Rajan Varadarajan

Operations Associate

Atlanta, Georgia, United States20 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in data analytics and project management.
Proven track record in modernizing corporate processes.
Strong background in operations research and software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Transportation Operations Research Specialist with strong software development and project management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data AnalyticsProject ManagementBusiness StrategySoftware Development

Other Skills

R ProgrammingCommunicationSSASSSISSSRSDB2TeradataDatabricksJavaScriptJavaCPLEXChange ManagementNegotiationGurobiComputational Physics

About

Creative thinker and skilled and experienced professional committed to efficient problem solving and general management.

Experience

20 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

20 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Norfolk southern

3 roles

Manager, OR/IT

Promoted

Jan 2010 – Mar 2024 · 14 yrs 2 mos

Projects: Several Iterations of Payroll Cubes using SSAS, SSIS, SSDS, SSRS, Network Planning Workbench Report Conversions, Yard Capacity Planner History Data Processing, A Forecasting system using SSAS, OR Models using CPLEX, Product Support and Management
Developed and managed many SSAS cube projects and some OR models and projects using a variety of software techniques using Sql Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, DB2, Teradata, Databricks, JavaScriipt, Java etc.

R ProgrammingCommunicationSSASSSISSSRSDB2+6

Operations Research Specialist - Strategic Planning

Mar 2005 – Dec 2009 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Projects: Railcar Distribution Model, Delphi, Project Management
Applied the empty railcar distribution model to three other fleets including a very large boxcar fleet. This led to further modernization at corporate level. Identified issues in application of the complex model and event processing and channeled the initiatives to replace an old real-time system running in parallel. Effort led to a successful implementation of a new and modern streamlined optimization model for empty railcar flow management. The efforts applied the science of operations research to a big real-time and automation problem at NS.
Managed the development of a custom marketing forecasting system using an early version of Microsoft SQL Server tools such as 2005 SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS Cubes, ASP frontend. Several hundred marketers were able to obtain the information and enter forecasting data successfully using a large cube as a core business intelligence platform and traditional screens and SQL server database for data entry. Technology has been updated and continues to be used to this day for marketing insights for NS business.

CPLEXChange ManagementProject ManagementBusiness Strategy

Consultant

Sep 2003 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 5 mos

Projects: Car Distribution Model, DTSR, ETL Development
Worked on an advanced railcar distribution model written Java and got it production ready. The funded project was successfully completed and put into production. This effort led to additional extensions of system and eventual formal corporate level real-time model-based automation and decision support system for railcar flows.
Built a dynamic schedule processor using MQ and AIX DB2 and put it into production. It keeps running maintenance free for nearly a decade.

CPLEXNegotiationProject ManagementSoftware Development