Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
PRASANNA NIRGUDKAR
www.prasannapn.com
Tel: 1-281-***-**** (H)
Email: **********@*****.***
Stafford, TX 77477
OBJECTIVE: Seek full time challenging opportunity in an Engineering company to provide the highest quality safe
products and services with consistently high efficiencies.
PROFESSIONAL / RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Lean Six Sigma Champion, with Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas (2006-present)
Black Belt Trained, Six Sigma Academy, 2006
Project Management for 5-S, TPM, Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, DOE, DFSS, SPC projects to improve
process efficiencies, enhance product quality, reduce operating costs and increase customer satisfaction
$2M savings in 2006
Manager, Seismic Mfg, with Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas (2005-2006)
In-Charge of the Manufacture/Service Center for Seismic Cables at the IPC Technology/ Product Center
Lead 16 employees, including Engineers, Buyers/ Planners, Sales, Technicians and Flying Squad
members for Field Service Calls Recruiting, Training, Career Development
Co-ordinate global seismic cables manufacturing/ servicing to support a fleet of 15 vessels world-wide
Organize Quality, Health, Safety, Environment (QHSE) improvements. LPT Leader in 2004-2005
Increased revenue from $2M to $18M within 1 year
Manufacturing Engineer/ Material Specialist with Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas (2002-2004)
Assist and supervise all aspects of procurement and production planning. This included but was not
limited to Supply Chain Management, Outsourcing, Supplier Negotiations, Purchasing, Supplier Audits &
Qualification, Logistics, Production Planning, Scheduling & Routing, Cost control, Pricing, & Customer
Service.
Manufacturing Engineer for Wireline, Seismic, Third Party Cables and Logging Conveyance tools.
Introduce, develop, and sustain Kanban system for inventory management. Co-ordinate & implement 5S
& Kaizen for efficient and effective Production. Introduce DFX, Lean Manufacturing & 6-sigma initiatives.
Automation, upgrade and control of rotating machinery, extruders, and electrical/ mechanical/ pressure
test equipment: Improve & standardize processes, document ISO procedures, perform Quality Audits.
Research Assistant with the Center for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP), Penn State University (2001-2)
Launched the $50k project on Time Compression Techniques for Rapid Tooling
Evaluated and benchmarked over 10 current RP techniques for rapid tooling after cost-benefit analysis
Devised sampling and testing protocols and led testing efforts of the team
Generated ideas for process improvement to cut down processing time from 4 weeks to 2 days
Teaching Assistant with ME Department, The Pennsylvania State University (2000)
Teach a class of 95 students for 20 hours/week
Vocational Trainee Engineer with TATA Engineering & Locomotive Co. Ltd. (TELCO), India (1999)
Reliability/ Quality Assurance: Failure Analysis using Design of Experiments
EDUCATION:
The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA MS in Industrial Engineering GPA 3.9 (August 2002)
Govt. College of Engg., University of Pune, India BS in Mechanical Engineering GPA 4.0 (June 2000)
RELEVANT PROJECTS:
Design of Tri-layer Q-Marine cables (opto-electric streamers). Patented by IPC in 2002. $6M revenue/year.
Design of RALI open hole tractor gear-box, transmission, chassis, controls for down-hole conveyance (2004)
Design of water-blocked terminations for marine seismic applications (2005-2006)
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Programming: C, C++, FORTRAN, BASIC, JAVA (basics)
CAD, FEA, ERP & other s/w: AutoCAD 2000, ProE/ Wildfire, ProM, ARENA, LINDO, MINITAB, MFG-PRO
AFFILIATIONS, AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Certified Manufacturing Engineer CmfgE, 2006
Internal Auditor, DNV, 2006
President, Houston Maharashtra Mandal 2003
More on personal web site (link at the top of this resume)
References available on request Visa/ Green Card Required Willing to travel/ relocate
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