Project Manager

A mit Thak re

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Mountain View, CA - 94043 Tel. No.: +1-770-***-****

S umma ry

E xperienced and Resourceful professional with documented success in leveraging Industrial Engineering and Project Management

tools for improvements and optimization in areas of Manufacturing, Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain.

K ey Skills

• Logistics & Supply Chain Analysis • Project Management • MS Excel (VBA), MS Access, MS

• Process Flow • Vendor Mgmt & Strategic Sourcing V isio

Analysis &

• GAMS, L INGO, XPress AMPL

• Optimization & Simulation

I mprovement

• Warehousing Systems • Arena, Minitab, AutoCAD, Pro-E

• Kaizen, Lean and Six Sigma

• Manufacturing Systems analysis • SAP ERP Software

Education

Master of Science – I ndustrial Engineering

December 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GPA 3.0/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering

M ay 2005

National Institute of Technology, Nagpur GPA 3.75/ 4.0

Expe rience

Cummins Filtration, Cookeville, TN J une

2009 – August 2009

Industrial Engineering Intern

• Involved in a Six Sigma project on a high volume assembly line, identifying waste reduction opportunities through extensive root

cause analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE) and interaction with operators which resulted in about 11% throughput

i mprovement.

• Performed Time & Motion studies using stop watch, videotaping and documented them using time & motion study software

E ASE.

• Improved line balancing using time motion studies data resulting in about 10% reduction in overall cycle time

• Improved routing of products & work standards on high volume assembly lines, using Bill of Materials & Process Flow Analysis in

coordination with Operations resulting in improved operational efficiencies.

Snowcool Systems Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur, I ndia

J uly 2007 – June 2008

Assistant Manager (Project Management)

• Estimated labor and material costs of new commercial refrigeration and air conditioning projects.

• Managed execution of projects meeting time targets and budgeting requirements by extensive project planning and resource

a llocation.

Tata Motors Limited, Pune, I ndia

J uly 2005 – June 2007

Assistant Manager (New Product Introduction)

• Concept Evaluation of a high volume passenger car &

Business Process Reengineering in a cross functional team which resulted

i n 25% reduction in overall design and development problems and 30% reduction in their resolution vis-à-vis previous

development cycle.

• Developed a consolidated database for performance & price assessment of competitor which helped in price setting of the vehicle.

• Executed project cost control through efficient manufacturing planning, PFMEA, DFMEA, target cost deployment which resulted

i n 10% reduction of project costs.

• Efficient resource allocation and project planning using MS Project leading to 10% reduction in overall project time.

• Managed production of 21 prototypes in 7 months with optimizing resources & issues identification leading to expeditious design

validation.

• Evaluated vendors using quality performance through Statistical Process Control and capability inputs for vendor selection

• Managed and monitored supplier delivery ensuring conformity to the schedule and quality requirements.

• Actively involved in achieving cost and quality targets in development of exclusive components through APQP procedures.

• Involved in Inventory Management & Material Scheduling using the SAP ERP package.

P rojects

• Developedlabor cost estimation model for case picking operation in cold chain distribution centers & benchmarked GCCA

members DCs using a Data Envelopment Analysis model in MS Excel.

• Developed MS Excel based tool to access and improve the performance of Credit Card marketing campaign over different market

segments using Revenue Management tools.

• Developed an Arena simulation model to evaluate the capacity addition on a shop floor with five stations to optimize process cycle

t ime.

• Developed a mathematical model using Mosel in XPressMP suite to optimize the inventory at different nodes in freight routing in

a m ulti commodity network flow minimizing the overall t ransportation network cost.

• Streamlined operations on automobile engine assembly line via implementing 5S & Kaizen methodology & optimized wiring

harness layout on engines during undergraduate summer internship at Cummins India Ltd.

• Designed the sizing and layout for air conditioning ducts in a two story hospital during undergraduate senior year.

Activities

O rganizing Committee Member of AAROHI and AXIS

2001-2005

Executive Committee Member of “Srujan”- Cultural Fest in Tata Motors Ltd, Pune

2006-2007

Coordinator and Mentor of New Graduate Engineers at Tata Motors Ltd

2006-2007

Active member of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

2008-2010

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