Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Spearhead student-led projects aligning with AGCO’s strategic goals, enhancing innovation, and operational excellence.
• Define and manage technology-driven projects in Engineering, IT, and Analytics, ensuring they add significant value to AGCO and offer real-world experience to interns.
• Cultivate partnerships with the University of Illinois and startups to foster collaborative projects that integrate academic insights with AGCO’s business needs.
• Provide strategic direction and mentorship to project teams; coach interns, fostering their development and integration within AGCO.
• Lead AAC project communications with AGCO leadership, ensuring project alignment and visibility.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement in AGCO-sponsored events, workshops, and career fairs, driving awareness and participation.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Responsible for the project definition, management and tracking, including integration, training, data migration, go-live, support and closeout for standardization of Windchill system, a PLM software across all the Grain and Protein facilities worldwide
• Collaborating with all departments, such as Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, production, and Technical Service to understand the specific plant requirements and ensuring proper project alignment
• Developing detailed work plans in conjunction with Business and IT delivery and establishing resource plans; working closely with the stakeholders to understand resource availability and coming up with plans to fill the gaps as required
• Preparing and reviewing project proposals, statement of work and /or requests for proposal with potential vendors for goods and services within the project scope
• Monitoring progress, identifies dependencies on other projects, manages risks and issues closely through systematic review of analytics produced by PMO combined with experience base.
• Ensuring project milestones and stage gates are defined and met, testing (e.g., unit, system, integration, user, performance) is completed satisfactorily and adherence to controls achieved.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• Automated the quoting process of pre-manufactured farm structures by developing structural analysis and design tools to determine optimal pricing of farm structures in accordance with US standards
• Developed tools for grain bins, catwalk and bucket elevator towers which reduced the quote time for Configure to quote orders; validated the developed tools in MATLAB through detailed model development and testing in third-party commercial analysis software RISA-3D
• Assisted E-Tools team in the development of centralized motor drive package on ConfigureOne by developing a Java application to select the optimal drive package from a SQL database based on the client parameters and the mechanical constraints and parameters
• Conceptualized and tested a .NET extension to automate modeling, analysis and design of bucket elevator towers in SCIA, a structural analysis and design software, thereby reducing the engineering effort on Engineer to Order products
• Collaborated with Engineering, Product Management and Sales to define project scope, timeline, and milestones and conduct regular progress meetings for all the projects; understand changing customer requirements and update the software as required
• Managed a team of interns responsible for developing parametric 3D models for conditioning and storage products and integrating them with the Configure Price Quote platform
• Assisted the interns in developing project plans, timelines, and managing competing priorities, training them in ConfigureOne, and providing support in accessing documents and drawings from OneGSI and WindChill
• Assisted Material Handling product management in identifying gaps in current pricing strategies, defining strategies to come up with cost-based pricing, and developing models to predict costs for different components in MS-Excel and Python

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos

• • Working as a MATLAB Programmer Intern with an agriculture technology company at the Research Park, developing programs for structural design for use in an online price quoting tool