Engineer Lean Six

Varun Ramesh

****-*** ******** ****, *******, NC - 27606 919-***-****

*************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-ramesh-836915b4/ EDUCATION

North Carolina State University – Raleigh, North Carolina August 2018 - May 2020 Master’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering GPA: 3.55 SRM Institute of Science and Technology - Chennai, India July 2014 - May 2018 Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 8.25 EXPERIENCE

Research Engineer - NC State University - Raleigh, NC June 2020 - Present

Developed supply chain models for Healthcare and Manufacturing domains as a tool for courses in Data Analytics and Data Visualization for undergraduate and graduate students at NC State University.

Designed a graduate level course in Data Analytics and Visualization using PowerBI™ and Excel for the ISE Department. Inventory Management Consultant - Debs Textile Corporation - Cary, NC January 2020 - May 2020

Developed a multi-user Order Management system using a combination of SQL and Visual Basic coding using MS Access.

Improved reporting inventory level accuracy by shifting management of Inventory Count Information from Excel to Access,

Developed applications to clean and upload large volumes of data to the existing database in order to increase productivity. Manufacturing and Operations Intern - AE Medical - Farmingdale, NJ May 2019 - August 2019

Automated the suture tapering process thereby reducing the process cycle time by 8% by implementing a continuous improvement project per IS0 9001:2015 standards.

Executed IQ,OQ and PQ protocols to install vertical press machines, to double the capacity of the Suction Coagulator product line.

Supported the deployment of an ERP system, by cleaning the Manufacturing Master Data, and creating/updating the Bill of Materials and Methods of Manufacturing for each product line.

Reduced Purchase Order costs by programming statistical and data mining tools using Excel and VBA to identify and remove obsolete raw materials from Sage.

Improved the Traceability system for nearly 140 products through the creation of Daily History Records, thereby consolidating production data for each lot, in a single document.

Created Engineering Change Requests, to implement changes within the documentation and production processes. Project Intern - Tata Motors - Pune, India November 2017 - December 2017

Developed an automated Poka-Yoke (per IS0 9001:2015) for the engine cam cap carrier assembly line, resulting in a 100% reduction in non-conformities due to cam cap assemblies down the line.

Designed a rotating fixture to mount engine heads and glue core plug caps to the engine coolant hole openings, to reduce process cycle time and increase operator productivity and safety.

Modified the PLC code (Allan Bradley) for the nut runner machine, to decrease the machine’s ‘Mean-Time-to-Failure’.

Assisted in creating/updating and verifying CNC program procedures for the gear shaping machines on the shop floor.

Drafted and implemented training procedures for the engine assembly line geared towards operator safety and product. PROJECTS

Lean Six Sigma Student Consultant at GKN Automotive Limited

Drove a continuous improvement project to reduce the cycle time of the half shaft balancing process, which projected annual savings worth $240,000 in terms of Labor and Rework costs.

Reduced per part scrap costs to 10 cents per part, by developing standardized work procedures and defect codes, to handle non-conforming product in the half-shaft product line. Development of a Dynamic Regression Model of Product NPS for Lenovo using Customer Sentiment:

Developed a polynomial regression model to predict NPS scores for various product families using Regularization and Cross Validation using JMP and R.

Developed a Markovian Decision Process on the basis of Customer Sentiment evolving on a weekly basis, to proactively determine when an intervention should be made, to obtain an ideal NPS score. SKILLS AND KNOWN SOFTWARE

Software/Languages Catia, MS Office Suite, RSLogix, ANSYS, EPICOR, JMP, Minitab, VBA, PowerBI, Visio, Python Certifications Lean Six Sigma-(Green Belt)

Skills Experimental Statistics, Continuous Improvement, Data Analytics, Statistical Process Control, SQL, Low Cost Automation, Value Stream Mapping, PLC Ladder Logic Design, GMP, Design of Experiments, CNC Programming, CAPA,IQ/OQ/PQ, Gage R&R, Design Validation

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