Mechanical Engineer Product Development

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Summary of Qualifications

Mechanical Engineer with 15+ years of experience in managing, leading and strategic planning of automotive product development, including Global product design, integration, testing/validation, quality and production of finished product. Strong team player who adapts well to any environment and enhances cross-functional project groups to meet and exceed goals. Excellent communication skills to present project updates and technical results to senior management and clients.

Automotive Feature and Component Development

Multi-Project Coordination & Execution

Continues Cost Improvements

Compliance/Implementation, FMVSS 121/136

Tableau Tool for data analytics

Detailed Drawings/Diagrams

Team Leader/Trainer

ISO 26262 Functional Safety

Vendor/Supplier Management

CANdela, EDEX, ODX, EDLS for Parameters

Global Experience

Documentation, Presentation

Jira for Issues tracking

Project Planning

Professional Experience

Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Portland, Oregon, USA

Product Manager – Fuel Analytics 2.0, Remote Lock Unlock, Vehicle remote control app (Product Development Team - CSG) Aug 2023 - Current

Lead frequent customers interview to discuss product requirements, listen to their pain points on existing product, explain benefit of the product to customer, how to operate product from our portal.

Created business case from the customer requirements and present to management to get approval on development, which includes scope, competitor analysis, pricing, take rate, timeline, roadmap, priority on customer requirements, potential benefits to customer, review product with customer as progress in development to get feedback, go to market strategy.

Created product planning and timeline to track with company project timeline. Created the concern and resolved the concerns that is created for the product/project.

Translated customer requirements into the features and user stories, set priorities, communication requirements with various stake holder to discuss the dependencies.

Created ideas working with customers and ECU owners in engineering department to enhance the product such as remote lock unlock, vehicle remote control app.

Presented ideas to leadership team to remove any road blockers during development and got approval of alternative plan.

Work with global team to discuss the regional requirements, convert some of the requirements to global requirements, make a development plan, lead developers to implement the requirements per time.

Created training material for go to market team, customers, and supported team for the trade shows for the product.

Lead vehicles signal related topic within the product organization such as Predictive maintenance, Data as a service, Safety, E services ext.

Work with solutions team to bundle the services to existing customers.

Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Portland, Oregon, USA

Technical Product Owner - Device Management (Operations - CSG) June 2022 - Aug 2023

Leading connectivity service group platform requirements at DTNA. Responsible to collect requirements from multiple product team, communicate requirements to GSG team, make implementation plan, and validate requirements

Translated user requirements and features into user stories within the team’s backlog while managing and prioritizing backlog based on stakeholder requirements

Responsible for SW rollout on the CTP and CTP related activation issues at plant

Developed automation to manage and control ATT data usage by each device

Collaborated and led technical discussion with multiple groups to determine parameter change requests on the vehicle

Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Portland, Oregon, USA

Senior Autonomous Brake System Engineer - ABS/Vehicle & Stability Dec 2018 - June 2022

Leading Global scalable braking system (SBSP) project at DTNA on heavy-duty truck platform and on Autonomous vehicles

Responsible for defining project goals and delivery timelines

Primary responsibilities include, working with customers to define autonomous braking system requirements, communicating customer requirements to braking system supplier and managing SW release cycles

In addition to project management, I am responsible to create system, hardware and software specification

Leading daily stand up meeting with various stakeholders and supplier to deliver multiple SW release cycles on time

Created system and feature test cases to support product validation and hardware in the loop, resolved issues found during product validation

Strong understanding of automotive communication standards and protocols (i.e. CAN)

Leading Function Safety requirements for the SBSP project globally

Leading junior engineers in current team

Participated and created continuous cost improvement projects by coordinating with supplier

Project Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS):

Co-ordination and collaboration with Global teams and vendor for brake system software and requirements

Responsible for resolving plant issues, service issues, filed issues for ABS

Trained colleagues on process and tools to troubleshoot brake system

Coordinating with compliance on brake system to make sure FMVSS121 and FMVSS136 requirement are meet

Engineer III ABS/Vehicle Safety & Stability Group, Mechatronics Aug 2012 - Dec 2018

Project TPMS & Auto Lift Axle:

Responsible for Radio Frequency Tire Pressure Monitoring system and Auto Lift Axle design for heavy/medium duty vehicles. This work includes coordination with supplier for product road map, budget, and project planning

Collaborated with other teams to make wiring integration design, packaging of components, to decide vehicle architecture and the instrument cluster team for HMI development for TPMS & Auto Lift Axle

Developed diagnostics system and operation manual for TPMS and Auto Lift Axle

Worked on Lane Departure Warning Camera, Rear view Camera and Daimler Radar/Camera on heavy duty truck platform

Created specification and developed test cases for TPMS, ECAS and LDW to support Hardware in the Loop lab and PVE for testing

Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Portland, Oregon, USA

Catia V5 Designer (Contractor) Apr 2008 - Jul 2012

Designed powertrain components, using CATIA V5 and SMARAGD. Prepared PowerPoint presentation for design review

Set product structure for different modules, using SMARAGD

Participated in packaging study of chassis and powertrain components for Freightliner and Western Star trucks, including fuel and exhaust packaging, fuel water separator for front suspensions, oil cooler for cab mounting and steering column for turbocharger cooler

Designed charger cooler, fuel filter/water separator, shunt tube, and surge tank plumbing; oil fill tube; baffles; radiator support rods; and coolant lines

Collaborated with vendors on design and part specification issues during production; answered shop calls. Reviewed design and provided solutions during prototyping with Mock-up Center team

Performed fatigue analysis on sheet metal brackets with CATIA V5

M/s. Gala Equipments Ltd., Baroda, India an ISO9001

Mechanical Engineer Aug 2001 - Jul 2004

Plan, design and development of new product -vibratory trough, sound cover of machine, vibratory separator and flow through machine with belt conveyor and structural design of platform under the guidance of Design & Development manager for production and developed manufacturing procedures. With applications in the automotive components

Worked with manufacturing personnel to understand manufacturing techniques. Used this understanding during product design to develop solutions that are feasible to manufacture and assemble by the company

Ideation and Concept Development, Design Development, Design Verification and Proto type development

Worked on cost reduction and improvement of existing machines

M/s. Novatech Engineering, Baroda, India

Design Engineer Sep1998 - Jul 2001

Created detailed drawings of electrical cable, grounding, instrument, lighting, plant structural, piping, cable tray, and junction box layouts for ABB per Design supervisor’s direction.

Created piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), plant structural, fabrication drawing of tank, exhaust, duct, furnace, staircase exterior in AutoCAD for GE Lighting wastewater treatment plant.

Education / Certification / Training

Government Polytechnic College, Chhota-Udepur, India

Associate in Mechanical Engineering

CATIA Certification, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI, May 2006

Functional Safety, ISO 26262, Portland OR

Training:

AutoCAD 2000, Comps Computer, Baroda, India

ISO 9001, Gala Equipments Ltd., Baroda, India

Project Management, Daimler Trucks North America LLC, Portland OR

Vector CAN tools CANalyzer, CANoe, DBC. Detroit, MI

Technical Skills

Catia V5 NX AutoCAD Pro E Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Data Analytics Trouble shooting the vehicle using Automotive tools Presentation Project Planning

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