aarabi madhavan
Project Manager at FlexGen®
project manager flexgen® | columbia university
FlexGen®
https://www.linkedin.com/company/flexgen
- Leading turn-key EPC battery energy storage projects from contract execution through to successful handover to operations, working in close collaboration with relevant functional groups including finance, engineering, procurement.
- Managing project schedules, budgets, and resource allocation
- Identifying project risks, and ensuring measures are taken to minimize risk to schedule and cost
- Rapidly resolve technical issues to ensure projects deliver to quality, time and cost.
- Proactively engage stakeholders in project status, and provide a space for everyone to voice their concerns and build confidence.
- Coordinate relationships with EPC, Equipment Delivery and other partners through the Project Delivery phase.
- Overseeing contractors and sub-contractors to ensure quality and schedule are met and to ensure safety guidelines and requirements are followed on job sites
- Establish efficient business process, clear roles and responsibilities for each stakeholder.
- Support negotiations regarding project contracts with potential contractors and suppliers
- Forecast resource and cost trends, and drive hiring needs
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Project Manager
HOMER Energy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/homerenergy
* Propelling HOMER as the go-to product in the grid-connected space by addressing market needs
* Initiate and maintain relationships with industry partners and potential customers; gain buy-in from executive leadership to keep company vision and product strategy aligned
* Managed the design and launch of 3 new features - Demand Response Programs, Sales Pitch Creator and Finance Models
* Soliciting feedback on HOMER products to gain insight into bottlenecks -improving accessibility to international customers
Boulder, Colorado
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Associate Product Manager
HOMER Energy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/homerenergy
MANAGEMENT 
•	Leading the component partner program for 30+ clients (ABB, Danvest, Hitachi, Canadian Solar etc. Creating market intelligence report with metrics on how often and when a certain manufacturer’s component is used.
•	Managing the development of a new feature for building electricity tariffs in HOMER Grid. 

CONSULTING
•	Guided a client in an island utility project in Australia to set the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) price
•	Coached customers on creating and evaluating microgrid projects. Conducted training for customers in the US, UK, India and Australia
  
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
•	Working on integrating Genability database of tariffs covering US, Australia, Canada and Mexico into HOMER’s new product for Demand Charge Reduction. Use C#, mongo dB, python

Data Analytics
•	Developed scripts to analyze customer data and produce metrics (Python)
•	Lead the Component Partner Program for 30+ clients to deliver component metric (PowerBi)
Greater Denver Area
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Renewable Energy Engineer
HOMER Energy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/homerenergy
ENERGY CONSULTING 
•	Worked on a World Bank project in Kenya for the creation of Universal Electricity Tariff scheme. Developed and compared the effect of microgrid sizes (10 kW, 80 kW and 1 MW) on the electricity rates
•	Consulting Project for a client bidding for a PPA to an Island Utility. Developed the model in HOMER Pro and performed economic analysis of profits the client could incur at the various price points of the PPA

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 
•	Programmed a microgrid specific dispatch algorithm released in HOMER Pro 3.7. It combines HOMER’s two famous algorithms “Cycle Charging” and “Load Following”.  Language used: C++
•	Developed a dispatch algorithm for an Island PPA project. Client was bidding for a PPA project, which had certain rules about how and when the battery must be charged. Established scope of project and developed a new dispatch algorithm for the PPA project. Language used: C++
Boulder, Colorado
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Renewable Energy Analyst
Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainable-engineering-lab-at-columbia-university
Under the guidance of Professor Vijay Modi
Developing the network planning algorithm for building a power grid 
o	Exploring effects of increasing demand on the algorithm
o	Experimenting with various levels of abstraction for clustering households
o	Programming using Python and open street maps
Greater New York City Area
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Graduate Student Researcher
NextEra Energy, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fpl
Analyzing the changes in the utility infrastructure in America, as it becomes more distributed and less centralized in generation. 
Examining how this affects NextEra Energy, specifically, in the “behind the meter” position.
Columbia University, New York
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Graduate Student Consultant
SunMoksha
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunmoksha
- Worked on smart nano-grid project for a village in Orissa, India
o Designed the software system -Use Cases, Activity and Class diagrams for the micro-grid application 
o Conducted extensive testing of the software and exercising remote control of the grid
- Developed the official website for the company www.sunmoksha.com
- Performed an evaluation and comparison of the current state of education and training in Clean Technology in the world.
Bangalore, India
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Research Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognizant
- Developed applications on the Ipad for medical pharmaceutical companies.
- Worked on HTML, JavaScript, Jquery, css
Chennai Area, India
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Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognizant
- Proposed a Biogas Plant project inside the Technology Park 
o Delegated talks between the Technology Park officials, CTS Go Green team, City administration officials
o Interviewed potential vendors for setting up of the plant
o Evaluated the feasibility, safety , return on investment, maintenance costs for the project
o Documented and proposed a plan for implementation to the CSR and the Go Green Team 

- Volunteered with the Tamil Nadu State Forest department on a forest restoration project to help document the native plant 

species.
Bangalore, India
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Head, Bangalore Go Green Team, BTP
The Indus Entrepreneurs - Bangalore Chapter
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-indus-entrepreneurs---bangalore-chapter
- Led the Media & Communications aspect of the City wide “Sustainable City” Initiative in Bangalore, India
- Communicated and collaborated with sponsors for event branding & outreach 

-Wrote the press release and blogs covering the “Sustainable City” event
Bangalore, India
Member of Core Clean Tech SIG
Master of Science in Earth and Environmental Engineering
- Studying Photovoltaics Systems Engineering, Industrial Ecology, Global Energy Policy, & Energy Business and Economic Development

- Research Interest: Rural Energy development projects
Sustainable Energy
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Columbia University in the City of New York
https://www.linkedin.com/school/columbia-university/
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
Computer Science
Amrita School Of Engineering
Proposal on developing a software that will identify potential sites for renewable energy generation and storage in urban settings, providing a route to satisfy peak demand without buying high-cost electricity from the conventional grid. The software will also determine optimal generation and storage for maximum monthly energy savings.

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School of International and Public Affairs
Semi-Finalists to SIPA Policy Grant Challenge
Award given to new employees based on their ability to create new opportunities and lead intiatives
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Titan Award
Algorithm Design
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Database Systems
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Management Information Systems
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Software Engineering
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Energy Business & Economic Development
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Energy Sources & conversion
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Environmental Data Analysis
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Global Energy Policy
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Industrial Ecology
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Photovolataics Systems Engineering
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Class: Global Energy Policy
Analysis of the resource utilization in China, through the years and how it has affected the world and China itself.
Analysis Report on resource revolution of China through the ages
Class: Industrial Ecology
 Analysis of the economic feasibility of fog capture plants in Chile based on the constraints such as distance, population, cost etc.
( Fog Capture: video of working of fog capture by the MIT engineering team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8vlzZ25vtg)
Economic Feasibility and LCA for fog capture plants in Chile
Class: Energy Business & Economic Development
Detailing out the business and financial model for Vietnam Specific energy market.
- Study of previous business models by energy entrepreneurs
- Tackling the bottlenecks of the selling in the rural energy space
Energy Business model for a Vietnam based market
https://tesseractpower.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/not-being-non-profit-rural-energy-markets/
Class: Photovoltaic Systems Engineering & Sustainability
Based on a study of the Homer software.
Basic forecasting and optimization using LPSolve optimization package in R.
Conducted for the energy demand data from the city of Capiopa, Chile.
Energy Demand - Supply Optimization Tool for a Microgrid
"To explore the potential of pumped hydro-power storage and compressed air storage as means of improving the utilization of renewable energy sources for the island in Cape Verde"
Energy Storage options for Sao Vicente
Internship project with IIL (India Innovations Labs) for a period of two months.
Project involved developing  a Solution for Inverse Kinematics for Robotic Simulation using Genetic Algorithms.
I played the role of developer using ROS (Robotics Operating System), Genetic  Algorithm Utility Libraries (GAUL) and involved computing and interfacing with actual robotic arm to get the desired physical movement.
Inverse Kinematics for Robotic Simulation
Class: Industrial Ecology
Comparative LCA conducted for Coca-Cola's glass bottle versus Aluminum can.
- Used a cradle to grave approach
- Production and consumption to be within China
- Raw materials extraction from ROW
Life Cycle Analysis of Coke glass bottle versus aluminium can
Developed a Blogging site called ‘Rubikl’  as part of my 3rd year B Tech project. This was developed using HTML, PHP, Flash, Java Script and MySQL using XMAPP server. 
- In-charge of the database development and maintenance.
Website for Bloggers
Children
Chennai Trekking Club
https://www.linkedin.com/company/chennai-trekking-club
Organized a one day beginner level trekking trip for a group of 30 underprivileged kids in Chennai, India.
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Member
Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amrita-school-of-engineering-bangalore
Event Organizer
Project Management Institute
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Project Management Professional (PMP)®
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        I had the pleasure of working with Aarabi during the development of Homer Grid.  Aarabi did an excellent job of taking our feedback as one of the first users of Homer Grid and incorporating our recommendations in future releases of the tool.  Aarabi was very responsive to our needs, followed up quickly and was a pleasure to work with. David Rinck
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        I had the pleasure to work with Aarabi on several projects at HOMER Energy. Her contributions were essential to the features we delivered together. She's an excellent programmer, analyst, and a valuable team player. I was particularly impressed by her ability to inscrutably test our software stack and coordinate with multiple teams when changes were needed. She is an asset to any team, and I hope to work with her again.
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Earth & Environmental Engineering
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CrackVerbal
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Entry level jobs for OPT students
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Green Jobs & Career Network
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Africa Sustainable Energy Platform
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Change Management AU
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Women in Computer Science at Columbia University
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Association of Energy Engineers
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Engineering & Technology Network
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Energy Club Network at Columbia Business School
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MBAs in Energy sector
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Columbia Engineering Energy Club - CEEC
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Community Microgrids and Local Energy
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PA Consulting - Early Careers Networking Forum
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