KAUSHAL PATEL

Boston, MA adlj3d@r.postjobfree.com 857-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/kaushal-patel144/ EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA Sept 2018 – Dec 2020 Master of Science: Industrial Engineering GPA: 3.87/4.00 Relevant Courses: Supply chain Engineering, Logistics, Warehousing& Scheduling, Project Management, lean concepts & applications Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 Micro Master’s Program: Supply Chain Management

LDRP-ITR, Gujarat, India Aug 2014 – May 2018

Bachelor of Technology: Mechanical Engineering GPA: 7.58/10.00 Relevant Courses: Engineering costing & estimating, Manufacturing processes, Operation Research, Production Technology SKILLS

Software: SAP, Tableau, MS Office, Minitab, Advance Excel (Macros, Pivot Table), MS Project, Visio, BAAN, R programming, MySQL Supply Chain: Demand Planning, Forecasting, Logistics, Sourcing, Procurement, Inventory Management, Financial management Process Improvement: Value Stream Map, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Six Sigma, 5s, 5 why’s, Root Cause Analysis CERTIFICATIONS

Lean Green Belt – Institute of Industrial and System Engineers Supply Chain Management – Northeastern University

SolidWorks, MySQL, SAP ERP training, Data analysis using excel, Excel: Macros and VBA beginners, R programming EXPERIENCE

Project Management Co-op, Goodbaby International, Canton, MA Jan 2020 – June 2020

Generated, and coordinated 50+ engineering changes to restructure existing products using BAAN ERP software; managed creation of ECN by pulling a part number from database to execution of it by attaching technical drawing & documentation

Established Bill of Materials (BOM) for 3 new products and 2 product improvements utilizing Excel and BAAN ERP

Created Gantt chart, work schedule, resource allocation and organized team meeting to follow up on work completion and progress of new product meets scope and budget allocation

Administered 100+ purchasing orders (PO) to engineering department from creating it to get approval and send it to procurement and finance department

Collaborated with QA team to specify product performance metrics, competitive product benchmarking & test methods

Communicated with internal stakeholders to understand customer requirements and market demand Manufacturing Engineer, Windsor Machines Ltd., Gujarat, India Jan 2017 – March 2018

Executed Inventory management model on MS Excel and controlled level against demand planning and forecasting resulted in 12% decrease in cost; generated risk analysis report and enforce new supply chain strategy considering lead time, safety stock

Sourced new vendors and effectively communicated quality expectation and requirements; Analyzed their performance by dashboard defining key performance indicators (KPI) and provided improvement plan utilizing supplier scorecard

Designed RFI, RFP, RFQ for better understanding of pricing, services, products of vendors with procurement team

Served as liaison between internal stakeholders and external suppliers to support business growth

Provided extensive training and guidance to 50 employees by collaborating in a team of 5 members to demonstrate lean tools and their application for improvement in production and work efficiency

Overhauled production line by executing lean tools Just in Time (JIT), Kitting, Statistical process control, Kaizen to achieve 27% reduced cycle time

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Lean implementation on Warehouse, Lean methodology and application project

Defined problems and applied 5 why’s, and Fishbone diagram to detect root causes to problem and drafted value stream map for process planning to remove waste

Implemented 5s, 2 bin Kanban, Work balance concept to reduce safety stock, eliminate dead inventory and optimize

inventory resulted reduction in space utilization by 40% Enhancing Bakery business by statistical analysis, Probability, and statistics project

Collected sales data of 3 years, filtered and segregated same by pivot table in MS Excel

Calculated descriptive statistics and estimated daily sales and profit per month and visualized data using Tableau and Excel

Applied ABC analysis and Market Basket concept to find most selling combination using R Language Used Car’s price prediction model, Data mining engineering and applications project

Cleaned, structured, and developed data insights by creating statistics, histogram, and boxplot using R programming

Established different machine learning model with varying accuracies depicting by ROC curve and highlighting most effective

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