Engineer Manufacturing

VIVEKANANDA REDDY KOVVURI

**** ***** **** *****, #**, Houston TX 77057 Mobile – 979-***-**** Email – ******************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekananda-reddy-kovvuri-52aaa838 OBJECTIVE:

Experienced and self-motivated Industrial engineer looking for full-time opportunities as a Quality engineer EDUCATION:

Texas A&M University, College Station, United States Aug’ 2015 Masters in Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.77/4

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhopal, India May 2013 Bachelors in Industrial Engineering GPA-9/10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Manufacturing Engineer, American Block Manufacturing Company, Houston, TX Jul’ 2015-Mar 2016

• Identified and altered flow of parts to grinding and quality control stations resulting in $56,820 annual savings.

• Implemented 5S principles with respect to tooling at 8 workstations with projected annual savings of $64,316.

• Created and maintained tooling database with over 5000 different tools resulting in 15% reduced tool costs over 2014.

• Designed and built special tooling and fixtures for machining processes.

• Resolved technical issues arising on shop floor alongside implementation of continuous improvement projects. Quality Assurance Supervisor Jul’ 2015-Mar 2016

• Co-authored tool calibration manual and performed internal audits adhering to API Q1 specifications.

• Calibration engineer for all measurement tools performed in-house. Fixed contract pricing for outside vendor calibration. Manufacturing Engineer Intern, American Block Manufacturing Company, Houston, TX May 2014-Aug’ 2014

• Implemented Automated Production Scheduling (APS) through companies Enterprise Resource Planning system.

• Determined capacity of manufacturing & weld shop, developed machine work groups and standard manufacturing routers for oilfield equipment.

• Classified more than 20000 different parts in under 500 part families for ease of scheduling.

• Estimated and calculated machining times on manufacturing routers for purpose of scheduling.

• Revised actual machining times by running SAP crystal reports and comparing deviation from estimated times. Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Sep’ 2013-May 2015

• Quantified Built-Up-Edge on 316L SS using a novel parameter ‘BUE Density’ for different milling parameters.

• Developed a mathematical model to predict surface finish including the effects of Built-Up-Edge and tool wear. Summer Intern, Planning Department, Ramadas Paper Boards Private Limited, India May 2011-Jul’ 2011

• Identified and brainstormed reasons for variation in order delivery time for 600 customer orders.

• Performed Root cause analysis (RCA) through 5 Why’s and Ishikawa diagram, focused on eliminating ‘Vital Few’ causes thereby reducing standard deviation of lead time by 51.64%. ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Model generation to classify advertisements using supervised learning techniques Sep’ 2014-Dec’ 2014

• Developed prediction models for supervised learning methods including Logistic regression, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Classification tree, K- nearest neighbors, neural networks and C4.5 rule based algorithms in R.

• Implemented dimensionality reduction methods like principal component analysis to select significant attributes among 1558 total attributes.

Case Study on strategic location of a major electronics retailer warehouses in Houston Metropolitan Jan’ 2014–Apr’ 2014

• Applied p-center and p-median approach to determine location and optimal number of warehouses. Used fixed cost and transportation cost as key parameters.

• Simulated and solved mathematical formulations for different scenarios (locating 1-25 warehouses) in AMPL. SKILL SET:

• Design/Simulation Software: Simio, AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid Works, Pro-Engineer, Master Cam

• Programming/Statistical Package: C, SAP Crystal reports, R, SQL and Minitab (Intermediate) SUMMARY:

• One-year experience in dynamic manufacturing environment specifically tooling, scheduling and ERP systems.

• Hands on experience in implementation of Lean methodologies such 5S, DMAIC and Kanban and SMED.

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