Milind Baranwal

Milind Baranwal -- Kudlu, Bengaluru India linkedin.com/in/milind-baranwal/ Certified project management professional (PMP) with more than 6 years of cross-functional expertise in project planning and coordination, operations & supervision, process improvement, OPEX management and inventory management. Ability to provide on-time, cost-effective business solutions. Possess leadership skills, sharp business acumen, and strong analytical & problem-solving skills acquired over a sustained and diverse career across Energy and Power industry; capable of handling emerging business challenges with stringent deadlines. ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE Oct’12 - Jan'19: Reliance Industries Limited Role: Manager – Project Planning As Project Manager Jan'16 - Jan'19 • Analysed all incoming work and assigned it to appropriate resources, ensured that SLAs were met and processes were followed as agreed in SOW from all service lines. • • • • • • Coordinated in project planning proposals, schedule management, change management & project closure documentation for commissioning of the electrical system of an EPC Project worth about INR 510 Crore in 2017 Focussed on continuous improvement, helping team achieve highest daily plant production - 1.1 MMSCMD Conducted root-cause analysis and coordinated with cross-departmental teams to resolve critical problems during operations; standardized the solutions to ensure non-occurrence of the problem in future Participated in execution of quality improvements projects for continual improvements as Electrical Shift In-charge Trained over 100 operations personnel & supported the solution until completely transitioned to the utility users. Worked closely with multi-site engineering teams, cross-functional teams & internal/external stakeholders to help manage quality assurance. Highlight and Accomplishments: • Track record of successfully completing Thermal to Electric-Heater replacement for economizing gas consumption of about 6000 SCM/ day in Gas Dehydration Unit which saved about INR 3.28 Crore in 2018-19. • Succeeded in streamlining cross-functional team operations for production, transportation and scheduling activities, resulting in saving resource wastage of more than 3.5 lakhs/month and 400 man-hours/ month in 2018 • Revived and stream-lined the complete process network during total system failure, saving production loss for more than INR 50 Lakhs. As Operations Manager Oct'13 - Dec'15 • Acted as the key point for all aspects of development, interfaced with customer business managers/staff and operators to understand the business objectives and technical requirements to deliver the solution • Communicated critical issues and risks to appropriate team members and recorded & escalated risks/ issues • Prepared gap analysis to keep updated on the market trend. • Developed and maintained an agreed project plan and detailed stage plans considering cost, time and scope. Highlight and Accomplishments: • Conducted technical documentation for operations, established 10 SOPs and introduced 14 process templates for electronic and electrical system to streamline process work as per OEM recommendations. • Directed day-to-day operations focused on attainment of key business metrics, continuous improvement initiatives and led 20 member team to monitor end-to-end daily operations for more than 1000 electrical equipment. • Ensured timely completion of scheduled maintenance, thereby reducing downtime of equipment failure by 5%. As Graduate Industrial Trainee Oct'12-Oct’13 • Supervised day-to-day operations about industrial activities in Operations and Maintenance, and Project Engineering at KGD6 Basin and CBM Project, Shahdol. • Performed Gemba Walk, i.e. daily inspections, charted readings, documented equipment downtime and monitored maintenance for equipment. Highlight: • Contributed in attaining 90% available operating efficiency for all 120 sites. ACADEMIC DETAILS • Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai PGPM (One year full time MBA) National Institute of Technology, Raipur Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) • CERTIFICATIONS • • • May 2019 – April 2020 Jul 2008 – May 2012 AND SKILLS PMP (PMI) | Lean Sig Sigma Green Belt (KPMG) | Tableau Data Scientist (Tableau) SQL, Python, Excel, RStudio, Tableau, MS Projects Project Management |Resource Management |Business Operations |Cost Estimating |Process Excellence Process Optimisation/ Continuous Improvement | Supply Chain and Logistics ACADEMIC PROJECTS • Jul’19 – Mar’20: Consumer Behaviour Patterns When Selecting Digital Payment Modes An empirical study to find and analyse the factors involved & determine any consistent patterns in the relationships between factors, intentions and behaviours using RStudio and Regression Models. o Using Focussed group discussions and cluster sampling to collect data from people of different age groups, economic statuses, educational background, etc., four dependent variables were selected: 1. Ease of Use | 2. Security | 3. Transaction charges | 4. Incentives. o Using multiple linear regression diagnostics for outliers, normality, multi-collinearity, etc, and decision tree analysis & ANOVA table, following conclusions were made: ▪ Age, Education and Security have a significant effect (along with Annual Income with a marginal significance) on the choice of payment (Cash or Digital). ▪ Gender, Education, Transaction charges and Annual Income have a significant effect (along with Age with a marginal significance) on the choice of digital payment (Apps or Card). ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS • o o o o Winner - SCinnovatia at L'Attitude13º05, national level competition against 630 teams, won INR 20,000/Mahindra & Mahindra Farm Div. Case Study to analyse key issues and forecast the demand. Following observations and conclusions were made: Focus on consumer service to regain Market repution. Immediate termination for the production of 147 of manufactured model offerings, which results in only 11% of total sales comes from 147 models in between 2010 and 2012. Maintain availability of Products as per seasonality and demand forecast as predicted using Holt winter’s method to intercept dealer dissatisfaction due to non-availability of desired model. Vendor Managed Inventory and Supply contracts can be considered to reduce cost.