Leo Zachariah

Master Thesis Working Title: Integrating Inventory and Financial Strategies for managing supply chain risk for Platinum Group Metals (PGM) in Automotive Industry.

Working on Strategic Production Network Planning topic. Modelling is done using System Dynamics and Network Analyzer 2.

Assisting Professors of SMI, Wiesbaden, Germany (Supply Chain Management)

1. Flows control and transparency (volumes, costs, capacity) 2. Flows management (simulation under new business conditions)

- Material cost reduction by value engineering. - Design and development of Chassis for SUVs. - Development of crashworthy chassis. - Chassis development at supplier, addressed manufacturing related concerns. - CAD data management - Paper “Process Automation and Test Data Management” presented in Altair 3rd South Asia Users Conference, Bangalore, August 2007.

Modelled and analysed the phenomenon of Vortex Shedding behind Bluff Bodies in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Developed software for computerization of Tool Room using Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access to demonstrate how Tool Room can be computerized. Tool Roon, Maintenance Department, Kochi Refineries Ltd.

Done the simulation and analysis of a pursuit problem involving two Expert Systems. (Mathematical Modelling using C++.) Department of Physics, St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kottayam, India.

MIT - Zaragoza International Logistics Program (ZLOG), a partnership between the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT, USA and the Zaragoza Logistics Center, University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Inventory Systems, Advanced Forecasting, Financial aspects of the Supply Chain Management, Risk Management in Supply Chain, Logistics Network Optimization, Supply Chain Startegy, Advanced planning and execution systems

International Financial Management, Finance in Emerging Markets, Risk Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Strategy, International Strategy, Financial Supply Chain Management, Advanced Supply Chain Management, Network Optimization

Top 1% in Class, First Class with Distinction. Thesis: Using numerical methods and algorithms for solving system of equations, simulated Rayleigh Taylor Instability in Computational Fluid Dynamics. FORTRAN and MATLAB were used to create the simulation and analyse the results respectively.

School (Junior & Senior) Football Team Member, Studied only 6th, 7th and 8th Standards.

Best Outgoing Student, 2002., Academic Proficiency prize, 2002, Top 1% in Class, School Football Team Member (1999-2002), Athletics, Stamps & Coin Collection Club