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Varun K P

Results driven professional who has helped businesses save over $ 200 mn in Operating Expenses
North Brunswick, NEW JERSEY
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linkedin.com/in/varkp
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varun.vraghavan@gmail.com
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732-668-6460
I work with businesses in the Hospitality, Retail and Financial services industries to enable realization of greater bottom line benefits by optimizing costs incurred in Energy, Utilities, and Repair & Maintenance in real estate during their daily operations. My clients have saved over $ 200 mn in operating expenses and reduced carbon emissions equivalent to over 1.5bn kWh of electricity.
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Work Experience

Wipro EcoEnergy

Practice Manager - Enterprise Energy Management Services
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May 2013 - Current

I focus on assisting my clients improve Net Operating Income (‘NOI’) of their Income Producing real estate investments by developing a strategy to identify & act on operational improvements derived through data analytics. I work with my customers to scope, define and implement turnkey services across diverse real estate/retail store portfolios.

On a daily basis I work across a variety of customers stakeholder portfolios including Asset Managers, Corporate Energy & Sustainability, and Corporate Engineering & Field Engineering teams globally.

  • My clients have saved over $200 million in costs and reduced emissions by over 1.3 Billion kilowatt hours.
  • Represents Wipro at the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell University, Ithaca.

Wipro EcoEnergy

Business Analyst - Energy Management Services
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Feb 2011 - May 2013

Handled practice development of retail, hospitality, healthcare & banking industry segments for North America (USA & Canada) for Wipro's EcoEnergy Business Unit.

Worked with various teams (like real estate, operations, sustainability & finance) of Wipro’s customers, performed site visits and analyzed various data sets to identify the key techniques to leverage Wipro’s proprietary Energy management platform (software) to generate the energy & operational cost savings

Worked with the core development and operations teams to customize the proprietary technical solution for customer’s sites

  • Has helped Wipro’s customer reduce over 15% of their energy consumption that has translated into energy cost savings of millions of dollars.

Education

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University

Masters in Engineering Sustainable Energy
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Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

(1) Focus on development and implementation of Solar strategy for small businesses & residences

(2) Implementation of Energy Efficiency strategies for Restaurants, Hotels & Plastics manufacturing Industry

(3) Designed Biomass fueled co-generation plant for medium scale agricultural & livestock business in rural Victoria

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University

Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech) Chemical Engineering
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Jun 2005 - May 2009

Advanced specialization in Chemical process Engineering, Design & Controls

Other achievements include:

(1) President of Students' Council of VIT 2008-09

(2) General Secy. of Students' Council of VIT 2007-08

(3) Part of organizing committee for inter-college cultural festival Riviera between 2006 - 2009.

Skills

  • Proven track record in working with businesses and successfully assisting them in reducing their carbon footprint
  • Exposure to international business operations and markets
  • Confidence, self-motivation, goal-setting and resources management
  • Group and interpersonal effectiveness, team playing and negotiation skills
  • Excellent communication skills