Varun Kumar Polavarapu

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OBJECTIVE

Dedicated and motivated graduate Industrial Engineer. Looking for opportunities to harness my strong academic skills, enhancing my career graph and gaining practical experience.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Master’s level engineering student with strong skills in Quality control and analytics, RRCA/RCCA concepts, (certified) Lean & Six sigma methodologies like Product/Process improvement, Reliability Engineering, VOC, Process routings, Time studies, TPM, Toyota production system and ROI concepts, Statistical software (SPC), Optimization, Ergonomics, Supply Chain Management.

Sound fundamental knowledge in math oriented subjects like Probability & Statistics, Industrial Management, Inventory Management, Production Planning and Control, Project Management, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and 2D&3D Layouts, Automobile Engineering.

Good communication, negotiation, management, and problem solving skills; adaptable to any environment and self-motivated.

EDUCATION

Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering December 2016

Northern Illinois University(NIU), DeKalb, IL GPA 3.62/4.0

Certifications: Lean and Six Sigma, Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Bachelors of Technology Mechanical Engineering May 2014

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University(JNTU), Hyderabad, India GPA 3.5/4.0

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications/Tools AutoCAD 2012, Catia V5-, Hyper mesh v12, Abaqus 6.10

SAS 9.4, Chemkin pro-12, Visual Studio, Rockwell Arena V14.7

General Applications MS Word, MS project, MS Access, Minitab, Mat lab, Contour plot,

MS Excel Spread sheet

Languages C, C++ & Data Structures

Databases MySQL

ENGINEERING WORK EXPERIENCE

Industrial Process Engineer, Eco Direct Laundry & Cleaners, Chicago, Il-USA, September 2016

Create Standard Work (STW) by observing operator work flow and conducting Work Flow Analysis and Time studies to identify the bottle necks in the process

Process Improvement: Safety and Quality Improvements, material and labor savings

Implement continuous improvement activities and ergonomics to support site strategies

Continuous Improvement: Participate or lead in Kaizens, 5S, and 3P events

Develop and write sequence of operations as well as time estimates for each operation

Develop the labor allotment process and implementing load leveling concepts

Graduate Teaching Assistant(TA), NIU, DeKalb, Il-USA, January 2016-August 2016

Graduate TA for courses Total Quality management(TQM), Engineering economy(EE)

Worked with students to understand the concepts of SAS 9.3 (data analysis tool), by conducting helpful workshops.

TQM is the Quality Management approach, incorporating principles like Flexible work culture, ISO Standards, Customer focused process, continual improvement (CI)

Graded assignments and tests for a class of 25 students, conducting help sessions for TQM and EE and resolving the doubts of the students.

Executive Manufacturing, Sri Lakshmi Technologies (ISO 90001 Certified), Hyderabad, India, December 2013- December 2014

Developed the shift allotment and labor assignment policies that saved 700 US Dollars/month

Applied lean manufacturing, quality control, PDP concepts (with in customer requirements) with production teams to ensure cost-effective, high quality and assured delivery of products following ISO standards improving the profit margin by two 2000 US Dollars on each delivered shipment

Worked with a cross-functional group that involved product designers and skilled engineers to design a new component of a product as tool and fixture design using AutoCAD and Catia

Performed various jobs like inventory audits, current machine modification, planning, testing, cost estimation, generating bill of materials(BOM), budgets, generating quality notifications etc.

Conducted time studies to optimize the assembly flow and minimize people per machine per day

Graduate Intern, R K Toyota, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, September 2013 -December 2013

Improved the service out time for a general service of a car by 2 minutes

Monitored basic service & maintenance of automobiles, changing small spares. Methods of implementing continuous improvement, economic cost analysis and processes development

PROJECTS

Lean Manufacturing simulation for a Clock manufacturing company (following TS-16949 principles) at NIU, DeKalb, IL, June 2016

A clock manufacturing plant was studied, Lean principles like SOP, Kaizen, Kanban, 5S/6S, TPM, Poke Yoke, Point of Use Storage, Quality at source, and Setup Reduction were implemented

Cycle times and scrap were reduced by identifying bottlenecks, improving the uptime, throughput by 25% and reducing the man power by 20% and a current/future state VSM as a deliverable

Improving parking facility at Engineering Building using Six-Sigma tools at NIU, DeKalb, IL, May 2016

Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) for long queues to park a car, generating KPI and using principles of DMAIC, FMEA, ANOVA, VOC(questionnaires)Inspection Reports, Gantt & Pert Charts, Sampling procedures to reduce the waiting times, improving the parking facilities

A review on Beta Control Charts for Monitoring Fraction Data at NIU, DeKalb, IL, Dec’16

Studied various parameters of Beta charts and P-charts used in Statistical process control (SPC), control plans, regression analysis and gathering of data within the quality clinic

Reviewed various concepts like NCR/CAR, PPAP, 8D, Quality Systems (5S's, ISO and GD&T)

Evaluation of Ergonomics in automobiles (OSHA regulations) at NIU, DeKalb, IL, June 2016

Studied various concepts of in-vehicle ergonomics and human factors, to mitigate health hazards

New facility layout & location for the Campus Police station at NIU, DeKalb, IL, May 2016

Depending on the on-campus crime rate, a new optimal location was proposed for the campus police station using Minimax Rectangular method and Minisum Tchebychev methods

Developed a MS Access application for maintaining a rental car company’s database, at NIU, DeKalb, IL, May 2016.

Developed a database for monitoring inventory and customer data for a rental car company

Parameters in production of PC115 grade steels at wire rod mill, Vizag Steel Plant, India, June 2013

Studied the parameters in manufacturing process of PC 115 grade steels and process of slotting, material flow, operations sequence, transporting and dispatch of the products

Submitted a project report on reducing the production costs involved in production of PC 115 grade steels, results show an estimated production costs reduced by 0.2 percent

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