Industrial/Mechanical Engineer

Ramkumar Krishnan

480-***-****, ********@***.*** 919 E Lemon St. Apt 210, Tempe AZ, 85281

EDUCATION

**** ******* ***** **********, *** (GPA- 3.5/4.0) Tempe, AZ

Master of Science, Industrial Engineering

2010 National Institute of technology, NITK Mangalore, India

Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INTERNSHIP

Medtronic, Inc. Summer 2011, Tempe, Arizona

Process improvement & Supply Chain planning Intern for the CRDM (Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management) division

Implemented Design for Six Sigma framework for predictive engineering

Developed an advanced statistical inventory model for the die stack process to ensure high On Time Delivery expectations at minimal inventory holding costs.

Finance department estimated savings of $1.5 Million per year

Adapted a spreadsheet, using Oracle Crystal Ball and OptQuest, to automatically smooth and level-load the manufacturing start schedule for manufacturing hybrids (populated printed circuit boards)

Burden reduction – reduced level load manual process time by 50%, variance reduction

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INTERNSHIP

CADES Digitech Pvt. Ltd, Summer 2008, Bangalore, India

Design Intern in the aerospace department

Engineered a composite structure for the tail section of a small passenger aircraft using various 3D modeling techniques with CATIA V5 R18

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Regression Analysis, Regression model to predict stock price, Fall 2011, ASU

Analyzed significant predictors to be able to better invest in stocks in the future thereby minimizing risk and maximizing expected utility of investment

Model adequacy checking was performed

Investigated Multicollinearity amongst predictor variables

Performed Stepwise regression & Best subset regression to obtain the final reduced model

Production Systems, 4-C Manufacturing Case Study, Spring 2011, ASU

Examined the implementation of flexible manufacturing and automated part transfer systems in a production facility

Conceptualized potential layout for new production facility, analyzed cost of equipment, created production and tool loading schedule using deterministic heuristics

Information Systems Engineering, Production Scheduling & Planning, Fall 2010, ASU

Developed a tool for Production and Operations Managers to optimize the production scheduling process in the manufacture of missile components

Constructed Entity-Relationship models, database using MySQL & Implemented VBA in excel

Reduced operation time, setup time, idle time, bottlenecks given the number of work centers

LEADERSHIP AND RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

Administrative Assistant (People soft) – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU

Member IIE, ASU chapter, September 2010 - Present

Professional Indian classical music percussionist

COMPUTER SKILLS

Computer Software : CATIA-V5, Pro-E, AutoCAD, C++, VBA, HTML, MySQL

Mathematical : MINITAB, SAS, Arena, FlexiSim, AMPL, Oracle Crystal Ball (Simulation/Optimization software)

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