Vinayak Hegde

Ph.: 850-***-****

E-mail: adduwp@r.postjobfree.com

Tallahasse, Florida

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years’ experience as a Certified Reliability Professional in aerospace, industrial, medical devices to assure FAA and FDA regulatory compliance. Led and delivered safety and reliability assessment with Function hazard analysis, Fault tree analysis, FMEA’s, medical device risk analysis, risk management activities, and complaint data analysis. In-depth knowledge of reliability process, methodology, safety compliance and documentation.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE KEY WORDS

MTBF Risk analysis control (RAC) Lambda prediction

Design verification test Accelerated life test Highly accelerated life test

Failure data analysis Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) Six Sigma

CAD and CAM Statistical: Sampling, distribution, analysis etc

Environmental Chambers & Operation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Reliability Engineering Manager from Danfoss Turbocor in Tallahassee Florida – Being a reliability engineering coach, lead, aftermarket support, internal product auditor, owner of the environmental chambers and risk analyst of different product in Danfoss Turbocor, it has successfully been completed many reliability projects

Associated Reliability Engineering Manager/consultant from HCL technologies in Bangalore, India - The career has progressed with various responsibilities in working on customer projects by being co-located with customer teams for up to 50% of the time in the last seven years. Experiences of working for range of international companies are highlighted:

Danfoss Turbocor Compressors Inc (DTC), Reliability Engineering Manager Jan 2017 – Present

Working on Design For Reliability on different project line along with Risk integration module of Commercial Twin Turbine Compressors System for Chiller unit which is used in Commercial, Data Center, Medical and Hospital buildings.

Responsibility is to define the reliability goals that a product needs to achieve

Setting up reliability requirements that a DTC sets for the product and own engineers and reliability to customers

Defining Technical Specification Document that can also be a requirement set for suppliers or subcontractors

Defining Customer usage and operating environment to demonstrated reliability that must consider the customer usage and operating environment

Responsible for Reliability Engineering Lab: It includes, HALT, ALT test plans for electronic and electrical and mechanical components, test set up, operating and data acquisition and analysis

Creating baseline reliability model using reliability prediction techniques

Defining the reliability Prediction models in the reliability growth stage to define Risk module

Analyzing the field failure data for calibrating models and providing input to risk module

Integrating the Reliability and Risk activities & defining the reliability demonstration

Creating reliability Growth Test plan and analysis

Creating reliability Demonstration plan and analysis

Working on Field Failure Analysis and 8D

Coordinating with Customers on Root Cause Analysis

Working on Warranty Analysis model and requirement assessment

Being a Certified IATF auditor, working with cross functional team with design, manufacturing, operation and supplier for quality and reliability

Baxter, IL, USA Reliability & Risk Consultant Jan 2016 – Jan2017

Associated with HCL and working on Reliability Base Model and Calibrated Model along with Risk integration module of Electro Mechanical medical Systems and Device for Infusion system, Renal Home PD and Renal Acute Monitors.

Responsibility is to define baseline reliability model using reliability prediction techniques

Defining the reliability Prediction models in the reliability growth stage to define Risk module

Analyzing the field failure data for calibrating models and providing input to risk module

Integrating the Reliability and Risk activities & defining the reliability demonstration.

Boston Scientific Corporation (BSc), MN, USA Reliability and Risk consultant Jun 2015 – Dec 2015

Risk analysis expert from HCL Technologies to coach and execute on risk activities for Remediation project of Pelvic Health devices by leading various reliability and risk management programs

Defining risk in risk requirement management tool i.e. cognition cockpit

Implemented, facilitated and worked on design FMECAs, process FMEAs and application FMEA

Conducting FTA using cockpit tool

Conducting training on statistical based DV testing using reliability accelerated test techniques to identify safety limit, mitigated risk and test protocol creation

American Medical Systems (AMS), MN, USA Risk Analyst Mar 2014 – May 2015

Risk analysis expert from HCL Technologies to coach and execute on risk activities for Remediation project of Pelvic Health devices by leading various reliability and risk management programs

Collecting and analysis data based on historical surveillance data to develop probability model to understand safety limit for risk and unmitigated probabilities

Implemented, facilitated and worked on design FMECAs, process FMEAs and application FMEA

Conducting ~21 Fault tree analysis to integrate different FMEAs of design, process and application related by interacting with cross functional teams for Urinary Control Systems for generating risk analysis (RAC) control for risk management report for FDA submission

Conducting training on statistical based DV testing using reliability accelerated test techniques to identify safety limit, mitigated risk and test protocol creation

Danfoss, Nordborg, Denmark Senior Reliability Analyst Sep 2012 – Feb 2014

Played a key role including being a coach for Danfoss during their critical business crisis to bring new focus of DFR to trouble shoot legacy product of control valves for HVAC systems and implementation of methodologies for new products

Conducted onsite training to 45-50 Danfoss Engineers to bring DFR knowledge and ongoing coaching to establish 2 champions and 3 leads for the local Danfoss design team.

Screened, selected three critical projects based on the complexity and category of the product and led ten steps DFR. Used these projects for hands on training of the champions.

Performed and implemented ten steps Design For Reliability (DFR) for various projects: Reliability Goal Setting, Reliability Plan Development, Identify critical sub systems and components, Construct Functional / Reliability Block Diagram & Functional FMEA, Allocate Reliability Target, Generate Life / Reliability Predictions, Develop P-Diagrams & FMEA’s, Define and Execute Reliability Test, Lab failure data analysis, Track Field Failures and Analysis

Coordinated HALT combined stress test of temperature, vibration and humidity at HCL facility - developed test protocols and transferred it to Danfoss.

MEGGITT Aircraft Braking Systems, Akron, USA Sr. Reliability Eng. Jan2008 - Aug 2012

Lead consultant coordinator with extended onsite presence and visits to deliver reliability study on the Wheels, Brakes and Brake Control Systems (BCS) for four MEGGITT customers’ project

Benchmarked the reliability of four existing designs and analyzed new designs of Wheels, Brakes and BCS for assured safety and reliability. Personal responsibility to execute as per project requirements of FMEA, FTA predictions with FAA compliance on time and quality delivery.

Interacted onsite with MEGGIT team, collected the requirements, coordinated the efforts of 5 people offshore team to deliver on all projects and requirements

Interaction and responsibility to handle PDR and CDR activities and implementation

ALENIA Aeronautica, Italy Reliability Engineer Jun 2007 - Dec 2007

Leveraged my reliability training to be a peer reviewer on structural reliability of Cockpit and Center fuselage parts for C-27J aircraft project from HCL. Strengthened knowledge in dFMEA, pFMEA FHA, FTA, Prediction using NSWC & NPRD approaches.

Hamilton Sundstrand, San Diego, USA Design Engineer Oct 2004 - May 2007

As a Project Lead from HCL, coordinated the effort of ~25 offshore team members work in the design of aircraft Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) for Boeing 787 Dream Liner during development phase.

Onsite interaction with customers to collect design requirements and transfer to the offshore team to coordinated the projects for on time delivery.

Personal responsibilities to develop fixtures for drop test and fire test on Unigraphics tool

Soft Pro software Pvt Ltd, Bangalore Senior CAD engineer Jan 2002 - Sep 2004

Located at client site: Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore

Performed CAD Modeling (Surface and solid), Sub Level Assembly creation and associated drafting in Unigraphics tool for safety and locking systems for Schlage product for Ingersoll-Rand

M-Tech Industries, Vasai, Mumbai CAM Programmer May 2000 - Dec 2001

Extracted core and cavity for mold manufacturing for CNC milling for Honda Activa scooter components for front guard and rear guard

Generated work sheet for CNC milling operations

Extracted surfaces from CAD model using Unigraphics tool for electrodes machining

Created machine parameter for sparking operation for electrodes

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering - Salem University- 2006

Diploma in Tool and Die Making – Bangalore University- 1999

CERTIFICATIONS

CAD, CAM, Certified Reliability Professional, IATF 16949 and Six Sigma Green Belt

TOOL SKILLS

Weibull++ ALTA Minitab Med7

FTA-Pro CAFTA Unigraphics Microsoft Power BI

PERSONAL SKILLS

Customer facing interactions Project scoping and chartering

Cross functional team work Educating and coaching

Project Management Business and opportunity expansion

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