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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Ports equipment, mining equipment, rolling stock,

Australia

Brisbane, Australia

> Managed end-to-end product development process for Vehicle Accessories; challenged with designing and developing adapter kits to enable fitment of diverse accessories on different vehicle platforms; developed a generic design that enabled fitment of sports-bars and Ladder-racks to electric Roll Covers. Managed CAD and drawings development. Managed development of DVP and DFMEA through team sessions. Engaged suppliers for cost quotations and signed off project award. Carried out analysis… Show more > Managed end-to-end product development process for Vehicle Accessories; challenged with designing and developing adapter kits to enable fitment of diverse accessories on different vehicle platforms; developed a generic design that enabled fitment of sports-bars and Ladder-racks to electric Roll Covers. Managed CAD and drawings development. Managed development of DVP and DFMEA through team sessions. Engaged suppliers for cost quotations and signed off project award. Carried out analysis, testing and validation to meet all regulations and quality requirements. Carried out PPAP submissions review and final production signoff. > Developed & managed product validation through physical test setup, FEA method and Hand calculations to determine the buckling load on CRASH CAN in low-speed frontal impact; challenged with designing and developing crash CAN for Mercedes Bull bar with a buckling load of 6 tons under low-speed frontal crash scenario; developed a test setup by adding LVDT sensors and loadcells to a hydraulic press. Carried out explicit crash evaluation and computed the equivalent instantaneous static force through hand calculation. Carried out test under the press and measured the force response for complete collapse of the crash CAN. Achieved good correlation resulting in award of the project to EGR. > Developed test method to validate a derived mathematical expression for evaluation of coefficient of friction in a bolted joint; Carried out FEA to evaluate appropriate number of bolts required to maintain loss of torque less than 5%. > Collaboratively worked with automotive OEMS for product testing and validation through Inertia relief analysis on Full vehicle for strain gauge assessment on proving grounds; built full vehicle model with detailed spotwelds and seam welds. Carried out inertia relief analysis based on proving ground loads. Prepared detail strain gauge markup report for pasting strain gauges at appropriate locations. Show less

Key Achievements: Achieved significant savings through product development and testing initiative; challenged with designing and developing float arms of grain harvester for fixed failure load with low cost and quick reparability; innovatively designed cantilever float arm with shear pins at support locations, designed pins to fail at fixed ground load, carried out buckling analysis with nonlinear FEA to corroborate design; implemented design for all American machines after approval;… Show more Key Achievements: Achieved significant savings through product development and testing initiative; challenged with designing and developing float arms of grain harvester for fixed failure load with low cost and quick reparability; innovatively designed cantilever float arm with shear pins at support locations, designed pins to fail at fixed ground load, carried out buckling analysis with nonlinear FEA to corroborate design; implemented design for all American machines after approval; saved 20% manufacturing cost, reduced repair cost and time by 90% Created win-win situation through technical report writing and effective communication skills; test reports contained technical information difficult to interpret in the absence of Test Engineer, raw output data used in reports made staff from other background difficult to understand; created reports based on raw data from system and on testing & analysis process including assumptions and methods, new reports helped in quick decision making, improved employee utilization by 25% Designed new assembly using creative problem solving skills and filed patent for new design; worked on most crucial mechanical problem with mounting assembly for underbody blower fan having durability issues, ; new easily adaptable design reduced strains from 2000 to 160 micro strains at spot welds, Invention Disclosure filed for new design  Significantly improved efficiency through innovative root cause analysis; acquired field data, collaborated & interviewed with customer support team members to understand problem, discovered root cause of failures: carried out non-linear FEA to corroborate theory, achieved 35% more stiffness and improved shear capacity.  Proactively improved team engagement and created engaged teams;  Spearheaded continuous improvement initiative for achieving significant savings Show less

 Achieved great business outcome through product development and testing; assigned project to computationally evaluate fatigue life of Chrysler truck door for different slam scenarios and reduce physical tests by 60%; challenged with proving reliability of analysis with significant mathematical computations and correlations with previously tested door designs; used LS Dyna to simulate dynamic door slam event by meticulously modelling door mechanism, used strain outputs for computation of… Show more  Achieved great business outcome through product development and testing; assigned project to computationally evaluate fatigue life of Chrysler truck door for different slam scenarios and reduce physical tests by 60%; challenged with proving reliability of analysis with significant mathematical computations and correlations with previously tested door designs; used LS Dyna to simulate dynamic door slam event by meticulously modelling door mechanism, used strain outputs for computation of fatigue life using EN solver, benchmarked variables in simulation and carried out analysis for new design; saved cost of 2 prototype trucks, design matched 98% with simulated analysis predictions and scenarios Set new benchmark using Technical Report Writing and Communication Skills; Chrysler Trucks program management proposed change in continuous improvement program for products by introducing cross-functional review meetings, took responsibility to present reports on proposed design changes before approving for production; challenged with preparing detailed reports encompassing all aspects of engineering including design, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing; arranged meetings with stakeholders across various functions and portrayed all critical data for best understanding and glitch-free approval; eased decision making process, reduced decision making time by 50%  Presented technical paper at Automotive Body Congress at MI, USA; identified need for procedural change in Testing and Analysis method for vehicle body outer panel oil canning due to existing method being expensive and time consuming; challenged with evaluating new method by correlation with physical tests while existing process was FEA method with highly non-linear contacts and loading; eliminated use to simulating contact between outer panel and ram by employing use of kinematic coupling equations in analysis method; achieved 95% test results, reduced testing and analysis time from 56 hours to 8 hours Show less

Bangalore

 Demonstrated strong skills in product development and testing; assigned task to meet performance and strength of wooden trailer manufactured by Schmitz; challenged with designing trailer by replacing wood with an alternative materials with similar structural properties; developed concept design based on composite materials, consulted with manufacturing experts to minimise cost, developed all loading scenarios for tests and analysis, developed FEA procedure to analyse orthotropic nature of… Show more  Demonstrated strong skills in product development and testing; assigned task to meet performance and strength of wooden trailer manufactured by Schmitz; challenged with designing trailer by replacing wood with an alternative materials with similar structural properties; developed concept design based on composite materials, consulted with manufacturing experts to minimise cost, developed all loading scenarios for tests and analysis, developed FEA procedure to analyse orthotropic nature of material for various static and dynamic loadings; set new bench mark by delivering better quality design, saved 30% manufacturing cost and time  Developed strong technical reports through effective communication; responsible for development of reports for Airbus wing structures containing inspection schedules for fatigue crack detection, existing reports were based on findings during analysis making them random for users; existing wing structure analysis was based on critical life numbers evaluated from fatigue analysis; developed document based on inspection methods and on reporting each location based in suggested inspection technique, created 3 different reports for same analysis; new reports well accepted by client, reports indicated reduced man hours from 8 hours per analysis to 2 hours per analysis  Implemented disciplined approach to resource utilisation within team; faced situation involving team using expensive analysis tools, licenses of tools held up by team members due to high cost owing to fear of losing them resulting in delay in deliverables; challenged with unpredictable priority of work allocated to team members; creatively developed license using etiquette and code of conduct for team, designed monitoring system for use of licenses; tracked actual requirement of licenses, procured additional licenses, developed strong team culture Show less