Process Improvement Engineer

KSHITIJ PADHYE

352-***-**** . abkry5@r.postjobfree.com

ACADEMICS

. Master of Science - Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of

Florida. (Aug'08-May'10)

GPA: 3.68

. Bachelor of Engineering- Production Engineering,University of Mumbai,

India (Sep'03 - Jun'07)

. Relevant Coursework

Supply Chain Management Operations Research Web Decision Support

Systems

Applied Probability for Adv. Production & Inventory Production Management

Engineers Control

Decision Manufacturing Management Principles of Manufacturing

Support Systems(Excel) Systems

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Industrial Engineer Intern

Emergency-One, Inc.

(Spring 2010)

. Time Studies: Conducted Time and Work Measurement Studies in a cellular,

job-shop environment to establish/validate Standard work time and develop

Standard Operating Procedures for cost reduction.

. Cost Data Analysis: Conducted cost studies to recommend Make v/s Buy

decisions on customizable options for fire trucks.

. Lean Manufacturing, Process Improvement and Problem Solving:

. Actively worked on a Kaizen team to map and improve Process Value

Streams. Utilized value stream mapping and Lean Principles for process

improvements. The team has achieved results of up to 50% improvement

in process capability for an estimated 25% cost reductions.

. ECO: Responsible for implementation of ECO's into the production floor.

Lean Manufacturing Intern

Godrej & Boyce, Precision Engineering Systems Division

(Fall 2006)

. Actively utilized the concepts of CPM & PERT to establish and analyze AON

Network and implement process improvement to reduce Process Cycle Time

and costs. Applied Theory of Constraints and DBR Technique for process

optimization. Achieved 18% reduction in process time, for an estimated

13% cost reduction.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Integrated Product and Process Development

(Fall 2009)

. Worked on Product Concept generation, concept feasibility validation and

complete manufacturing design for Automatic Kitchen Cabinets.

Decision Support System for Multi-Item Production Planning Problem

(Fall 2009)

. This involved integration of Excel-VBA Decision Support Capabilities and

the Integer Programming Model to solve Multi- Item Production Planning

problem.

Web-Based Decision Support System For Car-Pooling And Ride Sharing

(Spring 2009)

. Built a Beta Version of a web-based, ride-sharing platform using PHP.NET

and SQL.

APPLICATIONS AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS

. ERP: SAP R/3, BaaN

. CAD: AutoCAD, Pro/E, CATIA

. Data Analysis and Decision Support: MS Excel, MySQL, MS Access

. Languages: PHP, SQL, VBA for MS Office, HTML, XHTML

CORE SKILLS

Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Time Studies, 5S, Process and

Value Stream Improvement, Total Quality Management, Just-In-Time, Data

Modeling and Analysis, Cost Analysis and Reduction, Databases, Statistical

Analysis, Decision Support Systems, Problem Solving, Team Work, Good

Communication Skills.

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