Ashish Panda

Process Engineer at Tesla

Summary
Work Summary:
A. Research Assistant - Information and Operations Management Department, Mays Business
School, Texas A&M University, College Station
B. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Limited
I. 2011-2012 - Planning Engineer (Operations)
II. 2012-2014 - Execution/Commissioning Engineer
C. Student Worker at Open Access Labs (TAMU)

Master of Science: Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas

Areas Worked: Operation Research,Operations,Project Management, Forecasting Methods,
Prediction Modelling,Inventory Management, Optimization using Linear and Non-Linear
Programming, Data Analytics Applied to Health Care systems, Warehouse Distribution and Logistics
(Material Handling Systems)

Tools Experience:
Tableau 9.3
Analytics in R
Simio
Matlab
Primavera P6 V7 ( CMCS ,Project Management Institute Certified)
Hypermesh (Central Tools and Training Center Certified (CTTC))
ANSYS
Programming in C (NIIT certified)
Object Oriented Programming Using C++ (NIIT Certified)
Catia V5
Microsoft Office
SQL Server 2012
Simio
Minitab

Experience
Process Engineer

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August 2017  -  Present

Operational Excellence Intern at Tesla

January 2017  -  April 2017 (4 months)
• Root Caused reloads and created dashboard to view daily reloads with Pareto chart for top 30
parts getting reloaded and other details.
• Created KPI dashboard for south-dock to view performance as per number of put-aways done per
hour.
• Headed a team of 5 interns, to adjust replenishment quantity for all General Assembly small parts
and adjust their demand counters.
• Kaizen to improve route utilization, put away process and develop standard procedure for General
Assembly Parts
• Created a dashboard to track trailer movement and inventory in warehouses
• Created KPI dashboard for Atlantis and Lathrope
• Created dashboard to monitor performance of Trailer movement from External Warehouse to
Manufacturing Plant

Cell Supply Chain and Business Development Intern at Tesla

September 2016  -  December 2016 (4 months)
• Coordinated 12v battery testing to determine end of life behavior.
• Integrated JIRA and Confluence for creating a system to monitor retrieval of 12v batteries, to get
good samples for testing.
• Created Macro to reduce manual searching of excel files for a specific string and to search for
history of serial number in particular format.
• Created Macro to search for any string in excel and give hyperlinks to files as well as sheets.
• Created dashboards by writing custom SQL queries for
- Monitoring inventory of batteries and cells in the factory.
- Monitoring Supply Chain Status of lithium ion cells and other batteries.
- Monitoring rejection rate of 12v batteries from production line.
- Monitoring month-wise rate of vehicles coming to service centers for a 12v battery replacement,
so that old batteries could be retrieved and tested.
- Analyzing failure rate of 12v battery per 1000 vehicles in the field.

Research Assistant at Texas A&M University

August 2015  -  April 2016 (9 months)
Following are some of the projects :

1. The first project was a research project where I am primarily responsible for using Matlab/R
to optimize maximum expected profit and assortment for selling different categories of product

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 through two channels- web and retail, when the product is being sold by a single retailer. The
results are obtained for different types of distributions like uniform, uni-modal etc.

2. The second project was database management and development of an interface to automatically
execute queries and get results. For this project, I am using Visual Basics, Visual Studio and SQL
server 2012.

Student Assistant at Texas A&M University

May 2015  -  August 2015 (4 months)

Student Worker at Levy Restaurants

January 2015  -  April 2015 (4 months)

Senior Mechanical Engineer at Larsen & Toubro

July 2012  -  July 2014 (2 years 1 month)
Mechanical Execution Team, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Rattanindia Power Limited (Former
Indiabulls Power Limited), 5x270 MW Thermal Power Project.
Following were my key responsibilities:

I. Shifting of relevant material to each location

II. Assembly, Erection and Commissioning of Stacker-Reclaimer 2
III. Assembly, Erection and Commissioning of Travelling Tripper
IV. Assembly, Erection and Commissioning of Apron Feeder
V. Laying and Alignment of Rail
VI. Erection , Axial/Radial Alignment and Commissioning of High and Low Tension Motors
VII. Oil Filling as per quality standards for various Oil grades
VIII. Belt laying and successful commissioning of same for more than 10,000 meters
IX. Installation and Testing of Hydraulic Systems for Stacker-Reclaimer and Apron Feeders
X. Commissioning of Crushers
XI. Installation and Commissioning of Metal Detectors/Belt Sway Switches/Pull Cord Switches and
all safety devices along with scrapers
XII. Commissioning of Inline Magnetic Separator and Vibrating Screen Feeder
XIII. Pipe laying and hydro test checking for Dry Fog Dust Separation System, Dust Separation
System, Make-Up Water Line, and Cooling Water Line.
XIV. Ventilation Duct Laying for underground tunnel and control rooms
XV. HVAC installation for control rooms

Planning Engineer (Operations- Mechanical) at Larsen & Toubro

July 2011  -  June 2012 (1 year)
Planning Department, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Rattanindia Power Limited (Former Indiabulls
Power Limited), 5x270 MW Thermal Power Project

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 Following were my key responsibilities:

I. Finding requirement of resources during peak time and method of utilization to obtain
maximum profit.
II. Material Reconciliation
III. Finding Flaws in Mechanical Drawing’s
IV. Quality Procedure and Methods for Assembly/Erection/Commissioning of all mechanical
equipment’s along with the execution team for the Coal Handling Plant
V. Updating Management Planning Construction Schedule
VI. Reports and Presentation for Review Meeting
VII. Job Cost Report Monitoring
VIII. Dealing with vendors for supply material
IX. Updating System Compliance Report
X. Updating Safety Procedures for erection
XI. Making Monthly Client and Contractor Billing
XII. Daily/Monthly/Weekly Reports
XIII. Maintaining Documents as per guidelines

Education
Texas A&M University
Master’s Degree, Industrial Engineering, 2015 - 2017
Activities and Societies: Member of Table Tennis Club and Team of the university
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 2007 - 2011
Activities and Societies: 1. Participated in inter and intra college Tournaments for Table-Tennis 2.
Cyber Games Organizer for Annual Hostel Fest 3. KIIT Robotic Society 4. Cyber Games Organizer
for KRITANSH-2011 (Annual College Fest) 5. Cyber Games Organizer for Annual Mech Fest

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Ashish Panda
Process Engineer at Tesla

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