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Objective:
To be a part of a winning team, and to contribute in the areas of project / program management in
engineering industry.

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Education and Training:

 Bachelor’s Degree, University.
o Graduated, with distinction.
 Training in Manufacturing methods and shop floor process management.
 Training in Finite Element Methods.

Professional Experience:
 More than Eleven years of experience in engineering services industry with vast experience in
product development, project management, customer interfacing and business development.
 April 99 to till date (8.5 Years):
o Current designation – Senior Project Manager.
o Role – As a Senior Project Manager, I lead multiple teams working on engineering
services for several automotive clients.
 April 96 to April 99 (3 Years):
o Designation – Engineer, Manufacturing.
o Responsible for manufacturing and process planning for precision machine tool
components.
Experience summary:
Managerial:
 Leading projects with diversified team compositions located in several geographic locations and
different domain / technical components.
 Interfacing with Client Engineering organization, defining scope of projects, identifying critical
milestones, identifying issues and issue resolution.
 Allocation of suitable resources to projects, man power planning, hiring and performance
evaluation.
 Account management and Presales
o Managing relationship with customers.
o Identifying opportunities and defining key differentiators.
o Customizing solutions, Proposal preparation and pricing.
o Proposal presentation, negotiations and follow up.
o Project startup activities.
Technical / Domain
 Product Development for automotive interiors and seating systems.
 Mechanism design, mechanism analysis.
 Structural design / optimization / FEA.
 ECE and FMVSS specifications for interior design.
 DFSS techniques, DFM / DFA, Boothroyd-Dewhurst techniques, GD&T, Tolerance analysis and
Tolerance design.
 Building machine tools, process planning and NC programming. Cycle time improvement and
jigs / fixture design.

Career achievements
 Secured a patent for inventing a mechanism for automotive seat recliner at The Patent
Office, United Kingdom.
 Successfully started and grown relationship with a major Tier-1 customer for outsourcing design
services.
 Designed and developed software applications:
o For managing different activities, workflow and report generation in a typical product
development project.
o Automated tools / programs in I-Deas for automating tasks to improve productivity and
reduce errors.
o For tolerance studies – Monte-Carlo techniques for tolerance analysis and tolerance stack
up.
 Developed several reusable Body of Knowledge (BOK) artifacts to improve project efficiency,
developed training courses to train team members in different domains and technical areas like
GD&T and Tolerance analysis.

Leadership strengths
 Understanding of product development cycle for automotive applications.
 Understanding business models / strengths and requirements of Tier-1 customers
 Ability to interact with people from different domain backgrounds, cultures and corporate
hierarchy, ability to articulate ideas and powerfully communicate.
 Ability to adapt to different locations and situations. Has work experience both at client locations
(about 5 years at client locations) and offshore facilities (about 3.5 years at offshore facilities),
and is conversant in working in a collaborative global environment to achieve organizational
goals.
Summary of Projects:
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Project manager, my responsibilities include leading multiple teams working on engineering
projects for several automotive customers.
Engaging customer’s engineering organizations, understanding product requirements, creating RFQ /
SOW responses
Manpower planning, allocating suitable resources to project, monitoring the progress and issue resolution
Typical activities:
 Pre sales activities like proposal preparation, pricing and advanced engineering planning.
 Defining commercial and legal terms / defining terms of the contract, preparing Statements of
Work.
 Understanding requirements, defining project objectives, deliverables and project timelines.
 Monitoring and tracking project timelines and deliverables.

Responsibilities:
As Account manager, my responsibilities were to manage the relationship with the customer, to lead the
offshore team to achieve project objectives, and to identify, track and resolve issues.
As a client-facing role, this job involves interfacing with Sales and Business functions of the organization,
Development teams, Finance and support teams and the customer.
Typical activities:
 Defining project objectives, deliverables and project timelines.
 Defining commercial and legal terms / defining terms of the contract, preparing Statements Of
Work.
 Managing and leading offshore development teams, by requirement gathering, participating in
reviews.
 Monitoring and tracking project timelines and deliverables.
 Defining and monitoring critical to quality parameters.
 Helping customers to successfully leverage offshore delivery model for increasing
competitiveness.

Responsibilities:
As a Project Manager, my responsibilities include leading and mentoring a project delivery team involved
in delivering design solutions, optimization, conducting studies such as packaging, tolerance analysis,
DFMEA, concept generation and concept selection.
Typical activities:
 Managing activities in project, tracking different metrics for timelines, quality and productivity.
Mentoring project team members, providing direction, and setting individual goals to meet
project deliverables.
 Preparing and maintaining up to date project plans, configuration plans and project budget.
 Providing presales support in terms of preparing proposals for different clients, estimation for
new projects, and identifying critical milestones and preparing and reviewing Statement of work.
 Suggesting design solutions for the field problems at the customer end, carrying out weight and
strength optimization exercises, studies such as worst case and statistical tolerance analysis,
Design Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (DFMEA), generating concepts for new designs and
improvements in designs by brainstorming and concept selection by Pugh analysis, interpretation
of analysis results, correlation of FE analysis and tests.

Responsibilities:
As a part of the customer’s design team, my responsibilities included designing seating system structures,
mechanisms, conducting package studies, generating manufacturing drawings for parts and assemblies.
Typical activities:
 Identification and tracking design / manufacturing issues, providing design solution for such
issues, improving design based on inputs from tests/analysis, interacting with OEM, offshore
team, suppliers and with customer’s manufacturing / test facilities, getting structures built and
tested, releasing manufacturing drawings etc.,
 Co-invented a mechanism for Fold flat recliner with memory, which is patented by the
customer.

Responsibilities:
 As an Engineer in Process Engineering department, my responsibilities included CNC
programming for horizontal and vertical machining centers, general maintenance of machining
centers, preparing process sheets, improving productivity of machining centers, designing jigs
and fixtures etc.,
 Contributed significantly in improving manufacturing processes to reduce manufacturing cost and
lead-time.
 Have a thorough and hands on experience in machining processes and CNC programming.

CAD / CAE Tools:

Ideas 2.5 Years
Catia V5 2.5 Years
Unigraphics NX 1.5 Years
Hypermesh 0.5 Year
Ansys 0.5 Year