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Positive, self-driven and ambitious Project/Technical Manager with 16+ years of rich techno commercial experience in delivering solutions and increasing profitability by leveraging strong experience in Product Design & Development, Manufacturing, VAVE and Should Costing in stated domains i.e., Consumer Electronics, Industrial, Telecom, Electromechanical devices and Automotive. Proven record of managing projects from concept to release. Strive to make the customers pleased; through mutual communication, driven personality, keeping up to date with latest tools and meeting deadlines. Adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently in design and development projects using various tools and training strategies to coach individuals and team for successful completion. Skilled in building cross-functional teams with exceptional communication skills, adopting new experience, solving problems and getting through difficulties.

Professional Summary @ HCL Technologies and HCL America inc.,

At HCL Technologies as Technical/Project Manager in ERS DU adept at managing engineering operations involves Design, Develop, and Managing implementation of extremely complex projects with broad scope, high impact and variable implementation time frames in line with PM BOK guideline from PMI.

Defining Project milestones, achieving them by meticulous planning to meet on time with quality deliverables.

Foresee the development of each aspect of design and review them to solve simple to complex technical issues with predictive and statistical tools to deliver error free design.

Managing Project, Schedules, Resource planning, Risk management and review the status and reporting them to senior management for any support.

Timely providing guidance, mentoring leads and team to ensure successful completion of projects with cost-effective ideas.

Identify business development opportunities within customer organization and support account management and presales team. Prepare and present executive briefings and recommendations for executive actions.

Certified Value Methodology Associate from SAVE International USA and expertise in product bench marking, Teardown analysis should cost and Value engineering using costing tools aPriori to build next generation product solutions.

Achievements

Received best design project award for completing Redesign of Air Terminal Unit Plastic Enclosure with least proto builds and sent for tooling.

Implementation of Robust Master Modeling Technique at Client location for Handheld design product to streamline CAD Top-down methodology in Creo Tool.

Published White paper on Design Cycle time reduction using Knowledge Base Engineering Consumer Electronics DU.

Successfully completed 10 Green belt and yellow belt projects in six sigma streams and mentored various projects in a year which contributed to huge savings.

Re designed and developed innovative designs for Industrial products which lead to huge cost savings.

Reduced product design cycle time by implementing Knowledge Base Engineering and gain accolade from customers. 20% Design cycle time reduced.

Lead automation projects to improve 40% productivity and reduce errors.

Identified process gaps and improved overall process compliance index with score more than 93 on scale of 100.

Areas of Expertise

Market Research,

NPD, MBD & MBE,

Should costing

Value Engineering,

DFMEA

KBE,

RRCA

Vendor negotiations,

Project Management,

Process Quality,

LEAN and Six Sigma practices

RFPs and Technical Proposal

Value Stream Mapping

3P, TPM,5S, QCPC. Kanban

Technical Skills: New product design and development using Creo Elements as CAD Tool

Well versed with New Product Development of Industrial, Consumer electronics, and Telecom products from Proof of concepts to manufacturing release

Acquired prolific knowledge of materials of different manufacturing process, Possess sound knowledge in Plastic component design and Manufacturing processes with GD&T & tolerance analysis.

Fair knowledge on ASME Y14.5 for GD&T, regulatory standards (UL, NEMKO, CE, ATEX, NEMA and IP.) Product Tests planning and compliance.

Developed Part, Assembly and Manufacturing fixtures for sheet metal, plastic and casting components.

Redesigned and developed enclosures for IP, NEMA and ATEX requirements for consumer electronics, Telecom and automotive products.

Hands on Expertise in Plastic component design, trouble shoot, manufacturing for injection molding and other molding methods. Good exposure to processing of Polymers and fair idea on materials (PP, ABS, PBT, HIPS, PC)

Lead team for MBE and MBD to transfer conventional 2D drawings to 3DPDF with single source of information.

Very capable of implementing ideas in 3D CAD tool Creo Elements using modules as Solid, Surface, Sheet metal and other advanced methods ISDX, IDD and advanced assembly for plastic and casting components.

Project Management

Understands client business operations and provided competitive technical proposals, Projects plans, RFQ, SOW for Design, Costing, FEA and other large engineering projects Implementation and monitored schedules to meet milestones with quality deliverables.

Strong leadership and excellent project management skills, capable of fostering a clear understanding of projects role in meeting objectives.

Identify perspective clients, study product and portfolios, conducted market research for next generation technical requirements

Capable of setting up new teams, hiring, managing operations, planning, Estimation, scoping and driving towards strategic goals.

Forecast Risks and prepare Risk Contingency and Mitigation plans within set financial limits in stringent timelines.

Instrumental in preparing and presenting collateral project capabilities, approach documents, status reports to presales and senior management at defined frequency with detailed reports and metrics.

Achieving MFA/CSAT with meticulous planning for various programs with periodic review to reach deadlines.

Specialized in RRCA for critical issues and provided fool proof solutions for design and process improvements.

Empowered team with process driven approach by conducting training sessions on products and quality front to achieve customer excellence.

Good in process establishments for large projects as per CMMI L5 quality requirements.

Customers handled in 16 Years stint and Responsibilities at HCL Technologies.

UTC Carrier-Linde Reverse engineering and Design support for Display cases at Germany-Mainz

UTC Carrier-France Design support for HVAC Chillers, Air Terminal Modules and Cost reduction projects.

Cisco Telecom Product development at onsite on handheld devices for IP67, MIL-STD-810G & ATEX requirements

Bissell Re design and Development of new and existing vacuum cleaners

Augmentix Dell Latitude laptop ruggedization for IP 65 and MIL-810 G standards.

Danfoss Drives, Optimization of die casted Heat sinks, Conversion of Castings to sheet metal and SMT to Plastics.

Bergstorm Inc., Re design support for Automotive HVAC enclosures and ducts

As product designer managed NPD projects from Proof of concepts to production release.

Suggested and implemented alternate materials to save cost for consumer and industrial components.

Conducted FMEA with multiple stake holders for design, assembly and for manufacturability of various products.

As Project manager, Onsite coordinator, Program Manager, monitored the project progress and controlled deviations in schedule, cost and quality

Actively involved in DFMEA, PPAP, vendor management for design prototyping, tooling and manufacturing check samples.

Quick in setting up technical teams for complex projects to achieve desired output without compromising quality of deliverables to delight customers.

Performed value engineering exercises for various products in appliance and industrial requirements to achieve optimized costs.

Mentored many engineers on Design and quality process with systematic approach on skill-based trainings.

Present & Past Assignments Undertaken

30th November 2006 – till date with HCL Technologies from Member Tech staff to Technical Manager.

04th Jul 2005 to 29-Sep-2006 with ArvinMeritor Bangalore Designer.

05th Feb-2002 to 30 Jun 2005 – GE Power Controls from Crats India as Design Engineer

CAD image Solutions Rajaji Nagar Bangalore as Design Engineer

Scholastics

BS Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology

From BITS Pilani Rajasthan

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

From Vasavi Polytechnic Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Andhra Pradesh

International Exposure and Highlights

Lead NPD projects at Charlotte on Design, validation and supporting ECS, MCS builds for Global Air-cooled chillers products till release to production also leading Schedule B/Sustenance team at Carrier Corporation Charlotte Jan 22 to till date.

Program Manager for vendor consolidation of hardware for WHQ Supply chain team, located from Charlotte to support component transitions and strategic sourcing Supply chain: Jun 2021 to Dec21.

Travelled to Syracuse to establish RCD team on ECN backlogs clearance and catalogues changes for EPMS.

Travelled to Syracuse to establish Marine support on backlog clearance of Marine water-cooled chiller requirements.

Industrial Designer & Managed NPD projects for Cisco Handheld devices at Sanjose, California, from Jan2014 to Sep 2014.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS from 2015 to till date.

Developed Macros Based Weekly Reports for RCD team to ease review process and implementation of weekly ECNs to support ECN backlogs which has resulted in efficient review system and reduced efforts from 2 weeks to 2days.

Actively participated in Value Stream Mapping of RCD process at Syracuse and established improved process of RCD ECN backlog clearance.

Developed and established efficient and standard manufacturing practice for ESAB drawings of Water-cooled chiller using Creo-Surface tools to mark Outside Tape Measurement dimension on shells which optimized setup time and efforts with error free etching process.

Successfully integrated DFM Pro for Carrier projects with CREO across carrier teams and implemented to increase productivity and overcome modeling and drawing errors.

Independently designed Plastic Enclosure Cover for V-Coil to avoid rusting, which is currently in production and usage for all V-coils - CLT-France sustenance (Annual volume of 20k components)

Independently Designed and developed Hybrid Enclosure for 42NH Fan coil unit Enclosure /Air Terminal Units tool to overcome production and EHS issues with minimum proto builds.

Independently designed and developed New Plastic Fan grill and stack concepts.

Created Model Base Definition using annotations in Creo Annotations and successfully submitted Proof of Concept for Charlotte air cooled units modules.

Worked for France POC team at offshore for Air-cooled units and contributed to Benchmarking, should costing, Tear down analysis, Value Engineering and analysis and process improvements.

Expertise in using windchill for BOM Management, Creo Top-down assembly approach and advanced assembly to build sub systems and unit level assembly drawings using overlays.

Suggested alternate materials and designs to reduce cost of sheet metal parts in air cooled chillers and standardized components and assemblies across all units

Conducted Trainings on Plastic product design guidelines and Injection molding procedures to enhance team members skills.

Conducted Creo Advanced and Basics of Sheetmetal and assembly modules for multiple teams.

Generated standard work instructions for various process Master modeling technique.

2.0 years with Heracles IP Phones and Docking station (Consumer Electronics- Cisco)

Worked collaboratively with Cisco cross functional teams includes Electronics, Industrial Design, Acoustics, Compliance, Hardware and Software teams, seamlessly coordinated with HCLT offshore team.

Suggested and implemented various concepts on Plastic enclosure and Packaging designs which are feasible for double shot injection molding and thin wall molding.

Interacted with FOXCONN for tooling and suggested improvements in tooling for soft and hard tooling till production release of Heracles.

Involved and participated multiple vendors discussion for suitable Polymers, gaskets, Batteries, tactile switches other hardware’s.

Tested protos for ingress protection and other recommended test for IP phones (I P65, MDVT and EDVT).

Established Control Modelling Technique for robust CAD models and assembly management.

Value engineering and should costing of IP phones using aPriori tools for cost optimization and value improvements.

Performing product Data Management (PDM/PLM) activities for release of components and dwgs.

Exploring Cost Reduction ideas for existing products and value engineer them with optimum costs.

7.0 years at appliances for Floor Cleaning Products and Value Engineering on existing products.

Involved from Proof-of-Concept Phase to production release considering from CAD with and all Tooling aspects and manufacturing through HCL-BISSELL GPD cycle (Class-A surface Control models)

Bread board model creation, Mechanical layout models, Prototype requirement models, tooling release CAD data with advanced CAD modelling procedures.

Benchmarking and should costing, Tear down analysis, Value Engineering and analysis of existing products

Converting the skin surface and generating the piece parts based on tooling strategy and ease of assembly.

Key contributor for Knowledge Base engineering of vacuum systems using Creo Pro Program.

1.0 year with Ruggedization of Dell Laptops for MILSTD 810 G

Ruggedizing and repackaging the existing E5400 ATG Dell Notebook for rough weather and harsh conditions. The necessary mechanical changes had done to meet the criteria listed in MIL standards and IP 55 standards further validating the reliable performance in mission critical applications under demanding conditions

Completely involved in Plastic product design of various components of Dell ruggedized laptop, including design of HPDC components.

Concept generation for different mechanisms adhering to standards modeling practices.

Quality check of the deliverables. Creating the independent parts using extensive usage of surface modeling, Advanced assembly.

Personal Dossier

Date of Birth: 07th July 1974

Holding Valid H1-B Visa till March 2025.

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