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Education and Training:

Bachelors Degree in Industrial and Production Engineering, o Graduated in 1995, with distinction. Training in Manufacturing methods and shop floor process management Training in Finite Element Methods

Professional Experience:

More than Thirteen years of experience in engineering services industry with vast experience in product development, project management, customer interfacing and business development. Apr to till date (1Year 9Months): o Role Account Manager responsible for automotive accounts in Europe April to Mar (9Years): o Role As a Senior Project Manager, I lead multiple teams working on engineering services for several automotive clients. April to April (3 Years): o Designation Engineer, Manufacturing. o Responsible for manufacturing and process planning for precision machine tool components.

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CURRICULUM VITAE Objective:

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

Experience summary:
Managerial:
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. Leading projects with diversified team compositions located in several geographic locations and different domain / technical components.

Account management
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:
. 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 () and offshore facilities (), and is conversant in working in a collaborative global environment to achieve organizational goals.

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Summary of Projects:
1. Apr until date: (1Year 7Months) Account manager, Role: Account manager for automotive accounts in Europe Responsibilities:

As account manager, I am responsible for automotive accounts in Europe and my responsibilities include: Building relationship with key stakeholders within client organization Responsible for managing several projects within accounts and account growth Identifying opportunities, proposal preparation, follow up and closing Responsible for on-site delivery and customer satisfaction scores Responsible for account revenue targets and business development budget

2. July to Mar: (9 Months) Senior Project Manager

Customer: Various automotive customers in Europe and North America

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Project manager, my responsibilities include leading multiple teams working on engineering projects for several automotive customers. Engaging with customers engineering teams, 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.

3. July to June:( 3 Years) Account Manager, 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.

Career achievements:

Successfully led the project team to establish credible relationship with a new customer. Created opportunities to grow business in a challenging environment in North American automotive industry. Grew the team to considerable size in terms of revenue and margins, in spite of having a modest start in a very challenging business environment.

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Educated customer about advantages of outsourcing and helped them to define their outsourcing policy.

4. November to June:( 2Years, 8 Months) Project Manager, 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.

5. May - October:( 2 Years, 7 Months): Team member, Responsibilities:

As a part of the customers 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 customers manufacturing / test facilities, getting structures built and tested, releasing manufacturing drawings etc.,

6. April April: (3 Years) Engineer, 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.