Industrial Engineer

Location:

Houston, TX, 77007

Salary:

60000

Posted:

June 14, 2011

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OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full time position in an organization where sound academic background in industrial engineering with good analytical skills can add value.

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Aug ‘08 - Dec ‘10

Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering with Certificate in Business GPA 3.1/4

Anna University, Chennai, India Aug ’04 - Apr ’08

Bachelor of Engineering in Automobile Engineering GPA 3.75/4

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tractor and Farm Equipment Limited, Chennai, India – Supplier Quality Assurance Division May ‘10 - Aug ’10

Supply Chain Intern

• Identified vendors for initial sample approval process and performed vendor evaluation by analyzing the pre-assessment report of the procurement team.

• Member of Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) team of six for verifying the supplier process controls and developed non-conformity reports (NCR) to seek action plans of vendors.

• Assisted Buyer in Request for Quotation (RFQ) process using SAP-MM and created purchase orders.

• Performed process analysis of gauges and compared the capability, repeatability and reproducibility data sets using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tool.

Tractor and Farm Equipment Limited, Bangalore, India – Centre Housing Division Aug ’07 - Jan ’08

Lean Engineer Trainee

• Conceptualized Toyota Production System (TPS) and Kaizen through classroom trainings and workshops.

• Accomplished 4% improvement in line efficiency by conducting time and motion study analysis to identify non-value added activities; and eliminated them by implementing 5S in seat assembly process and introducing shadow boards to avoid tool searching time.

• Conducted root-cause analysis by using appropriate 7 QC tools and implemented corrective and preventive actions.

• Designed new Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) which clearly guided the technicians by using visual aid.

Tractor and Farm Equipment Limited, Chennai, India - R&D May ’06 - Jun ‘06

Research and Development Engineering Co-op

• Converted the proposed 2D drawings of centre-drive gear assembly by formulating the gear equations to 3D models using Pro-E.

Office of Distance Education – Texas A&M University Apr ‘09 - Apr ‘10

Marketing Research Analyst

• Developed and maintained website of Distance Education - Texas A&M University, by making it more accessible. Designed flyers, banners and helped to promote marketing campaign and used social networking site Facebook as a medium of online advertising.

PROJECT

Directed Studies in Supply Chain Management Spring 2010

• Studied and understood numerous core concepts and emerging supply chain practices like Tactical Planning, Bullwhip, Postponement, Vendor Managed Inventory.

• Performed detailed analysis of Oil & Gas Supply Chain to determine the pain points and proposed solutions to possibly rectify them using RFID technology.

Airline Seat Allocation using Mathematical Optimization Fall 2009

• Led a team of four to develop mathematical optimization model to maximize overall profit with overbooking and discount fare seats.

• Calculated the stochastic demand variation of the problem by using @risk add-on tool of MS Excel.

Healthcare Insurance Management System Summer 2009

• Designed a Healthcare Insurance portal to store and retrieve patient’s information by using Visual Basic as front end and SQL as back end.

GRADUATION COURSEWORK

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND LEADERSHIP

• Cultural Secretary and Webmaster of India Association, Texas A&M University.

• Webmaster and Member of organizational committee of Child Rights and You America, Texas A&M University.

• Secretary of Association of Automobile Engineers of Anna University, India.

• Chief Editor and Designer of Automobile Department magazine ‘Torq’, Anna University, Chennai, India.

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