Supply Chain Management

Dennis Varghese Thomas

**** * *’ Connor road, Irving, TX-75062. Ph.: 806-***-****. ******.*********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position to function on multidisciplinary teams’ where I can translate the skills and techniques acquired in my IE program, to design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems using appropriate analytical, computational, and experimental practices, for managing / optimizing industrial production and increase firms output in an economical manner.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Master of Science Industrial Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Specialization: Optimization; GPA: 3.64 Graduation: May 2012

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering University, of Mumbai, India

GPA: 3.66 Graduation: May 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Engineer, Hi-Tech Radiators, Mumbai, India. 2009- 2010

• Responsible for normal running, maintenance activities.

• Formulation, implementation of SOP through workforce training and periodic audits for ensuring reliable production processes.

• Responsible for use of SPC technique to check tolerance level.

• Responsible for implementing remedial measures and monitoring of the identified system flaws.

• Responsible for ensuring proper safety standards, Quality standards ISO 9001.

• Implemented Lean techniques like 5S, Kaizen, Poke yoke.

• Implemented Value Stream charts to reduce non-value-creating activities. It helped in identify and eliminate waste, thereby streamlining work processes, cutting lead times, reducing costs and increasing quality by a significant amount.

• Intermediate understanding of all elements of supply chain: procurement, Inventory Control, receiving, fulfillment, transportation and returns.

• Mobilizing resources like workforce, raw material and plant capacities for targeted production.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Graduate

Design of a firm: (Operation management Project) Jan 2011- May 2011

• Strategic design of the Firm and its product

• Strategic quality design and management using statistical process control (Pareto, X-bar, R-bar and C-Charts), lean six-sigma, Kaizen.

• Resource planning was done using demand and supply forecasting.

• Strategic design/management of the Internal processes required to produce/deliver the product. APQP and PPAP techniques were used.

• Strategic design/management of the external processes required to deliver the product, QFD and Balanced Scorecard techniques were used in this process.

• Strategic design/management of inventory and forecasting (Project planning and scheduling) was done using WBS & Gantt chart (MS Project),

• Performed cost benefit and breakeven analysis.

• Supply chain strategies included vertical integration and controlling critical chain.

• Design of the startup project.

Simulation of operation analysis (Arena simulation software): Jan 2011- May 2011

• Developed system features and formulated models to simulate a target-level approach to inventory control and evaluate tradeoffs and cost benefit analysis between alternatives.

Safety Engineering Aug 2011 –Dec 2011

• Evaluated several products were focusing on safety issues and usability.

• Developed QFD - House of Quality (HOQ) charts

• Performed FMEA, FTA, What-If analysis and root cause analysis.

• Proposed strategies to mitigate product liability issue.

Controlling drug delivery characteristics of polylatic acid (Biomedical design and manufacturing) Jan 2012 – May 2012

• Design and fabricate various product design geometries

• Establishment of degradation studies

• Quantification of resultant product design degradation behavior

• Setting guidelines depicting correlation among product geometry, degradation and application

Undergraduate

Design and Manufacturing of Sterling Engine Jan 2009 – May 2009

• Used Manufacturing techniques to make Sterling engine.

• Tested the efficiency of sterling engine.

• After testing the efficiency found ways to improve it and also found means to make it useful in future

RELATED COURSEWORK

Safety engineering Decision theory

Design of Experiments Simulation of operation analysis

Industrial cost analysis Biomedical design and manufacturing

Operation management Engineering economics

Statistical data analysis System Theory

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Student Manager, Texas Tech Hospitality services October 2011 – May 2012

Student Assistant, Texas Tech Hospitality services Jan 2011 – October 2011

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

Auto cad Minitab Microsoft office

Microsoft Project Arena Open Office

SPSS SAS 9.3 SAS enterprise Guide

Familiarity with all Microsoft OS

Certification and other Courses

• Green belt Six-Sigma certified

• Certified Lean/ DFSS

• Pursuing Certification in Professional in logistics and supply chain management- ASTL

• Course on Project Planning Management

• Microsoft Project and Primavera

Languages

English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam.

Honors and Activities

• Member of American society of Transportation and Logistics.

• Member of The association for Operation management

• Awarded Scholarship for the academic year 2011-2012 at Texas Tech University.

• Member of Forum of Mechanical engineers (FOMES) at University of Mumbai

Open to reallocation

Reference: furnished upon request

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