Project Management Customer

DEEPAK KORADI

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• Project / Program Management – New Product Development & Launch / Concept to Commercialization / Project Life cycle management

• Bachelors in Engineering with overall 10+ years of industrial experience including client interactions, customer site visits, vendor management, stakeholder engagement and global cross functional management.

• Strong perseverance in core competencies like communication skills, customer focus & engagement, global mindset, result focus, team skills, professional impact, strategic & systemic thinking.

• Experienced in working with different countries / time zones, visiting different countries for customer interactions, audits and seminars.

• Experienced in handling & launching major global programs in New Product Develop- ment; interaction with different customers and internal / external stakeholders across the globe.

• Proficiency in all areas of MS Office, including MS Project, Excel+VBA, Word, Power- Point and additional tools like share point, spotfire, webex and thinkcell.

• Well versed with the processes and principles of Project Management as per PMBOK. Employment History

Project Leader < 2012 to Present >

The Timken Company, USA,France,China,India

• Project / Program management for new products/concepts throughout the complete life cycle from concept to commercialization, specification study, budget recommendations, performance monitoring and scheduling development process against project/program milestones.

• Follow the work discipline as per the business processes defined for project, programs, portfolio, finance and resource management. Manage & Execute the projects/programs through all stage gates and efficiently handover control to the operations team.

• Direct interaction and continuous engagement with the customers throughout the project life cycle. Constitute and implement policies and procedures for engineering activities; advise technical support to internal/external customers, end-users and distributors; certify the development of product specifications; represent project management for customer audits.

• Key contact for all aspects of the program including the areas of Engineering, Supply Chain, Commercial and Manufacturing/Operations and primary interface between Cus- tomer and the company.

• Engage all key stakeholders thru regular meetings, articulate decisions / strategies and up- date higher management on program status.

Senior Engineer < 2010 to 2012 >

Continental Automotive Pvt. Ltd., India

• Project Management for Function and Software Deliverables for Powertrain Systems for Worldwide Automotive OEM's.

• Lead the project thru the technical gateways related to design, development and validation phases for new functionality implementation thru embedded software systems for Power- train systems.

• Drive the team to achieve the project objectives as per defined milestones along with meeting the Quality, Delivery, Cost and Feature (QDCF) targets Applications Engineer < 2006 to 2010 >

The Timken Company, USA,India

• Application study and validation, life and stress calculations, evaluations, design docu- mentation, bearing behaviour study, failure mode analysis, research projects on off high- way and automotive vehicle applications.

• Conduct FE analysis to incorporate the stiffness and compliance in a system that affects the bearing performance.

• Quality consistent reporting and result delivery to end customers. Conduct failure analysis investigation of customer products as part of the design & development process.

• Regular interactions with internal Sales and marketing and other business units and/or cus- tomers pertaining to on-going / upcoming projects.

• Frequent customer visits to address technical queries, conduct tech-day seminars and product related trainings.

Education

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering < 2002 to 2006 >

B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India

Visveswaraiah Technological University, India

International assignments

• United States of America - to acquire knowledge on technical & commercial aspects, products & manufacturing methods; for project discussions, customer interactions, semi- nars and audits

• Europe (France/Germany) - to work with the key project stake holders as part of project management and for business discussions/visits at the customer facilities.

• China - to represent program management for customer audit. References

References are available upon request.

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