Project Assistant

Tripura Vadlamani

**** ********* **., *** *

Phone: 740-***-****

Dublin, OH 43016 Email:

*******.*********@*****.***

Objective To seek a challenging position in the field of Industrial

Engineering that would enable me to learn and grow while applying

knowledge and skills in a practical working environment.

Education Master of Science

GPA: 3.73 Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University,

Athens, Ohio.

Date of Graduation:

AUG 2010

Bachelors Degree

Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,

Hyderabad, India.

Work Experience

FC Engineering Analyst Intern - Oriental Trading Company

Sep 2009- Dec 2009

. Performed Time Studies and work measurement techniques in

building incentive based work place standards for rating the

employee's performance.

. Analyzed Warehouse design and setup the best design to decrease

the travel time.

. Assisted in the preparation of documentation for each operation,

identification of improvements in methods, procedures,

equipment, or workflow that increases output or quality through

report analysis and observation.

. Familiar with AS/400 and LUCAS warehouse management software.

Research Assistant - Ohio University

Sep 2007-Aug 2010

. Worked on the project titled "Usability Study of Area Agency on

Aging Websites in the State of Ohio". Currently assisting in

surveying group of older adults on their usage of web and

evaluating representative area agency websites.

. Worked on the project "Role of Ergonomics in Retention of Older

Employees" funded by National Institute of Occupational Safety

and Health (NIOSH). Assisted in collecting the literature on

older employees, designing the employee retention survey

questionnaire, conducting surveys with two major companies and

analyzing the results.

. Worked on the project "Use of Second Life in Improving

Statistics Education" funded by the Ohio Learning Network (OLN).

Conducted statistical homework sessions using the multiple user

virtual environments, Second Life. Developed the statistical

content for the homework.

Graduate Assistant - Ohio University

Sep 2007-Mar 2009

. Worked as the Graduate Assistant of the Human Factors and

Ergonomics Laboratory. Responsibilities include administrating

the lab, installing, maintaining and troubleshooting the

software.

. Worked as Administrative assistant for ABET (Accreditation Board

for Engineering and Technology) project. Assisted in maintaining

the records of various courses taught in the department

Teaching Assistant - Ohio University

Sep 2008- Mar 2010

. Worked as the Graduate Instructor for the AUTO-CAD and Solid

Edge lab activities. Responsible for supervising the lab

sessions and maintaining the grades database for a class of 80

undergraduates.

. Graded assignments and maintained grades for "Quality Control"

course.

. Supervised lab sessions for "Introduction to Human Factors

Engineering".

Projects Undertaken

Development of a Multidimensional Measure of Ergonomic Factors in

Retention of Employees (Master's Thesis)

The purpose of the thesis is to determine the relationship

between physical risk factors in a job and the intention to

leave for a set of occupations.

Pricing Strategy in Telecommunications

Analyzed the price bundles by major US telecoms and suggested an

optimal bundling strategy for an average household. This was a

part of Project Management class which spanned over few weeks

with weekly updates, budget proposal and risk management.

Paper Organization International - A Case Study in Six Sigma

. Application of the six phases of Six Sigma in the company to

improve the quality of the metallic securing devices of the

purchasing department and thereby increasing the productivity of

the department.

Engineering Senior Project: "Numerical Analysis of 2D Heat Transfer

Problems using ADI Technique"

. In this project CFD techniques were used to solve the problem. C

code was generated to get the numerical results and results were

compared with theoretical values.

Conference Proceedings

Schwerha, D., Liu, C., Ozercan, S., Vadlamani, T., and Neiman, L.

(2008), Second Life as a

Pedagogical Tool for Improving Statistics Homework Sessions.

Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (Zone

1) Conference, March 28-29, West Point, NY.

Vadlamani, T., Schwerha, D., and Griffeth, R. W. (2009),

Multidimensional Scale for Ergonomic Risk Factors Related to Employee

Retention of Aging Workforce. Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial

Engineers Annual Conference and Expo May 31 - June 2, Miami, FL.

Achievements

Awarded Second place for poster presentation titled

"Multidimensional Scale for Ergonomic

Risk Factors Related to Employee Retention of

Aging Workforce" at the Ohio University

Creativity and Research Fair, Spring, 2009.

Relevant Courses

Project Management Principles of Six Sigma

Engineering Statistics Foundations of

Engineering Management

Database Management Systems Design of Experiments

Operations Research Economic Analysis of Projects

Human Factors and Systems Design Artificial Neural

Networks

Management Science CAD/CAM

Skill

Programming Languages: C, PHP

Operating Systems: MSDOS, Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, Vista), User

Level Linux

Simulation Tools: AutoCAD, PRO-E, ANSYS, MORAE

Statistical Analysis Tools: Minitab, SPSS, AMOS

MS Office Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Visio

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