Engineering Six Sigma

SUDARSHAN SEKAR

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Schaumburg, Illinois - 60195 716-***-****

EDUCATION

Master of Science – Industrial Engineering Feb 2015

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015

State University of New York, University at Buffalo (UB), Buffalo, New York, USA

RELEVANT COURSEWORK CGPA: 3.100

Lean Enterprise & Applications, Quality Assurance, Six Sigma Quality, Production Planning and Control,

Supply Chain & Logistics, Design & Analysis of Experiments, Human Computer Interaction, Project Management

Projects:

Statistical Process Control – Design of 9-Volt Battery with little variation. (APQP Project)

Lean Six Sigma Quality Project – streamline scheduling processes of American Cancer Society to improve business

performance and reduce inventory.

Production Planning & Control – Implementing Kanban System in Vendor Delivery to improve the profitability

of Supply Chain by an estimated amount of 3 million for a year.

Lean Enterprise & Applications Project – Evaluate 3 Alternative Cell Designs to meet customer demand for 2 models

X&Y of a product highlighting the number of changeovers.

Logistics & Distribution Management – Cost Benefit Analysis for optimizing Distribution Network, Transportation

Decisions and Inventory Management.

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering May 2010

August 2006 – M ay 2010

Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

January 2010 – May 2010

Project:

Design and Fabrication of Thrifty Lower Limb Prosthetics.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Design Release Engineer, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited, September 2011- August 2013

Client: Renault Nissan Technological and Business Centre – India.

Managed the engineering change process, created and maintained complex Bills of Material, ECR, ECN and Part

attribute data for TRIM and BODY components in Corporate Engineering Release System (G2B) for PPAP.

Conducted continuous improvement activities for design release process to reduce defects on Product Change Notices.

Acted as customer liaison for product quality issues and performed Root- Cause Analysis on non-conforming ECN’s.

Resolved customer complaints with design engineers located at Nissan Technical Centre - Japan, for the end customer

Nissan Motors and delivered impeccable service to clients.

Supervised, trained and delegated 4 person work team on Quality Check and lead problem solving activities within.

Verified Engineering Bill of Materials (EBOM) compliance with Nissan Design Specifications & Nissan Engineering

Standards and achieved the merit of being Nissan certified Quality Checker on the Engineering Bill of Materials.

Received highest performance rating from ’11 to ’12, accorded to less than 20% of employees across the globe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Lean Six Sigma skills: Time and Motion studies, VSM, Root Cause Analysis 5S, OEE, TPM, DMAIC & A3.

Quality Assurance skills: DOE, SPC, ANOVA, Process Capability, Gauge Analysis, PFMEA, APQP, PPAP.

Operations Management skills: Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, Logistics & Distribution Management,

MRP, Just in Time (JIT), Break even analysis, BOM, ECN, ECR, Project Management.

HCI skills: User/Customer need analysis methods, Usability testing and evaluation, User Modelling by KLM & GOMS.

Software skills: AutoCAD 3D, Minitab, LOGWARE, MS Office, VB Application in Excel, ERP System, Teamcenter.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Nissan certified Quality Checker on G2B system. February 2013

Player of Green Eggs & Ham. (SUNY, University at Buffalo - Ultimate Frisbee Team) August 2013 – August 2014

3rd Prize for Project titled Thrifty Lower Limb Prosthetics at Project Exhibition 2010. April 2010

WOW award for contribution as a Trainer for Quality Checker Trainees, KPIT Cummins. May 2013

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