Sunny Desai

Experience

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  Reliance Industries Limited

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2020

  - Partnering with key stakeholders across different manufacturing sites of RelianceHydrocarbon business to identify the business challenges and anticipate their need to deliver analytical solution.- Leading a team to design and deploy enterprise wide analytical scalable solution for business use cases.- Using functional expertise and experience, to drive digital innovation in plant maintenance and operation.- Hiring team across sites and enhancing skill set of people to make the organization future ready. Responsible for providing technical direction to the team. Show less - Developed a realtime analytical tool, that monitors the control loop performance of a plant. Identifies improvement areas and opportunity gaps to provide prescription in realtime. This improves profit margin, minimise cost and ensures sustainable quality product.- IoT projects for equipment performance and safety improvements.- Prediction model for early equipment failure detection.- Contributing to the strategic initiatives of the organisation.Liasioning with vendors/licensors/OEMs to identify digital solutions to address the businesschallenges.- Develop in-house analytical solution using R/Python, SQL and Tableau.- Collaborated with various start-ups, government companies and educational institution to develop IoT and Robotics solutions.- Developed analytical and IT skills through self-learning like R, Python, Tableau, .Net, C#, HTML5, CSS.- Use of statistical and machine learning methods to identify deviations in product quality from various RIL plants.- Designed and created Data Lake in MS SQL for implementation of analytical solution.- Designed and developed management level dashboard with a potential impact on increase in reliability of equipment by 10% and time saving of 120 Hrs in a year. Show less - Contributed highest number of Kaizen suggestion for the year 2011.- Designed and implemented DMZ network for control system to meet ISA 95 standard at HMD site. - Single handed commissioned Real Time Optimizer and Advanced Process Control for Cracker plant. A one of a kind commissioning of the system, thereby saving time and cost.- Performing run time modification in control system at site.- Performing logic modification in DCS/PLC as required by plant. Managing IT assets in process control network. Show less

  • Lead Data Scientist | General Manager- Smart Manufacturing | Industry 4.0 | Manufacturing Analytics

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

  • Sr Manager- Smart Manufacturing

    Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  • Sr. Manager- Reliability DCS PLC SCADA

    Sept 2010 - Jun 2017

  • Maintenance Engineer

    Sept 2008 - Sept 2010
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  SAS

  Jun 2020 - now

  Senior Consultant

  - Responsible for revenue from the IoT practice at SAS through new initiatives in Public Sector, State & Central Govt, Manufacturing- Identify new business initiatives and conduct market validation to assess the potential- Analyze and prioritize high impact use cases for the customer- Drive an Advanced Analytics solution for the identified and anticipated user requirement- Measure Business impact of the delivered analytical solutionKey Projects Delivered:- A Digital Refinery/Industry 4.0 platform has been deployed for a Public Sector Refinery in North East India, enhancing equipment reliability, optimizing real-time operations, and managing KPI-driven operations.- An Advanced Analytics Solution has been deployed for an Indian PSU's Petrochemical division, facilitating margin optimization, price forecasting, and production planning.- An advanced analytics platform focusing on power portfolio and smart meter analytics, along with revenue maximization strategies for State Power Distribution companies in India. Show less