Engineering Engineer

RAJESH A. SHINDE

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Cell 862-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position in Engineering where my talents can be utilized to contribute towards the benefit of organizational operations. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Extensive 24 years of experience in Program/Project Management for Automotive/Defense/Consumer Products.

Design & Development of Automotive subsystems and components, Consumer electronics for leading companies.

o Director for Engineering Services, Siemens PLM Channel Partner & 3D Printing. o Program Manager for Defense Tiers like General Dynamics, Boeing, Raytheon. o Project Engineer & Lead Design and Development Engineer o Project Manager for Design & Engineering Services o Lead for Data Migrations using TeamCentre, Windchill, SAP o Design Consultant CatiaV5,UG-NX, SolidWorks, IDEAS (CAD/CAM), MasterCAM

Experience in Management, Design and Development: o Business Director for Engineering Services Company & Siemens PLM channel partner. Guiding R&D efforts for Additive Manufacturing for innovative materials, identifying market requirements & affordable solutions in Additive Manufacturing. o Managed large defense programs along with technical leadership & mentoring. o Design & develop Suspension and Chassis systems & components. o Modular Engine Design - Cylinder Head, Crankcase, oil seal, gaskets, fasteners. o Consumer Electronics Product development from Industrial Concept Design to Manufacturing.

o Knowledge of Test procedures & Tests for – durability & performance of suspension components, consumer electronics reliability, HMI products. o Proficiency in Monitoring & Execution of projects/programs. o Experience in leading teams, internal departments such as project teams, CAD Design, CAE, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Assembly plants. External Suppliers evaluations & interfacing. Ensuring ITAR rules/regulations.

Technical Skills:

o System engineering: understanding customer / market requirements, bench marking, FMEA, DVP&R, DFM, DFA, APQP, SPC and GD&T.

o Cost reduction techniques: Competitive Analysis, Benchmarking, Value Engineering, and new Ideas generation.

o Problem Solving techniques: DOE, 8D principles.

o PLM systems: Metaphase, Digital Buck, TCe PLM, Windchill, and SAP. o Knowledge of Stress analysis (FEA), Welding principles, Die Tools & fixtures. o Proficiencies in UG-NX, CATIA-V5, Solidworks, I-DEAS. Page 2 of 4

HIGHEST EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering – 1992

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering - 1988

WORK EXPERIENCE:

TrumpCAD Technologies, India (Jan 2010 to July 2017). Technical Director, Engineering Services Division & Siemens Channel

Responsible for successful Business Development, Directives & Liaison for this startup organization for their Engineering Services, Training & Recruitment divisions.

Substantial growth created by associations with Siemens PLM & establishing Channel Partnership. Corporate trainings & projects using Catia V5, UG-NX, Solidworks. Developed Roadmaps for establishment of ODCs for Global Delivery.

Developed clients like Mahindra, Magna, L&T, JCB, Marelli, FEV and more, to provide successful domain based corporate trainings & engineering services.

Established successful 3D printing, Reverse Engineering & Prototyping services setup along with Channel partnerships for sales of 3D printers & RPT services.

Guiding Engineering teams towards successful design services & manufacturing projects.

Successfully delivered innovative products & projects in various industries like Automotive, Medical Devices, Consumer Products. These projects involved Concept Industrial Designing, Prototyping with RPT & soft tooling & complete production manufacturing.

Medical Devices: Asthma Patient Inhaler which involved complete reverse engineering of existing design using scanners & other measurement devices, creating CAD models, analyzing flows using CFD tools, Finalizing Design using DFM techniques & creating complete manufacturing drawings with feasible GD&T to contain production costs. Role involved mentoring & guiding team of Designers, Analysts & Tooling Engineers along with hands on approaches in all the areas of Engineering.

UltraElectronics MSI, Connecticut (Jan 2009 to Dec 2010). Program Manager, HMI Division

Program Management & Engineering Assistance for US Defense Programs.

Responsibility included program management of multiple US defense programs, including activities like managing milestones, interfacing & ensuring timely completion of activities from Design, Testing, Production & Quality teams. Page 3 of 4

Conducting program review meetings with internal teams, suppliers & clients to ensure program timing. Conducting Stake Holder meetings required for business updates.

Worked with esteemed clients like General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing.

Guided mechanical team on optimized usage of CAD tools & new technologies implementation along with SPC tools & GD&T trainings.

Directed efforts of the company towards proven large scale production techniques using SPC tools & Tolerance Stack Up techniques for large assemblies.

Bose Corporation, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA (Apr 2007 to Jan 2009). Lead Mechanical Engineer, Home Entertainment Product Development

Consulting/Guiding the mechanical team as a Project Lead for taking “Home Entertainment” products from concept design to successful mass production launch.

Responsibility included design & development of new products & VA/VE . Designed & Engineered plastic injection molded, cast, sheet metal components & assemblies involving mechanisms. Performed complex stack up tolerance analysis for various products.

Interacting with core team members (Industrial Design, Plastics Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Manufacturing Plants in Mexico & USA) in the completion of tasks & successful launches. Responsible for complete PD & launch.

Implemented cost savings on several existing products using VA/VE techniques.

Utilized SPC tools along with Stack-up studies & other tools like DOE, Fishbone diagrams, Gage R&R, 8D.

Benteler Automotive, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA- Dec’01 to Jan’07 Senior Design Engineer, Chassis System.

Major Job responsibility was Design of various Chassis components, like Subframes, Control Arms, etc. to meet & exceed customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities included but not limited to developing various engineering processes like GD&T, FMEA, P-diagrams, DVP&R. Provided substantial savings to FORD programs by optimally designing & engineering the sheet metal stamped

& welded assemblies.

Testing on multi channel rigs, strain gauging & validating designs.

Worked as Lead Design Engineer on FORD programs for Rear Trailing Arm, AWD & FWD subframe designs & various other programs to achieve successful product launches. Utilized I-DEAS & Catia V5 CAD tools.

Worked with NISSAN projects for Twist Beam Suspension Axle Designs as a Lead Design Engineer & was responsible for Design, FEA & Engineering of the project.

Thorough knowledge & experience gained for various product testing methods that are performed in-house at Benteler Automotive & external Test Labs.

Acquired knowledge & experience in using project management tools like APQP, DFMA, FMEA, DOE, DVP&R, P-diagrams, Block diagrams, Statistical Process Control.

Onward Technologies Inc., USA – June’1999 to Dec’01 Page 4 of 4

Engine Design Consultant at FORD Motor Company

Design consultant at FORD MOTOR COMPANY for the Power Train Engine Engineering

(V8 modular truck) group.

Lead the team to accomplish all the core models, assemblies, Tolerance Stackups & Production drawings. Consulted the manufacturing team to determine optimum process flow.

Accomplished successful trainings at FORD MOTOR COMPANY on C3P for PIM, Metaphase, Spark Ignition Engine Principles, Rapid Prototyping, GD&T.

Onward Technologies Ltd., Mumbai, India– May’1995 to June’1999 Asst. Project Manager (Design/Engineering Services) – June’ 1997 to June’1999

Job responsibility included Pre-sales & post-sales activities to support the I-DEAS Master Series & other manufacturing softwares.

Managed in-house Engineering service projects involving project management, scheduling, guiding in-house technical personnel to accomplish projects in a timely manner.

Sr. CAD Application Engineer – May’1995 to June’1997

Design Consultant at Mahindra & Mahindra, a leading automotive manufacturer.

Complete technical support for the entire site comprising of more than 150 seats of I- DEAS CAD software.

Training & Consulting the key Designers & Engineers from 2D drafting to 3D solid modeling of various automobile components using I-DEAS s/w.

Trained personnel in CAD designing & CNC programming for defense & aerospace sectors like Bharat Dynamics Ltd. (BDL, Hyderabad) & Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.

(HAL, Bangalore)

Daniel & Sons, Mumbai, India – Jan’1991 to May’1995 Supervisor CNC department

Responsible for CNC die tools for various Injection Molded products.

Supervision of CNC tool room consisting of 3 different makes of CNC milling machines & controllers along with technical guiding of tooling engineers. SKILLS:

UG-NX,CATIA-V5, SolidWorks, Metaphase, TCe for PLM, SAP, Windchill, SDRC- IDEAS

Proficient in WORD, EXCEL, Power Point, MS Project.

Proficient in GD&T, FMEA, APQP, DVP&R, Project Management, DOE, DFM, 8D Problem Solving, Error Proofing, Statistical Process Control. REFERENCES:

Will be provided upon request.

Immigration Status: Legal Permanent Resident (GC)

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