SUGNAN SHEETHAL BANDARU

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

** ***** ********** ** ******* New product introduction(NPI) projects as Lead Design Engineer for Power and gas industries including various activities of complete product life cycle from conceptual design to final product design.

Performed Finite Element Analysis (ANSYS) for various products in the Power generation and process industry, guided many drafting engineers for creating Auto CAD drawings and reviewed the manufacturing drawings.

Executed Product and Process capability or Feasibility studies depending on customer requirements.

Performed Design of experiments (DOE) studies for design verifications and detail designs.

Planned and Monitored installation of the product and plant feasibility studies for many international clients in the USA and China

Successfully supported clients and suggested solutions for various failures using Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

General Electric(GE) international Quality team member (USA & China) for Supplier Certification.

Design Expert in Quality team for performing design quality validation for supplier qualification both nationally and internationally that includes sampling process, verifying the dimensions of the product and design reports, and process verification.

Extensive Knowledge of DFMEA, FMEA( Failure Mode effect analysis), DOE(Design of experinments), Six Sigma, Lean systems, 5S Principles, Bill of materials

(BOM), Statistical analysis, Risk management, Risk analysis in design, and Continuous process improvemnt.

Expert in performing Vibrational, structural and thermal analysis using Ansys workbench.

Researched and submitted many topics such as Lean six sigma implementation in universities, data analysis on Cost to quality (COQ) for research papers

Maintained strong internal, external and cross functional teams to support program objectives CORE COMPETENCIES

Ansys Simulation

Ansys Work bench

SPSS

AutoCAD

Pro E

Microsoft Excel macros

MATLAB

KISSOFT

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, University of Central Missouri, Missouri, USA (2020), GPA (4.0) Master of Technology in Mechanical Machine Design Engineering, JNT University, India (2005), GPA (3.92) Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, JNT University, India (2002), GPA (3.1) WORK HISTORY

GE India Pvt Ltd (December 2007 – June 2018)

Combat vehicle Research and Development establishment (November 2005 – December 2007) Spyro CADD ( June 2005 – October 2005)

Certifications

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt from GE

Lean Six Sigma Graduate Certificate from University of Central Missouri ASME certified training on BPVC Section VIII Div-1 Foundation on leadership (FOL)

Building essential leadership skills (BELS)

Six Sigma Black belt (Udemy online course completion) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) ((Udemy online course completion) PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Won 2 Level awards at Graduate Scholar Symposium for the poster competition Engineering Recognition Day award in Product Excellence for China RSC NPI “2015” Sliver Award (Expertise) for design for the Radiant Syngas Cooler System towards this business-critical program “2014”

Engineering Recognition Day award in Product Excellence for China RSC NPI “2015” Award for Living integrity for Your integrity and dedication to quality for the Eastman Chemical PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company Name: GE India Technology

Location: Bangalore,India

Role: Lead Engineer

Dec-2007- June-2018

Responsibilities:

• Executed many New product introduction (NPI) and R&D programs for Power generation and process industry including conceptual design including hand calculations and analysis using Finite element analysis, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), released preliminary drawings for production, review final product drawings, prepare Installation guidelines, involved in continuous improvement initiation, RFQ documentation, ISO application

• Optimized the design and analysis process time from 5 days to 1 day using Ansys APDL programming and applying lean methods for problem identification

• Optimization of Product life cycle, material and design of high temperature application components. Changes included evaluating alternative materials, new geometry. Analyzed and interpret FEA results, Vibration analysis and Modal analysis using ANSYS

• Detailed design of refractory that includes material selection, brick design and expansion calculations etc. Involved in complete life cycle of the refractory from production to qualification of the vendors

• Designed fuel burner nozzle from cradle to grave for coal slurry, oil and natural gas applications which includes pipe, tip sizing, material and flange selection as per ASME codes and standards.

• Identified and implemented design improvement suggestions, RCA (Root cause analysis) using Cause and effect(Fishbone), Guided the installation team and supervised complete refractory installation including Curing. Optimized installation time and curing time by Lean process improvement and project management from 45 days to 30 days with 100% customer satisfaction.( Eastman Chemical company, Longview, Texas, USA)

• Proposed Optimal design solutions of refractory design for better performance and life, Supervision of the refractory installation and curing.( IGCC-Duke Energy. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

• Supported in assessing supplier life cycle management as design expert to inspect the methods of manufacturing, Sampling validation, brick shapes and composition and verify the product specifications with the design requirements. Verified test reports such as porosity, material specifications, calibration reports(Luoyang Institute of refractory research, China & Cadlyers refractories, Nagpur, India) Responsibilities:

• Estimation of total power loss automatic transmission system which includes Gears, Bearings, Oil Seals etc.

• Bending Stress Analysis of Gears using Finite Element Method.

• Design of mechanical steering unit for automatic transmission system.

• Design of Gears, Bearing Life Estimation, Design of Shafts and splines.

• Supported PHD research programs for various gear desings.

• Field experiments for measuring the torque and speed of the combat vehicles.

• Tesing of new equipment for the transmission vehicles for pivot turns.

• Gearing calcuations using KISSOFT tool and compare the results with the bending stress calculation using Finite element analysis (ANSYS)

• Guided drafting team to generate manufacturing draiwings of the transmission components.

• Field studies of engine performace based as per different gear shifts. Company Name: Combat Vehicle Research Development Establishment Location: Chennai,India

Role: Senior Research Fellow

Dec-2005- Nov-2007

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