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Ontario, Canada

• Manage capital and expense projects, including infrastructure, facility, and equipment improvement projects from conception to completion.• Develop & improve project management tools and templates, ensuring efficient and accurate project execution within budget and timelines.• Engineering Cost Management Lead for Canadian affiliates, ensuring availability of right tools and procedures for efficiently manage projects. • Collaborated with internal plant teams to identify opportunities for improvement and implement solutions, resulting in enhanced project efficiency and cost-effectiveness.• Engaged with corporate headquarters and other affiliates to benchmark best practices, facilitating the implementation of improvements across the organization.• Clorox Canada's lead to support Cost Engineering improvement inititation.

Orangeville, Ontario, Canada

• Supervised the entire project management process, i.e., formulation of the scope of work, creation of project schedules, review and alignment of engineering drawings with client specifications, monitoring of team performance, timely and efficient procurement, communication and coordination with stakeholders, suppliers and contractors to ensure the successful execution of the project.• Managing material handling projects of varying levels of complexity and budget ranges between $10,000 and $6.5 million.• Proven experience in implementing new solutions and upgrading material handling systems for private and federal government entities. • Collaborate with internal resources for knowledge sharing and quick resolutions to the project’s roadblocks.• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal resources for knowledge sharing and efficient resolution of project roadblocks • Expertise in identifying opportunities for collaborating with overseas vendors to mitigate the impact of supply chain issues on material costs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Coordinating and overseeing the planning, implementation, and tracking of various initiatives related to the Sephora account, including seasonal fixture rollout and new product release marketing solutions.• Developing a next-generation modular design fixture with a focus on reducing consumption of one-time use display modules and improving overall sustainability.• Collaborating with design, engineering, and manufacturing teams to ensure that the new fixture design is feasible to produce and can be implemented in Sephora's stores.• Reviewing blueprints and designs, coordinating testing, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and working to ensure that the project is completed on schedule and within budget.

New Jersey, United States

• Assess customer requirement and create cross functional team to lead in design approval, prototyping, sourcing, execution of production, and provide optimum logistic solution for both inland and overseas shipment.• Develop custom tailored project plans for diverse projects to understand and root out all bottleneck’s allowing for a smoother project execution and resulting in completer reduction or elimination of unexpected costs.• Establishing a flexible budgeting system incorporation all the variables related to sourcing both overseas and local, resulting in accurate profit margin, project costs, and resolving any and all conflicts affecting the project.• Successful completion of projects with varying budget opportunities resulting a diverse experience in manufacturing, technology,sourcing and packaging development, installation of multi-million-dollar projects and troubleshooting.• Acting Account Manager to major Fortune 500 clients like Burlington Coat Factory, participating in contract negotiation, new product portfolio and periodic project review with management.• Creating KPI’s and visualization system using cloud-based technology to keep track of real time progress of project allowing easy escalation for any issues from both inhouse and clients.

Warsaw, Indiana

• Troubleshooting new or existing product problems involving designs, materials, or processes. • Investigate or resolve operational problems, such as material use variances or bottlenecks. • Identify opportunities or implement changes to improve manufacturing processes, products and to reduce costs, using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, product design, materials and parts. • Apply continuous improvement methods such as lean manufacturing to enhance manufacturing quality, reliability, or cost-effectiveness.

• In depth training and expertise in Toyota Parts Management Systems, (PAMS, SMS, PSMS, SMS-BR).• Production planning, Production Instruction, Hijunka/Model balancing, deciding Takt time and implementation. • Person In charge for all daily communication from suppliers and affiliates(Overseas) to TKAP.• Manage overseas Logistics Operation, i.e, Imports of parts (JSP and MSP), and domestic & export shipment of Assemblies.• Best Kaizen (Improvement) in parts imports, saving about $ 4 Million per month by working on volumetric efficiency, logistic solutions and software support to achieve the desired routing resulting in Higher efficiency and cost effectiveness.• Develop Model Change and project schedules, forecast Changepoint key timings, and analysis of risk through transition• Study the impact on capacity based on forecasts and accommodate change by planning and co-ordination with CFT.• Shipment tracking, escalation of abnormalities to senior management with alternative solutions to reduce impact.• Maintain bill of material, update engineering change instructions, handle parts change over with minimum or no loss.• Work with cross functional teams like manufacturing, plant engineering, HR etc, for fluid execution of plans.• Create, analyze, review and present daily, weekly and monthly KPI data to achieve operational target and company Hoshin.

Bengaluru Area, India

Project Planning and Management:• Complete project management cycle experience, Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure.• Reflection/learnings from present projects over to upcoming projects to better efficiency and productivity.• Cost reduction of a project based on experience and bench marking by 25% (6 Mil savings)• Prepares and presents statistical and performance analyses to management and business partners• Served as liaison to domestic and international business partners and management as needed.• Successfully implemented 4 Major Projects @ TKAP. (Localization, New development of Engine and Transmission)• Master Schedule creation, Project Organization structuring, Review Structure development and close follow up.• Co-ordination with Key functions for development of sub-activity schedule and alignment to Master schedule, visualization of schedules in a single forum and continuous and consistent review to check abnormality. • Initiate Jiritsuka activity by Bench-marking activities with overseas affiliates, and drive to achieve it in less than 3 years.Corporate Planning:• Involved in rethinking company’s goals and laying a pathway to level up organizational thinking-way thus resulting in evolved Company Mission and Vision.• Driving growth of Organization by Introducing "Hoshin" (Direction Setting) towards Asia Pacific # 1 Toyota's Unit Production Company by 2015. (Activity timescale 2011 ~ 2015)• Continues drive to all key departments of the organization to reach Hoshin Goal.• Standardizing all activities involved in Hoshin process, well appreciated by Asia Pacific head "TMAP".Supplier Development: • Supplier development of two key Engine Components.• Inter and intra company master schedule creation, with well-defined milestones.• Co-ordination both internal as well as supplier end for smooth and successful L/O of supplier.• Creation of ramp up pattern for better understanding of supplier capability with consideration of safety stock.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead Project Management activities from Planning phase to Completion Phase.• Served as liaison to domestic and international business partners and management as needed.• Manage Ohbaya day to day, report out to Senior Management on change points and progress.• Prepares and presents statistical and performance analyses to management and business partners.Training: Toyota Way, Toyota Production System(TPS), Toyota Business Planning (TBP), A3.

Master Of Science (Msc), Engineering/Industrial Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering, 3.7

Activities and Societies: Event Coordination, Event Organizing, National Level Paper presentation, Institute of Manufacturing.Event.