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Continuous Improvement Manager

Location:
Shreveport, LA
Posted:
August 24, 2017

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Raj Ananthula

Mobile: 937-***-****

Email: ac1z2m@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER PROFILE:

Over 15 years of experience in material science and metallurgical engineering as an individual contributor, a project manager and metallurgist at global organizations. Enthusiastic leader and a team player with excellent technical, organizational and communication skills. Focused on excellence through continuous improvement.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Corrosion: Design, develop and conduct corrosion test programs.

Processes: Rolling, Slitting, Casting, Forging, Extrusion, Drawing,

Heat Treatment: Annealing, normalizing, hardening, Ageing, Retrogression Re-aging Treatment.

Destructive techniques- Tensile Testing, Hardness Testing, and Ericsson Cupping Testing.

Metallographic & Imaging techniques comprising Specimen preparation, Optical Microscopy.

Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), Laser Operation Techniques using Excimer Laser, Nd-YAG/DYE Lasers.

Knowledge and hands on experience with NDT techniques. Level II trained in Acoustic Emission, and Nonlinear Acoustics.

SAP, MES/MOC/AIP, MS-Word, Excel & power point.

Relevant Education

API-5CT & 5L training, Feb 2015.

Heat Treatment & Induction Heat Treatment Training with ASM, March 2015

Principles of Failure Analysis Training with ASM International, June 2012.

EDAX training for use of SEM data analysis using Remote Genesis software, 2009.

Acoustic Emission Testing Level II, Physical Acoustic Corp, New Jersey (2008).

PhD in Materials Engineering, University of Dayton, Ohio (May 2007).

M.S. in Materials Engineering at University of Dayton, Ohio. GPA of 3.7/4.0 (2003).

B. Tech in Metallurgical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal (RECW / NITW), a deemed Institute of India. GPA: 3.75/4.0 (Apr 2000).

Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Govt. Polytechnic, Hyd., AP, India. (1995).

Other Education

E-MBA from Kent State University, Ohio (Mar 2014).

Professional Experience

Benteler Steel Tubes, Shreveport, LA Dec 2014- Current

A state-of-the-art seamless tube & pipe manufacturing facility.

Job Title: Metallurgist

Metallurgical testing lab start up and strategy using SAP, MES/MOC/AIP technologies.

Provide Metallurgical and Technical support to Operation and Supply Chain Management to develop manufacturing program to make feasibility of order.

Review customer specification for line pipe and casings and qualify products and processes to deliver the products per specification.

Identify and coordinate process changes for continuous Improvement.

Serving as technical specialist. Gain and share knowledge on OCTG (API Q1, 5L and 5CT specifications) and boiler tube materials and establish QC lab to support the Benteler Steel tubes.

Roles include writing standard operation procedures (SOP) for lab equipment to perform testing as per applicable API, ASTM, ASME and other standards and specification. Leading the setting up testing equipment, test method development, SOP development & training programs. Lab testing includes mechanical testing using tensile, hardness, charpy-impact testing, chemical analysis using spectrometer and microstructural analysis.

Development of recipes for heat treatment tubes for API-5CT, API-5L, ASM/ASME & NACE boiler tube specifications.

Auditing manufacturing and testing capabilities of vendors and suppliers as per standards.

The Babcock & Wilcox Research Center, Barberton, Ohio. Mar 2007 – Sep 2014

Research wing of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), supplying innovative solutions to meet the world's growing energy needs.

Job Title: Lead Materials Engineer

Perform failure analysis, evaluate the root-cause and provide prevention measures.

Boiler tube and other product vendor qualification analysis as per ASTM, ASM & NACE standards & specifications other applicable company specific standards for current.

Lead corrosion testing programs on current and advanced new tube materials.

Develop test procedures, test plans and evaluate test data to develop corrosion models for current and new advanced materials.

Support development of new advanced materials using plasma arc weld overlay technique and coatings.

Manage budget, P&L in accordance with division’s projected work load forecast.

Monitor personnel utilization and adjust staff levels as necessary to meet utilization goal.

Identify the current and future needs of equipment and make requests for capital budget.

Review and approve test plans and procedures. Review designs and installations of new test programs.

Recommend and schedule training of technicians. Implement agile methodologies to serve changing customer requirements.

Centre for Materials Diagnosis & UDRI, Dayton, Ohio. Jan 2001 – Feb 2007

Leader in scientific and engineering research, serving government and industry.

Job Title: Materials Engineer.

Characterization of Materials subjected to Retrogression and Re-aging (RRA) heat treatment process on Aluminum Alloy 7075-T6 used in aerospace applications.

Optimization of heat treatment parameters using advanced Non-Destructive Testing techniques.

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Ultrasonic Force Microscope (UFM), Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Optical microscope imaging to understand micro- and nano- scale features.

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) imaging of the specimen of study for the Fatigue and Fracture Analysis class. Purpose was to identify and image regions of crack initiation, propagation and final- failure in each case.

Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad, India. Summer 1999

Job Title: Summer Internship

Manufacturing techniques of Zirconium/Titanium Extraction, Oxide production, chlorination and metal reduction with magnesium (Kroll Process). Vacuum-arc melting, Electron beam welding, Plasma-arc melting.

Seamless tubes production by Extrusion and Pilgerising techniques.

Powder metallurgy- Mineral dressing, powder extraction by Hydrometallurgy, pilletizing and sintering.

Southern Steels Ltd., Hyderabad, India, a Cold rolling industry. Apr 95 - May 96

Job Title: Quality Control Inspector

Quality control of cold rolling process by online inspection and prevention of defects at the site.

Processes include cold rolling mills, annealing process, skin pass, cold rolling slitters, cut-to-length process.

Inspection includes material testing by Visual inspection, Ultimate tensile strength and Yield Strength properties, and ductility measurement by Ericsson Cupping test, hardness testing, bending test, etc.

Galada Continuous Castings Ltd., Hyderabad, India. Apr 94 – Sep 94

Job Title: Internship

Supervising melting and master alloy ingot preparation; alloy making, continuous casting, rod rolling, wire drawing processes.

Supervision and quality control of annealing and aging heat treatment processes and stranding operations.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Hyderabad, India. Sep 93 - Mar94

Job Title: Internship

Supervision of Heat Treatment and surface treatment processes including Annealing, Normalizing, Hardening, Carburizing, Nitriding and Carbo-nitriding.

Special surface treatment including electro-plating (nickel, hard-chrome, copper and silver), shot-peening, centrifugal casting processes (Babbitting).

Also supervised in Forging: open-die and closed-die (facility forges from nut to turbine blade).

Relevant Papers & Publications

R. Ananthula, R. T. Ko, S. Sathish, and M. P. Blodgett, “Characterization of Retrogression and Re-aging Heat-Treatment of AA7075-T6 using Nonlinear Acoustics and Eddy Current”. Review of Progress in Quantitative NDE, Green Bay, July 2003.

R. Ananthula, and S. Sathish, “Characterization of Retrogression and Reaging (RRA) Process of Aluminum 7075-T6 using Nonlinear Acoustics”, SPIE conference, San Diego, March 2003.

R. Ananthula, R. T. Ko, S. Sathish, and M. P. Blodgett, “Characterization of Retrogression and Re-Aging Heat Treatment of AA7075-T6 Using Nonlinear Acoustics and Eddy Current”, AIP Conference Proceedings, February 2004, 700(1), 1115-1121. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, 700(1) February 2004, pp. 1115-1121.

Achievements

Achieved 30% cost reduction through innovative, creative and customer-focused process improvements.

Assigned to lead projects with fast approaching deadlines and projected to exceeded budget; navigated projects to meet scheduled deadlines and budget through continuous process improvements using PFMEA and Lean/Six Sigma methodologies

Created high levels of customer satisfaction through continuous focus on the customers changing priorities using agile methodologies

Successfully conducted and completed DOE, EPRI & B&W corrosion test programs.

Internationally reputed papers, reviewed and included in the National Institute of Standards and Technology kinetic data base, referred by Scientists & Engineers globally.

Awarded Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute (DAGSI) competitive scholarship for 3 years.

Awarded DAGSI enhancement grant for the year 2002-2003.

University of Dayton Graduate Scholarship for 2 years.

National Level Award achieved as “Best Paper” for paper submission “Shape memory alloys and their biomedical applications” (Mar 99).

Member of ACS, SigmaXi, ASM-Int & ASNT.



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