Engineering Engineer

N. Arun Prasad

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Email: **********@*****.***

Technology Delivery Lead Manager and outstanding performer in Program & Project Management within Construction and mining equipment, engineering service industry, automobile and ancillary equipment’s Industry. Proven success in leadership, operational excellence and organizational development with keen understanding of elements of business. Recognized for inspiring management team members to excel and encouraging creative work environments. Excels at leveraging engineering and technical expertise along with industry best practices to develop talented teams and top performers Professional.

Professional Strength

Project management Strategic sourcing PLM Application Management

Cost reduction 6 Sigma methods People Management

Supplier management Change management People development

Cost management

B.E (Bachelor of Engineering – Mechanical & Production Engineering),

Annamalai University.

Skill Sets / Key Work Areas:

Program and operations managements for Business services & AO / Application Maintenance support Management

PLM operating model design, transition roadmap & transformation delivery, Design and develop Automation solution for engineering teams.

Business Processes mapping, Project Scoping, Business model setup, Project proposal making, setting up business models and negotiation techniques.

Program management activities for new product induction and the services offered at captive design center in India. Including business plan, forecasting, scheduling and cost estimations.

Cost reduction project using Six-sigma methodology DMIAC and opportunity, Material cost management, should cost modeling, Activity based costing.

Value stream transformation – VST, identify opportunities for process improvements delivered through RIW Rapid improvement workshop.

Commercial activities relating to the service and support of engineering and manufacturing services.

Experience in Fabrication components and automotive sheet metal components.

Conversant with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), QS-9000 and TS- 16949 standards

Experience in CAD/CAM tools using Creo, Catia, Unigraphics, Mastercam, Auto cad, Team center Engineering and its products.

Patents

534 Compactor Machine non rops cabs for Caterpillar China Market - Patent no: L200830113643.2

Professional Experience

Accenture Solution Pvt Ltd

Oct – 2016 till date.

Business & Integration Architecture Manager – Caterpillar PLM Engineering function.

PLM and Product Development Experience

Leading a section of 70+ engineers to provide PLM solutions for engineering to release functions with collection of applications built on top of Siemens Teamcenter PLM and PTC Creo CAD tool.

Program and operations managements for Business services & AO / Application support Management

•Managing application support team responsible for AO solutions for contract specific SLA numbers for incidents and service requests and make system / application available for clients to increase their profitability and productivity

•Oversee all requests, incidents and Change board items. Acting as a hierarchal point of escalation and co-ordinate response to critical issues raised.

•Monitor and manage incoming ticket volumes. Identifying trends and deliver on strategies to reduce overall ticket volumes.

•Evaluate all problem and impact analysis and recommend solutions and workarounds and Define the RCA with Interim and permanent solutions.

•Setup adequate monitoring and probing according to KPI's/SLAs/Metrics to measure service availability, performance and ensure the associated SLAs are met.

•OPERA - creating automation solutions adhering to automation methodology framework, With the ticketing deep dive analysis done in AO Delivery projects

•Conducting requirement gathering workshops, business process re-engineering, end user training, leading offshore-onsite engagements and project delivery.

•Drive functional/application designs and ensure technology solutions represent current and future business requirements

•Understand and translate customer needs into business and technology solutions and design services.

•Deployment validation and testing to improve the customer experience to Design & Deployment of process, system and tools in Cad & product data environments.

•Build relationship and strong network with client organization teams.

•Direct coach and manage team to ensure all standard and procedures are adhered

•Business forecast /budget process to ensure accurate and efficient forecast.

Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd.

From March 2004 – Sep - 2016 (11 years 6 months)

Engineering Section Supervisor - PLM & ES (Product life cycle management)

Engineering Project Team leader - Business Transformation

Engineering Project leader - Enterprise cost reduction- Global purchasing

Team leader - BCP product group.

Team leader - Engineering Design center

Senior Engineer - Product development

Engineering Section Supervisor - PLM & ES

Leading a section of 50+ engineers to provide PLM solutions for engineering to release functions. Accountable to deliver quality design & products including validation and testing to improve the customer experience.

Responsible for user and system requirements, system development, operation (OQ) and performance qualification (PQ) testing, system integration definition and testing, training development and execution, and post go-live support.

•Global PLM Transformation Program & Change Management

•Design & Deployment of process, system and tools in Cad & product data environments

•Organizational Change Management Leadership- Communications, Learning, Testing

•Continuous improvement of customer experience & efficiency

•Advise on adaptation of systems & tools to new or unique customer needs

•Gather feedback & define requirements for system & tool improvements

•General training: processes, systems and tools & mentoring

Engineering Project Team leader – Business Transformation

The Mach 1 Business Transformation drives the change needed to succeed by implementing simplified, common business processes across enterprise in caterpillar.

Managing 40 Engineers with 140 contract / agency employees to execute Mach1 engineering readiness program.

Engineering Project leader – Global Purchasing

Global purchasing strategic sourcing, Enterprise cost reduction/ strategic cost management.

Identify Fiscal savings with the total spend of approx $20M, collaborate among Category & Site buyers & segment team, business unit Product team & suppliers for successful cost reduction and/or cost avoidance activities such as resourcing, re-negotiations, and commercial agreements to ensure quality and cost with adherence to global purchasing practices for fabrication category.

Project management and 6 sigma tools to implement solution and execution of projects -supplier capability matrix, prioritize and make a project plan, measure current prices, technical requirements, map technical requirements with supplier capability matrix, send RFQs, analyze cost data and compare cost drivers, negotiate with the suppliers, release new Po’s, monitor savings.

Team leader - Backhoe loader product group.

Team lead for lines design group / Business development – managed 25-member team. Successfully leading a team to provide Design, modeling and detailing for hydraulic lines design for Backhoe loader products built in India and US

Team leader - Engineering Design center

Engineering design center -India Design Center, Chennai / Thiruvallur

Asia Pacific region - Japan, China- CRDC, Australia –. Managing 25-member team

TRAINING IN CAT

Making Great Leaders (Blended Learning) : Caterpillar University - 5 Days

Caterpillar Leadership Framework: Caterpillar University - 5 Days

6Sigma green belt & 6Sigma Project sponsoring

Project management – CGN

Cost reduction through value Engineering - CII

Caterpillar leadership module – Business case, fundamentals of engagement, communication, change, measurement, Reinforcement, coaching.

Succeeding supervisor

APQP

Business/ Finance and Accounting program.

Change management

Future Focus Infotech Pvt Ltd

Team leader

Cad/cam & Industrial Automation

21 -04-2003 to 18-02-2004

Deputed at LUCAS-TVS Chennai for new Products Design & Development of Automobile parts like Gear-stator, Alternators, wiper motor on the basics of design for manufacture and assembly, design to target cost, design for reliability, meeting the requirements of TS16949 using Flexible modeling cad tools ProE2000i2., Catia V5.6 & Unigraphics, Auto cad 2002.

Responsibilities:

Onsite-Offshore Engineering Project Management

Worked directly with Lucas development team to assure project information flow and deliverable

Developed a team (25 members) for new Business.

Process standardization and implementation for better productivity

Resource allocation and work execution per capability.

Project estimation based on resource requirements and keep controls its cost

Understand customer requirements and prepare Engineering Specifications

Ensure effectiveness of design review, best practices, DFMEA, benchmarking

MTAB-DENFORD (P) LTD, Chennai

Manufacturer of CNC Machines & Robotics Assistant Engineer, CAD /CAM

From 02-05-98. To 29-02-2000.

Job involved in design development, developing new concepts trainer CNC Machines.

The technical requirements of customers are transformed into new products. Product design is carried out using cad tools such as Pro/E as required by the customers for easy interaction and on-line design reviews.

Managed Indigenous program with Reverse Engineering, Material selection, Test specification finalization and pilot production support

Machine layout preparation with necessary calculations and Responsible for Drawing Release

INDIA METER LTD, Chennai

Research & development

From 21-06-96 To 14-08-97

Job involved in design development, developing new concepts in electric energy meter. Reverse engineering start with an existing product with concept design changes back to design & drawing and mechanical documentation. Implementing quality standards for design. Project planning and follow up for development parts for prototype & for production. Design packages used for projects are Pro/Engineer, AutoCAD

SHEET METAL INDUSTRIES (P) LTD, Chennai

Engineer Trainee, Design & Development

From 11-05-95 to 18 –06-96.

Development of engineering components and standard tool accessories for in-house Tool design activity for press tool components

SCHOLASTICS

B.E (MECHANICAL & PRODUCTION) 1995 Annamalai University. Chidambram.

H.S.C 1991 Theyagaraya Nagar Higher Secondary

S.S.L.C 1989 Rajamuthaiah Higher Secondary School

LANGUAGE KNOWN Tamil, English, Hindi, German

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