• Leadership in cross-functional areas of sourcing, QA, product development and manufacturing to expand company’s applicability across industries• Created a quality management system to ensure quality product, on-time delivery, scrap reduction including proper training and documentation

• Invented asymmetrically flexible anti-penetration material for safety footwear industryo Footwear inserts formed from a composite assembly having anti-puncture and anisotropic properties (US Patent# US11109639B2) o Sole element (Patent pending, Publication #: DE102019213330A1)• Developed analytical models to ease design and material characterization/testing

• Responsible for engineering design, analysis and development of composite products. • Work in all phases of part/product design, analysis and development using new age composite materials. Adapting customer part designs to patent Seriforge manufacturing process.• Develop and Fabricate sample composite parts for customers.• Perform material/part testing, develop standard testing procedures; bill of materials and analysing the respective results.• Analyse customer needs and product/part requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.• Ensure that the design meets current industry standards and is highly scalable and reliable.• Coordinate product development, design for manufacturing (DFM), process control and development.

Lead engineer/Product developer – Aztek Stand-up Paddles• Designed and developed state of the art carbon fiber paddle for stand-up paddle boardingLead engineer/Product developer – Grandura Golf• Engineered high performance carbon fiber tour golf shafts, wedges and irons using an in house FEA solver followed by static and dynamic structural testingOther Roles• Product development and business planning• Discover new materials and process/product development with new composite materials • Product life cycle testing and control • ASTM material testing for composites and plastics• Product line installation and process support

'Pre-preg Property Prediction Using Response Surface Methodology' Using a Design of Experiments approach predicted the properties of an epoxy/carbon fiber Out-of-Autoclave prepreg at elevated temperatures below its glass transition temperature.'Vibration Analysis of Various Ply-Patterns of a Carbon Epoxy Composite'Perform vibration analysis of carbon composite beams with different ply patterns at elevated temperatures to determine its natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping coefficients.Guiding an intern student from France and a Senior year student on the same.

'Physics based Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Uncertainty Quantification for Hybrid RANS/LES Turbulent Simulations'Work on developing an uncertainty quantification tool for turbulent simulations and inturn propose a physics based adaptive mesh refinement based off turbulent scales to minimize the uncertainties and increase the simulation accuracy for the concerned turbulence model.

'Levee Evaluation through Remote Sensing'Worked on establishing a assessment tool to monitor the levees using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data on TERRASAR-X and UAVSAR modules using Artificial Neural Networks. Performed statistical analysis on sand boils near the levee and studied about their occurence with remote sensing tools and hyperspectral imaging.Developed models for incidence angle correction of the radars.Fabricated corner reflectors.

'Investigation of Vibration Characteristics of Composite Structures at Elevated Temperatures'.Worked on laying up composite panels/beams and performing vibration analysis on cantilever beams at room and elevated temperatures measuring vibration characteristics such as natural frequency, mode shapes and damping coefficients. Validated the experimental results with analytical modeling in ABAQUS.Hands on experience in composite layups and vacuum bag composite molding technique.Experienced in tension testing for composites and metals.