• Manage execution of Order fulfillment products and solution with development budget exceeding $14MM.• Enhance stakeholder engagement through status update reviews at regular cadence.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of 30+ members to drive accountability and elicit deliverables completion, through structured toll gate process.

• Manage engineering and manufacturing process technology development to drive operational excellence and product quality.• Lead and collaborate with process engineers to establish continuous improvement and process optimization.• Develop and implement business process workflow for new product introductions and manufacturing process validation.

• Led engineering efforts geared towards continuous process/product improvement and operational efficiency in PTFE compression molded shapes and paste extruded thin films.• Implemented process automation to achieve better product quality and to improve productivity.• Managed and transitioned multiple capital projects and technology enablers within the approved budget, to align with organizational strategy of exploiting new business opportunities.

• Provide ideation, design, solid modeling, computational analysis (CFD and FEA) and general engineering services to oil and gas, defense and other industries.• Create project requirements and specifications based on client needs and generate scope of work proposal based on the requirements gathered.• Prepared SOW for CFD particulate efficiency modeling of an aerosol collection pump for one of the clients in defense sector, through a third party consulting company. Project in initiation stage.• Prepared SOW for choked/sonic flow pipe correlation analysis in an off-shore Worst Case Discharge(WCD) scenario, for BSEE, through a third party consulting company. Project submitted for tender.

• Lead engineering efforts within Qinterra to develop mechanical tools specifically targeting US wireline intervention markets.• Follow PLM procedure for each of the projects, to analyze various concepts, create project scope and work breakdown structure, generate exhaustive requirements and specifications, budget developmental costs and conduct appropriate feasibility tests.• Collaborated with operations and internal engineering design teams, to successfully surface test a working prototype of severing tool for stuckpipe recovery operations. This project will potentially save atleast $200,000 per job, in terms of operational and M&S costs.• Reduced manufacturing cost of the front-end subsystem of wellbore cleanout tool by 30%, by negotiating with the supplier and suggesting appropriate engineering design changes.• Proposed and developed detailed conceptual drawings of a front-end mechanical subsystem for wireline composite bridge plug milling and metal milling applications, as a low-cost alternative to coiled tubing milling.• Responsible for establishing a fully instrumented drilling simulator for conducting various laboratory tests in future. This process included vendor selection, price negotiation and providing necessary engineering requirements input to create mechanical/hydraulic system drawings.• Prepared engineering documentation including scope of work, requirements specification, detailed integration test plans and test reports, and BOM creation.

• Led a reliability improvement project on sidewall coring bits, from conceptualization to release, by implementing CLMS procedures. This is one of the major vision projects within the company’s RCM initiatives.• Established a detailed product quality plan in collaboration with the supplier, and developed their knowledge of our application and its functional requirements.• Developed a robust drill bit for an engineering sidewall coring tool through computational and experimental methods. Jobs Between Incidents reduced from 11 to 0. Zero failures after more than 1500 drilled and recovered cores till date.• Developed and tested an alternate design for the same application, with focus on performance improvement. Observed more than 40% reduction in coring time.• Reduced the Non Productive Time by 91% by designing a functional concentricity gage for efficient screening of bits, both in-house and at the supplier end. The concept was granted Ideas & Innovation award.• Formulated a CFD model using particle tracking method in ANSYS 14.5 workbench, which can be used to quickly validate the performance of various prototype designs, and thus shorten the overall design cycle time.• Co-authored design guidelines and standards (DfHSE) for weld plugs installation in wireline products to address serious health and safety concerns in manufacturing and field locations.• Developed weld plugs and related drawings for a hydraulic manifold component (DfHSE) within the sidewall coring tool, which would replace existing expansion plug designs, and thus save costs related to employees’ safety and health.• Tested hydraulic gear pumps for sidewall coring operations, to improve efficiency and eliminate stalling issues seen in field applications.

• Designed and tested an in-line nozzle flowmeter to eliminate inaccuracy in fluid volume flow rate measurements in drill rigs.• Eliminated pump cavitation by modifying the flow loop through NPSH calculations, selection of proper pump suction and discharge diameters, and replacing return-line pump with a new straight centrifugal pump of higher capacity. Sized and selected valves, turbine flowmeter, pressure sensors, cooling pump and other hydraulic components for the dynamometer. Reduced the design cycle time by atleast 20%. Eventually responsible for developing Schlumberger’s thru-tubing turbine product line.• Improved the hydraulic systems development process by establishing design guidelines for effective nozzle configurations.

• Eliminated washouts, erosion and balling problems in numerous applications around the world by developing efficient hydraulic configurations for various product lines in bits, drilling tools and completions. • Solved internal and external fluid flow issues in various components through surface modeling and flow field analysis. • Developed value engineered designs of leg forgings to accommodate nozzle configuration changes.

• Eliminated washouts, erosion and balling problems in numerous applications around the world by developing efficient hydraulic configurations for various product lines in bits, drilling tools and completions. • Solved internal and external fluid flow issues in various components through surface modeling and flow field analysis. • Developed value engineered designs of leg forgings to accommodate nozzle configuration changes.

• Designed and developed cutting structure configurations for PDC bits run on motors, turbines and different rotary steerable systems.• Analyzed the modeled PDC cutting structure in IDEAS, an indigenous simulation and analysis software.• Modified cutting structures and recommended changes in various cases, to improve either the penetration rate of bits or the durability of cutting elements or both.

• Experienced in developing cutting structure configurations for roller cone bits through extensive dynamic simulation and analysis using IDEAS.• Designed new cutting structures or modified existing ones, to improve the ROP or the durability of cutting elements or both. • Gained experience in conducting laboratory tests on roller cone inserts, and in post-processing the test results to gain meaningful understandings and conclusions about the behavior of inserts in various rock formations.