PRAFULLA KESKAR
(M) 631-***-****, (E) **************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Actively seeking career opportunity as a design engineer where I can apply my knowledge and grow as a professional PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Design Engineer February 2016 – Current
Cresttek LLC
Dublin, OH
1. Design of the Seat Tray Table for Honda Odyssey
Currently working on various benchmarking studies in the proposal phase
Concept generation for tray table proposals based on customer requirements, safety considerations and benchmark results
Understanding the safety regulations FMVSS 201, ECE 21
Experience in data management and product organization using the ENOVIA (DPM) 2. Supporting 3rd row seat design for Honda Pilot and Acura MDX
3D modeling to generalize brackets
Comfort Analysis and Complete Packaging for 3rd row seats Engineering Trainee June 2012 – July 2012
Plastic Omnium Varroc (Auto Exterior Division)
Pune, India
Contributed to the successful implementation of the process to manufacture bumpers for a Mahindra SUV
Design experience using CATIA v5
Production experience with the injection molding process and tool maintenance
Got to work with polymer fenders which are very uncommon as they have to be painted along with the rest of the metal body. This company holds the patent for the special material called Noryl GTX used in the production of fenders TECHNICAL SKILLS
Injection molding, Extrusion molding, Scanning Electron Microscope, Polymer Synthesis, Impact Testing, Microsoft Office CAD SKILLS
CATIA V5 (Part Design, Generative Shape Design, Drawing and Assembly Design), SolidWorks EDUCATION
Master of Science in Materials Engineering August 2013 – May 2015 Stony Brook, New York
Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer August 2009 – June 2013 Pune University, India
CURRICULUM
Graduate-
Graduate thesis on Antibacterial Block Copolymer Thin Films and Growth Characteristics of HeLa cells o Research on polymer thin films to obtain lamellar surface morphology to kill bacteria o Observed growth characteristics of HeLa cells under different substrate concentrations and temperature conditions to identify the optimum conditions
Project on performing the life cycle analysis of a polystyrene container and its alternate materials to understand their environmental impact using SolidWorks (Fall 2013)
o Design experience using SolidWorks
Undergraduate-
Project on Impact Modification of Unsaturated Polyester Resin o To improve the impact properties we tried mixing different additives and varying their concentrations to obtain optimum characteristic graph
Course on Mold and die design for injection and extrusion molding (Fall 2012) o Understanding of the design aspects of different molds and their working methodology o Understanding the construction and maintenance aspects for tools Extra-Curricular Activities-
Won several prizes in State-level technical events where-in I, heading a team of four members competed with fully self- engineered remote-controlled car