PLM Business Analyst / Solution Architect

Core Competencies

• Visionary leadership

• Subject Matter Expert – PLM/ CAD / CAE

• Solution Architect

• Strategic Business Processes

• Global Product management

• Technology development

• Global Strategic synergies

• Mentoring and coaching

• Project management

• Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Summary

Highly accomplished, results oriented professional with over 16 years of engineering, project management, strategic planning, business process development, business development, product development and deployment of high-end PLM and CAD toolsets at large OEMs. Accrued this experience from various industries including automotive, packaging, material handling, manufacturing and aeronautics to name a few. My value proposition is to be a business analyst with a “From Engineer to Engineer” focus.

My objective is to secure a PLM business analyst position with a focus on the process and its purpose first, and secondly, how to make the technology serve that purpose, not the other way around. I plan to move back to India in early 2010.

I have lead teams of engineers and developers doing implementation, customizations, deployments, analysis of engineering designs, manufacturing, and ongoing product support. Charged with applying industry standard analysis methods and techniques to improve and optimize applications and related processes in complex engineering and manufacturing situations throughout the value stream. As a business analyst, I developed sound requirement and functional specifications, definition, integration and documentation of new and improved process solutions working directly with software vendors like Siemens PLM, Dassault Systemes, and Mentor Graphics. This included the creation of data and process architectures involving a large-scale implementation of state of the art product definition toolsets, system engineering, product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, supplier integration, supply chain optimization and also managing software development projects with software vendors.

Played key roles in negotiating and validating the proposed system requirements and solutions with internal and original software providers. Partnered with IT management to develop and align IT support plans for the product development business.

Participates on several software user’s group committees relative to the planning and standardization of CAD and PLM/PDM software tools and practices, and has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Pune University, India and Masters in Computer Information Sciences from University of Michigan.

Skill-set and tools

TeamCenter Engineering, TeamCenter Enterprise (Metaphase), ENOVIA, SMARTEAM, ORACLE AGILE, CATIA V5, UGS I-DEAS/NX, Q-Checker, Digital visualization, ECAD - TransDesign, CHS, Capital Engineer, C++, VB++, JAVA, SQL, ITK, CATIA Knowledge-ware, UML, UNIX scripting, I-DEAS PRG, 6-Sigma (GreenBelt), Auto Lisp, Microsoft office tools, MS Project, AutoCAD, Aries, Ansys, Nastran, UNIX, HP-UX, SOLARIS, WINDOWS.

Professional Experience

INFOTECH ENTERPRISES AMERICA INC. (Apr-2009 – Present)

Sr. PLM Solutions Manager

Currently leading the PLM consulting and implementation services teams for Infotech’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) practice globally. Key responsibilities include –

• Work closely with our clients (with internal cross-functional teams) and the solutions management team to develop client-specific detailed Requirement Definitions, gap-analysis and use-cases.

• Develop sound PLM solutions to address customer objectives.

• Support and mentor the development team during the implementation process (software coding, consultancy, documentation, review, test, etc.)

• Demonstrate prototypes of new functionality in order to obtain client input and acceptance.

• Manage PLM and process engineering projects with leading technologies based on strategic goals.

• Develop sound business strategy and translate into the technical vision and implementation.

• Develop documentation of processes (as-is and to-be) using various techniques including value stream mapping (VSM).

• Develop end-user training documents and manage training deployments.

• Architecture governance processes and conducting Architecture reviews and evaluations.

• Assist marketing with market analysis, trends and customer awareness to maximize business.

Clients currently engaged are from avionics, construction, transportation domains.

INCAT Inc. (Oct-2008 – Feb-2009)

Sr. PLM Application Consultant

Mentoring and coaching for implementation of best-in-class strategies and business processes for customer base for PLM (Product Life-cycle Management) and CAD/CAE. Clients from automotive, aerospace and other industries.

Project at Bell Helicopter

Project involved total revamp of Bell environment with CATIA V5 and ENOVIA LCA from legacy V4 environment. Incat’s team of consultants was responsible for establishing requirements, solutions and implementation of best-in-class design methods and procedures with state-of-art V5 and ENOVIA LCA infrastructure.

Working with identified user-base, documented use-cases and established functional requirement documents, followed by solutions documents for PLM and CAD (CATIA with ENOVIA LCA) implementation from ground zero. These included various domains like electrical systems, power-plant, standard parts, composites, catalog strategies, etc.

Established a test environment setup with needed infrastructure for functional and technical prove-outs.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn (MAY-2000 – Oct-2008)

Business Analyst – Electrical and Electronics System Engineering (EESE).

Responsible for evaluating business needs, ROI, impact and deployment for improved PLM, CAD, Visualization tools and functionalities for EESE. Ensured quality and productivity targets using PLM and CAD functionalities to support engineering and change management activities. Lead strategic global business processes development and technology planning for TeamCenter with Siemens (Ford Program office) on EESE’s behalf. Managed alignment of IT services and business plans including setup of functional, integration and user-acceptance testing environments. Involved in engineering, design, change management and content management of vehicle programs and supporting suppliers. Deploy 6-Sigma DMAIC methodology for product design. Mentored vehicle program engineering developing DFMEA, CAD Standards and Design verification methods (DVM) to maximize quality and productivity. Accomplished tasks included –

• Successfully managed a team a Ford funded core developers at Siemens for enhancements and new functionality in CAD/PLM toolsets.

• Implementation project for development and deployment of PLM (TCe) with dual CAD (CATIA & IDEAS).

• Lead configuration and deployment efforts for TeamCenter 2007 implementation for MCAD and ECAD (Mentor design tools - CHS).

• Lead EESE’s data migration from Metaphase (TeamCenter Enterprise) to TeamCenter Engineering.

• Established business processes to ensure MCAD and ECAD integration.

• TeamCenter Engineering deployment for electrical systems engineering and requirement management.

• Lead development project of analytical toolset for flexible wire harness packaging.

• Established and implemented a robust design release process with digital validation of design data. Reduced manufacturing issues downstream.

• Created and established CATIA V5 KBE (Knowledgeware checks & rules) for effective and diagnostic designs.

• Established CATIA V5 quality reports (using KBE) for design engineers for design checks.

• Established CATIA V5 templates for modularized designs using knowledgeware and parameters.

• Established CATIA V5 Engineering BOM templates for contextual data. Reduced re-validation of contextual data for every new vehicle setup. Also indentified missing or needed contextual data.

• Established and implemented standard parts catalog for V5 and TCe across the enterprise. This also included engineering sign-off to reduce complexity and eliminate duplication of standard parts.

• Established needed functionality for Q-Checker functionality to support business.

• Established a working relationship directly with tool vendor’s (Siemens, Dassault Systemes, Mentor Graphics) development teams for future functionality, resolve current validated tool issues (PMRs, GTAC, etc.).

• Constantly embedded in the engineering teams to resolve daily use-case issues for CAD/PLM tools. Consult Program Management Team (PMT) on tool issues.

• Lead a 6-Sigma black-belt project to standardize on identification of electrical connectors all the way from engineering to manufacturing to dealerships. This reduced a major expense in re-validation of wiring diagrams for vehicle diagnostics at dealerships. This new numbering system was much superior and intelligent than the legacy sequential system and was adopted across the Ford global operations. Was awarded for the efforts.

• Synergized and establish best-in-class CAD/PLM methods, processes and engineering standards across Ford global enterprise.

• Lead and established electrical CAD standards, DVMs, DFMEAs.

• Served as a permanent member on Ford Engineering and CAD Standards (FECDS) global committee.

• Received a series of awards for various accomplishments during the career at Ford.

• COE-Automotive committee member.

Onward Technologies (May-1996 - MAY-2000)

Product Development Consultant

Served as product development specialist with solid engineering and PLM/CAD background. Mentored in various industry domains for product development, best-in-class process/methods development and implementation of PLM and CAD toolsets. Key achievements:

• Established Onward Technologies’ first US operations in San Jose, CA.

• Implemented and deployed Ford’s C3P 8.0 for electrical and electronics systems engineering at Ford.

• Implemented digital visualization toolsets for electrical flexible wire harness design at Ford.

• Developed and implemented ancillary tools for quality and productivity gains.

• Migrated CAD data from AutoCAD to IDEAS/Metaphase with minimal re-design at Silicon Valley Group Inc.

Assistant Manager – Mechanical engineering services - PUNE, INDIA

Directed a team for pre and post sales technical support at company's Indian operation at Pune for CAD/CAM/CAE implementation. Team provided engineering and design (CAD) services. Directed projects at customer site or in-house. Directed services including design, modeling, surfacing, assembly, mechanisms, FE analysis, data administration, customization, data translations, software installation, and training customer staff. Executed pre-sales demos and benchmarking exercises.

Krupp industries India Ltd. (DEC-92 - MAY-96)

Design Engineer (Crushers and Screens).

Design engineer role for coal crushers, screens, crushing plants and sugar fibrizors. Implemented designs at sugar factories and coal crushing plants. Key achievements:

• Invented new designs for a variety of crushers, fibrizors and screens saving material and engineering cost.

• Design of India’s first semi-mobile coal crushing plant with coal crushing capacity of 1600 tons per hour.

Education

MS - Computer and Information Science. Dec-2005 University of Michigan, USA

BS - Mechanical Engineering Aug–1992 University of Pune, India

Professional associations

Visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/pkarkare for all my professional groups membership.

Other info

Green Card status. Will request financial relocation assistance if position is out of Detroit, MI., Married, two children. Will be a US Citizen in Q1-2010.

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