Quality Management
Resume:
Santhosh Sankigatta Devakumar
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SUMMARY
A engineering professional with extensive Techno Functional experience in Hi Tech Manufacturing and service industries which includes key business areas like Manufacturing, Industrial engineering, Services, Quality, Supply Chain, Logistics and Production.
Experience managing a portfolio of multiple large scale, high value projects with integration across several functional areas. Experience working with top management and leadership teams across Globe. Area of expertise includes….
Six Sigma
Lean Manufacturing
Team Building and Training
Total Quality Management
Cost Reduction / Avoidance
Strategic Planning and Execution
International Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement
Collaboration and Matrix Teams.
General Electric – June 2009 – till date
A Multinational American technology and service conglomerate.
Job Title: Fleet Program Manager – June 2014 – till date
Planning, managing, directing 1670 fleet and improved the reliability by 5%.
Implemented documentation strategies in order to ensure program sustainability and reduce program cost by 12%.
Implemented change management process by introducing new tool to conduct financial analysis and reporting improving the fleet performance by 45% exceeding customer requirement.
Conduct system requirement studies, capabilities and limitations assessment for fleet in order to analyze system performance, reduced failure rate by 20%.
Job Title: Quality Leader - June 2009 – June 2014
Leading quality and lean process improvement initiatives. Reduced failure rate from 11.5% to 8.5%, improved reissue execution from 5.4% to 3.8%.
Develop and monitor quality matrices for the organization. Improved compliance from 90% to 99.5% and service accuracy from 92% to 98%.
Develop and drive corrective and preventative action across process.
Lead and develop quality and process audits.
Lead continuous feedback for organization on quality, reliability and process improvement.
Implementation, training and compliance of quality assurance system.
Lead Six sigma projects.
Armstrong World Industries June 2008 – June 2009
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings and cabinets.
Job Title: Quality and Process Improvement Manager
Leading Quality and Process Improvement Teams.
Leading the quality systems, quality policies and procedures to ensure compliance with specification, industry standards and customer requirements.
Establishes operation goals and objectives in line with corporate goals and vision. Develop performance matrices for key business areas and align teams to achieve these goals.
Leads initiatives to identifying opportunities for process improvement, materials and design improvements.
Lead teams to implement lean, kaizen and 5S in the operation and coach sixsigma project teams.
Interface with internal and external customers to ensure quality and process issues are addressed in a timely fashion.
Interfaces with key suppliers to establish standards, which lead to enhance supplier quality.
Laird Technologies October 2004 – June 2008
Global Technology Company focused on providing systems, components and solutions to protect electronics from electromagnetic interference and heat, and enable connectivity in mission-critical wireless applications and antenna systems.
Job Title: Quality / Manufacturing Engineer
Team leader for customer requirement review, cost of quality, return material process and customer satisfaction. Improved cost of quality by increasing first time yield from 99.74% to 99.93%.
Cost and break-even analysis.
Project valuation and validation.
Customer requirement analysis and develop plan for implementation.
Leading and managing quality and testing requirements for design and development process.
Responsible for statistical analysis and design of experiment.
Provide leadership to cross-organizational teams on process improvement, lean and 5S, project benchmarking, productivity and project planning.
Implementing continuous process improvements.
Caterpillar July 1990 – June 2002
Caterpillar, Inc is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives and a wide and growing offering of related services.
Job Title: Senior Engineer January 1995 – June 2002
As a Team leader Organized and managed TQM process.
Interface between development team and business unit leaders.
Implemented project viability study and value analysis leading 30% Cost reduction in manufacturing process.
Team leader automation of the supply chain.
Job Tile: Engineer July 1990 – December 1994
Automated the operations of the Purchase Department leading to reduced cost and cycle time.
Trained and mentored team members and suppliers on ISO and QS process.
Conduced gap analysis and defined functional requirements.
Sanmathi Engineering August 1988 – June 1990
A medium size engineering company specializing in Heavy Fabrication and machining for electronic industries.
Job Title: Supervisor quality control and production
Coordinating and documenting customer needs to business user requirements and composing those into system specification documents.
Implementing customer quality standards to business unit
Interface between the development team and the business unit leaders.
Education
Master of Science in Manufacturing System Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln USA
Graduate Diploma in Materials Management – Indian Institute of Materials Management
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering – India
Methodologies & Process
Six Sigma and Lean Process
System Integration and Continues Improvement
Statistical Analysis
ISO, QS, TS, CMM
Project Management
Total Quality Management
Skills
Six Sigma and Lean Tools
Advance Product and Quality Plan
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
Management Quality Tools
Design of Experiments
Minitab
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Visio
Auto Cad and Database Management such as AS400, Oracle and SQL Server
Memberships and Certifications
Six Sigma – Black Belt - GE
Certified Quality Manager and Organization Excellence from American Society for Quality (ASQ) (03/2006)
Certification in ISO/QS Auditing
Member ASQ
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