Engineer Mechanical
Resume:
Kasturi Rangan Rajagopalan
Email: *******.***@*****.*** Phone: 313-***-****
SUMMARY
o 5 years of combined industry and academic experience as a mechanical engineer, working in the medical and automobile industries.
o Familiar with FDA regulations such as 21 CFR part 11, 50, 56, 58, 210, 820, PMA, 510(k). o Knowledge & experience in CGMP, CGLP & CGCP environment. o Good Exposure to ISO-9000, ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and ISO14971. o Experience in validating manufacturing process for medical equipments. o Hands on experience executing IQ, OQ and PQ for medical equipments working in the controlled environment. o Experienced with understanding customer needs for work flows and module level problems. o Familiar with 5S, GMP, APQP, and PPAP. KAIZEN and lean manufacturing process. o Proficient with Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) workflow including, Investigation Task, Action, Request, Request Extension and Closure phases.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Software Skills: Mat-Lab, Minitab, Mathcad, Excel and Agile PLM, HP ALM and MySQL.
• Core Skills: Product development, test fixture development, Commissioning, product life cycle, equipment qualifications and process validation, Pareto Analysis, Fish bone diagram and RCA.
• Quality: Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, FMEA, DFMEA, and SPC, Gage R&R .
CFD Simulation Tools: Mentor Graphics Flo-VENT (600hrs+), ANSYS Icepack (400hrs+) and ANSYS.
Solid Modeling Tools: Pro- Engineer, Solid Works, AutoCAD and Inventor. WORK EXPERIENCE
Mechanical Engineer
Client – American Medical Systems L Mar 2014 – Sept 2015 Project – ELC remediation
Responsibilities
Developed IQ/ OQ/ PQ protocols and test procedures for the AUS control pump tester, fabric PDL fixture, force pressure test fixtures.
Write protocols and manage the execution of process, equipment, and design validations
Performed and validated thermal mapping for Freezers, refrigerators and convection ovens.
Created ECO, ECR, for specification, technical documents such as IQ, OQ and PQ.
Prepared deviation reports for the medical equipments such as standard timers, microscopes, rulers, pneumatic press and balloon test fixture and optical comparator to implement CAPA for manufacturing process.
Determined critical process parameters and optimized process steps by using DoE, process capability study and control chart using Minitab Software.
Coordinated meetings, discussion sessions for the release of the TCF documents.
Coordinated with the decommissioning and recommissioning efforts.
Performed lab tests, prepare technical reports and presentations. Kasturi Rangan Rajagopalan
Email: *******.***@*****.*** Phone: 313-***-****
Project PV Remediation
Responsibilities
Identified manufacturing process gaps for the AMS medical devices.
Created trace control forms for medical products in the controlled environment.
Coordinated technical review and disposition meeting with vendors, operation supervisors, operations engineer, and quality engineer and packaging engineers.
Prepared process validation test protocols for the medical equipment such as standard rulers, micrometers, and calipers.
Project– DQ Rationale
Responsibilities
Maintain Design History record and ensured documents are complete, accurate and current
Coordinated with the Off shore team for the design documents and reports.
Verified the Offshore team on the part and assembly drawings for GD&T accuracy in Solid-Works. Production Engineer – Trainee
Client - TVS Turbo Energy Limited, India Jan 2009 - Jun 2010 Responsibilities
Created drawings of turbo charger parts using AutoCAD and Revit.
Conducted inspection tests on the finished journal bearings, ball bearing, turbine wheel, and compressor wheel for various turbocharger models.
Dimensional verification of machined parts to print for journal bearings, turbine wane for various turbo chargers using semi-automated, fully automated CNCs.
Assisted in planning, production schedules, managing work shifts and Inventory Control. EDUCATION
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Aug 2013 University of Texas at Arlington, Texas.
Thesis: Comparative analysis of widely used air containment systems in commercial datacenters (Published). Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile Engineering May 2009 Anna University, Chennai, India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Electronic MEMS Nano electronic Systems Packaging Center, Arlington, TX. Sep 2011 – May 2014 Graduate Student Researcher
Research was supervised by Prof. Agonafer and team of Industrial Mentors from CommScope and Mestex Inc. National science foundation sponsored I /UCRC Industry University Co-operative Research Consortium in Energy Smart Electronic Systems (ES2).
Project#1 - “CFD modeling o f I nidirect / d irect e vap orativ e c ooling unit for modular data center Application s.” Solver - Mentor Graphics Flo-VENT
Accomplishments
Kasturi Rangan Rajagopalan
Email: *******.***@*****.*** Phone: 313-***-****
Identified best cooling solution using CFD analysis and thermal modeling of (SE) containment solution for a test case raised floor data center.
Achieved 16% cost reduction through thermal modeling of ASC-20 ECU for Mestex Inc.
Reduced the computational time by half using the best practices of computational methods. Responsibilities
Modeled actual cooling unit ASC-20 Evaporative Cooling Unit (ECU I) using CFD tool and verified simulation results with ASC-20 specifications.
Analyzed the effect of air flow efficiency in accordance with inlet damper orientation.
Analyzed the effect of blanking panel location on the supply air temperature (SAT) for ECU.
Simulated and modified computational model of ASC 20 unit for efficient thermal management.
Prepared updated technical reports and presentation slides duly after every design modifications of ASC-20 Indirect/ direct evaporative cooling unit.
Project#2 - Comparative analysis of widely used air containment systems in commercial datacenters (Thesis). Equipment - Airflow Test Chamber AMCA 210-99
Solver - Mentor Graphics Flo-THERM.
Accomplishments
Determined the maximum Rack Inlet Temperatures (RIT) for various containment solutions.
Determined the best air containment system based on Fan power and RIT. Responsibilities
Designed eight different Schneider Electric (SE) containment solutions using Mentor Graphics Flo-VENT.
Identified key parameters that determine the cooling performance in raised floor datacenter.
Reduced the fan curve and system resistance curve from Air flow bench ANSI/ASHRAE 51-1999 and imported the data for Intel Xeon 5500 R server for Facebook.
Conducted specific test procedures to satisfy airflow measurement systems instruction manual by ASME. HONORS
Award#: Recipient of “Electronics MEMS and Nano Systems Packaging Fellowship” Aug 2012.
Award#: Recipient of “Electronics MEMS and Nano Systems Packaging Fellowship” Jan 2013.
Presentation: Comparative analysis of widely used air containment systems in commercial datacenters.
‘Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students’ (ACES), University of Texas at Arlington, Texas.
Publication: Gebrehiwot, B., Dhiman, N., Rajagopalan, K., Agonafer, D., Kannan, N., Hoverson, J., Kaler, M. “CFD modeling of indirect / direct evaporative cooling unit for modular data center Applications.” proceedings of the ASME 2013 international technical conference and exhibition on packaging and integration of electronic and photonic microsystems, ASME.
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