Engineering Manager

Parveen K Chandila

PROFILE

Reliability || Design & Product Development || Business Strategy || People & Project Management

• Engineering Manager with 7 yrs expertise in development of $ 1 Billion product-line & M.S in Mechanical Engg

• Experience with steel, tungsten carbide, diamond, rubber products of drill bits, bearings, elastomer seals, downhole drilling tools, shear cutters, impact tools, rotating equipment & fluid systems

• Expert in reducing product development cycle through proactively identifying reliability issues

• Visionary leader in analyzing big picture & cultivating enthusiasm amongst the team for outstanding results

• Effective project management skills to concurrently direct multiple projects & achieve deliverables within time & budget constraints

• Creative innovator with 2 issued Patents in Design

• Skilled problem solver in resolving spikes in product failure & manufacturing scrap

• Well rounded skills in product development, manufacturing, repair, finance & business strategy

COMPETENCIES

• Reliability • Design (CAD - ProE) • Product Development

• Root Cause Analysis • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) • People & Project Management

• Continuous Improvement • Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) • Certified Kepner Tregoe – Problem Solving & Decision Making

• Manufacturing & Operations • Benchmark Analysis • Statistical Data Analysis

PATENTS

"Rolling Cone drill bit having cutter elements positioned in a plurality of differing radial positions", US Patent # 7,686,104, Mar 30, 2010

"Drill bits having optimized cutting element counts for reduced tracking and/or increased drilling performance", US Patent # 7,798,255, Sep 21, 2010

"Gage configurations for drill bits", US Patent Application # 11/517179

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Smith Bits (A Schlumberger Company) Houston, TX

Manager II, Reliability Engineering May 2008 – Present

Reliability Engineer III May 2006 – Apr 2008

• Managed engineering team to address product reliability issues for product development of fixed cutter PDC bits

• Active involvement in developing short & long term business strategy

• Led the team on root cause failure analysis through application, design, materials & manufacturing verification

• Created new KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators), metrics & reports for comprehensive benchmark analysis

• Analyzed performance with dull conditions for experimental & standard product evaluation

• Financial analysis of number of runs, revenues, margins & scrap cost

• Recommended process improvements in Manufacturing & Repair shop

• Interfaced with global teams from design, R&D, manufacturing, repair facility and field services

Accomplishments:-

Aided in $ Billion “ONYX” PDC product launch through performance, reliability & financial analysis

Formulated the specifications for PDC bit repair process to facilitate 26% reduction in repair cost per bit

Spearheaded root cause analysis team for spikes in manufacturing scrap cost > $ 500,000 on 3 instances

Contributed towards increasing the PDC bit life by 54% from 2.6 to 4 runs/bit

Design Engineer June 2004 – Apr 2006

• Designed Roller cone bits with desired performance & durability

• Performed stress analysis of components through FEA (Finite Element Analysis)

Accomplishments:-

Designed 3 Roller Cone bits which proved to be the benchmark in performance & became industry leader

2 issued patents & 1 patent application

EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame, Indiana May 2004

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering GPA : 3.70

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur May 2002

Bachelor of Science, Manufacturing Science & Engineering GPA : 3.53

PUBLICATIONS

"A Strategy for global optimization using Kriging approximation", 45thAIAA/ASME/ ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference, AIAA 2004-1873

"Post-Optimality analysis using a cumulative global response surface approximation", 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, AIAA 2004-114

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Certified – Trainer & Facilitator in Problem Solving & Decision Making Kepner Tregoe, 2009

Fast Start in Project Management Systemation, 2007

Leadership Development Personnel Decisions International, 2008

Business Finance Level I Excidian, 2008

Speaking with Impact Personnel Decisions International, 2007

Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist ASM International, 2007

Principles of Failure Analysis ASM International, 2008

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ProEngineer (CAD Package) • MATLAB • Mathematica

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) - Abaqus & Hypermesh • Microsoft Office Suite • Design of Experiments (DOE)

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