🎨 Hello! I'm Amit Rana, a tech professional based in India. With over 15 years of experience in tech consulting, I thrive at the intersection of technology design and business strategy and bridging the gaps between them. My passion lies in creating seamless exchange of ideas, strategies and business outcomes with the technology landscape of an organization, be it corporate real estate, smart buildings, internet of things and Business Intelligence.

🌈 About Me

I'm a creative thinker, a problem solver, and an avid learner, always exploring new trends and techniques in technology. I’ve spent big chunk of my life designing electronic circuits for large variety of clients from manufacturing, real estate, commercial buildings and printing industry. I specialize in designing complex Internet of Things system, initially from scratch and now at an enterprise level. I'm not immersed in system drawings, you can find me with a nice book in my hand feasting on fantasies and spirituality realms. But most of the time, you’d find me playing with my adorable kids.

💼 Experience

Senior Manger - Enterprise and Solutions Architect (Amazon) — JLL Technologies. | Jan 2023 - Present

  • Start the practice of Enterprise Architecture for client’s real estate division

  • Deep Dive on CRE Organization, create business capability map, technology and current project overlay, master application portfolio and technology roadmap

  • Solution architecture for smart buildings initiative

  • Establishing process flow diagram for technology initiatives including scoring mechanisms for evaluating tech projects

  • Advising clients on reducing technology debt, utilizing existing tech and best practices of solution architecture, data integrity

Senior Manger - APAC BI and Tech Lead (Amazon) — JLL Technologies. | Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Build a team of BI Developers, project manager, BI Analysts and start APAC tech operations for the client.

  • Delivered 6 BI dashboards in a calendar year along with building the team

  • As a result of to successfully finishing critical technology projects, got transitioned to global program manager role

  • Key Skills : Leadership, Team Building, Stakeholder Relationship Creation and nurturing. Consulting on Data integrity, Business intelligence and establishing best practices for BI Delivery

  • Mentor the team, fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture.

IoT Architect — MASO Group | Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

  • Develop and maintain smart manufacturing solutions for automobile manufacturer.

  • Develop and maintain technology projects including machine vision, connected manufacturing and entire tech stack of organization

  • Manage technology architecture, data architecture, integrations of manufacturing data with ERP

  • Key Skills : IoT, Smart Manufacturing, Electronics Design, Visual C#.

  • Mentor the junior developers, training on technology developments.

Self Employed — Embedded Systems, IoT System Development and Training | Jan 2009 - Dec 2019

  • Provide embedded systems and IoT based solutions to manufacturing industry.

  • Corporate trainer on Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Python.

  • Successfully developed over 60+ Embedded Systems Solutions for wide variety of clients

  • Key Skills : Embedded Systems, Microcontrollers, Zigbee, Wireless Sensor Networks, IoT, Smart Manufacturing, Circuit Design, PCB Design, Assembly.

  • Work as trusted tech consultant for clients.

Programmer Analyst Trainee — Cognizant | Sept 2008 - Dec 2008

  • Worked as Java developer for new tech vertical of Cognizant

🎓 Education

Master of Electronics Engineering - Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad | 2017

  • Specialized in Electronics and Computer Vision

  • Thesis: "Industrial Machine Information Systems using Internet of Things”

Bachelor of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering - Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University | 2008

  • Final Project Work : Wireless 3 Axis Pick and Place Robotics Arm

  • Relevant coursework: Embedded Systems, Electronics Design, Programming

🚀 Projects

IoT : Hotel Automation using Alexa

  • Automating room controls for a Dubai based hotel to control curtains, service call, lights and air conditioning over Amazon Alexa.

  • Utilize existing BMS infrastructure to remotely deploy node-red and required firmware to get the system up and running

  • Tools, Technology : Alexa Voice Skills, MQTT, Database, Python, node-red

IoT : Manufacturing Intelligence System (Smart MIS)

  • Collecting data from 30+ manufacturing machines on production line and automating all the reports around efficiency, production data machine efficiency as well as down time analysis.

  • Tools, Technology : Microcontrollers, Sensors, Raspberry Pi, Python Coding, Flask, database

IoT : Centralized Energy Monitoring System

  • Interconnecting all energy meters and data from manufacturing machines as well as solar system to create a completely unified centralized energy monitoring system.

  • Giving detailed analysis including power consumption on individual machine level, its efficiency / unit of consumption and utilization of grid vs solar energy.

  • Tools: Raspberry Pi, Microcontrollers, Modbus, Flask, Python, Circuit Design

IoT : Material Tracking System

  • Interconnecting all energy meters and data from manufacturing machines as well as solar system to create a completely unified centralized energy monitoring system.

Embedded Electronics Systems

  • Load Cell — Internet connected weighing machine.

  • Production Display Systems with Target / Actual / Efficiency Display.

  • Connected Production Counter with Centralized monitoring.

  • Machine Vision : Parts Counting and Defect Detection System

  • IoT : Connected Cars — Gathering data from ECU and uploading on cloud for analysis

  • Robotics : Automated Guidance Vehicle for Restaurants

  • Embedded DAQ — Data acquisition system interfacing with modbus / analog sensors and sending over zigbee

  • Wireless Crane Controller

  • Capacitor Reverse Polarity Tester — Capacitor testing jig showing defects in capacitor value, charging/discharging and capacitor reverse polarity detection

  • IoT Based weather monitoring system with Raspberry Pi

🔨 Skills

  • Leadership, Stakeholder Management, Team building

  • Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture

  • Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

  • Smart Buildings, Internet of Things and Operational Technologies

  • Embedded Systems

  • Teaching, Blogging and Mentoring

📬 Contact

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Thanks for stopping by my corner of the internet! 💫