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Contact

Name: Balamurugan Balakreshnan (Bala)
Phone: 631 327 1000
Email: bala_b@hotmail.com
Place: Oak Creek, WI
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/balamurugan-balakreshnan/

Profile

Digital Transformation, Chief Architect and Technology Strategy Leader.
Author, Board member

As a Cloud Solution Architect, play a role of Innovation evangelist and provide thought leadership, Solution Architecture, PoC and MVP Support to multiple projects with respect to governance, security and technology projects by crafting high level and detailed architecture for business use case.

• Lead Predictive Maintenance and Quality based project using custom vision AI and Azure ML based solutions for North Central Region among client success unit and provide oversights to project delivery of above projects with their successful deployment. Completed 5 Predictive Maintenance and quality projects for FY20, in process of onboarding like 10-12 opportunities
• Lead Azure AI/ML community of practice for North Central Region using Cognitive and custom Machine learning application for various use cases to automate business process to drive business outcomes to customer with faster ROI. Completed 3 projects in FY20 and have 6 onboarding for new opportunities.
• Envisioned “Retail Store Insights”, a data driven near Realtime data lake for business to generate data driven insights to take intelligent decisions for their 10,000+ stores globally. Lead Architecture Design Sessions with methodological approach to finalize Solution Architecture combining set of products ​
• Lead various IT Transformational projects like moving to cloud, optimize IT portfolio and save cost.
• Conduct Envisioning and immersion workshop to align different groups with adequate adoption of cloud​
• Provide Solution Architecture to customer and work with Specialists to develop BoM and prepare deal construct​
• Work with Product Groups for product bugs and feature enhancements​
• Learn, Test and adapt Data Science Ops, IoT Gateway Ops. ​- Prepare PoC and MVP environment to show case solution architecture to craft business case​
• Active member of Advanced analytics framework group and Security Community to adopt security framework and infuse adoption of Good Security practice ​
• Train the trainers at scale to meet breadth of Azure skilling to partner and client IT staff​
• Coached OpenHack for Modern Data Warehouse to train/educate participants with practical project execution approach​
• Provide documentation support and Quality Assurance checks to Partners solution and architecture​
• Interview, Coach, Mentor and Provide feedback to peers and team members
• Provide constructive feedback to product team from customer scenario to better build product

others

• Provide leadership on Digital Transformation with Artificial Intelligence and Cloud based Digital Solutions.
• Provide leadership in Machine learning, IoT, IIoT and Big data and Advanced Analytical Solutions.
• Vast knowledge in first party Microsoft and open source technologies and Other cloud providers.
• Provide leadership, analysis and design tasks related to the development of a solution.
• Provide Leadership, Architecture and Design on building Commercial and IT solutions for fortune 500 companies.
• Develop solutions viewpoint, in which the business, information and technology viewpoints are synthesized into solutions that deliver capabilities.
• Provide Architecture framework for entire enterprise, Worked with Enterprise architecture team to add to their portfolio.
• Help Customer's build Center of Excellance in Advanced analytics and AI/ML in their organization to amplify and scale AI/ML projects
• Use data insights to take decision for affect business outcomes.
• Empathetic and customer success focused leader and Growth Mindset, Inclusive and Divesity leader
• Help Bridge Business and Technology gap between business and technology leaders and build a coheive solution.
• Been a Mentor, keynote Speaker, Author of vairous publications including analytics vidhya.
• Build and Train Sales Strategy to increase Cloud adoption
• Built and mentored new and existing partners in small, medium and large sectors
• Built Reference architecture for industry
• Helped Product team to build products based on customer feedback
• Create Reference architecture for AI/ML, Industrial IoT and Data platform
• Business Strategy and helped create and build new revenue stream

Technologies

• Cloud Technologies - Azure/Aws/GCP/Alibaba
• Aritificial Intelligence - Machine/deep/reinforcement learning
• Industrial IoT/IoT
• Blockchain
• Data platform - datalakes/swamp/wall and others
• Business process automation - RPA
• Business Systems - SAP and Salesforce
• Enterprise Archtiecture
• Data Governance
• Supply Chain
• Manufacturing process
• Solution sales

Industries

Manufacturing
Retail
Pharmacy
Healthcare
Insurance
Education
Consulting

Badges

Badges
Databricks

Honors and Award

• Honors
• Technology Solution Achievers - Valuable Contributor Platinum
• Technology Summit Speaker - Event Speaker
• Hackathon Leader Silver - Hackathon Leader
• Mentor Gold - Mentor Gold
• Culture Champion Award

Mentor, Coach, Open Source Contributor

• Mentor others and Also be mentored
• Coach other peers/customers
• Create research project and share with open source community to improve
• Inclusive and Diversity - Applied all of my work

Always learning, where?

• https://courses.edx.org/dashboard
• https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me?trk=d_sales2_nav_applauncher&u=3322
• https://courses.edx.org/dashboard
• https://academy.databricks.com/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/
• https://www.aws.training/
• https://cloud.google.com/training
• https://cognitiveclass.ai/
• https://classroom.udacity.com/me
• https://courses.nvidia.com/dashboard
• https://app.pluralsight.com/

Machine learning tutorials and stories

ML Tutorials

Industrial IoT Stories and Challenges

IIoT Best practices

Medium and Analytics Vidhya Publications

@balabala76

Publications

Pick and Place
ISO Ref Arch
Whitepaper Pick N Place
Robot almanac article 2019
PPE Paper 2020{target="_blank"}
JCI - Digital Vault
Azure ML ops (Look at Johnson Controls Section)
PPE AI project
LinkedIn

Board

• Steering committee member - Connected Systems institute - UW Milwaukee
• Industry Advisory Board Member - Connected Systems institute - UW Milwaukee
• Industry Advisory Board member = Purdue Indiana

CSI Partnership
CSI Partnership
CSI Partnership

Connected Systems Institute - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

• Virtual Tour of Factory of Future in making. https://bbiotstore.blob.core.windows.net/csifactory/WorkProj02.mp4
• Intelligent Learning Factory demo https://youtu.be/bm0MzrCtcGc
• Intelligent Learning Factory - https://youtu.be/1lfi6DAvxgU
• Interview intelligent Factory - https://youtu.be/I-peJCInQ9s
• Interview Connected Systems Institute (CSI) Intelligent Factory - Mary - https://youtu.be/_9w0TvtxxZ4

Curriculum Help

• Industrial IoT and AI for manufacturing - Curriculum advisor for UW Platsville (Wisconsin)
• Industrial IoT and AI for manufacturing - Curriculum advisor for UW Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
• Purdue Polytechnic - Intelligent Learning Factory Curriculum (Indiana)

Speaker

• AI and ML
• Angelbeat April 2020 - AI and ML at Microsoft
• Angel Beat - Various Events link
• UW madison Keynote speaker for Industry Technogy summit
• UW Milwaukee CSI Keynote speaker link
• Angelbeat July 2020 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) Development Platforms, Real Life Use Cases
• Angelbeat October 2020 - ML based image tagging
• Angelbeat November 2020 - Data Strategy and Governance
• UWM CSI Interview

workshops

• Industrial IoT Workshop in Lubar School of business (UW Milwaukee)
• Deep learning workship in Lubar School of business (UW Milwaukee)
• Azure Machine learning basic - School of Engineering (UW Milwauee)
• Azure Machine learning Intermediate - School of Engineering (UW Milwauee)
• AI in manufacturing - School of Engineering (UW Milwauee) Partnered with Rockwell Automation, PTC (Curriculum)
• Internal MS workshops for FTE Open hacks for IoT/Data Science/Data hacks
• Internal MS workshops for Partners Open hacks for IoT/Data Science/Data hacks

Hackathons

• Customer based hackathons on Industrial IoT
• Customer hackathons on AI and Machine learning
• Microsoft open hack coach/participant for Data Platform, AI knowledge mining, Data Science Ops and IoT Gateway Ops.

Github Repo

GitHub Repo

Open Source Projects Contributions

Work place Safety
Social Distancing and Employee Safety
Manufacturing ISA 95

Hackster Projects

https://www.hackster.io/balabala76/ai-for-good-workplace-safety-ca0ea5
https://www.hackster.io/balabala76/employee-well-being-covid-workplace-safety-analytics-sy-1e9e3e
https://devpost.com/software/workplacesafety-31ftdj
https://devpost.com/software/sdd-krjtld

Hobies

Vegetable Garden
Building Deep learning solutions with Jetson Nano and Raspberry pi

AI in Manufacturing

• 4 Part Series

• Part 1 - https://youtu.be/w35UYgGsExg
  

• Part 2 - https://youtu.be/FjGV7yrm3aY
  

• Part 3 - https://youtu.be/TbGdTW2iQbo
  

• Part 4 - https://youtu.be/kn1aRNNOVOY