Ajoy Kumar
Principal Data Scientist - Power Generation | Asset & Data Management | Engineering & Operations at Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Asset & Data Management |  Industry 4.0 | SAP EAM/ERP | Analytics | Engineering Operations | Energy Utilities & Manufacturing
Accomplished business technology expert with extensive experience leading and developing industry IT/OT/IIOT transformation solutions, big data management and engineering programs.  Specific focus is on global energy utilities and process manufacturing.  Successfully spearhead wide range of projects, products and large scale engineering programs on Industrial automation, IOT Edge, Time series, Cloud,  Data Analytics, DevOps, Test Automation, SaaS, IT, GIS and ERP/SAP/EAM/AMI.  

Functional Experience : Value Stream Mapping, Program Management, Gap Analysis, Solution Architecture, Real Time Performance Management, Financial Forecasting, Enterprise Asset Management, Quality Management, Process Control, Production Planning, Go-to- Market, Vendor Management, Energy Efficiency. 

Technical: Historians, Software Development, Systems Integration, SCADA, Cloud, Automation Systems, OPC, MES Systems, Batch/Event Frame / ISA-95/S88 model, IEC 61989, 

Cyber Security: NERC-CIP, SCCM, SCEP.

Tools: OSIsoft PI Stack, Wonderware, SAP BAPI/RFC/xMII/PCo, SAP BPC, SAP PI, NetWeaver, SQL, .NET, SOAP, Java, REST API, ODBCAPI, ArcGIS, Splunk, PPMC, Hadoop, Python, C/C++, Apache Spark, Hive/Impala, JIRA, Azure IoTHub, HANA, GCP, OPC, Cisco IoT Edge, Dell 5100 Edge Gateway- PI Connector(Modbus)

Analytics :  Predictive maintenance, Forecasting using Scikit Linear/Logistics regression 
Deep Learning  :  LSTM and ANN

Global Industry experience : T&D, Chemicals, Mining, Pharma, O&G.

Certified Asset Management Professional, Certified SAFe 5 Agilist,  Certified on Scrum Master (CSM) , GCP Infrastructures, . NET Certified Professional (MCP) and ITIL practice.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacific-gas-and-electric-company
Leading  Asset Data Strategy, Asset Information Management, Data Governance, Risk Informed Decisions, Asset Data Modelling and Maintenance Optimization, Generation to T&D interconnection
San Francisco Bay Area
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Principal Data Scientist - Power Generation | Asset & Data Management | Engineering & Operations
Infosys
https://www.linkedin.com/company/infosys
PG&E - Digital Solution Lead for Clean Energy Products, Big Data Management, Rate Analytics, Business Energy Solutions, Demand Side Management and Energy Data Management
San Francisco Bay Area
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Sr. Principal | PG&E |  Clean Energy IT Solution Lead | Energy Efficiency
xFusion Technologies, Inc.
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Rancho Cordova, California, United States
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Advisory Board Member of xFusion Technologies
Accenture
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- Intelligent Engineering Operations Lead for Asset, Production / Operations for the West Market Unit. 
- Developed Intelligent Operations Framework with Digital Twin for Industry X.0 Practice. 
- Led the replacement of Asset Performance Management to derive real-time production loss analysis 
 and root cause analytics and designed quality prediction model
- SAP EAM, PTC , PI System
- Key player in proposal response, account planning, business, partnership and practice development.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Manager Industry X.0 | Energy Utilities |  Digital Manufacturing
Infosys
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Grid Modernization Engineering & Planning 
- Grid Distributed Energy Resource & Interconnection- Circuit Deficiency forecast - GIS - CPUC 
   Compliance used by renewable operators
- Grid Connectivity & Data Analytics - Hadoop-HANA integration - Data Profiling & Cleansing
Greater Los Angeles Area
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Principal | SoCal. Edison | DERMS | GIS | Grid Analytics | Big Data | Grid Mod. Engineering Planning
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacific-gas-and-electric-company
Integrated Grid, Power Generation & Gas  Engineering & Operations for OSIsoft PI System

- Led the engineering program and project management for IT/OT platform and technologies across  PG&E Line of Business (Electric Ops., Power Generation and Gas Storage and Ops.)  
- Oversee program & projects :  Distribution EDPI, SAP PM, FLISR, EPIC, Transmission Control Point Tool for Control Center, Substation Asset Health Monitoring Systems, Modernization of Gas Compressor Stations from GE Cimplicity to PI System.
Monitor and Control projects of Transmission, Distribution and Gas Operation.
San Francisco, California
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Program Consulting Director | OSI PI/ IT Strategy| Grid | Gas | Generation
OSIsoft
https://www.linkedin.com/company/osisoft
Products & Solution Lead - Connected Industrial Data &  Enterprise SAP,  Energy Utilities and Process Manufacturing Plants with MES, Batch,  S88- ISA95

- Lead Enterprise SAP Integration Platform Products release  of Asset Performance Management/Maintenance - Energy Utilities Distribution Network , Integration Process Manufacturing and Quality measurements

- Solutions on Process convergence Enterprise to Operational Infrastructure - IIOT/Industry 4.0 reference architecture and Plant Integration

- Lead the Product Release Management - Quality Assurance Process - Customer Product Solution Implementations.

- Product release management for Enterprise Integration products.

- Gap Analysis on product features on modernization of PI System with SAP Production Planning, Asset Maintenance and Quality Management.

- Strategic roadmap on modernization of Predictive Maintenance of Asset Operations.
San Francisco Bay Area
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Senior Product Dev. Integrator | EAM | Production | Mfg. & Energy Utilities | Industry 4.0
Cognizant
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognizant
Led a startup program focused on Smart Grid IOT solution combined expertise of Utilities & Telecom serving the global customers for Utility operators created End-to-End capability center of excellence,  connecting device and appliances data to the enterprise and mobile with digital value creation on SAP AMI/EAM, Meter Network management, SAP Asset Maintenance, Load management and Outage management with overlay of google map as SaaS offering.

Led the solution team specific focus on HAN solutions with Zigbee IEEE 802.1 and AMI/Headend firmware communications, device alarms/events for energy management solutions.  

Winner of 2011 Smart Grid Excellence Award, from TMC, for Smart Metering Management Platform (SMMP) SmartGrid.IoTevolutionworld.com

Led proposals, account planning, business development, partnership development and Practice Development. 

Led programs for Pfizer solution delivery capital line of business projects using agile, integrated project management plan and ITIL.

Led architecture proofing of  Wonderware ArchestraA IDE Templates, InTouch Apps, Wondeware Historian and published on Azure Cloud for the process industry.
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Principal |  Associate Director |  Smart Grid Startup | Team Building | Engineering Mfg. | Cloud
OSIsoft
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Principal product developer and solution consultant for line of business and Process Control System focused on Energy Utilities and Process Manufacturing.

Connected Industrial Data &  Enterprise SCM - SAP Production Planning, Quality Management and Plant Maintenance, Warehouse Management to Energy and Process Manufacturing plants.  

Created enterprise products providing contextual information of real time industrial Sensors, SCADA and AMI data to the enterprise world certified by SAP AG- Powered by SAP Netweaver.

Architected and developed products on predictive maintenance for the Energy Utilities industry certified by SAP integrating sensor data to continually monitor asset health condition and initiate action s to various systems in the enterprise and notifies users.  This significantly saves the maintenance cost focused on asset intensive energy and manufacturing industry.

Co-Created with SAP AG, developed and implemented SAP AMI MDUS System(SAP AG Lighthouse council)  using PI Data Infrastructure, AMI vendors,  SAP ISU/EAM, SAP PI 7.1 & SAP ECC 6.0.  

Implemented business process rules and translators that communicates synchronously with the enterprise application to provide the real time inventory from industrial sensor data, quality information for decision making, material movement state in the network. 

Agile Development, Solution Architecture, Consulting, Product Management for Plant & Enterprise Integration and automation focused with SAP Plant Maintenance, Quality Management & Production Planning. 

Developed , released products, trained users and engineers.

Developed and Implemented Digital Dashboard Executive catalog of Web parts converging Industrial Data and ERP providing KPI and trends for monitoring the multi-site in real time.
Greater New York City Area
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Principal Product Dev. Consultant | SAP Process Mfg. and SCM | Energy Utilities | Integration | EAM
Professional Access
https://www.linkedin.com/company/professional-access
Dev. Lead -  Visual Audit product for Year 2000 solution  - Astratek  Banker's Trust

Dev. Lead - Fixed Income Trading Desk - OmniView product lead & consultant - Solomon Smith Barney

Consultant - Remote Quality Analysis to improve Remote Elevator Monitoring System - United Technologies Research Center
Manhattan, New York
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Senior Consultant to Wall Street Bankers | Trading Floor Products | UI | Database | S/W Developer
Login Systems / Логин Системи
https://www.linkedin.com/company/loginsystems
Developed an Integrated Treasury Management Systems for the Financial Industry and Leading Product Development Team for FinCalc and Forex using C/C++ and Oracle.
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Project Lead | Financial Product Design | Team Building | UI | Database | Software Developer
Ramco Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ramco-systems
Developed a real-time moving trend graph using the statistical model and fuzzy logic control system to control the clinker (BZTI and KOZI)  of cement quality developed using C/C++ and MFC 1.0.
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Executive Trainee | Fuzzy Logic Control System | Software Development | Statistical Analysis
Leading Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
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Kellogg Executive Education
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Fundamentals: Leading with Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
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Kellogg Executive Education
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Master
Master of Computer Science & Statistics
Computer Science and Statistics
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University of Madras
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Bachelor
Computer Science
Computer Science & Mathematics
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University of Madras
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The Institute of Asset Management
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6125839
The IAM Certificate
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Scaled Agile, Inc.
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19619141-1997
Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
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Skillsoft
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Applying Value Stream Mapping in Lean Business
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Coursera
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EJQNU4WET6ZM
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
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Coursera
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AD9A5BAVR7C8
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
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Coursera
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7LPLSER2DAFL
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
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SAP
training.sap.com
Supply Chain Management 130 - SAP ERP Planning and Manufacturing
https://training.sap.com/
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com
3028508
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/certification-overview.aspx
Scrum Alliance
www.scrumalliance.org
112349
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
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        Ajoy worked as a program solution lead on Grid Modernization Engineering Planning Projects.  Ajoy demonstrated a deep understanding of grid technologies & analytics knowledge, and effectively worked with architects, project managers, business teams and agile development teams to meet the regulatory requirements. Ajoy led some significant performance improvements to the DER external portal by working with the GIS vendor, infrastructure team and architects. Ajoy showed excellent leadership skills in managing the agile team,  and proactively mitigated risk to the program and the leadership team,  to ensure the projects were delivered as planned. Kris Zywicki
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Ajoy and I worked together at Dow Corning - now Dow Chemical on several automation solution programs on SAP Plant Maintenance, Asset Management and Production Planning-Supply Chain bringing Industrial Data to SAP bidirectionally. He demonstrated a deep knowledge of product engineering, business and technical knowledge of manufacturing chemicals. He showed excellent leadership skills in managing products and innovative solutions.  He collaborated across a complex functional-technical landscape demonstrating strong interpersonal skills and a focus on getting the work completed.  He is a trustworthy person.
Ajoy always exceeded my expectations with his technical knowledge, responsiveness to issues, work ethics and innovative thinking.

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Mumbai Metropolitan Region
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Director & CEO, Absolute HR Management Consultants
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New York City Metropolitan Area
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CISO  at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
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India
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Director Operations at Electrosteel Steels Ltd
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Coimbatore
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Manager HRD at KG Hospital and postgraduate medical Instutute
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Delhi, India
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Country Head at JSS Medical Research India Pvt Ltd.
CSCMP Silicon Valley/ San Francisco (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals)
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Supply Chain Today: Latest News & Trends, Delete Spam, Technology Innovation, Search Executive Jobs
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Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, & Lean Group
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SOA/BPEL Architects
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI
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Accenture Alumni Network - Official Group
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Uhuru
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Load Management, Demand Response, and DER Practitioners: Join our Conversation!
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Industry 4.0 in Europe
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AVEVA SCADA & MES
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Smart Grid Professionals - Energy efficiency, Smart meters, Demand Management, Electric Vehicles
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Government in the Cognitive Era
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Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning
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Smart Energy Network
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