Product Development Engineering

Jayapprakash Theagarajan

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Professional Summary

Jayapprakash is a seasoned Mechanical Engineering Manager with 17+ years of experience in fast-paced, cost-sensitive high volume products domains such as Consumer Electronics, Automotive, and Robotics.

He have a hands on experience in Product development, R&D, NPI with positions of increasing responsibility with end-to-end ownership.

He is expert in six sigma based Gated process for product development.

He built high performance teams from the scratch and gone through Forming-Norming-Storming-Performing stages of team building.

He have extensive experience in new product development and new product introduction, the list includes : Xerox corporation -Paper Feeder mechanism in Copier machines Whirlpool -Turbo wash Dishwasher iRobot - Surveillance and reconnaissance Robot DEI inc -Vehicle Security System

He is a seasoned leader in leading the cross functional teams such as EE/ME/SE, Reliability, FEA, Vendor development and Finance

Delivered $68 Million in savings through Value engineering effort in FY14, 15, 16

Led and partnered with globally dispersed teams in Product Development of large /complex / cross-functional projects (UK, USA, China, Mexico, UK, India, Japan, Indonesia, Germany, Poland and Spain).

Education

B.E MECHANICAL ENGINEERING JUNE 1999 AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM

Skills & Abilities

JAYAPPRAKASH HAVE HAND ON EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE IN FOLLOWING SKILLS

Project Management People Management Technical Leadership Strategy Planning Global work environment exposure Steering end to end program R&D New Product Development Complex System Design Robotics FEM/FEA CFD Modular Architecture Value Engineering Sustaining Engineering Vendor Development Process Development Team Building Independent Networking

Experience

PROGRAM MANAGER CISCO SYSTEMS –SAN JOSE, CA MARCH 2013 TO TILL DATE

Have delivered $68 Million Value engineering savings in FY14, FY15, and FY16.

Increased Product margin by 3% in one year through implementation of Value Engineering Projects.

Analyzed 1.6 Bn Cogs for VE opportunities.

Spearheaded cross-functional initiative to achieve BU's annual VE savings and product margin

As a VE lead, Worked directly with senior leadership team to achieve product margin and VE savings.

Work with cross function teams such as Engineering, Supply chain, marketing, manufacturing, finance and Vendors for Ideas generation, validation and implementation.

Steered end to end Value engineering programs from proposal, getting it approved by VE board for budget and project schedule through implementation.

Manage VE budget, share weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to Cisco Management for VE performance.

Created new revenue streams through value engineering, introduction of new technologies, bringing in new vendors, design change, product bench marking etc.

PROJECT MANAGER HCL AMERICA JULY 2009 TO MARCH 2013

New Product design and development in HCL Technologies :

Design and development of Paper Feeder for Xerox Copiers.

Design and development of Pipeline inspection system for GE - PII

Design and development for Tidel power generator for Aquamarine power.

Paper Pickup & Retard Roller Kit Development

Through R&D, developed New technology for paper pick up and Retard roller kit

Front ended a cross functional team right from concept to Manufacturing.

Set goals, developed detailed project plan with work breakdown structure for all

teams (ME/EE/SE/MFG).

Establishing and managing technical deliverable in line with Project schedule and

Status reporting for Management review and Escalation management.

Worked with over dozen vendors across globe for part development and synced with Foxconn for setting up assembly line for proto type

Got the proto type, first time right all technologies used worked fine with all new components that were developed exclusively for the design

MECHANICAL ENGINEER IROBOT CORPORATION JAN 2007 TO JULY 2009

As part of Negotiator - Tactical and Surveillance Robot in India

Implemented approach and strategy for setting up new production line, choosing local vendors for localization, test plan development which resulted in bringing up product in record 10 months

Collaboration with Alignment with USA core-team for selection of right technologies.

Collaborating with marketing for product launch with redefining product portfolio

Assembly instruction manual & Assembly process metric development and deployment, and Factory acceptance test development and testing.

Developing Internal quality documents, Product testing plan and test execution to mimic actual field conditions and conducting Validation testing such as drop, shock and vibration.

Develop Low Cost Roomba - Home cleaning robot and its accessories from the scratch.

Generate Concept, Design validation with hand calculations, FEM/FEA and take it all the way to tool design in Pro-E

Configuration management, Release Drawing to factory with ECR/ECN & Costed BOM with Windhcill.

Making Proto types with conventional techniques such as machining, RPT with SLS, SLA etc.

Packaging development for Robot and all accessories Home Robot Division.

SR. DESIGN ENGINEER WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION AUG 2004 TO DEC 2016

Played key role in designing Turbozone feature that resulted in implementing in European Dishwashers, derivative of US Design.

Developed CADD drawings for newly designed features and delivered for further development of EU platform.

Conducted CFD studies for water flow path in US Dishwashers which led to the development of EU Turbozone feature

Acted as Dish Team's VE Lead contact India development center contact for geographically dispersed teams in USA/China /Germany/ Poland.

Make necessary change in production line for implementing new design.

Run all development projects in C2C (Customer to Customer) product development process.

Saved 3% on supply costs by working closely with suppliers through Value Engineering initiatives.

Reduced product cost by $320K, through Value engineering and lowering shipping costs

Coordinated manufacturing, quality, R&D and marketing team to complete per customer requirements.

DESIGN ENGINEER PRICOL LIMITED SEP 2002 TO SEP 2004

Design and development of Vehicle security system & Vehicle Instrument clusters

Coordinated design meetings and decisions across internal : R&D, tooling and production

Design, Development, DFM review with Cross functional teams

Assembly line setup, assembly instruction preparation.

Developed standard for Vendor selection, upbringing, Product inspection and Validation during new product development.

Directed planning, budgeting, vendor selection and quality assurance efforts.

Recommended process and systems improvements such as in Design, testing and

Packaging

Design evaluation by using RPT and tooled up Samples.

CADD ENGINEER CADD CENTER JUN 1999 TO MAR 2002

Executing Industrial Design and FEA analysis ( Structural and Thermal) for corporate clients

Have done Finite Element analysis of different Compressor parts such as Crankcase, Piston, lubricating pump and Cylinder

Compressor is used as part of GETS (General Electric Transportation solutions)

Work closely with GE design team to redesign and validate the new design through MSC-Nastran for Structural and Thermal performance

HOBBIES:

He is a private pilot license holder, avid nature lover and outdoor adventure seeker. He loves to go long distance biking, running marathons, hiking in the wilderness, endurance swimmer. He also involved in social service and community building activities.

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