Supraja Parthasarathy

SUMMARY

Adept Manufacturing Quality Engineer with 3+ years experience in Process Engineering, Product Quality Planning, Lean Manufacturing, Supplier Quality and Contract Manufacturing management. Excellent communicator focused on promoting product quality from C-level to engineers to customers, through data-driven decision analysis and problem solving.

*Open to relocate

CONTACT

Address:

San Jose, CA, 95133

Phone:

669-***-****

E-mail:

addtln@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS

Six Sigma Green Belt Change Management Failure Analysis

Lean Process Improvement Advanced Product Quality Planning ISO 9001 & ISO 13485

Reliability Engineering Design for Excellence Auditing

Statistical Process Control CAPA SMT

SOFTWARE

MS Office tools Visio MES

Minitab JIRA Salesforce

R programming Netsuite Arena PLM

WORK HISTORY

PRODUCT QUALITY ENGINEER Jun 2018 to Apr 2020

Cohesity Inc, San Jose, CA Data Server and Storage products industry

Managed Tier 1 Contract Manufacturers and Original Design Manufacturers (ODM) to achieve FPY targets in IQC, FATP (Final assembly test & pack-out), on-going reliability testing and OQC by resolving - design, test and non-conformance issues.

Provided suppliers with training and implementation of Process development and validation, PFMEA, Measurement Systems, Statistical Process Control and Error proofing.

Launched 3 New Products (Blade Servers of 1U, 2U configuration) with Supplier partners through Production Part Approval Process.

Defined Key Quality metrics and targets for assessing Factory Quality, Supplier Quality and Field Quality; and executed several quality strategies to achieve product reliability by influencing and driving cross-functional team improvements.

Improved a field replaceable component failure rate by 90% in 3 months post product launch by eliminating supplier quality and supply chain risk through a newly qualified sourcing, driven as a result of early field failure analysis engagement with suppliers.

Mitigated voltage overshoot risk on motherboard by implementing a PCBA design change with ODM partner, utilising Supplier Corrective Action Request.

Drove a BIOS FW release change to improve manufacturing yield by 85%.

Set up RMA repair service line for refurbishment and warranty claim of components such as Chassis, Nodes, PSU, HDD, SSD and DIMM; and developed debug process flow with TE to improve turn-around time by 15%.

Implemented a new server packaging solution to reduce packaging related failures and saved 100K per quarter.

Executed enterprise level business application projects to enhance transparency of product failure data, resulting in improved workflow and productivity of engineering debug teams.

Audited Suppliers and represented Product Quality Engineering team in QBR.

Presented monthly quality report for Executive leadership review on field and factory trending issues and resolutions.

INUSTRIAL ENGINEER INTERN Jun 2017 to Dec 2017

Finisar, Fremont, CA Semiconductor wafer fabrication industry

Conducted Time and Motion studies and developed Standardized work instruction documents to train shop-floor teams and achieved 20% improvement in operator productivity.

Reduced operator downtime and error rate by 14% through training using visual aids, Kanban and 5S principles.

Improved product throughput by 20% in one of the bottleneck operations by implementing a system to differentiate and prioritize re-work.

Actively participated in plant layout meetings to facilitate addition of new equipments to manufacturing line and optimize the existing layout.

PRODUCT QUALITY ENGINEER Jul 2015 to May 2016

Trimex Industries, Chennai, India Minerals and metal conglomerate industry

Utilized process mapping, A3 report and Pareto charts to document product quality deficiencies and improve manufacturing yield by 15%.

Designed and implemented new changeover procedures saving 10 labor hours per week.

Developed new procedure for equipment maintenance and reduced downtime by 20%.

Developed Standard Operating Procedures and trained technicians on Production best practices. ACADEMIC PROJECT Jan 2017 to May 2017

San Jose State University, San Jose

DMAIC Implementation in Healthcare

Incorporated Six Sigma methodologies to improve patient service efficiency by 30%. EDUCATION

MS, Engineering Management, San Jose State University, CA Aug 2016 to May 2018 BS, Chemical Engineering, Anna University, India Aug 2011 to May 2015

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