Design Engineer Engineering

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Hendersonville, TN 37075 email: ****.*******@****.***

Engineering professional with extensive experience in product development, project management, and program management. My greatest Strengths are aptitude for innovation and product development, cost reduction evaluations, and the knowledge of how to implement inventions into product design.

I have extensive experience of project management from concept to launch. I am experienced in leading and managing teams in various engineering functions. I have been recognized for patents resulting in increased sales.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Electrolux Home Appliance, Springfield, Tennessee September 2012-Present

Project Lead: Global R&D Cooking

Project team lead for electric, gas and dual fuel specialty free-standing range project

Developed statement of work and project charter for out-sourced projects

Created project schedules for 5 projects, using rolling wave planning according to stage gate system

Managed project communication to all stakeholder

Led project team in cross functional team meeting

Supported manufacturing team in part and assembly planning.

Developed project tracking database for in-house use

Plan and oversee regulatory compliance of ranges.

Lead design team for FMEA of ranges.

Lead prototype build at various stages of projects.

Vulcan Hart Company (subsidiary of ITW), Troy, Ohio April, 1996-September, 2012

Principal Engineer: Cooking Engineering Group March, 2006-September, 2012

Responsible for:

Managing new product developed and launch plan.

Creating and managing annual R&D budget.

Managing and developing engineering team including performance appraisals.

Planning all R&D activities and assigning resources.

Managing engineering change control process

Leading new ERP system implementation and training engineering teams for new ERP system.

Leading the projects reviews through product development stage gates.

Design verification, field and regulatory approval (CSA/UL/ASME etc.) testing.

Lead engineering team during tri-annual ASME quality review.

Conducting ASME pressure vessel calculations.

Design of pre-mix power burner for kettles (Patent Pending).

Coordinating Technology development and IP application filing.

Leading technology sharing between US and European teams.

Leading engineering team for VAVE.

Sr. Design Engineer: Cooking Engineering Group April 2001-March, 2006

Responsible for:

Development of industries’ first steam cooker with superheated steam (Patented).

Design of helical heat exchanger for steamers and fryers.

Numerical heat transfer analysis for heat exchangers

Structural analysis (using FEA) of ovens, steamers and braising pans.

Design of burner and flue components for gas fired braising pan

Coordinating CSA/CGA required testing on combustion system for agency approvals.

Design of electric steam cooker with staged filling process(Patented)

Design Engineer: Cooking R&D Team April, 1996- April, 2001

Designed a high efficiency convection gas fryer.

Developed large size electric fryer with drawer type filtration system.

Designed a combination filter, which consists of a batch and a continuous filter (Patented).

Designed high output power burner for fryers and steamers.

Development embedded programs for cooking machine with stored recipes.

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio September, 1993 - March 1996

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Graduate Research Assistant: Worked with industrial partners such as GM, GE, Cincinnati Milacron, Kennametal, and BOC in the consortium for economical cryogenic machining.

Improved cutting tool life for machining of Titanium by four fold.

Designed vacuum insulated liquid nitrogen delivery systems nozzle for cutting tools.

Modified cutting tools and chip breakers to improve the chip breaking of low carbon steel.

Patents:

“Steam cooking apparatus with steam flushing system”, Dec., 2013

“Stacked steam oven construction”, Aug., 2013

“Steam oven heater plate arrangement”, Jan., 2013

“Flash steam generator”, Aug., 2011

“Steam generator for a steam cooker having an automated draining process”. Dec., 2010

“Steam oven system having steam generator with controlled fill process”. Nov., 2004

“Steam cooker and related super-heater”. Sept., 2004

“Atmospheric Steamer”, Aug., 2003

“Systems and method for non-Invasive assessment of cooked status of food during cooking”. Oct., 2001

“Combination continuous and batch filter for a recirculating fryer”. May, 2001

Three (3) applications pending.

Certification:

Project Management Professional, Certified through Project Management Institute (PMI)

Education:

MBA Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio, 2008

M S M. E. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 1996

B S. M. E. Malaviya Engineering College, Jaipur, India, February 1988

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Software: Catia V5, PRO-E(Windchill & CREO), CFDesign, AutoCAD, ANSYS, ACCESS, EXCEL, EPICOR, MS Project and most common software’s.

Languages: C, C++, VBA, SQL and FORTRAN

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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