Laxmi Chander Perelli

A results-driven operations professional with over 10 years of experience across Digitalization, Operations, and Supply Chain Management-Logistics, Project Management, and Mining Operations. Skilled in formulating, developing, and implementing strategic initiatives to drive business objectives and ensure optimal resource utilization.

Assistant General Manager - Projects (Operational Excellence, Digital & AI) - LLOYDS Metals & Energy Limited - Mumbai HQ

(2026-02)

Leading Digital & AI-driven transformation across Mining, Pellet, Steel, and logistics operations by identifying operational inefficiencies, translating them into scalable Digital & AI use cases, steering cross-functional teams and vendors, and delivering measurable productivity and cost improvements through data-driven initiatives.

• Opportunity Identification for Digital Transformation across the business processes
• Digital Projects Execution, Delivery, and Team Management
• Key AI Projects for Mines and Aluminium, Power, and Copper plants
• Mines Digital Command Control Centre Project, along with Master Data Establishment over the cloud
• Working on various Digital Projects, especially key Supply Chain Management Digital Projects for the various steel plants within the group
• Group Digital Projects Budget Preparation, Monthly and Annual Reports of the Projects

Lead Digital (Mining & Supply Chain) - Hindalco Industries Limited - Belagavi

(2025-05 - 2026-02)

Digital Lead & PMO – Digital Transformation - Hindalco Industries Limited - Mumbai HQ

(2023-07 - 2025-05)

Worked at Hindalco for Digital Transformation of Mining Operations, Functional & Domain support for Supply Chain Digital Projects of Coal and Bauxite, End-to-End Program Management of certain Digital projects, Capability & Culture Building in Digital for Mines and Aluminium, Copper plant teams, Digital Maturity score adoption and its implementation across mines & plant locations.

Digital Node JSW's - JSW Steel Limited - Mumbai HQ

(2022-10 - 2023-07)

Deputy Manager (Mines Shift in Charge and Authorized Mines Manager) - JSW Steel Limited

(2021-10 - 2022-09)

Worked as an authorised Mines Manager and Shift In-charge (Mines) for JSW Karnataka's largest Open Cast Iron Ore mines, conducting project review meetings for evaluating project progress.

• Mines Greenfield and Brownfield Project Experience
• Planning & exploring project development and implementation of detailed prospecting in stages, leading to detailed exploration stages
• Performing pre-feasibility & feasibility study and handling reserve estimation/resource potential
• Monitoring the technical vetting of all the production-related activities of all the open-cast mines of the company
• Managing the efficient rendering of facilities, including Mining Operations, Transport, Materials, Crushing & Screening, Maintaining & Developing
• Formulating and establishing exploration plans and strategies for ensuring the completion of exploration assignments in the set time frame
• Preparing plans and maps from surface geological mapping & from subsurface geoscientific data
• Managing a wide gamut of exploration operations, entailing: Researching and developing new areas for possible resource potential, Generating monthly technical reports, cost sheet, daily & monthly performance report, maintaining documentation, statutory records, registers & returns, Maintaining MIS and other digital projects implementations at Mines (FMS, Surpac, MineSched, Whittle)
• Initiating & implementing systems, processes/procedures to facilitate smooth functioning of production operations & to enhance operational efficiency with minimum time and cost

Assistant Manager - Mines Operations - JSW Steel Limited

(2021-02 - 2021-10)

Junior Manager & Mining Engineer - Mines - Planning and Design Cell - JSW Steel Limited - HQ

(2016-12 - 2021-02)

Assistant Professor – Mining Engineering - Academic Institution

(2016-06 - 2016-12)

Worked as an Assistant Professor for the subjects of Rock Mechanics, Ground Control in Mines, Mine Planning and Design for UG, and Opencast Coal & Metal Mines. Worked as a Guest Lecturer with multiple engineering colleges to teach Mining Engineering subjects.

Advanced Management Programme - Operations & Supply Chain - Indian School of Business (ISB) (2023 - 2023)

Future Fit Leaders Programme - Indian School of Business (ISB) (2021 - 2021)

M. Tech.

• Mining Engineering - Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) (2016 - 2016)

B.Tech.

• Mining Engineering - Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (2014 - 2014)