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SUJAI CHANDRAN

Email: adguyj@r.postjobfree.com Toronto, ON Phone: +1-514-***-**** High result driven, dynamic Engineering Professional and proven thought management leader, with over 12 years of multi-faceted experience across Aerospace, landing gear manufacturing, Automotive and Locomotive industries. Strong background in developing and implementing end to end product design support solutions on Aerospace structural/interior components and Automotive Aerodynamics. Highly skilled at preparing and delivering presentations, as well as representing product lines. Effective communicator and negotiator, with strong analytical, problem solving and organisational abilities. KEY STRENGTHS

Leadership and Management.

Programme and Project Management.

Managed 50+ suppliers of Bombardier C Series.

Landing Gears manufacturing process and

Operation standards.

Aircraft Interiors and Structures.

Managed 15+ members on configuration

management Team.

Aerodynamic Design - Formula 1 Race Car.

Catia V5 with Enovia LCA Env.

Wind-chill PDM system.

Product Design and Development.

Model based definition using

Engineering requirement model.

Configuration Management.

Business Development

Creativity and Innovation

Communication and Negotiation

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Rich knowledge on Aircraft landing gear manufacturing process and operations, managing complex projects by deploying the applications of Project Management processes, methods and tools, delivering the progress reports (KPI’s, dashboards) on MS Project schedule.

Configuration/Change Management support, Cockpit Final Assembly line expertise for the Bombardier Aircraft Programs

Front, Mid and Rear Aerodynamics design for Formula 1 race cars in Wind tunnel department.

Conceptual Designs, Surface and Solid designs, Product design & development, Assembly creations for Automotive Aerodynamic components.

Locomotive sheet metal Components, CATIA V5 R21, ENOVIA-LCA, WIND-CHIL, SOLID WORKS. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND MILESTONES

As an Operation Program Manager, had successfully managed multiple programs like 747, 767 & 737 landing gears systems and driven those programs in such the way customer target dates are achieved.

As a Cockpit Manager, successfully accomplished completing the Cockpits for four major production aircrafts for FTV-5, 70009, 70010 &70011 on Global 7000 business program.

Administered and managed 50 plus suppliers of Bombardier C-Series aircraft programs, facilitated to achieve their major mile stone of launching their first flights for C-Series aircrafts.

Improved the completeness and consistency of engineering data for Bombardier Global aircraft program, enabled the organisation to accomplish their highest landmark on Global 7000/8000 first flight launch.

Directed our team of engineers on conceptualization, design and development of aerodynamic components for Ferrari Formula 1 race car, contributed for their major success of Ferrari formula1 team during 2011 race season. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Engineering, Production Engineering.

Master of Business Administration, Finance

PMP – Currently pursuing it, intent to finish in 6 months

Certified Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt – TCS

Designated Licensed official for Controlled Goods and Services.

Certified CATIA V5 professional (Part Design/Surfacing/Sheet Metal/Assembly) - Anna University

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CAD Systems

o CATIA V5 certified professional (Part Design/Surfacing/Sheet Metal/Assembly)

o Proficient in SOLID WORKS UG NX AUTO CADD

PDM Systems – ENOVIA LCA WIND-CHIL ENOVIA-VPM DMU

Content Systems – MS OFFICE (Word Power Point Excel)

Project Management tools –MS Project Power BI

ACCOLADES AND RECOGNITIONS

BEST PERFORMER - for delivering high number of landing gears in a month.

SPOT AWARD – for reducing the Quality and producibility issues on operations.

Bombardier’s XCELL Award for Process Improvement Implementation.

Received “BEST TEAM AWARD” -Oct 2015.

Excelled as “TOP PERFORMER” – Feb 2016.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

COLLINS AEROSPACE (UTC Aerospace Systems), OAKVILLE, ON Feb 2019 – Present Programme Manager - Operations - Landing Systems (Boeing 747, 767 & 737)

Lead and drive five different teams such as Operations, Planning, Engineering, Supply chain and Quality teams by managing recovery plans as required to meet customer needs with Production Control.

Liaise with Master Scheduling and Production control in preparation of outlook and LE (latest estimate) meetings with Operations Lead.

Leads materials and logistics problem resolution to ensure availability of materials and smooth operations.

Work Closely with Product Line Managers to provide requirements, priorities and Budget Allocation.

Drive internal War room meeting with all relative teams, to discuss about short term/long term delivery issues of the program.

Perform risk assessment and management including identifying problems and concerns with the organizations that impact program performance.

Tracking and monitoring the project milestones by having regular follow up meeting with all the teams to ensure project milestones are progressing well according to the schedule and make sure the milestone is not slipped beyond the schedule.

The project status of each program was closely monitored, there status reports were generated on weekly/monthly basis, and the same has been reported to the top management through regular dash board and Project management review (PMR) meetings.

The quality of each program was tracked and maintained, based on the quality, Key Performance index report, which is also known as KPI report were generated on weekly/monthly basis, and reporting the same to the top management.

Ensure monthly targets are achieved within the customer requested date. Sujai Chandran Page 2 of 2

AAA CANADA, TORONTO Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

Aircraft Manager FAL - Global 7000/8000 Aircraft Program - BOMBARDIER INC, Toronto, Downs view

Coordinate and mange five different teams such as Production, Quality, Methods, Planning Team and Logistics and manage the daily production priorities and milestones for cockpit on Global 7000/8000 aircraft program.

Conduct daily morning meeting with five different teams such as Production, Quality, Methods, Planning and logistics team.

Coordinate with the planning team, in order to obtain daily production plan, and allocate these planned books to the production team, facilitate them to achieve the daily targets.

Collaborate with the quality team and drive them to raise an NCRs, in cases of any non-conformances in the production process and preparing a NCR schedule in MS Project, follow-up with engineering team to obtain the disposition for the NCR.

There might be a production sequence issues with respect to the work book. So in such cases, need to coordinate with the methods team and get the issue sorted out.

Follow up with planning team and logistics team, in such a way the production plan is not messed up the parts shortage and sequence issues.

Follow up the target in regards to delay, quality, productivity, security.

Work in Engineering Releases such as Drawings, Modsums, Visual Work Instructions, tracking and compliance to associated schedules.

Ensure that Quality Qualifications are still valid or required.

Ensure that respective shifts will achieve the targets defined by customer and Project Leader.

Report on the aircraft progress, roadblocks to project Leader & PMO. AAA CANADA, TORONTO Jan 2016 – Dec 2016

Methods Lead - Global 7000/8000 Aircraft Program - BOMBARDIER INC, Toronto, Downs view

Lead the team of six Methods engineers and provide a methods support for all the production A/Cs.

Conduct daily morning meeting among these team members and analyse the major production sequence issues on all the production aircrafts.

Allocating a dedicated Methods engineer to a specific aircraft, in case of major production sequence or discrepancy found.

Define and the describe the process of assembling to production team, with respect to the VWI, in case, if the production team is unable to interpret the information from the work book.

In case of any discrepancies in the assembling process, need to investigate the assembling zone in the A/C, and prepare a presentation about the issue and send the request to quality, in order to raise NCR.

Supporting and coordinating with the Production team, in case of major Functional test procedure and Acceptance test procedure were carried out

Responsible for Structural, Electrical and Systems processes for Bombardier Global 7000/8000 project.

Assess production costs and analyse production time Optimize implementation deadlines and means of production

Insure the role of technical interface between engineering and production teams.

Participate with engineering in the implementation of technical solutions.

Perform in writing engineering change requests if necessary, monitor dashboard in order to follow work progress.

Ensure procedures, processes and instructions are followed. TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES INC, TORONTO 2014 – 2015 Onsite Liaison - Bombardier C- Series Aircraft Program - BOMBARDIER INC, Mirabel, Canada

Managed 50+ suppliers of Bombardier C Series- Structural/System suppliers, ensured the completeness and consistency of engineering data across systems and programs, and facilitated to achieve their major mile stone of launching their first flights for C-Series aircrafts.

Led 15+ members on onsite and 20+ members on offshore, guiding and coordinating the offshore team with regular conference calls on day today basis.

Create dashboards with the view of providing project oversight to the clients.

Accountable for analyzing the customer's requirements and providing appropriate solutions.

Responsible for meeting project deadlines, quality of deliverables to client's expectations.

Facilitate and coordinate project activities between client’s deadlines and suppliers, arrange weekly/monthly meetings and teleconferences between customer and suppliers, in order to meet the project milestones.

Track weekly/monthly progress and quality of work being performed on each work packs and prepare quality status reports.

Prepare a well prioritized Project Plan, as per the monthly schedule meetings and work pack estimation from different suppliers. BOMBARDIER INC, Montreal, Canada 2012 - 2013

Senior Technical Lead - Configuration Management (C-Series/Global 7000-8000 Aircrafts)

Improved the completeness and consistency of engineering data for Bombardier Global aircraft program, enabled the organisation to accomplish their highest landmark on Global 7000/8000 first flight launch.

Being a Senior Technical lead for Bombardier Onsite Nomenclature team, possess vital experience in preparation of Project Plan, Estimation of Work Packages, analysis of Input data, Improvement plans, Team Management and Report generation.

Validate Engineering Data quality of C Series/Global 7000/8000 aircraft parts and Engineering

Interpret, review, standardize, and validate the issued Engineering Changes (3D & 2D), Modification Summary (MODSUM), Engineering Data Release Notice (EDRN), Non-Incorporated Engineering order (NIEO), Request for Change (RFC).

Build and maintain the Aircraft configurations and product structure in Enovia and SAP.

Validate product structure with respect to Bombardier standards such as BMs/PJDs/ECMS.

Analyse Aircraft configurations based on Engineering definition or changes. FERRARI SPA, Maranello, Italy 2010 - 2011

Senior Aerodynamics Design Engineer - Aerodynamics – Body Design for Ferrari Formula 1 Race Car

Studying the FIA regulations for Front, Mid and Rear areas of the Car.

Benchmarking the Front Wing, Rear Wing, Endplates, Nose Cone, Corners and Suspensions from competitor cars.

Proposing new conceptual design with respect to FIA rules.

Testing the prototype model of an F1 car in wind tunnel.

Measuring series of parameters like Lift; drag; lift to drag ratio and drag power.

Preparing a wind tunnel data sheet based on the parameters measured.

Creating detailed designs of components as per FIA regulations.

Design and modification of Aerodynamic surfaces for better performance of the car in every race. BOEING, Everett-USA 2007 - 2009

Senior Design Engineer - Aircraft ECS Bracket Design/MBD-Interior-Seating Systems

Deliver engineering design support for US Aerospace major Aircraft Interiors group of Environment Control Systems (ECS) by designing and modelling of Supporting Brackets and Structures in Catia V5 and Enovia LCA Platform.

Creation of MBD for the designed brackets and the same will be used in Installation Requirements Model and Component Assembly Requirement Model for ECS for the ease of manufacturing and other production process.

Handling of release actions in Enovia database for the newly designed Brackets.

Interference checks with various structure and brackets using digital visualization tool IVT.

Creation of Seating Systems Seats Installation Requirement models (IRM), Components Assemblies (CA) and Enovia Sign Off actions.

Quality Assurance of the deliverables

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