Experienced Mechanical R&D / Engg. Professional[pic]

Result oriented professional with 5+ years of R&D/Engineering and Project

management experience. Strong team, leadership, mentoring, analytical & problem

solving skills along with a sharp business acumen. Energetic individual with a

passion for hands-on engineering, continuous learning & creative thinking while

keeping customer as the focus

Professional Experience

Education[pic] [pic]

Ph.D. (2006) Senior Project Engineer, Sandvik Mining &

Michigan Technological Construction, Houston, TX, Jan 08 - Present

University, USA Skills Utilized: Project Management (MS Project),

System Engineering (MS Visio, FMEA), Dynamic Analysis

B.S. (2002) (LMS Virtual Lab), FEA (Femap 10, Abaqus, NEI Nastran

University Institute of 9.2, Ansys), Data acquisition & analysis (Labview

Technology, India 8.6)

Played a lead role in securing projects worth USD1.5M

Core Strengths[pic] via pitch presentations to internal and external

customers. Managed a global project worth USD200K for

Strong focus on developing a field service offering for drilling

customer-centric & applied application diagnostics while leading 2 direct

R&D along with business reports

acumen Member of a team responsible for drilling and

Experience working with drill-bit systems R&D for rotary drill rigs & for

small and large global troubleshooting application-specific problems via

engineering teams structural analysis, FEA, CFD and testing

Strong project management, Conducted FEED studies, stakeholder analysis, risk

leadership, team and assessments & go/kill analysis, maintained risk

mentoring skills register, gained customer buy-in, conducted review

Ability to multi-task & meetings & completed project documentation

work in a fast-paced Conducted vibration, dynamic modeling & FEA of

environment drilling systems; Structural, thermal, coupled

Ability to deliver thermal-structural analysis, fatigue, creep, modal,

creative & innovative nonlinear & multiphysics analysis; design of

solutions; adapt, structures (top drive, pipehandling, mast,

accelerate & deliver drill-pipes, stabilizers & tool-joints)

according to nature of Led project for fluid flow & thermal analysis of

work downhole tools; modeled effect of wear & corrosion on

Good mixture of fatigue & buckling strength & ensured adherence to

theoretical and applied ASME standards & codes.

expertise in mechanical Conducted lab & field tests using data acquisition

engineering system, sensors; provided on-site support to sales,

Experience with advanced application and field engineers

simulation & testing tools

Senior Analyst, CGN & Associates, Peoria, IL, Jan 07

- Jan 08

Skills Utilized: Project Management (MS Project),

Career Highlights[pic] System Engineering (Team Center, DOE based

optimization, Taguchi's Robust design, QFD, FMEA,

Secured projects worth a P-diagram, Pareto Analysis), FEA (I-DEAS),

total of USD 3.5M Statistical Analysis (Minitab R13)

Awarded high performance

employee recognitions in Responsible for system-level design & fatigue life

2007 and 2009 improvement for Caterpillar's equipment groups (LWL

5+ years experience 988H & 16M Motor grader)

working in collaborative Mapped system-level architecture, functional &

multi-region, technical requirements for machine diagnostics &

cross-functional Taguchi's robust design

environment Applied system engineering techniques for business

Patent filed by Michigan process improvement for John Deere's Service Advisor

Tech. & Endres Machining resulting in savings of USD1M; Analyzed business

Innovations on Ph.D. process data to propose changes & to determine if

dissertation customer requirements are being met;

Awarded MTU Research Lead a team to identify a supplier base with savings

Excellence Assistantship of USD500K.

in 2003 & NSF Research

Assistantship, 2005 Research Engineer, Endres Machining Innovations,

Publications in Houghton, MI, Jun 05 - Dec 06

conferences & Skills Utilized: Project Management (MS Project),

peer-reviewed journals CFD, FEA (Pro-Mechanica, IDEAS, Ansys), Data

Acquisition & Calibration (Labview), Data Analysis

(Matlab 7, Minitab R13), Optimization, Wear Testing,

Certifications & Design of Experiments, Metrology, Turning, Milling,

Trainings[pic] Grinding, Brazing, Superfinishing, Micro-milling

Project Management (PMP Delivered NSF SBIR Phase-I targets within a

Certification, March 2010) competitive timeframe of 8 months. Proved the

feasibility of internal cooling of machine tools

Six Sigma Black Belt while machining Ti & Ni based alloys via CFD and FEA

Certification (Seeking) tools

New Product Development Prepared NSF SBIR Phase 1 & Phase 2 proposals &

Professional Certification project documentation which secured a total of

(Seeking) USD1.1M

Modal Analysis Training Designed bearings and performed structural, thermal

LMS Virtual lab Training FE, dynamic analysis & coupled thermo-fluid analysis;

Femap/Nastran Training Evaluated simulation softwares, data acquisition

Labview Training software & hardware, fixtures & tools

ProE Wildfire Training

Team Lead, M.K. Morse Company, Houghton, MI, Aug 04 -

Dec 05

Graduate Courses[pic] Skills Utilized: Project Management (MS Project), CFD

(CFDesign), FEA (IDEAS, Abaqus, Ansys), Data

Experimental Modal Acquisition & Calibration (Labview), Wear Testing,

analysis DOE, RSM, ANOVA, Circular Saw Cutting, Optical

Finite Element Analysis Microscopy,SEM

Advanced machining

processes & machine Planned, coordinated & executed design & testing

dynamics activities from the conceptual to pilot stages while

Precision manufacturing & leading a team of 3 engineers

metrology and Achieved a 40% improvement in product-life over

Environmentally Japanese market leader leading to successful product

responsible design & commercialization

manufacturing Designed experiments for wear testing, structural &

Advanced quality thermal FEA, setup data acquisition systems and

engineering & Design of analyzed results. Presented R&D results to the

experiments steering committee and provided weekly status updates

Affiliations[pic] Graduate Assistant, Michigan Tech. University,

Houghton, MI, Jan 03 - Aug 04, Jan 05 - Jun 05

ASME, ASQ, PMI, PDMA Evaluated stresses, thermal loads and flow parameters

for developing an internally cooled cutting tool by

using FEA and CFD tools.

Conducted numerical simulations & experimental tests;

reviewed & submitted peer-reviewed papers to three

journals

Conducted three graduate and undergraduate level

courses; reviewed exams and labs; mentored three

graduate students

Research Trainee, RRCAT, Indore, India, Jun 02 - Jan

03

Conducted R&D activities related to rapid prototyping

using CO2 lasers & generated machine codes for

fabrication of impellers.

Computer Skills

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CAD Packages: Catia V5, ProE Wildfire

Analysis Packages: SDRC I-DEAS Series 9m3/10

including TMG & ESC, Ansys 6.0, Femap 10, NEI

Nastran, CFDesign, LMS Virtual Lab Motion &

Durability, Matlab 7, Visual Basic, Labview, Minitab

Project Management: MS Project, SharePoint,

ProjectPlace

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