Engineer Management

SALONI VASANT NAIK

**** ******* ***** *** ** Taylor Mill Kentucky 41015

Cell Phone: 352-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

Objective

To attain a challenging Quality Engineer position in order to apply my

current knowledge and skills and to form an asset to the organization.

Education

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

December 2009

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

GPA of 3.81/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Management.

June 2007

BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.

GPA of 3.52/4.0

Experience:

Six Sigma Intern, ADT Security Services

June 2009

to August 2009

Boca Raton, Florida

. Data mining from the company's data warehouse using SQL and creating

useful reports to assist Master Black Belts.

. Identified cost-saving initiatives as part of the Recovery of

Unclaimed Cash Project. Resulted in savings of $40,000.

. As part of a Greenbelt project, created a new database for the surveys

conducted after training programs within ADT. Resulted in a payback

period of 6 months

. Identified and analyzed written-off invoices from the company's

dispute management system and further created dashboards.

Production Engineer, Toyo Paints Private Limited

January 2008 to

July 2008

Bangalore, India.

. Improved manufacturing processes by implementing lean manufacturing

principles and statistical process control.

. Performed quality checks to meet engineering specifications for all

incoming materials and final products.

. Led continuous improvement (Kaizen) events as a member of a cross

functional team and identified problem areas.

. Improved energy consumption, equipment efficiency and process changes

that increased production efficiencies and productivity by 5%.

. Trained Field buyers with procurement procedures and material

management database.

. Documented developed and audited procedures and practices for ISO 9001

certification.

Research assistant under the guidance of Dr. M. Mathirajan

June 2007 to December 2007

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

. Studied various parameters observed in Chartered Semiconductor

Industry, Singapore.

. Relaxed the assumptions involved in the research conducted before and

moved a step closer to reality.

. Used Linear and Dynamic Programming to model the scheduling problem.

. Contributed a research journal currently under review at the

International Journal of Production Research.

Current Research:

January 2009 to Present

Project Management: Under the guidance of Dr Anand A Paul, proposing

regression models to formulate efficient bidding strategies for project

bidders at the Texas Department of Transportation.

Relevant Courses:

Advanced total quality management, Supply Chain Management, Operations

Management, Advanced Production and Inventory Control, Lean Manufacturing &

JIT, Applied probability and Statistics, Continuous Improvement and Six

Sigma, Logistics and Distribution, Activity Based Costing, PERT analysis,

Value Stream Mapping, TQM.

Conference Publications:

. "Operations Management Through Kaizen", presented at the 2nd state

level ISTE student convention

. "Solution Methodologies for Scheduling Heterogeneous Diffusion

Furnaces in Semiconductor Manufacturing", published at ORITSCM 2007

. "Scheduling Heterogeneous Diffusion Furnaces with Non-Agreeable

Release Times and Due dates in Semiconductor Manufacturing",

published at ORSI 2007

Professional Association:

Active member of Tau Beta Pi (Alpha) -Engineering Honor Society.

Member of The National Institute of Social Welfare, India.

Member of the American Society for Quality.

Software skills:

Programming Languages: SQL, C and HTML

Software Tools: MS Office-MS Access, MS Excel, MS word, MS Project, SAP,

Minitab, Arena, Lindo/Lingo and AutoCAD

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