PRAVEEN KUMAR JANGALA

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An accomplished and seasoned professional with a comprehensive background in manufacturing, process engineering and operations management. Apply creative problem solving and lean management skills with a growing organization to achieve optimum utilization of its resources and maximum profits. Experience with QMS system and demonstrated knowledge of statistics, including process control and design of experiments.

Basic training in process safety management. Analytical skill set with excellent communication skills when interacting with customer concerns and quality issues pertaining to product, and deliverables.

Spunbond

Meltblown

Thermalbond

Carding

Cross/Vertical Lapping

Polymer Extrusion

Quality Control

ISO 9001

Statistical Process Control

Design of Experiments

Analytical Skills

Lean manufacturing

Stage Gate

Process Safety Management

EMPLOYMENT

Piana Nonwovens, LLC Cartersville, GA 12/15 – 07/16

General Manager

Troubleshoot, Optimization and ramp up of two new nonwoven production lines. Designed and developed 4 new commercial products that resulted in a sale of $0.4 MM in the first 3 months of initial launch.

Led price negotiations with raw material suppliers resulting in 14% cost savings.

Handled customer quality complaints and interacted with customers to resolve the issues.

Served as technical lead to develop the competency and train process and quality team members.

Wm. T. Burnett & Co. Phoenix, AZ 11/07 – 11/15

Quality Process Manager

Provided oversight of production of bedding, filtration, and furniture-based nonwoven products. Led personnel training of special projects and customer complaints. Reduced quality complaints by less than 0.09% on a yearly revenue of greater than $11M. Accomplished setting up a comprehensive lab for product testing.

Led ISO 9001-2008 certification process for a new establishment.

Led process optimization resulting in savings of $500,000+

Co-lead production schedule and supplies, raw material inventory, network system and customers.

Oversaw cross functional teams to resolve process issues

Led a team from operations and quality to establish a test protocol for product qualifications.

Administered costing and GORM for new products.

Bonar Enka, NC 05/05 – 09/07

Process Engineer

Improved process & product quality of three dimensional Geo Matrix and nonwoven products. Increased the production by 500,000 square yards, about 10% of the total production on annual basis. Developed, documented and maintained process parameters, ISO 9001 procedures and guidelines. Identified root cause and eliminated process and product upsets. Developed, implemented and maintained statistical tools for continuous improvements.

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Reviewed technical process and product indices for quality, properties, efficiencies, etc.

Developed, assisted, evaluated and implemented new technologies, processes, and procedures.

Executed and implemented technical process.

Implemented new product development and commercial ramp up using “stage gate methodology.”

Jentex Corporation Buford, GA 11/01 – 04/05

Process Engineer/Standard Operating Procedure Manager

Developed, improved and optimized the Meltblown nonwoven production of polymers for air and liquid filtration, wipes, sorbents, composites and adhesive webs by utilizing the knowledge of process control and operation of the process. Deeply involved with Polypropylene extrusion and web forming process. Improved the efficiency by reducing the scrap. Installed and optimized nylon cartridge filtration process.

Implemented standard operating procedures for the machine, its operations, safety, personnel and for analytical testing instruments for testing the products.

Led the quality control for the products

Tandec, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 08/99 – 11/01

Graduate Research Assistant/Senior Research Assistant

Operation and processing of Meltblown (Reifenhauser Bi-component Line) and Spunbond line (1 meter Reifenhauser, Reicofil II). Evaluated and refined the polymer die maintenance and change out procedure. Performed extensive research in the areas of thermal bonding, spunbonding and meltblowing process

EDUCATION

MS in Textile Science (Polymers/Nonwovens) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (2001)

B.Tech in Textile Technology University of Karnataka, India (1997)

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Jangala, P.K., Bhat, G.S. and Spruiell, J. “Thermal Bonding of Polypropylene Nonwovens: Effect of Bonding Variables on the Structure and Properties of the Fabrics,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 92, 2004. (p 3593 – 3600)

“Effect of Bonding Variables in Thermal Bonding of Polypropylene Nonwovens,” Book of Papers, INTC, September 2002.

“Effect of Bond Area, Bond Size and Bond Temperature on Thermally Bonded Nonwovens,” Book of Papers, NCRC, May 2001.

“Bonding Variables in Thermal Bonding,” paper presented at Quint State Consortium, April 2001.

“Effect of Bonding Variables in Thermal Bonding of Polypropylene Nonwovens,” Sigma Xi Student Paper Competition, March 2001.

“Implications of Fiber Morphology in Thermal Bonding,” NCRC, October 2000.

“Effect of Process Variables in Thermal Bonding of Polypropylene Fibers,” NCRC, May 2000.

CERTIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

● Fiber Society 2000 ● Troubleshooting Extrusion Process. 2006

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