Arjun Simon

Experience

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  Engineers India Limited

  Aug 2011 - Jul 2013

  Engineer

  • Went through training in all fields of EPCC engineering including conceptual design, preparing equipment layout, piping design, contracts & purchase, costing & finance etc.• As a mechanical engineer at Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited supervised a workforce of 40 in various tasks related to construction and piping.• As the Lead Mechanical Engineer at Indian Oil Corporation Limited, lead a workforce of 300 by creating, reading, and deciphering drawings and using the same for fabrication and erection of piping and columns. Show less

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  Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  Oct 2013 - Jul 2014

  Research Assistant

  • Functional Vision Modelling for Precision Assembly Simulation using Digital Human Models.• Performing 3D scans of objects and working on this created scan copies using various devices.• Assisting the professor with other experiments and demos, attending conferences.• Enabling the control of the point cloud from the scans via GUI created using C++ coding & Open GL libraries.

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  Nagarro

  Sept 2015 - now

  • Leading a team of over 25 people (software developers, data engineers, data analysts, quality assurance engineers and domain experts) over the different stages of creation and maintenance of a central data repository and analytics platform for the company that includes a Data Lake, a Data Warehouse, and the reporting layer of excel files, SQL queries and Power BI reports.• Shielding the said team from unreasonable expectations from stakeholders and taking responsibility with them for delays in the reasonable ones• Planning for and controlling the execution of integration of the central data repository and the downstream systems with newly acquired systems and companies in collaboration with other teams & stakeholders.• Consulted for analysis on how a system to be newly integrated affects the current data landscape of the data in the company for two reasons. One being the extensive knowledge of the systems in the company and of how they converse with each other. Two, an uncanny ability to see blockers and problems unseen by the most and in most cases a feasible solution to the problem that doesn’t push the expected timeline by much.• Consulted for data modelling & data warehouse design during the creation of new internal applications due to my proven ability in the same.• Consulted for ideation on enterprise steering by the CXOs of the company, for the data perspective, of course.• Managing the Power BI premium instance for my current organization.• Mentoring and training leads and developers on the finer aspects of Power BI and getting my hands dirty if the reporting requirements are on the "more complicated" side. Show less • Translate the requirements of business to the developers and leads in the team to reduce rework arising from misunderstandings.• Constantly look at ways to enhance our data reporting capabilities for improved customer service.• Contributed heavily to the creation of a unified corporate data model for the company.• Planning for and controlling the execution of integration of the central data repository and the downstream systems with newly acquired systems and companies in collaboration with other teams & stakeholders.• Developed and published enterprise level Power BI reports that ran over a myriad of sources such as excel files, websites, SQL DBs, PDF files, Google Analytics and a few more. These reports are both of exploratory (with wide scope for self-service analytics) or explanatory (with the analytics already handled, for easy consumption) nature depending on the audience.• Set up Data Marts and Data Flows on Power BI service as an ETL endpoint for easier querying Show less • Developed and published over a hundred enterprise level Power BI reports that ran over a myriad of sources such as excel files, websites, SQL DBs, PDF files, Google Analytics and a few more. These reports are both of exploratory (with wide scope for self-service analytics) or explanatory (with the analytics already handled, for easy consumption) nature depending on the audience.• Brought my DAX and Power Query skills to a level that lets me do things in the tool that many consider impossible to achieve in Power BI.• Brought my expertise to a level where I train people on the tool on a regular basis.• Contributed heavily to the creation of a unified corporate data model for the company.• Translate the requirements of business to the developers and leads in the team to reduce rework arising from misunderstandings. Show less

  • Associate Principal Consultant, IntelliES

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Staff Consultant, IntelliES

    Sept 2020 - Sept 2022

  • Lead, IntelliOps

    Sept 2017 - Sept 2020

  • Associate Lead, Data Driven Decisions Support

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2017