Design Engineer Manufacturing

Venkata Sivaram Bitragunta (Ram)

573-***-**** ******@*****.***

Passionate mechanical design engineer interested to design innovative products of 21st century Product Design Engineer Wooster, OH

Transmission sub-systems, Schaeffler Group September’15 – present o Key engineer for modular hybrid transmission systems, successfully led from prototype to high volume production o Experience in material selection to meet functional, geometrical, manufacturing and environmental requirements o 4 years of FEA design experience on steel and plastic parts to meet mechanical and manufacturing requirements o Detail design knowledge on GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, allocation analysis using statistical methods and SPC tools o Two years of high volume manufacturing print release experience involving eight different cross functional teams o Attended five DFMA workshops to implement design for manufacturing and assembly techniques at assembly level o Experienced in CNC milling, turning processes, fixtures design and process capabilities at a mass production level o Three years of PTC Cero CAD modeling, surfacing, drafting and engineering change network (ECN) experience o Took complete ownership and responsibility on fast paced projects with clear communication and guidance to team o Audit experience at Asian supplier facilities for part testing, process flows, capability studies and control charts o Approved tool designs worth more than $10million for high volume productions working with international teams o Train technical product design concepts to new engineers and interns/co-ops and encourage continuous learning o Share information to colleagues, cross functional teams to meet their duties and support positive team interactions Graduate Research Assistant Rolla, MO

Laser aided manufacturing process lab, Missouri S&T July’13 – August’15 o Researched and developed consistent low powder flow rate powder feeder designs for NASA and BOEING projects o Developed reliable, durable and consistent powder feeder design at one tenth cost of commercially available feeders o Designed, prototyped more than ten different powder feeders and conducted design validation, performance tests o Efficiently used statistical concepts of DOE to establish significant performance metrics and identify interactions o Hands on experience using lathe, milling, welding, grinding, polishing, Wire EDM, SCM, & 3-D printer machines o High skill in designing test fixtures and mechanisms for CNC milling, wire EDM, and laser deposition systems Associate software design engineer Hyderabad, India Automotive Equipment Solution Factory, Accenture August’12 – June’13 o Worked on designing inventory management controls for goods receipt, goods issue and stock transfer processes o Released SAP MM designed systems into live production environment and fixed all open SAP design issues Design & Fabrication Head Pithampur, India

Team RAETHON - SAE BAJA Championship 2012 February 2012 o Successfully led a team of twenty-five passionate student engineers, supporting to meet tight deadlines and goals o Key member in formulating and executing the strategy in winning the championship, out of hundred participants o Design, 3-D CAD models, simulations and FEA for chassis design are done using Siemens NX 7 and ANSYS’11 o Instrumental in carrying out rigorous prototype iterations, design reviews and final print releases for fabrication o Promote professional development for all team members who volunteered and supported this project Design of experiments - Academic Project Rolla, MO Statistical analysis on powder feeders at LAMP Lab October 2014 o Ran statistical tests to check reliability, durability & repeatability for powder feeders at LAMP Lab o Determined the presence of interactions between factors using SAS, Minitab and JMP M.S. Manufacturing Engineering GPA 4.0/4.0

Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla, Missouri, USA August 2015 Thesis: Performance metric for powder feeder systems in Additive Manufacturing Emphasis: Product design, Rapid prototyping

B.S. Mechanical Engineering GPA 4.0/4.0

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India May 2012

Emphasis: Manufacturing, Industrial & Production Engineering Skill: Engineering: 3-D CAD Design, Rapid prototyping, 3-D printing, Structural and Thermal FEAs, GD&T, Stacks-ups, Statistical process control, CFD, FMEA, ADVP&R, DVP&R, Material Selection, Strength of materials, Material failure analysis, 5-Why, 8D, TS16949, Stamping, Machining, Quality Control, and Capability Softwares’: SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor2015, NX/UG, PTC-CERO, Wind-chill, Fluent, ANSYS, OpenSCAD, Catalyst SAS, JMP, Minitab, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and Microsoft Office Programming Language: Python 2.7