Mihir Gireeshan

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt seeking job opportunities in the Quality field

ab9i97@r.postjobfree.com

Experience

Lean Six Sigma Consultant at Harlequin

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Consultant at Harlequin

July 2012 - July 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Created a Dynamic Scheduling System using six sigma tools that decreased forecasting error from 94.3% to

25.2%. Also reduced bottlenecks and improved flow by identifying and reducing

misdiverts from 50% to 0.9% resulting in hards savings of $146151 per year

Six Sigma Consultant at Buffalo Psychiatric Center

August 2011 - December 2011 (5 months)

Applied the Six Sigma approach to optimize the Clozaril Distribution Process at Butler Clinic. This helped

increase capacity of the clinic without having to increase staff.

Trainee Scientist at Defence Research and Development Organisation

May 2010 - July 2010 (3 months)

Completed a two month in-plant training at Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment a

Laboratory of the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation. Worked in labs equipped with

high tech equipment that demanded a quality standard greater than Six sigma.

Education

SUNY at Buffalo

Master of Science (MS), Industrial Engineering, 2011 - 2013

Grade: 3.77/4

St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2007 - 2011

Grade: Distinction

Activities and Societies: * Editor of Departmental Magazine

* Co-Organizer of College Culturals

* Organizer of Department Symposium

* College Representative for Paper Presentation and Dumb Charades

Skills & Expertise

C

Microsoft Office

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Microsoft Excel

C++

Matlab

Six Sigma

Minitab

AutoCAD

Pro Engineer

Rhino 3D

Java

CPLEX

Visio

Logistics

Lean Manufacturing

ERP

Supply Chain Management

Continuous Improvement

Project Management

Honors and Awards

Six Sigma Black Belt

State University of New York, Buffalo

May 2013

Merit Certificate in Computer Science Programming

Central Board of Secondary Education

June 2007

Awarded to the student who attains the highest mark in the country

Projects

Reduce Bottleneck and Improve Flow

January 2013 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan, Mounika Kandi Reddy

Reduced misdiverts from 50% to 0.9% and eliminated bottleneck to improve flow at Harlequin. Effective

changes made in an area that employs about 8-9 people helped save $16,239 per person/year

Tools Used: Value Stream Mapping, Bottleneck Analysis, SIPOC, Poka-Yoke, Histograms, A3

Improve Existing Scheduling System

July 2012 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan, Mounika Kandi Reddy

Created a Dynamic Scheduling System using six sigma tools to replace the old and inflexible planning tool.

The forecasting error was decreased from 94.3% to 25.2% across 3 different zones

Tools Used: Regression, Capability Analysis, C&E Matrix, Control Charts, Gemba, Takt Time

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Reduce Patient wait-time and Improve Flow of the process

August 2011 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

The project was aimed at optimizing the Clozaril Distribution Process at Butler Clinic, BPC .Tangible

improvement was reducing lead times from over 25 min to less than 14 min. This increased capacity of the

clinic and decreased the number of personnel required for the same processes.

Tools Used: FMEA, C&E Analysis, 5S, Spaghetti Diagram, 5-Why Analysis, Fishbone Diagram

Quality Control of Food Products

August 2011 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Applied the Six Sigma approach to optimize the Clozaril Distribution Process at Butler Clinic. Tangible

Improvement was reducing lead times from over 25 min to less than 14 min

Tools Used: FMEA, C&E Analysis, 5S, Spaghetti Diagram, 5-Why Analysis, Fishbone Diagram

Understand and Implement Design of Experiments

August 2011 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Created a hypothesis to test the spread radius impact of an Air gun and using Analysis of Variance

(ANOVA), Main effect plots, Tukey’s test and Regression Analysis determined the settings required for each

factor so as to yield the longest spread radius on impact

Design and Fabricate product using ProE and Rhino 3-D

August 2012 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Designed an innovative keychain using tools in 3-D modeling software, Rhinoceros, which was voted by

fellow students as the best design based on ingenuity and design implementation

Create tool to effectively Forecast Demand

August 2012 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Developed an ARIMA (Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average) model, which is the most powerful of

all non-causal forecasting models, that generally requires high end software, using just simple excel sheets

Integrating Visual and Computerized Methods to Improve Facility Layouts

August 2011 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Proposed a new approach in “Integrating Visual and Computerized Layout Methods using Cluster Analysis

Approach” to design facilities and proved how it is effective over traditional methods by comparing them

using a CV rating of the models

Future Trends in Outbound Manufacturing Logistics

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January 2012 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Presented a paper on “Future Trends in Outbound Manufacturing Logistics” in which the limitations and

recent trends in the field were studied. Also, innovative research trends that can be implemented to improve

the logistics of an organization were proposed

Restoration of Power in Chennai’s 230 KV Network using Multi-Agent Approach

August 2010 to Present

Members:Mihir Gireeshan

Implemented a novel approach to restore power in the project “Restoration of Power in Chennai’s 230 KV

Network using Multi-Agent Approach”. Used Real information, acquired from the Chennai Electricity Board,

in order to generate load flow outputs in Mat lab that helped support the theory. Also presented the

minute-by-minute visual simulation using C++

Courses

Independent Coursework

Six Sigma Quality IE509

Quality Assurance IE508

Lean Enterprise IE500

Strategic Quality Management MGO632

Design & Analysis of Experiments IE507

Production, Planning and Control IE505

Computer-Integrated Manufacturing IE506

Logistics & Distribution Management MGO638

Linear Programming IE572

Facilities Design IE504

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Organizations

ASQ

Member

May 2013 to Present

Rotaract Club of Chennai Green City

Co-founder & Treasurer

June 2010 to Present

Department Magazine

Editor

March 2010 to March 2011

Volunteer Experience

Treasurer at Rotaract International

August 2010 - Present (3 years)

• Tutored 10 students from lower economic background in secondary school Maths, English & Physics

• Instrumental in creating an online Blood Bank Database Manager Website for Chennai City Hospitals to

share information that could save lives [Feb 2011]

• Co-Organizer for a Blood Donation Camp that collected 63 units of blood for a Government Hospital in

Chennai [Oct 2010]

• A Member and active participant of ‘Free the Tree Campaign’ and participated in several campaigns for

Aids Awareness, Leprosy Awareness and Youth Red Cross campaigns [2009-2011]

Certifications

Health Care Provider (First Aid, AED & CPR)

American Heart Association February 2013 to February 2015

Six Sigma Black Belt

UB TCIE May 2013

Test Scores

GRE

September 2010 Score:1350/1600

Quantitative - 780/800

Verbal - 570/800

Analytical Writing - 4.0/4.0

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TOEFL

September 2010 Score:112/120

Languages

English (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Spanish (Elementary proficiency)

Tamil (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Hindi (Professional working proficiency)

Sanskrit (Limited working proficiency)

Malayalam (Professional working proficiency)

Interests

Travelling, Swimming, Soccer, Badminton, Chess, Listening to english classical music, Bowling

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt seeking job opportunities in the Quality field

ab9i97@r.postjobfree.com

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