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Pueblo, Colorado Area

Clarksville, Tennessee Area

• Oversaw assembly line implementation for an NPD project with $50 million budget for a commercial rooftop HVAC system.
• Planned and implemented capital equipment acquisition of two 600-ft gravity conveyor systems, enabling 20% increase in workflow efficiency.
• Integrated a VFD-controlled, remote-operated, three-shuttle cart system, reducing transportation time by 80%.
• Drafted specifications for 200-ft, floor-supported overhead material handling structure per safety and project requirements.
• Reviewed and signed off engineering drawings for vacuum suction devices, magnetic suction devices, electric hoists with four-point and two-point spreader beams, and two custom devices, using technical knowledge and.
• Generated line configuration of nine work stations across 15K sq. ft, to align to a takt time of 52 minutes, facilitating on-time completion of all deliverables.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Recruited and led team of four graduate students to orchestrate multi-phase cost reduction project.
• Performed Pareto analysis and identified poor inventory management as major contributor of NVA costs, proposing 10+ actionable changes such as implementation of an EOQ inventory model and warehouse layout redesign to.
• Designed and implemented 3+ control charts based on the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) & reorder point, evaluating purchase order lead times for 28 products.
• Reclaimed 3500 sq. ft of warehouse space, saving $72K annually, and applied 5S to new layout to maintain savings long-term.
• Streamlined customer’s information attainment, storage, and server-upload process creating a dashboard in Excel, reducing cycle time by 22 minutes/customer while maintaining technical reliability, increasing customer.
• Devised 15-item feedback survey based on five-point scale, to capture the Voice of the Customer (VoC) for Continuous Improvement Practices, allowing for critical data collection at an affordable cost.

Chennai Area, India

• Initiated and spearheaded a comprehensive productivity improvement project at tier-1 supplier of car seat assemblies.
• Sketched current state Value Stream Maps (VSMs) for two assembly lines and completed process flow analysis to further support proposed plans.
• Reduced number of daily operators from eight to five by balancing the line using Arena, saving $120K annually without affecting output or performance quality.
• Increased productivity from 328 to 504 sets per day, utilizing process improvements and implementation of a Kanban system.

Penang, Malaysia

• Measured, analyzed, and compared performance of existing biomass stove under multiple conditions.
• Developed new biomass stove for just 50 MYR ($12), which increased financial accessibility within local community by 85%.
• Implemented lean principles in BioEnergy Manufacturing Lab, improving ergonomics and reducing walking time 35% for operators and students, enhancing workplace safety and performance.

Diploma, Data Science

Completed courses : Foundational Mathematics Foundational Statistics Introduction to Python Machine Learning Foundations Business Data.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member – Graduate Indian Student Association, Member – IE Graduate Student AssociationCourses : Production.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member - Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Student Chapter, Joint Coordinator of Mechanical Department's.