Engineer Mechanical

SUMAN GACHHADAR

***** ***** **, **********, ** **585

***********@*****.***, Cell: 312-***-****

ABOUT ME

I am Senior Mechanical engineer with project management experience in multi

disciplinary engineering environments that brings quantifiable result from

collaborative effort from engineering process partner. My engineering

decision involves around my process partner like new designer, offshore

engineer, customer- end user, assembly planning and manufacturing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Caterpillar Inc.

Aurora, IL

Mechanical Engineer/Senior/NPI Engineer

10/03-present

. Research, design, develop & facilitate manufacturing with supplier

collaborations of new and current product that meet ISO, overseas

standards, customer requirement that meet customer need in a most cost

effective.

. Handled engineering/ manufacture change (EC) request by fixing and

providing interim corrective action with continuous improvement cards

for current product design, manufacturing and customer issue to

overall improve the quality and reliability of product. This is

accomplished by maintaining engineering documentation and

communications with its downstream user which might impact their daily

work to deliver quality product on time.

. To prepare Bill of Material (BOM) for new/current product design,

engineering drawing data and new part database that provides

purchasing/manufacturing/supplier with project plan for ordering

material, supplier lead time to produce parts and plan for assembly of

products. Manage project plan update with weekly timeline, cost

engineering and material flow on assembly line.

. Using Pro/Engineer (Wildfire-2, 4) to design, detail drawing the

component and then applying practical geometric dimensioning and

tolerance techniques as per ASME Y14.5M. Responsible for parts

engineering drawing and manufacturing releasing (rastar and

engineering notice) through team center database.

. Independently troubleshoot, analyze and solve in depth the design,

field and assembly issues reported as high and low risk issue (CDIM)

or as a Continuous Product Improvement (CPI). A certified six sigma

Green Belt for DMAIC and DMEDI to facilitate and design to improve and

execute customer need. Responsible for quality function development,

quality matrix, supporting the cost reduction objectives of the

Product Group while heavily involved with design.

. Interact with operation, releaser and supplier personnel during

fabrication and testing to insure product compliance with design

formation and delivery requirements to provide product on time without

impacting the velocity of assembly line.

. Responsible for leading project that need cross function and

collaborations with multidisciplinary group like hydraulic, control

and electrical engineering team in understanding their schematic

diagram & system, critical customer requirements, Pugh matrix, concept

generations layout through brainstorming and design of the component

and planning for validations.

. Hands on training with detail usage and functionality of the Pro/E

based fastener advisor structured design procedure, set model

parameters; run analyses, and create assembly components to improve

the bolted joint design/analysis process, see drop in warranty, cost

of poor quality and other downstream costs associated with fixing

problems late in the field or late in the NPI cycle

Mr. Thomas Johnston (Transmission Inventor)

Colorado Spring, CO

Designer and Drafter

12/01-05/03

. Perform Design, Development and Analysis of newly invented Continuously

Variable Transmission. Use of extensive Pro/Engineer 2001 for

preparation of transmission detail, assembly drawing and description of

the invention Master Report and Patent for CVT submitted to University

of Colorado in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master in

Engineering

University of Colorado

Denver, CO

Research/Lab Assistant

08/00-12/02

. Forming Sheet Metal with the use of Harmon Nine's Draw Bead Simulator

describing a computer model for plane strain sheet forming under

combined bending and pulling and its analysis of sheet flow between

circular draw beads

. Assist and Coordinated Lockheed Martin CAD Laboratory for user of

ProEngineer, ProMechanica, AutoCAD, MS Office and Pro/E and

troubleshoot students technical problems of various student.

SUMAN GACHHADAR

24320 Leski Ln, Plainfield, IL 60585

***********@*****.***, Cell: 312-***-****

Buddha Air Pvt. Ltd

Kathmandu, Nepal

Engineer Technician

12/99-05/00

. Hands on Experience with Maintenance of Beech Aircraft1900D carrying

out the daily inspection: oil deep, air pressure, bird hit on wing and

blade, landing gear assembly, tire wear and safety precaution equipment

check

. Performed 50 and 200 hours maintenance on airframe and engine like

wheel change, brake assembly change, propeller change and engine hot

section inspection.

EDUCATION

College of engineering and Applied Science, University Colorado, Denver, CO

Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (Design and Manufacturing)

. S.M.E. & U.C.D (Mech. Dept.) scholarship

Department of Technology and Engineering, Maharaja Sayajirao University,

Baroda, India Bachelor of Engineering in

Mechanical Engineering (Automobile Engineering)

. Exclusive Indian Government Nominee to pursue study (scholarship)

COURSE PROJECTS

. Design a plastic injection molded belt buckle including male and female

parts using CAD software: Pro/E 2000i2 utilizing advanced patterns such

as rotational patterns, tweak, and variable sweeps blends. Giving

dimension & tolerance for buckle and mold parts.

. Finite Element Analysis on one, two, three dimensional or axisymmetric

problems in stress analysis. Solving the Closed form and Pro/Mechanica

model specifying convergence setting for checking errors, converges to

solution. View plots of displacements, principal stress and strain as

fringes, contours and query as well as results on standard beam

sections, animation of displacements, modes shapes, and optimization

shape history.

. CNC Machining for Reverse engineering of PC Mouse to manufacture die

core (male) from the model by digitizing the geometry using the Brown &

Sharpe Co-ordinate Measuring M/C to define the point. Use advanced

modeling to sketch curve and surfaces and generating the CNC code to

develop prototype with Bridgeport EZ trak using machinable wax

. Rigid Body Dynamics, Kinematics and Analytical Mechanics of the Four

bar Mechanism, the Gyroscope and Flipping of the Coin in the Air. Using

D'Alembert Principle, Lagrange's equation, transformation properties

and Kane's equation for dynamics and qualitative analysis.

. Electronic material and Processes. Studied microelectronic components,

their functions, properties, materials, properties, and their

applications. Investigate Rigid and flexible circuit board and its

application.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

. Pro/E 2001, Pro/E Wildfire (2,3), Fastener Advisor, Pro/E Detailing,

Fluid Line Design, Pro/E 2000i2

. Pro/Mechanica using Integrated and Independent mode (FEA and Bolt

Joint Analysis)

. Teamcenter Engineering (IMAN/IPRO/IPEM-), Teamcenter Visualization

(Vis View/Vis Mockup)

DAILY ACTIVITIES

. DMEDI, DMAIC, CPPD, CPI, Schedule Meeting with Supplier, Designer,

Brainstorming, operation. Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Quality

and Reliability Workbench (CDIM), Market Study, Competitor Study.

Gateway Reviews.

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