Mechanical Engineer

Priyank Thakker

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Rutgers University, School of Engineering, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Sept 2018 - May 2020 Master of Science (M.S) Mechanical Engineering, Vice President- Graduate Student Association GPA: 3.45/4.0 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, TN, India July 2014 - May 2018 Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.76/4.0 Skills

Software: AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, Pro E, SAP, Revit, MS-Excel, MS-powerpoint, MS-Word, Power BI, Siemens NX Concepts: Database Management, ASME Section 8 Division 1,Statistical Process Control, Inventory Production and Planning, Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, DMADV, DFSS, SCRUM Gage R&R, 5S, Kanban, Kaizen, Forecasting, RPN, FMEA, APQP, SIPOC, ISO 9001, ISO 9000 Languages: Python, MATLAB, SQL

Professional Experience

Jacobs Engineering Group, Mechanical Engineering Intern; Baton Rouge, LA, USA June 2019 - Sept 2019

• Analyzed and implemented design reviews and failure analysis of equipment drawings and their P&ID’s to assess projects in AutoCAD and 3D Smart Plant Review improving the correction rate of blueprints by 9%

• Assisted with and reviewed drawings, procedures, the order of bids and technical documents for supporting product design and closing out on material handling equipment to optimize delivery strategy increasing time efficiency by 10%

• Collaborated and communicated with cross-functional project teams and external vendors to establish project milestone, schedule and consensus on the pricing of ISO drawings for pressure vessels to complete requisitions and technical bid-tabs Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), Industrial Engineering Co-op; New Brunswick, NJ, USA January 2019 – May 2019

• Carried out the Design of Experiment (DOE) for factors to test various HVAC systems for efficiency and to lower their energy bill by recommending product and system changes

• Enhanced collaboration with Industrial IoT devices and various sensors to analyze data on a daily-basis to suggest cost savings techniques for increasing overall efficiency and incorporated Key Performance Indicators (KPI) by leveraging them into strategy

• Accomplished financial analysis and ROI for Starbucks to quantify monetary feasibility saving USD 9000 per year Freight Connections, Operations Intern; Mumbai, MA, India June 2018 - July 2018

• Cost-engineered a root-cause analysis for the current manufacturing problems to achieve defect (4 ppm) and cost reduction

• Significantly reduced turnaround time by rearranging process thread and output delivery boosting production by 2.7%

• Administered daily activities and identified bottlenecks using Value stream analysis to devise a performance improvement plan India Steel Works, Manufacture Engineering Intern; Mumbai, MA, India June 2017 – July 2017

• Collaborated with warehouse laboratory consisting of relevant testing facilities to deliver product faster by 16% as per requirements

• Designed and facilitated improved truck routes and assembly lines for deliveries by implementing Kaizen to increase profits by $3700

• Maintained, designed and implement cost-effective equipment modifications through 5S and Process Benchmarking to primary treatment systems to help improve safety and reliability and obtain better-recycled process water. V. S. Tex, Manufacturing Engineer; Salem, TN, India August 2016 – May 2017, August 2017-May 2018

• Implemented ISO 11111 guidelines to assess and check the quality of automated free-standing and complex machinery to mitigate design and fabric thread errors and assist with solving plant manufacturing related issues via DMAIC and Process Improvement.

• Registered SAP as an inventory management tool to eradicate redundancy and boost sales all over India by having real-time updates

• Redesigned floor layout and reduced end-to-end production time by 7% with SPC, DFMA and ISO 9001 to maximize ROI.

• Assisted with creating, updating and maintaining Quality Documentation, Customer Contact Reports, Customer Sort reports, Information Relating to Concerns, Procedures, and provided support for Corrective and Prevention actions (CAPA) Projects

Sustainable Supply Chain Management for a Restaurant, Rutgers University January 2019-May 2019

• Implemented a new ERP Tally 9 with forecasting methods to improve product sales, demand and manage manpower requirement

• Designed statistical models based on the sustainable supply chain to optimize economic order quantities (EOQ) keeping the lead time constant, while hiking revenues by 13%

Impermeability strength of Graphene membranes etched with copper, MIT, Boston May 2016-July 2016

• Researched on facile methods to assess and control the impermeability of graphene by analyzing SEM images via ‘ImageJ’

• Showcased future work should be directed towards sealing only to realize centimetre-scale atomically thin barriers exhibit <2% mass transport compared to the graphene support and indicate clear evidence of leakage through larger defects.

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