Nikhil Mahajan

Experience

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  Spectrum Electroplaters

  May 2013 - Jun 2013

  Summer Intern

  Develop basic understanding of various electroplating techniques.Learn about different equipment and chemicals used in Electroplating, Electropolishing and Anodizing.

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  Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.

  May 2014 - Jun 2014

  Summer Intern

  Learn about the process flow, reaction chemistry, catalysts and equipment working & design of Urea and Ammonia Plant.Perform Material and Energy Balance Calculations for Urea plant.Understanding the design of the main urea reactor and performing residence time calculations. Participate in troubleshooting of day-to-day operational issues and suggest appropriate and feasible solutions.

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  Honeywell

  Jul 2015 - Apr 2018

  Research and Development Engineer

  Ensure smooth pilot plant operations and troubleshoot problems related to process or equipment for increased efficiency and productivity of plants.Prepare DOE to define number of parameters and runs required to test certain product with feasible time estimate.Conduct all the pilot plant operations and activities in compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental regulations and guidelines.Execute pilot plant runs for New Product Development (NPD) as well as Customer Demo Projects to generate meaningful and quality data package within predetermined time-frame.Perform data analysis on pilot plant generated data to reach worthwhile conclusions.Continuous learning to bring about new and innovative ideas that could generate potential business.Contribute towards company’s Intellectual Property in the form of patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Show less

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  Honeywell

  Nov 2018 - Sept 2020

  Connected Performance Services (CPS) is a Cloud-based Service to Monitor, Predict and Improve Plant Performance (Digital Solutions for Refinery and Petrochemicals) Key Responsibilities:• Develop basic templates of simulation models and fault structures for technologies, that can be used in a live project as a base case.• Create Customer Specific Process Simulation Models and Integrate them with live flowing data from customer on Cloud to generate real-time trends of important KPIs, Equipment Performance and Asset Details.• Build Complex-wide Simulation Models and Live Data Feeding Tools to Analyze & Optimize whole complex behavior at steady state, find new molecular management, process & economic optimization opportunities for improvements and show daily recommendations to the customer on a live screen. • Perform quality check on simulation process models developed for different UOP technologies using UniSim before final deployment to the customer.• Troubleshoot and rectify issues associated with process models to obtain correct estimates of Key Process Indicators (KPIs).• Perform optimization studies on Naphtha and Aromatic Complexes to maximize profit margins with thorough understanding and consideration of process and mechanical constraints. • Timely monitoring of Customer Plant data to capture, troubleshoot and rectify process upsets & anomalies. Show less • Lead a 9-membered team including Process Engineers and Technical Service Specialists for New Product/Feature Development, following Agile Methodology.• Understand the Business Requirement for New Product Development or Improvement, Coordinate with Business, Sales, & Marketing functions, Participate in PI Planning meetings, and deliver the product within the Program Increment cycle.• Work with the scrum team to break static epics into stories.• Identify risks. Dependencies and Impediments for each epic and story and report during the PI Planning meeting.• Participate in the development of story acceptance criteria and provide examples in support of ATDD (acceptance test-driven development).• Validate and Accept tasks completed by team that meet acceptance criteria and have the appropriate Definition of Done.• Work with global cross-functional scrum teams to ensure 3600 development of a product or process.• Fulfil quality assurance function for a developed product/feature, focusing primarily on its fitness for use. Show less

  • Technical Product Owner - Aromatics Digital Solutions Development

    Jun 2020 - Sept 2020

  • CPS Design Engineer -II

    Apr 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Technical Product Owner - Naphtha Digital Solutions Development

    Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
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  IOG Solutions Private Limited

  Sept 2020 - Jun 2021

  Oil and Gas Consultant

  Consult and Implement solutions for global clients in the following domains:Digital Solutions development for the Oil & Gas sectorRefinery Planning & Scheduling Data Reconciliation and Optimization Process Simulation and Reactor Modeling Process Unit Debottlenecking and Troubleshooting

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  Aspen Technology

  Jul 2021 - Dec 2023

  Senior Solutions Consultant

  Business Consulting leading to sales of AspenTech Products for Top Companies in Oil and Gas, Energy, Refining, Petrochemical, Specialty Chemical, Bulk Chemical, Pharma and EPC Industry.Business development, Pre-sales, Proposal Development, Strategic Account Management for Asia Pacific Japan region.Solution Consulting for AspenOne Engineering Products - HYSYS, Aspen Plus, ACCE, AI based solutions, Machine Learning Solutions, Digital Transformation Solutions.One-to-One Engagement with Global Clients on daily basis for strategizing and implementing various model driven applications for their plants, processes and operations.Working closely with Energy & Chemical companies on various Sustainability Initiatives including Hydrogen Economy, Carbon Capture, Bioprocessing and Circular Economy. Show less