Engineer Supply Chain

K Sharana Basavana Goud

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Ability to quickly understand business/functional requirements of an organization and apply environmental regulatory knowledge to comply with chemical regulatory compliance across the globe.

SUMMARY

Having 6+Yrs of extensive experience as an Environmental Compliance Engineer and Component Engineer.

My role is to contribute in ensuring compliance of companies across the global Supply Chain with worldwide environmental legislation particularly with RoHS, REACH, ELV, IMDS, CDX and Conflict Minerals.

Automotive compliance as per the ELV guidelines, GADSL, ECHA regulations IMDS Recommendations and OEM standards.

Creation, Evaluation of material data sheet for the OEM/ Supplier as per the requirement.

Responsible for performing the Obsolescence monitoring for the ongoing projects and also tracking the Discontinuance alerts for the running projects.

Suggesting the FFF Equivalent alternates for the “Obsolete” and “End of life” parts, identifying MPN for the Specifications, as per the design requirement.

Experience and knowledge on environmental product analytics tool iPoint, CDX, IHS-4D, Silicon Expert, KPMG, Assent Compliance, OneSource, Team Center, SAP and IPC 1752 Builder.

Proficiency in SAP MM with knowledge of Vendor and Material Masters, Org Structure Elements such as Purch Orgs, Plant, Company Code, Storage Location, Warehouses.

Hands on experience in creating test cases and execute Regression, functional, System testing.

Good team player with excellent communication skills, Flexibility to change/leverage with any new technology and understand client requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming language

Basic Java

Operating Systems

Windows XP/10

RDBMS

MySQL and Oracle-9i/10g

Scripting Languages

VB Script, Excel Macros

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Proudhadevaraya Institute of Technology affiliated to VTU University, Karnataka, India.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Recognized as a Star Performer @

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

Q1-2014 & Q3-2015

IHS Global Pvt. Ltd.,

Q3-2011 & Q4-2012

CERTIFICATION

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

PERSONAL PARTICULARS

Date of Birth: 23rd July 1985 Languages Known: English, Hindi and Kannada

WORK EXPERIENCE

Since June 2016: APA Engineering Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India as a Senior Engineer

Project: IMDS

Client: Remy Incorporation

Automotive compliance as per the ELV guidelines, GADSL, ECHA regulations IMDS Rec. & OEM standards.

Creation, Evaluation of material data sheet for the OEM/ Supplier as per the requirement.

Conversion of MSDS data to Caterpillar Rapidsheet format of IPC 1752.

Project: CONFLICT MINERALS

Client: Visteon, Reydel, Hanon Systems, Automotive Plastic Components Berlin GmbH & Co KG

Responsible for preparing Standard operating sheets, SOPs and other process improvement projects.

Prepare various kinds of reports to customers based on supplier-provided chemical content info.

Reach out Suppliers/Manufacturers to determine if the products they sell to customers contain CM.

Follow up with the Suppliers/Manufacturer if required to get the necessary information.

RCOI was executed with all affected suppliers and/or original manufacturers supplying parts and materials for products manufactured by customers and were contacted, provided with customer’s policy, and requested to provide conflict minerals data in the CMRT.

Proficient tracking and maintenance of the information received from each Supplier.

Tracked project progress and enabled process maturity at frequent intervals and deliver updates to senior leadership team.

Co-ordinate with customers for technical queries & escalations to customer to get the technical resolutions.

Project: EHS (Environment Health & Safety)

Client: Hanon Systems

Ensure full compliance with growing and changing environmental regulations across all regions at both the plant and corporate levels – effectively and efficiently.

Communication with team to ensure detailed compositional and physical property data needed for the product's hazard assessment and ensure product's hazards are adequately evaluated and addressed on the SDS and labels as needed. Responsible for examining product formulation and documentation necessary for proper hazardous characterization.

Uploading the substance information, supplier information and SDS into EHS system to maintain EHS compliance in the work environment.

Worked as a Compliance Engineer for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc, Bangalore, India from Oct 2013 to May 2016.

Project: DRC – CONFLICT MINERALS

Certified on Six sigma Core Green belt project for process improvement.

Plan, prepare and implement the Dodd Franck Act Section 1502 for all Honeywell Business.

Provide support and assistance to suppliers on completing data declaration spreadsheets and producing the required compliance data.

Developed score card generation to measure DRC Conflict Minerals performance is fully automated.

Software Development:

Project Title : Conflict Minerals Report Tool (Product Compliance Tool)

Environment : ASP.NET, VB Script.

Operating Environment:

Web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0 and later.

Windows 2003 server running the IIS Web Server and .Net framework 3.5 and later.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Evaluated and developed the requirement & proposed new features of supplier communication, reporting, dashboards, customer inquiry management to operationalize compliance tool.

Coordinate with Software Development team regarding issues, solutions and improvements in GUI.

Actively Involved in Installation/Uninstallation Testing, Load/Unload Testing, GUI Testing.

Create test cases and test scripts and execute regression, functional, and smoke testing.

Responsible for preparing and review of Bug Reports.

Interaction with Developers for reproducing the bugs by providing them the required info.

Worked as an Engineer for IHS Global Pvt Ltd under the payroll of Ascent Staffing Solution Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India from Jan 2011 to Oct 2013. Compliance Engineer

Developing and executing data collection campaign for RoHS, REACH, WEEE and CHINA RoHS from Suppliers for international material compliance assurance of supply chain parts.

Review, validate and process supplier-provided information including lab reports and other information (FMD, MDS etc.,) for electronics and electrical equipment parts according to defined protocols.

Collects, analyzes and archives component information related to environmental compliance.

Evaluation of non RoHS component substitutions, qualification of alternative parts, and identification of high risk components

Prepare various electronic reports for our clients that summarize the supplier-provided information and the project status.

Project: IBM PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

Client: IBM

IBM's product content declaration form is used by the Suppliers of materials, parts and products to IBM. PCD form is used to provide information to verify the compliance of their products to IBM's environmental requirements. The Product Content Declaration for IBM Suppliers is used to document the environmental data necessary to establish compliance of procured materials, parts and products to IBM Engineering Specification 46G3772.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Handled IBM's Product Content Declaration (PCD) data collection which involved reaching out to suppliers worldwide and assessing environmental documents provided.

Collects and validates environmental regulatory data from suppliers in the form of PCD for IBM.

Identifying, updating & driving existing internal processes & guidelines to enable supply chain compliance (Packaging, Battery, RoHS, Safety, REACH and Conflict Minerals) through the product development process.

Provide support and assistance to electronics suppliers on data declaration in producing the required compliance data.

Co-ordinate with IBM users for technical queries and escalations to customer to get technical resolutions.

Project : ELECTRONIC DATABASE PRODUCTION Component Engineer

Overview: This project is concerned with building a reference database of Electronic Components, which provides vast technical information along with catalogues or datasheets.

It is an Electronics Database application platform which provides technical details for the electronic components Part numbers for various categories of electronic components like IC, Diodes, Filters, Crystals and Resistors etc. and finally information goes to our end users.

This application provides major and complete functionality to enhance the efficiency of the end users. Minimize the time for searching a needed part, inventory management and for making a green product (RoHS). Product change notices and assigning the appropriate status like EOL (End of Life)/LTB (Last Time Buy) to the impacted manufacturer’s part number.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Managing the BOM and monitor component lifecycle movements (e.g. Maturity to EOL vendor’s notice), thus driving identification and qualification of new and alternate sourced components, if needed.

BOM analysis for assembly parts to declare material composition.

Sourcing chemical and environmental data for Electronic parts/Products.

Hands on experience in ECOs for New Product Introduction (NPI) & EOL products.

Working closely with Engineering and materials teams to review product updates / modifications.

Review and distribute PCN and Product Discontinue Notification to worldwide sites.

Familiar with product lifecycle process in the areas of BOM, PLC, Part setup etc.

I have been involved in sourcing, capturing and researching of different ICs for most of manufacturers in the global level.

Worked as an Instructor for Proudhadevaraya Institute of Technology, Hospet, India from SEP 2009 to Jan 2011.

Worked on technical instructor of 3rd to 8th Semester for Analog, Digital and Computer Labs.

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