Arjun Ramesh
Innovation Consultant And Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
A Complex Systems Engineer, possessing a fusion of quantitative and qualitative skills, primed to support global organizations in their innovation endeavours, particularly in the transport, mobility, logistics, and automotive domains.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Innovation Program Manager
Link Innovations
2023.01 - Current
- Lead for Volvo Group India's and Michelin's open innovation program, overseeing 19 diverse projects involving internal and external stakeholders.
- Support corporate innovation teams by defining strategies through services like market analysis. identifying innovation trends and benchmarking .
- Translate business and product owners' requirements and problems into use cases and problem statements.
- Lead design sprints, coordinating ideation workshops, and evaluating risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of solutions
- Justify solution value through compelling business cases to establish approval and funding internally.
- Co-manage the phase of building proof of concepts and reporting outcomes to stakeholders.
Innovation Consultant
NASSCOM CoE AI &IoT
2021.12 - 2023.01
- Elicit requirements from varied stakeholder groups and capture business problems and functional/non-functional requirements.
- Research market, competition and customers to provide insights and market maps to Innovation Teams, Business owners and Product owners.
- Scouting startups and innovators from the Indian ecosystem to solve open innovation use cases from enterprises.
- Domain Focus: Automotive, Manufacturing and Materials
Entrepreneur in Residence
Buildwise (Powered By Panteia)
2021.01 - 2021.11
- Offering platform-as-a-service for real-time emission monitoring and simulation for construction and transport organizations through IoT, Virtual sensors and Machine learning
- Modelling the business case and validating it with key stakeholders and prospective clients such as the Vereniging Verticaal Transport (VVT), Tata Steel, Nationale Politie and Gemeente Amsterdam.
- Played an active role in all the activities associated with prototype development, process mapping, PoC scoping & more
Transport and Mobility Consultant
Panteia
2020.07 - 2021.10
- Build and validate a digital model-based tool for Vereniging Verticaal Transport (VVT) that enables simulation of total emissions produced from all vehicles and machinery employed in an urban construction site
- Developing an analytical model to ex ante calculate the emissions resulting from different distribution strategies in urban deliveries
- Assisting in a project that aims to design a framework for evaluating the performance of Freight Traffic Management as a Service (FTMaaS) solution.
Cost Engineer
Bosch GmbH
2016.10 - 2017.11
- Performed commercial benchmarking of automotive components.
- Conducted reverse engineering for new product development in ADAS such as Camera, LiDAR, Radar,etc.
Education
Master of Science - MSc - Complex system engineering and management
Technische Universiteit Delft
Delft 2017.10 - 2020.05
Master of Science -
Universidade Do Porto- Faculty Of Economics
Porto 2018.09 - 2019.05
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
R.V. College Of Engineering
Bangalore 2011.07 - 2015.05
Skills
Requirements Engineering
Techno business Analysis
Policy and Strategic Analysis
Design Thinking
Program management
Certification
Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Excel
Internships
Graduate Intern|Panteia
- Performed graduate thesis involving the development of an analytical decision support tool to evaluate the performance of transhipment logistics networks with electric vehicles in last-mile deliveries.
Global operations intern|Kraft Heinz Company
- Assist the Global head of Manufacturing in formulating plant maintenance strategies and redesigning the annual factory championship program.
- Built a tableau dashboard for maintenance-related KPIs.
Student consultant | LTP Labs
- Assisted consulting team in strategy development for dynamic storage areas of Continente Supermercado.
- Assisted in the development of an analytical optimization tool to rapidly upscale or downscale space allocation.
Affiliations
- Investor & Advisor
Pillzy Healthcare LLP
- Mentor
Yes delft
- Board Member 2019/20
ESN-Erasmus Student Network
- Pro-bono student consulting
180 degree consulting
Timeline
Innovation Program Manager
Link Innovations
2023.01 - Current
Innovation Consultant
NASSCOM CoE AI &IoT
2021.12 - 2023.01
Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Excel
2021-09
Entrepreneur in Residence
Buildwise (Powered By Panteia)
2021.01 - 2021.11
Transport and Mobility Consultant
Panteia
2020.07 - 2021.10
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification- Juran institute
2018-09
Master of Science -
Universidade Do Porto- Faculty Of Economics
2018.09 - 2019.05
Master of Science - MSc - Complex system engineering and management
Technische Universiteit Delft
2017.10 - 2020.05
Cost Engineer
Bosch GmbH
2016.10 - 2017.11
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
R.V. College Of Engineering
2011.07 - 2015.05