Chandra Shekhar Raj
Troy,United States
Summary
Results-driven data & AI professional with focus on leadership and achieving organizational goals. Known for enhancing team collaboration and delivering consistent, high-quality outcomes. Adaptable to evolving demands and skilled in strategic decision-making and conflict management.
- Over 22 years of dynamic and global experience in the areas of AI/GenAI, Data Science, Utilities and Digital Transformation. Seasoned professional due to strong technical and business backgrounds.
- Led GenAI based Intelligent Document Processing solution implementation. Conducted client workshops to define GenAI use cases, led technical deep dive sessions to design end to end architecture including AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, Textract, Titan, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonet model, S3 and Lambda functions to implement GenAI powered intelligent document processing solution for a property appraisal company. Solution will enable client to double their appraisal throughput and quality control productivity.
- Led enterprise scale, cloud-based computer vision platform implementation to ingest images from drones and perform image classification, object detection and image segmentation to identify high risk assets thereby enabling a leading North American Utility Company to take proactive measures to prevent wildfires
- Led enterprise scale, cloud based digital platform implementation to preserve Water, enabling additional revenue of $300 million over 5 years for a leading North American Water Management Solution provider
- Led data driven diagnostics of business problems, AI/ML model development, analytical solution implementation and digital transformation using ML (Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, XG Boost), AI/ Deep Learning (ANN, RNN, CNN), Statistics and Python
- US patent holder for ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT EVENT SEQUENCING SYSTEM (Patent # 10,622,808). The solution enables key decision makers in T&D utilities to reduce overall asset risk profiles.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data & AI Leader
Slalom
09.2021 - Current
- Leveraging data & AI to solve complex business problems across industries such as utilities, telecom, manufacturing, retail and banking
- AI powered intelligent document processing solution to enable client to double their throughput and quality control productivity- Conducted client workshops to define GenAI use cases, led technical deep dive sessions to design end to end architecture including AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, Textract, Titan, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonet model, S3 and Lambda functions to implement GenAI powered intelligent document processing solution for a property appraisal company.
- ML powered GIS data quality improvements to enable upto $4M of annual cost avoidance for a large Utility – Implemented 250+ machine learning models and business rules in Databricks and Azure DL to identify GIS data quality errors and fix them at scale and speed.
- ML powered outage restoration recommendation engine to reduce customer outage duration by up to 5% for a large utility - Implemented Dispatch Assistant, a recommendation tool, to standardize and automate dispatch decision making. Tool enables greater resource availability and rapid mobilization to support the company-wide objectives of faster outage restoration.
Data Science Sr. Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2021
- Over 17 years of dynamic and global experience in Utilities Industry (Electricity, Gas, Water), Data Science, AI, Leadership and Digital Transformation. Seasoned professional due to strong data & AI technical and utilities industry backgrounds. Complete self-starter with a comprehensive understanding of utilities business problems along with innovative ways to explore holistic data & AI solutions across people, process and technology.
Utility Operations & Maintenance Manager
Reliance Energy Ltd (BSES)
06.2003 - 11.2008
- I was responsible for overall Technical & Commercial Operations of a division comprising over 60,000 consumer base and over $13M annual revenue. My responsibilities also included AT&C (Aggregate Technical & Commercial) loss reduction by appropriate operation and maintenance, metering, billing, recovery and enforcement. I also worked with the State Electricity Regulatory Commission & Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum (CGRF) to ensure proper resolution of consumer grievances. I significantly improved revenue, CSAT and reduced commercial & technical losses for my division
Education
MS - Analytics, Data processing and Analytics modelling
Georgia Institute of Technology
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ACADGILD
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
MITx PRO
01.2018
Entrepreneurial Negotiations
MITx on edX
01.2018
Bachelor's degree - Electrical Engineering
IIT Roorkee
01.2003
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (AI/LLM)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Python (Programming Language)
- GenAI, Data Science and analytics modelling using LLM, ML (Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, XG Boost), AI/ Deep Learning (ANN, RNN, CNN), Statistics and Python
- Data Strategy & Governance
- Cloud Architecture - Enterprise scale, cloud based analytics platform architecture across AWS, GCP and Azure
- Energy/Utilities (Electric, Gas, Water) distribution and retail industry including field operations and grid management, Chemical and Natural Resources industry
Certification
- GenAI certifications - Microsoft Azure AI, Salesforce AI, AWS AI, 2024
- Data Science Masters Certification (ML, AI, Deep Learning, Statistics and Python), 2019
- Electrical Engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, with 7.5/10 CGPA, 2003
Timeline
Data & AI Leader
Slalom
09.2021 - Current
Data Science Sr. Manager
Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2021
Utility Operations & Maintenance Manager
Reliance Energy Ltd (BSES)
06.2003 - 11.2008
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ACADGILD
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
MITx PRO
Entrepreneurial Negotiations
MITx on edX
Bachelor's degree - Electrical Engineering
IIT Roorkee
MS - Analytics, Data processing and Analytics modelling
Georgia Institute of Technology
Publications
Smart Grid Analytics Webinar on Smart Grid News
Patents
ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT EVENT SEQUENCING SYSTEM