Kumar Krishnappa

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Forward thinking, performance driven Mechanical Engineer with extensive experience in product design, development, project life cycle and project management. Skilled in designing mechanical components, structures with a strong understanding of engineering principles and materials, seeking a position as Senior Mechanical Engineer/ Mechanical Engineer. Demonstrated leadership skills that optimize collaboration between departments to produce high-quality design output.

Technical Skills

Product Development CATIA Team-center

DFM/dFMEA/Risk analysis/CAPA SolidWorks Enovia- Smart-Team

Model Base Definition (MBD) AutoCAD GD&T, Tolerance stack-up

DOE/Minitab Agile Rapid prototyping

Injection molding VAVE RoHS

Professional Experience

HCL AMERICA Inc.

Client: Johnson & Johnson Vision Mar/2014 – Present

Mechanical Engineer- Milpitas, CA

Utilize 3D CAD in design and development of laser eye surgery machine.

Designed components and ensured form, fit and function of complex electromechanical assemblies.

Build, support on cable and wire harness drawings.

Check design principles, considerations and manufacturability of plastic, machined and sheet metal components create weldments on structural parts, design piping and fittings for the chamber assembly.

Currently designing plastic covers from the outer Industrial design envelope, provide features and provisions for mounting, define and ease assembling sequence.

Identifying and proposing opportunities to bring in value addition and value engineering to cut down cost.

Conduct tolerance and stack up analysis, conduct design review meetings with cross functional team to review product specifications and define products from conceptual stage thru market/ on- market support.

Conduct hand calculations to determine stress, strain, and tolerance stack up; perform static analysis/ simulation of parts.

Research new product and off the shelf components to comply RoHS standards, design fasteners, create documentation with ANSI standards.

Created purchase order/requisition for ordering parts and interacting with vendors for technical clarification and request and check FAR (first article inspection) report and track its delivery.

Bench test the parts and assemblies for its fit and function.

Provide technical guidance to the build team in building the assembly and guidance to create manufacturing instructions.

Support and build assemblies/components to comply for European (CE and RoHS complaint) and North American standards (ETL complaint).

Manage and release of company’s engineering change order to ensure proper sign-off and advancement to Agile product life cycle management.

Client: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Feb/2013 – Mar/2014

Mechanical Engineer- Savannah, GA

Provided technical support to prepare, coordinate, design, document and process engineering change orders on various configurations on business jet aircraft.

Interpreted designs and schematics, and reviewed drawings on piping, curtain assemblies.

Determine hardware, create assemblies and mechanical support drawings, electrical drawings.

Generated and distributed documentation records, including status reports to team members and supervisor.

Collaborated with shop floor team to identify and create ECO based on assembling constraints and improvement.

Reduced turn back rate of work flow to less than .03% and was recognized for quality output.

HCL Technologies Ltd, May/2007 -Feb/2013

Act as liaison engineer and coordinated team of more than 14 members.

Client: Volkswagen-India

Developed assembly line fixtures to eliminate the repeatability/accuracy issues.

Modeled and designed functions using specialty machines according to predefined specifications.

Developed drawing packages for fabrication and assembly, and converted models and parts for proposal, determined materials and supplies based on design requirements and budget.

Prepared Bills of Materials for purchase items, and verified part numbers matched design requirements.

Maintained accurate project records such as updated drawings and documents throughout project life-cycle.

Client: Hyde group limited, Manchester UK

Designed lifting media for inboard and outboard spar assembly and sub assembly jigs.

Designed overhead lifting media and created documentation per ISO and EU standards.

Manage and release of company’s document process to ensure proper sign-off and advancement to product life cycle management.

Client: Embraer Aero-structures, Bangalore

Designed V-Let assembly for air – surveillance aircraft.

Conducted design calculation on V-Let structures – torsion box, cross section of spars and ribs on max and min load conditions.

Client: Alenia Aeronautica, Italy

Designed rear pressure bulkhead on military tactical air-lifter.

Executed multiple major design modifications on windshield assembly, lower lobe assembly, stringers, front and rear bulkhead and longerons.

Computed weight ladder for parts and assemblies and analyzed center of gravity.

Executed major modifications, like redesigning the assemblies to essentially bring the VAVE concepts in order to reduce Bill of materials, weight reduction, reducing the manufacturing and assembling time.

L&T e-Engineering Solutions Ltd. Sep/2005 -Apr/2007

Redesigned assembly car line fixtures.

Designed outer cover case for medical hand held ultrasound machines.

Designed casting parts for automotive components.

Puma Lift trucks Ltd. Aug/2003 -Aug/2005

Designed and developed electrical stacker and hydraulic pallet trucks.

Provided technical support for the manufacturing team to fabricate/machine parts and create assembly instructions.

Recommended cutting tools and cutting specifications for optimum cycle time and reducing cycle time for existing machining process.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Visweswariah Technological University, India.

Diploma: Mechanical Engineering, Board of Technical Education, Bangalore, India.

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