalog aggregates all the Products and synchronizes it with the On-line Catalogs based on Loyalty Programs and interfaces with backend processing via Web Service calls. Used hybris PCM & e-Commerce engine with Endeca search. General Motors (GM) - Online Media Site media.gm.com - Plan and define the next generation global web-site for GM that would enable media (journalists and other news professionals) to access vehicle information in terms of news, digital assets and high-resolution photo and video files. Articulate Content Management strategy utilizing mind-mapping techniques and a dynamic requirements management tool to create use-case scenarios and catalog system requirements for on-line and archival needs. The Online Media Site was the portal to journalists all over the world to review upcoming news from GM. It was the primary mode of communication during GMs recent re-IPO and now serves as the voice of GM in more than 20 countries and languages. Built in Adobe Day CQ, it is hosted by Acquity Group’s managed services. Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) www.msasafety.com – Roadmap for redefinition of content and commerce capabilities, and globalization of www.msanet.com. Architected their next generation B2B and B2C site using hybris/Endeca in terms of importing Product data from SAP, integrating enriched attributes from Marketing systems, defining the Catalog system and the synchronization of products to the different affiliates. MSA rolled out the new site in 3rd quarter of 2011 and their B2B interactions have increased multifold resulting in more revenue generation and a quick ROI.
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Marriott Vacation Club www.marriottvacationclub.com – Redefinition of owners’ site to make it more robust and scalable utilizing the latest technologies and Service Oriented Architecture to connect to the mother ship that manages Reservations and the Marriott Rewards program (in the works). This is being architected using hybris Commerce & Endeca Search, and will be a first to manage reservations using a Product Content Management coupled with an e-Commerce system. Finish Line www.finishline.com – Understand content management requirements and come up with an action plan for platform selection that coordinates with the Customer Service model. Finish Line is a boutique store that sells brand name shoes and sports apparel in malls across the United States. Waters, Inc. www.waters.com – Integrate marketing related tags and analysis in conjunction with analytics tools to the newly developed, HTML5 based micro-site for one of their platforms as a basis to cascade to all their other platforms. Architected the data flow from on-line sources (web site, paid advertizing, search and targeted marketing) to the micro-site, and created the appropriate tags on click thru to push to Omniture SiteCatalyst and the Neolane Lead Generation tool. American Medical Association (AMA) www.ama-assn.org – creation of an ATG e-Commerce app that interacts with the Covisint Health Exchange Portal and backend systems (PayFuse and Taxware) to manage the buy/sell of Health Care related products and AMA memberships. Configured products in the ATG BCC tool with rules to manage tiering and bundling, based on Member privileges. The Northern Trust (TNT) www.northerntrust.com – data schema & feeds definition and provision of persona based navigation to a new funds (NETS ETF) information site with real time streaming information from index providers and adherence to compliance and security. Also provide analytical tools to enable individual investors or registered professionals to review historical data and perform portfolio analysis. The NETS ETF was a unique aggregation based on Country INDEXes and TNT was expecting a volume of $500 million to complete with other ETFs like SPYDER (SPDR), iShares and VIPER. Unfortunately due to the downturn in the market, they could manage a volume of $33 million, and had to turn off the system in 5 months of being active. Allstate - Teen Driver Site www.allstateteendriver.com – A unique definition of a website that catered to a teen audience to enable them create a promise (video/audio/text) and enable its streaming along with games and safety tips to enable them to become better drivers. Integration with backend systems to manage streaming video and a fulfillment center. Content Delivery entailed the coordination of video conversion technology from multiple vendors and rendering using the Limelight engine, and connecting to a backend system for fulfillment. The web site was the winner of several awards for innovative content and for tailoring to the needs and personas of teens. Was also responsible for the complete architecture and design of a Mobile Site to enable the Quoting process. Sigma-Aldrich - Re-articulation of internet strategy for the Life Sciences Corporation: www.sigma-aldrich.com and www.safcglobal.com to align business units in functional groupings with internationalization and localization utilizing Day Communiqué. Complete redefinition of management of documents and media assets – product brochures, flash files, streaming video and images utilizing XML templates of information residing in Corporate Product Database. General Motors SPO (Service and Parts Operations) - Roadmap study of all current Web and CRM systems for the GM SPO divisions: AC Delco, Goodwrench and GM Parts to strategize future and suggest phased migration plan using Service Oriented Architecture to disparately connect the organization to dealers, warehouses, independent service providers and end customers to optimize the marketing, distribution and selling of vehicle parts, accessories and technical manuals. Creative Automation Company - Strategy & Requirements Analysis for the VISION project. Evaluate the needs to develop an Integrated Marketing Management system for their client, Educational Communications, Incorporated (ECI). The Integrated Marketing Management System project included the definition, construction, testing, and deployment of an integrated solution to automate and streamline data collection, data cleansing, data validation, data storage, and delivery channel integration to manage prospect data, lead acquisition data, marketing communications, ‘enhanced member’ data, response processing and campaign analytics, and inventory control management associated with multiple achievement publications. E! Entertainment (E! Online Web) www.eonline.com – Front End Interface Development: Enable the design, development and testing of the dynamic web site using AJAX interfaces, JSP pages and Java helper classes to connect to a backend JCR (JSR-170) compliant Content Management repository created using Adobe Day Communiqué (CQ). Was also part of teams that conducted workshops and platform selection sessions at UL, Kellogg’s, Procter & Gamble, Newell Rubbermaid and Brady Corporation where we interviewed the stakeholders and WCM, e-Commerce, Search and Analytics vendors and set a methodology for selection criteria. Acquity Group (www.acquitygroup.com) is a leading provider of business and technology solutions designed to optimize business performance via operational, collaborative and transactional services. Its theme is Digital Strategy and Design and the value proposition for clients and customers is to provide end-to-end support for strategy, planning, discover, design, define, build, deploy and maintain of web and other infrastructures with a strong adherence to policies and procedures. With the advent of on-line marketing, Acquity Group has been one of the leaders in Planning & Strategy, Experience Management and Brand e-Commerce, giving its clients full beginning-to-end services for all stages of communication using multi-channel protocols, reuse of information, a strong governance model and managed services. It was founded in 2001, had revenues of $40 million in 2006, $110 million in 2011 and IPO-ed in the NYSE in April, 2012 (ticker symbol: AG). The revenues in 2012 exceeded $125 million. 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Mindware Inc. – Founder & CEO – Detroit, MI Sept. 1996 – Sept. 2006 BDrive Inc. – Founder & CTO – Santa Clara, CA Jan. 2000 – Sept. 2005 Involved in consulting at Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation, building Knowledge Management Frameworks using the Systems Engineering approach to depict: Competitive Intelligence, Requirements Analysis, Brand Profiling, Target Setting & Futuring Systems Engineering, Process Management, Optimization and Design for Six Sigma Procedures, Methods, Standards, Content management and Web-based training (e-Learning), Simulation, Test Data Management, Analytics and Design Verification Manufacturing Assessment and Warranty Analysis, Budget & Financial Consolidation and Sales Forecasting Content Management and building Enterprise Portals The intent has been to optimize the Product Design and Development process by enabling upstream PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) utilizing a Model Driven paradigm called Organic Architecture. A partial list of Web-enabled, data-driven and security-governed portals implemented are elucidated below: Client & Project Description Duration & Achievements Visual Mining, Inc. Created Analytics routines for: Sept 2004 – Sept 2006 Inclusion of Analytics Financial (Bollinger Bands and Hi-Lo Created ability to manipulate aggregated Process Modules in Analysis), data by applying BI techniques to NetCharts Designer. Engineering (Fourier Series Analysis analyze information. Coordinated the Visual Mining is one of and Signal Processing), and build with a team of developers based the largest companies Statistics (Statistical Process Control out of Santa Clara with the client in that develops web- and Regression) Rockville, Maryland. based charting and incorporated as an Eclipse based solutions. plug-in into NetCharts Designer Mindware, Inc / Complete management of all projects Sept 1996 – Sept 2006 BDrive, Inc. Internal that included: plan, define, construct, Follows the philosophy of Organic MANTRA – A test, deploy and maintain phases of the Architecture by using themes of Collaborative application lifecycle. Based on Agile Function, Flow, Focus, Form and Environment for Methodologies and CMM(i) principles of Futuring as the prime Forces of Application Lifecycle Software engineering, this is a managing complex developments. Management collaborative web based portal that had Achieved more than 50% savings as (at version 6.0) perspectives for code development, compared to traditional and current reuse library, issues management and practices. Managed the creation and Bug tracking, emails and notification complete development of over 40 services, lessons learned and best applications using this Tool. practices, glossary and project index. General Motors Utilize SOA and Web services to create January 2003 – October 2005 Corp. Plotting and Business Intelligence tools Coordinated activities between the Graphing, Analytics and to effectively review Test Data collected stakeholders and clients that were Test Data Management by GMs worldwide testing facilities. It geographically dispersed (USA, Canada, automatically connects to backend Mexico, South America, Europe, engines like NetCharts, SAS etc. Single, Australia & Korea) with development secure web service for the global GM team based in Santa Clara, CA. Final team to manage all plotting and analytics deployment was to more than 2000 GM functionalities. engineers. Ford Motor Cataloging and Management of April 1997 – March 2005 Company Teardown studies for different Major Cost savings and Global Competitive Intelligence engineering attributes: Power-train, coordination accomplished by publishing and Vehicle Aerodynamics, Noise & Vibration, data from primary and secondary Benchmarking Safety, Durability, Vehicle Dynamics via sources on a single web site. Final Web Based Portals complete with user deployment was to around 4000 product profile, preferences and cart. development engineers. Ford Motor Supplementing Ford’s FAST (Finance At November 1998 – April 2002 Company the Speed of Thought) Application, these Single Master source to Manage all Global Financial two projects: financial information so that managed region based profit/loss consolidations and analytics could be http://nitinuchil.wordpress.com/professional-biodata Page 5 of 8 NITIN UCHIL 551 W North Avenue, Apt. No. 208 Phone: +1-734-945-6463 Chicago, IL 60610, USA Email: [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/nitinuchil
Client & Project Description Duration & Achievements Consolidation and analysis with currency fluctuations and streamlined. Saved Controllers time from Sales Forecast aggregated commodity/product line after- > 30 days to < 2 hrs. Management sales in terms of revenues and budget
Ford Motor Process Management of Requirements June 1999 – May 2001 Company and Sign-off information for multiple First Engineering Portal developed at Verification Information vehicle programs and attributes. Ford Motor Company. Necessitated a Management Portal McKinsey and Company had done a thorough review of all Portal vendors pre-study pilot (project Eureka) for this and presentation of needs at the KM implementation that predicted a savings World conference in Dallas in 2000. of $100 million/month or $1 Billion per Utilized off-shore capabilities – another new vehicle program by instituting first at Ford Motor Company. Knowledge Management Frameworks Coordinated activities between 20 and Reuse of Historical data. This Portal stakeholders, 400 end-users and a team managed the Design Process that of 25 in-house and off-shore developers. included Benchmarking, Requirement Analysis, CAD, CAE, Prototype Build, Test and Manufacturing Assessment for all the 15 Engineering Attributes. Ford Motor Architect, Manage and Maintain Ford’s March 1998 – February 2002 Company e-Learning Management System that Coordinated J2EE, ActiveX (.NET), Computer Based was comprised of coordination of HTML and CD-Rom based interactive Education Portal different courseware, vendors and content for presentation and assessment presentation mechanisms. Do with diverse tools and vendors. Final troubleshooting, reporting and metrics to deployment was to more than 8000 end- determine the robustness and reliability users in Product Development of the system. Reported to the Dean of the Ford Design Institute. Ford Motor Created Web-based Prediction April 1997 – January 2001 Company Calculators based on Historical data to Costly simulations, prototype builds and Attribute Expert System conduct “what-if” studies based on wind tunnel testing were obviated by regression analysis (RSM) and neural quickly doing these go/no go” analysis. networks to ascertain the effect of Final deployment was for a “niche” group changes in vehicle parameters on of 25 research & development attributes. Facilitated Knowledge engineers. Simulations typically cost in Transfer between Ford and Volvo/Mazda the hundreds of thousand dollars, while teams. prototype builds are upwards of 2 million dollars in cost.
These have been deployed on various Unix platforms, Linux servers and Windows servers via application servers such as: WebLogic, Web Sphere, Tomcat, Sun (iPlanet) and Enhydra using MVC architecture, POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) and EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans).
The basis behind forming Mindware, Inc. based out of Michigan, was to create Knowledge Based Systems on the web to enable Enterprises to operate efficiently via Portals, Expert Systems, eLearning and coordinated Process management in the Research, Advanced Engineering and Product Development facilities of the Automotive sector.
BDrive, based out of the Bay Area in California, was the genesis of Mindware, Inc. to move from a consulting model to a product centric model. Most of the technologies followed by the two companies utilized concepts in Systems Engineering, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Agile Programming, Collaboration, Code Reuse and a strong decoupling of presentation from the backend source systems. The premise of BDrive was to provide the Power for Intelligent Collaborative Infrastructures that coordinated New Product Development (NPD) with PLM, ERP, CRM and other enterprise Legacy systems to enable fast, scalable and secure information transfer between people and processes.
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Analysis and Design Application Company (adapco) Sept. 1989 - Sept. 1996 Senior Engineer, Long Island, New York. adapco consults in the field of Aerospace and Automotive analysis and design incorporating innovative software techniques in the fields of finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics. Responsibilities included: Incorporated meshing and graphics rendering routines into the solids modeling and mesh generation package PROSTAR, the pre-and-post processor for STAR-CD, a computational fluid dynamics software. Was the prime programmer responsible for development in this software from 1992 thru 1996 complete from methodology, to program development, testing and eventually bug-fixing. Conceptualized the rendering of dynamic rotations using Quaternion math to increase speed and achieve real time results for zooming, panning and rotating objects. Responsible for coding CRANK (for crankshafts) and AERO (for turbine blades) that automatically develops meshed templates, which can then be submitted for structural stress or transient analysis using finite element software packages, ANSYS and NASTRAN. Was responsible for the entire rendering, creation of analysis files and providing schemes for post-processing for the in-house developed methodology SAMM for semi-automatic mesh generation using the marching cubes algorithm. Finite Element Analysis & Computation Fluid Dynamics of automotive and aerospace components including thermal analysis of combustion engines, simulation of wind tunnel testing, modal analysis of crankshafts, climate control and comfort index predictions, analysis of spray & vaporization in the combustion chamber , stress analysis of turbine blades and aerofoil structures for Audi, Mercedes, VW, Jaguar, GM, Ford, GE, Pratt & Whitney, Garrett and Textron Lycoming using ANSYS and STAR-CD adapco is now part of the CD-ADAPCO (www.cd-adapco.com) group of companies, the world's largest independent CFD-focused provider of engineering simulation software, support and services.
Universal Analytics, Inc. (UAI) March 1988 – August 1989 Member, Technical Staff, Los Angeles, California. Incorporated new capabilities and features in UAI/NASTRAN, a proprietary finite element software package originally developed at NASA using matrix and decomposition techniques for structural analysis. Responsibilities included: Developing the design optimization methodology in UAI/NASTRAN for creating structural shapes that meet reliability and optimal weight standards. Addition of Strain recovery in conjunction with Stress. Sequencing of Math procedures for Matrix manipulation using DMAP (Direct Matrix Abstraction Program) for Design Sensitivity Analysis. Support of ASTROS – a program developed for design and material optimization – for defense clients: Northrop Grumman and Boeing. UAI is now part of MSC Software (www.mscsoftware.com), one of the ten original software companies and the worldwide leader in multidiscipline simulation.
KEY PUBLICATIONS “Portal Strategy to integrate diverse Information Sources within Product Development”, a review of different Portal vendors submitted to Ford Motor Company, 1999 “Verification Knowledge Management Implementation at Ford Motor Company”, presented at KM World Conference 2000 in Dallas. "Modeling and Simulation of Thin Liquid Films Formed By Spray-Wall Interaction" Society of Automobile Engineers Conference, Detroit, Feb 26 - Feb 29 1996. "Three Dimensional Julia Sets in the Quaternions", presented at the Non-Linear Dynamics Group meeting at Polytechnic University, Farmingdale, New York, April 23, 1995. "Dynamic Response Analysis of Large Space Structures", International Journal of Space Structures, Volume 4, No. 1, pp 25-42, 1989. (Publication based on Master Thesis work at Univ. of Olka.). "Moving Averages – a Programmatic approach to buying & selling stocks", December 1986. Paper written based on algorithm, code and visual representation developed for the Business School at the University of Oklahoma to predict buy and sell times based on trend analysis and segmented view of stock performance.
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SOFTWARE PRODUCTIONS Aerodynamic Expert System Toolkit, part of the Attribute Expert System tools developed for the Thermal and Aero Department at Ford Motor Company that was web based and included hot spots on Vehicle depictions to pop-up help on what-if changes, and a Parametric design of cars and mini-trucks to show how Coefficient of Drag (Cd) changes are based on shape changes (hood, greenhouse, back-lite, trunk and addition of spoiler) and how they affected fuel economy (gas mileage) using a historical database. Analytics Routines in POJO embedded within Visual Mining NetCharts Designer which is an Eclipse plug- in. Details at: www.visualmining.com/products_for_developers/NetCharts_Analytics.php Chaos Research – Added FORTRAN based sub-routines to depict Mandelbrot and Julia sets in 2 and 3 dimensions, showcase the Butterfly effect (Lorentz Systems) and other interesting fractals using Mathematical and Rendering techniques. Also used Quaternion Math (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion) to dynamically rotate objects that reduced processing time in dynamic imaging in STAR-CD object rendering. Events and Thin Liquid Film Modeling in STAR-CD – Built the pre-processing and post-processing for moving mesh management and particulate formation in STAR-CD. Graph Module in STAR-CD – Complete architecture and development of Charting and Analytics modules within STAR-CD. These included Cartesian, Polar, Bar, Pie, Log, Radar and Spider charts and their customization and the writing of analysis routines for Fourier Series, Regression, Statistical Processing and other Mathematical techniques. Macros in ANSYS FEA Preprocessor – wrote more than 50 macros in ANSYS that aggregated different commands that could be run by variable inputs to generate splines, meshes etc from CAD drawings for building finite element and computational fluid based models MANTRA Integrated Development Environment (Versions1 thru 6) architected at Mindware, Inc to automate application development tasks and manage issues and create metrics. Consisted of modules for Planning, Issues Management, Email, Schema Design, Design Patterns, Code Generation (MVC Architecture), Testing, Deploying and Troubleshooting, with Metrics and Comparisons with other projects. Design Patterns created included XML driven Data Access configurators for Exploring (Tree View), Depicting (Filter View) and Discovering (pre-AJAX view using the Intelligent Dot technique) to represent the next set of information by dynamic query of the database. All builds and deployments in MANTRA were coordinated using ANT scripting. Semi-Automated Mesh Modeling in STAR-CD – Using the concept of Marching Cubes, an algorithm used in Medical Imaging and Astronomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes ), enabled the creation and rendering of elements of arbitrary shapes, including hidden line and surface, contour and vector plots and their dynamic rotation. Additionally provided the right geometry file with boundary conditions for fluid dynamics processing.
EDUCATION Master of Science degree with specialization in Structural Engineering, University of Oklahoma, December 1987. GPA 3.8/4.0 Thesis: “Dynamic Analysis of Large Space Structures” – Developed and implemented an algorithm for Transient Dynamic Analysis that reduced the matrix size for computations, and also used vectorization and parallel processing to reduce computational time. Tested on a simulation of a Archimedean Spiral shaped solar panel structure to be deployed via the Space shuttle and tethered to the International Space Station, and compared with the same model run using conventional finite element packages using NASTRAN and ANSYS for verification and computation time savings. Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India, June 1985. CGPA 8.91/10.0 Self Study & Projects included Modeling a Cable Stayed Bridge and a Suspension bridge for the MODEX exhibition, programming in FORTRAN for Operations Research Techniques – the Simplex Method for CPM and PERT, Structural Analysis for Beams and Trusses, Environmental pollution management of a Chimney stack and Plotting Hydrographs and Programming Stock charts in PASCAL. Summer Internships involved overseeing the construction of a Boeing 747 aircraft hangar at the International Airport in Mumbai (@ DUBON Engineering), and the Design of a Chemical Factory, the IDBI bank building and several other structures in India and the US (@ PAKTRON Systems).
US Citizen, Indian OCI, like traveling, willing to relocate to the right location if salary is commensurable
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