Six Sigma Engineering

Rama Chaitanya Varma Sagiraju

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Texas A&M University, College Station, Masters in Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.5/4.0 Aug 2016 Relevant coursework: Production & Inventory control, Material handling systems, Advance Quality control, Engineering economy, Simulation methods

Birla Institute of technology and Sciences, Dubai, Bachelors in Electronics and Communication GPA: 8.77/10 Aug 2013 WORK EXPERIENCE:

Operation Excellence Intern at Hussmann Corporation, Atlanta Aug 2015 – Dec 2015

• Improved the efficiency of the production line from 76% to 88% by ensuring optimal inventory and raw materials levels at all times

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to solve shop floor problems using A3 approach

• Identified bottlenecks in the production line and recommended process improvements through line balancing and kaizen activities, reduced the cycle time by 90 minutes

• Implemented improvements in the sheet metal area and performed time studies to redistribute the standard time

• Audited 5S practices on a daily basis and recommended improvements Intern at Emerson Process Management, Dubai Feb 2013 – Jul 2013

• Optimized the temperature and pressure transmitters assembly lines using Kaizen methodology

• Recommended ergonomic improvements in the assembly line which reduced the cycle time by 7%

• Analyzed historical sales data with an end to optimize forward area for fast moving products, which reduced the pick time by 60%

• Supported incorporation of Kanban system in a new production facility in Saudi Arabia

• Participated in upgrading of existing stations and addition of new stations for assembly of a new product on existing line

• Designed the process flow and prepared work instructions for new products to be assembled on the line

• Performed manufacturing verification tests and documented results for Global HQ team Intern at Emerson Process Management, Dubai Jun 2011 – Aug 2011

• Implemented NFPA standards on the shop floor

• Trained instrument builders on NFPA regulations

• Provided lockout-tag out procedures for each station and created maintenance records

• Improved the safety of the instrument builders working at high-pressure stations by using a tether mechanism PROJECTS:

Kaggle Competition – Predicting voter’s inclination towards Democratic/Republic Party in the elections May 2016

• Built a statistical / machine learning model to predict voting outcome of a given electorate.

• Applied a combination of logistic regression, support vector machine, tree boosting to achieve a prediction accuracy of 64.4%

Designing a Warehouse: Apr 2016

• Designed a warehouse for popular shoe manufacturer in Arizona, which can accommodate growth of next five years.

• Designed the warehouse geometry, analyzed the data and separated SKU’s for forward area and reserve area.

• Designed the operating procedures, layout plan, equipment handling, implementation plan, economic justification and work force requirements.

Design of Self-Checkout counter using Cognitive Engineering Principles: Mar 2016

• Performed user analysis and collected data through observation and unstructured interviews of customers and employees and conducted hierarchical task analysis.

• Identified problems in the existing system and came up with a better design, which reduces the total time at the checkout and increases the customer satisfaction.

Phase 1 analysis of Statistical process control: Dec 2014

• Performed Principal Component analysis (Using Scree plot) to decrease the parameters using Matlab.

• Performed Phase 1 analysis using multiple univariate charts to remove outliers and find in control mean and variance. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Six Sigma Green belt, R, SQL, Simio (Simulation), Matlab, AutoCAD, Solid Works, Minitab, C, MS office

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