Engineer Quality Assurance

Narayan Menon

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Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 Email: ******.********@*****.***

ENGINEERING PROJECT and PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Lean Manufacturing – Body in White Engineering – Quality Assurance

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled engineering professional with over twenty years in Project Management and Manufacturing. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams in solving problems, designing strategies and developing innovative solutions with emphasis on developing long term relationships. As entrepreneur, designed and founded a supplier company servicing OEM and Tier-1 automotive companies. Known as an expert in Body in White Manufacturing and Fastening Technology.

Areas of Expertise: ENSURING QUALITY

• Monitor and implement Advance Product Quality Planning at supplier for an OEM

• Developed and implemented glide path monitoring for body shop

• Directed engineering team in achieving Production Part Approval Process

• Supplier quality liaison for two stamping plants at the assembly plants and program team.

MANAGING PROJECTS / BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Created business strategy and implemented the plan which started a new venture as supplier to OEM and Tier-1 automotive companies

• Managed introduction of new product to an OEM

• Led body shop conversion for launch of:

3rd door program for the small truck at Shreveport Assembly plant

Sport side box for the small truck at Shreveport Assembly Plant

Heavy duty full size truck at Flint assembly Plant

• Guided engineering team through problem resolution and reported risk and status updates to management

• Motivated team through friendly persuasion to meet program objectives

ENGINEERING DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

• Developed program fastening strategy for truck programs

• Managed joint testing and validation for full size truck program

• Analyzed joints as well as specified torque and standardized fasteners

• Designed welded fastener global catalog

• Implemented standards for clinch nuts and cage nuts

• Created weld specifications for Projection welding and Drawn arc welding

• Developed best practice for seat belt and fuel filler door attachments

Pending Patents: Projection weld nuts

Mechanism to prevent ELPO adhesion of cage nuts

Certification: SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

P SQUARED, INC. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 2007- Present

President

• Created business and marketing plans for a new supplier company

• New product manager for a supplier company

• Designed and optimized a patented cage nut design

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Detroit, Michigan 1994-2007

Senior Designing Engineer, Fastening 1999-2007

• Reduced development time for application specific testing with standardization of torque out and push out values for clinch nuts

• Redesigned part, eliminating Teflon coating and implementing 6e/E threads, which saved over $15 million annually

• Saved $1.12 per vehicle by commonizing cage nut usage on Small Truck program

• Developed performance criteria and design parameters for extruded and welded fasteners

Senior Project Engineer Heavy Duty Full Size truck program 1996-1999

• Monitored timing and investment status of $150 million body shop addition at Flint, MI

• Led DFM and DFA workshops as well as selection of GD&T and Process Monitoring Points

• Directed team of manufacturing and product engineers in resolving body issues during product launch

• Developed and implemented the quality glide path for body shop.

• Managed formability analysis and die processing team which developed 11 dies

• Coordinated stamping dies, gages, weld tools and suppliers to successfully implement product change

Senior Project Engineer, Small truck program 1994-1996

• Monitored timing and investment of $50 million assembly line in Shreveport, LA.

• Coordinated Sport Side Box launch

• Led the 3rd door hemmer integration

• Liaison for stamping parts at the Isuzu truck launch at Shreveport assembly plant

• Supported die buy-off process for three die lines at Schwarzenberg, Germany

• Represented Flint and Indianapolis plants, successfully obtaining Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) on 27 stampings.

AMERICAN ENGINEERS, Inc. 1993-1994

Engineer

• Designed and supported the building of the frame turn-over machine which was capable of producing eight models of frames at rate of 65 vehicles per hour

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Masters in Engineering Science, Management of Technology

Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1999

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1993

Design for Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, 2006

PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS

Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Membership Chairperson, Chapter 69

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