PRACHI SHAH

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SUMMARY

Industrial and systems engineer graduate with a demonstrated history of working in the manufacturing industry for 3 years. Proficient in performing quality analysis, applying Lean and Six Sigma principles, Statistical analysis, Design of Experiments (ANOVA), oral and written communication, and strong administrative/organizational skills.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering Expected Graduation: May 2017

San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA GPA: 3.74/4

Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation Engineering June 2009 – May 2013

University of Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India GPA: 3.4/4

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Programming Skills: C, C++, Blue Java, Java, Python, R

Technical Skills: AutoCAD, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Visual Basic, ProModel, Gurorbi, CPLEX, MS Visio, MS Office Suite

Certifications: Six Sigma Green Belt (SJSU, May 2016)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Engineering Intern, Lam Research, Livermore, California June 2016 – Present

Developing new Operations Quality Assurance Procedures, templates and checklists for New Product Introductions, Test deployments and product transition processes

Improving existing business processes (like change control, auditing and inspection processes) by applying lean principles, identifying gaps and providing better traceability using a robust MES like CellFusion

Re-designing lean manufacturing lines for Supplier to produce one product per day from each manufacturing line

Technical Engineer, Microtech Industries, Mumbai, India September 2013 – May 2015

Headed a team for quality assurance of plastic injection molds, jigs and fixtures machinery components by developing and maintaining engineering standards related to operations and quality

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve product specifications for verification and validation

Established and maintained quality plans and performance metrics, to assure products meet target customer’s requirements

Assisted in the identification and resolution of quality issues. Managed and facilitated the root cause and corrective actions systems through tracking and validating of issues

ACADEMIC PROJECTS EXPERIENCE

Lean Enterprise Improvement for a Café (San Jose State University) August 2016 – December 2016

Implemented lean principles like Kaizen and 5S for waste reduction governed by DMAIC approach

Developed Value Stream Maps for before and after states of the café

Improved the overall service time by 15.33% for the customers by eliminating bottleneck

Quality Analysis of Temperature in Oakland (San Jose State University) October 2016 – December 2016

Transformed the temperatures for normality assumptions to perform Retrospective Analysis and Process Monitoring

Created an out-of-control action plan based on the control charts based on Statistical Process Control (SPC)

Six Sigma Improvement for a Consumer Electronics Company (San Jose State University) January 2016 – May 2016

Implemented data driven quality strategy: Define Measure Analyze Improve Control (DMAIC) for process improvement

Performed root cause analysis (8D) and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) of the problems faced by the company

Improved the billing time, waiting time on queue for billing and number of sales per week by 50%

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