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Dublin, IE

Ireland/Germany

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

-Successfully led Business Transformation with “Operational Excellence Playbook” deployment to create a Continuous Improvement culture in EDS business division in the EMEA region. -Achieved improvement of 10-15% in all business KPIs through Manufacturing process improvement in 26 factories by cross functional alignment of 6 Functions like Logistics.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

-Responsible for designing APTIV wide “Operational Excellence Playbook”, a 5 phased Transformation Manual for principles based Lean manufacturing to achieve world class business results through- `Kaizen workshops of 1-4 days each on over 60 topics on 5S, TPM, Value Stream Mapping, Hoshin, BBS, Root Cause Analysis, Daily Kaizen, Agile, DFSS, SPC, Industry.

County Dublin, Ireland

-Lead Six Sigma (DMAIC & DFSS) strategy creation and deployment across the company (125+ factories in 3 Business divisions-ASUX, CS & EDS, across Functions and Engineering)-Deploy Six Sigma problem solving (YB,GB&BB) with emphasis on Leadership engagement and culture building

Adelaide, Australia

-Secured manufacturing investment costs through Operations productivity savings by designing and deploying ‘Workload Driver Model’ across 50+ factories-Successfully program managed 3-year Productivity Roadmap of €25m savings by leading a team of 3 regional productivity program managers & plant/business Lean Masters-Realized €12.5m additional productivity.

Bengaluru, India & Eindhoven, Netherlands

-Successfully introduced Lean IT to increase speed to deliver with DevOps and Value Stream Mapping -Created Measurement System based on Agile principles for Software Development Delivery Centres

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Trained 1000+ associates in GB and LEAN by creating material (with simulation/games, Quiz) and leading entire capability program (Needs analysis, planning, budget, communication, delivering classroom/remote trainings, tests, training database, reporting, feedback and ROI analysis)-Managed Lean Six Sigma program successfully with Leadership buy-in on.

Budapest, Hungary

-Developed and implemented off shoring strategy for KPO business of Nielsen Market Research. -Designed outsourced hubs based on Factory Model (Assembly Line Balancing) of $500m-Customer facing responsibility, people management, Output Quality, On-time delivery of offshore team

Warwick, United Kingdom

-Created Process Excellence Framework & deployment roadmap, Lean Maturity Model, LEAN training materials and conducting Lean and Six Sigma trainings for 115 associates-Coached 5 Lean projects i)Reduction in aged debt/count in F&A ii) Improvement in on time payment in F&A iii) Reduction in consolidated invoice cycle time in F&A iv) Reduction in Abandoned.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Led $98m profit p.a. project by improving turnaround time of passport processing for Ministry of external affairs “Passport Seva Kendra” resulting in overall citizens satisfaction – replicated to 90 centers-Achieved $ 25.6m savings with 3 large scale transformation projects i) Factory Model/Assembly line balancing for 1600 FTE hub ii) Transitional.

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

-Overall site Quality Leader reporting to Plant Manager working closely with the Global Quality team (incl. Site Six Sigma Lead role, Supplier Quality Manager for 25 supplier with 6 Supplier Quality Engineers/Auditors, team of 2 QMS auditors, team of 12 Quality Inspectors + 30 Indirect associates)-Program Managed 5 BB projects (1.Localization, 2.Transit.

-Responsible for Quality Audits & Inspection of completely built units before delivery to dealers as final car quality Inspection Lead-Implemented Honda TQM practices as mentor for 5 NHC (QC Circle) teams, plant Kaizen suggestion scheme program coordinator, 5S implementation leader within factory and dealers-Led project with $1.2m saving - 95% Reduction of.

Business Strategy

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering, 1St