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Chief Architect @ Avitas Systems, a BHGE venture Reporting to CEO and tasked with scaling the entire product line consisting of autonomous robotics (UAV, crawlers, subsea), analytics platform, and cloud platform. Engaged with, vetted, and built strategic collaboration with 3D sensor providers, robotics localization solution providers, drone providers, edge analytics providers, and successfully integrated third-party as well...

Chief Architect @ Avitas Systems, a BHGE venture Reporting to CEO and tasked with scaling the entire product line consisting of autonomous robotics (UAV, crawlers, subsea), analytics platform, and cloud platform. Engaged with, vetted, and built strategic collaboration with 3D sensor providers, robotics localization solution providers, drone providers, edge analytics providers, and successfully integrated third-party as well as in-house developed solutions to existing product line. Scaling initiatives resulted in reduced operations time and cost, faster analytics, and reduced turnaround time.Major Accomplishments:• Developed @scale architecture roadmap and execution plane through collaboration with VP of engineering, VP of analytics, Director of software engineering, and Director of operations• Scaled UAV-based O&G inspection system from inspecting 38 well pads/week to 360 well pads/week• Scaled ground vehicle-based power line inspection system from 10KM/day to 1000KM/day• Reduced system cost by 48% and operational cost by 35%Tools and Technologies:Direct Gereferencing System (DGS), Structure from Motion(SFM), PPK, PPP, 2D &3D perception, Multi-spectral perception, LiDAR, NVIDIA TX2 From 2018 to 2019 (1 year) Albany, New York AreaDirector of Engineering - Robotics @ Avitas Systems, a BHGE venture Identified by the managing director of GE Ventures to set the robotics technology vision and roadmap, build the robotics team, manage the robotic roadmap execution, and develop and commercialize new robotics products. Within the first 90 days, built a high performing robotics team, commercialize an autonomous UAV inspection system, completed the robotics vision and execution plan. Within one and half year, built 4 new robotics (UAV, surface crawlers, UGV, subsea) products, built a $10x millions customer pipeline, brought company valuation to $10x millions, and successfully completed the acquisition.Major Accomplishments:• Lead the development and execution of the company’s robotic and AI vision and roadmap to capture $40B industrial inspection market • Lead a team of executive leaders from 3 sister companies to develop a strategic vision for robotics ecosystem that ensured cross-pollination and 0% redundancy• Lead the development and launch of 4 autonomous field robotic products for the upstream oil and gas, power lines, and renewables infrastructure inspection. Products reduced inspection time from 14 days to 4 hours with 0% asset downtime at 25-35% lower cost and generated $10x millions in revenue/pipeline• Developed multi-million $ robotics R&D roadmap, managed R&D execution and R&D partners• Built and managed 5 external strategic collaborations in the field of 3D analytics, 3D sensors, autonomous robotics, and Structure from Motion, to reduced time to market • Envisioned and managed the development of Avitas Systems’ Autonomy Platform that reduced development time by 25-50%. The Platform was used to build UAV, magnetic crawlers, ground vehicles, and sub-sea robotics based autonomous inspection systems. • Represented company at investor, customer, networking, and conference events Tools and Technologies:Robotics Operating System (ROS), C++, Python, Java, Tensor Flow, Edge Analytics, NVIDIA, OpenCV, LiDAR, RADAR, 2D sensors, IR , Motion planning, .. From 2017 to 2018 (1 year) Albany, New York AreaSoftware Developer @ Autotask Tasked with software abstraction and development of generalized software modules to increase developer's productivity, increase software module re-utilization, standardize software practices. Major accomplishments:• Architected and developed various generalized software components that cut development time by 30%-50%, decreased software defects by 50% -75%, and decreased QA testing time by 20% -35% • Defined software engineering standards/practices and procured leadership team’s buy-in Tools and technologies: Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, VB, Microsoft SQL From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Albany, New York AreaSr. Programmer/Analyst @ Amsterdam Printing Recruited to drive a move from phone/mail-based sales to online sales. Set the e-commerce technology vision and roadmap by collaboration with CEO and IT Director. Built the team and lead the execution of e-commerce roadmap. Started with no online presence/static product catalog websites for 15 subsidies. Within 2 years, all 15 subsidies had e-commerce platform generating significant online sales. Major accomplishments:• Lead the development and commercialized of an enterprise software system for E-commerce applications. The enterprise solution helps launch fully functional e-commerce websites within hours• Saved $10x thousands a month on website hosting and maintenance costs• Raised internet sales by 50%, in some cases 100%, by redesigning E-commerce websites for 15 sister companies on the newly developed enterprise software system• Drove planning and implementation of UX and search engine optimization (SEO) by working closely with E-Commerce and customer relations directors Tools and Technologies:ASP.NET, C#, MSSQL, MS IIS From 2004 to 2006 (2 years) Albany, New York AreaLead Researcher & Team Lead - Robotics @ GE Global Research Pioneered 6 robotics, multi-agent, multi-robotics, and enterprise software system products by leading multi-disciplinary technical teams. Products that I pioneered at GRC ended up being flagship products of various GE businesses. I was one of the original architects of the GE Digital's IOT Platform, Predix. One of the UAV products that I lead resulted in the creation of a new GE startup. Conceived and architected a hardware/software robotics autonomy platform and store to support the emergence of a robotics developer ecosystem within GE.Major accomplishments:• Managed project planning, project execution, and research team for on-time delivery of a proof of concept for autonomous aerial inspection which lead to the creation of a new GE Start-up• Spearheaded requirement gathering, solution architecture, product development & commercialization roadmap, and execution of an autonomous robotics solution for autonomous rail yard operations • Managed the autonomous robotic navigation team for an autonomous rail yard operations product• Managed the strategic planning, team building, community engagement, and execution of a crowdsourcing campaign to augment robotic team’s capabilities• Architected, designed, and developed a solution for Autonomous Underground Mining Vehicles for opportunist battery recharging that resulted in 60% savings in battery costs.• Architected, developed, and successfully delivered a Multi-robotics solution to VA to automate surgical equipment sterilization process• Shaped and lead the development of a Multi-agent systems platform for self-provisioning, self-healing, and self-healing machines. This system turned into GE Digital's flagship IOT Platform, Predix. • Planned, architected, and developed a protocol compliance monitoring system for hospitals. The solutions increased staff compliance by 50%.Tools and Technologies:C++, Phton, JAVA, C#, .NET, SQL, Deep learning, AI, Robotics Operation System (ROS), Image analytics. From 2010 to 2017 (7 years) Albany, New York AreaSr. Software Architect, ENDATA Solution Group @ ENSCO INC Recruited 4th employee of a new startup - ENDATA Solutions - within ENSCO INC. Tasked with the architecture and development of next generation healthcare analytics and discovery solutions supporting both the commercial and government markets.In partnership with leading edge technology providers in content management, enterprise search and text analytics, drove the development of an intelligence platform supporting a variety of clinical and operational needs. Core applications included health surveillance, quality management, revenue cycle management and medical records review.Major accomplishments:• Spearheaded the value proposition and future direction of the Healthcare Intelligence Platform by working closely with the department director • Lead the development of a multi-module Healthcare Intelligence Platform, which consolidates patient information and extracts key clinical terminology from any number of data and content sources –both structured and unstructured• Coder’s WorkbenchTM module increased coder's efficiency and accuracy by 90%• Clinical Discovery module allows managers and researchers to query patient documentation directly in support of patient safety, outcomes and risk management initiatives• Health Care Surveillance module helps hospitals detect and take preemptive measures before an outbreak, never events, and hospital acquire disease happens • Healthcare Intelligence Platform is helping clients generate $100x in revenues• Drove proposal writing, OEM relation management, and showcasing of the Healthcare Intelligence Platform to hospitals and clinical researchers.Tools and Technologies:C#, VB, ASP.Net, MarkLogic, NoSQL, SQL From 2007 to 2009 (2 years) Albany, New York AreaSr. Manager @ Uber Leading the efforts for automated map generation, everything from defining the content of the map to the algorithms that will generate it without human intervention. 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