Engineering Engineer

KARTIK NAGENDRA

Phone: 608-***-**** *** West Dayton Street

Email: ******@*****.*** Madison, WI

53703

Objective

Graduate industrial engineer with competitive technical and management experience in Lean - Six

Sigma, continuous improvement and product development looking to use comprehensive engineering

knowledge and business acumen to drive success in projects.

Education

Madison,

University of Wisconsin – Madison

WI

May 2014 GPA 3.4 / 4.0

Masters in Industrial Engineering

Design of Experiments: Determined factors affecting mileage of a car by setting up a fractional

factorial design of experiments

• Industry project: Improving the throughput of the production line of 1/4 inch stonewood panel at Fiberesin Industries. Reduced

actual cycle time yielding potential cost savings of $74000 / year.

Courses: Introduction to Manufacturing Systems, Design and Analysis, Engineering Design with

Polymers, Facilities Planning, Introduction to Quality Engineering and Statistics, Production Systems

Engineering

Pune, India

University of Pune

May 2010 C. P. I. 8.71 / 10

B.E. in Industrial Engineering

Work Experience

Kohler, WI

Kohler Co. Engines Division

Materials Co-op June 2013 –Dec 2013

Responsible for improving the material flow to and from the sub-assembly of parts, eliminate waste

activities and establish a visual pull system of goods instead of the existing push system.

Reduced the change over time of engine assembly line by 10% thereby increasing output as part of

Kaizen event

Developed a floor layout of sub-assembly creating work-cells to minimize operator travel, streamline

material flow and reduce backtracking – all using AutoCAD

Managed engineering projects for facility from start to implementation and worked on capital

improvements project

Maintained an assembly line schedule adherence report to measure delivery misses. Performed root

cause analysis to establish and fix future occurrence

Reviewed the MCRs “Manufacturing Change Requests” and BOM changes to current products with

New Product Development team. Coordinated with Production team to ensure changes are implemented.

Pune, India

BSA Corporation Limited

Associate Manager September 2011 –July 2012

Managed all material and equipment needs of 2 plants using ERP system with an annual operating

budget of $7 million.

Worked with a cross functional team of design engineers, marketing and suppliers to review customer

needs and see the products and sub-systems through design, development, analysis, testing and release.

Assisted in developing DFMEAs with engineering team to uncover risks and identify opportunities to

improve design

Developed a proposal for automation equipment that would improve efficiency and product quality.

Reviewed OEE, failure and repair rates to determine equipment maintenance / replacement plan

Negotiated joint ventures with vendors to manufacture a new housing utilizing injection molding to

increase market share and improve product quality

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Pune, India

Programmer Analyst June 2010 – September 2011

Developed a 3-tiered application for quality reporting in Visual Studio using C#, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET,

ADO.NET, CSS and SQL Server 2005 for database

Project / Intern Experience

Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited

Pune, India

Project Intern – Diesel Engine Machining Plant October 2009 – March 2010

Conducted Value Stream Mapping on crankcase and crankshaft lines of a diesel engine, reducing

non-value added times by 18% & 20% respectively.

Utilized the Kanban (Just In Time) principles, reducing inventory by 35% & 20% respectively

Designed work-cells & multi-machine manning systems, reducing operator nos. by 20% & 10%.

Eliminated ‘Mudas’ in the process, thereby cutting Lead times by 20% & 16% respectively.

Simulated the current and proposed state maps on “ProModel” to convince management to adopt the

proposed changes

Forbes Marshal Limited

Pune, India

Summer Project Intern – Production dept June 2009 –July 2009

Conducted Process Capability Study on Horizontal Machining Centre for a 25 NB (Nominal Bore)

Piston

Valve body and Using Control Charts determined Process Capability Index

Suggested use of Single Ended Snap Gauge & Plain Plug Gauge, yielding potential cost savings of

$2000

annually

Kalyani Forge Limited

Pune, India

Summer Project Intern – Production Planning & Control Dept May 2009 – June 2009

Established Standard Times for blocker, edger & finisher operation using Time Study

Eliminated foreign elements like excessive scaling and billet getting stuck in die.

Sports

Bronze medal, University of Pune - All India University Basketball (Men’s) tournament

Four consecutive Gold medals, ‘Ashwamegh’ - Maharashtra State University Basketball tournament

from 2008-2011

“Best Player” award for various inter-collegiate basketball and handball matches

Software

Applications – SAP, ASP.net, Microsoft Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, SQL Server, MS office

Design software – Solidworks, AutoCAD, FeatureCAM

Programming Languages – C-sharp, HTML and PL/SQL

Simulation software – Pro-Model, Arena

Spoken Languages

German. Certified with A1, A2 and B1 course

Hindi and Marathi (regional language) apart from English

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