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Pune, Maharashtra, India

Reno, Nevada Area

• Develops strategies to mitigate project risks early in the project and works with the team to execute.
• Prepare customer drawings like P&ID & Electrical drawings, operation & installation instructions, & certifications documents.
• Collaborate with Supply chain team, application engineers, Inventory team and Certification team to improve internal process.
• Reviews customer specifications and forms a clear understanding of project requirements and design risks.
• Focuses on continuous improvement of equipment designs and internal processes.
• Ensures project compliance with applicable codes(CSA and ANSI, & NEC Electrical Code), practices, performance standards and customer expectations.

San Francisco Bay Area

San Jose, USA

• Exposure to Software Development Life Cycle.
• Facilitated PM in their day to day activities and ensured the quality and timely completion of projects worth $200K which saved 15% of their time every day.
• Gathered business requirements, prepared Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), created workflow diagrams and charters for various projects, ensuring that the projects are carried out efficiently.
• Assisted in researching, planning, budgeting activities, and monitored & reported on the progress of various projects.
• Saved $25,000 by communicating & negotiating with software providers while buying software for the company.
• Analyzed large complex datasets to present insights to Stakeholders and managers to develop strategies and meet goals.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed labs for a business course – Operations Management.
• Researched, analyzed, and recommended different software available in the market for forecasting, inventory planning, supply chain planning, quality control, and risk management.
• Created different sets of problems with solutions for training purpose for a class of 50 students using above concepts.

Fremont, CA, USA

• A wonderful experience of working in a semiconductor manufacturing lab. While pursuing masters degree working as an intern gives a whole new perspective to learning as you are gaining theoretical knowledge and at the.
• Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers and identified areas of improvement & bottlenecks.
• Reduced total production time by 17% and waste by 85% by implementing new processes and coaching technicians.
• Saved above $18,000 annually due to loss of data by improving data collection processes, retrieving missing data and analyzing data. Used tools like SQL, MES (Camstar) JMP & JSL and concepts like 5 whys and root cause.
• Saved over 15% of the time of engineers by preparing dashboards and scripts to view Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts and other Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) like Cp & Cpk for different manufacturing.
• Coached engineers and technician on how to prepare and read SPC charts using MES.

Pune Area, India

• Working on building your own products and that too at so early stage is a dream come true. My boss who was also the director of the company highly encouraged me and allowed me to work on creative and cool products..
• Worked on different stages of the products from concept until launch.
• Designed, developed & tested 4 consumer products by researching & learning new technologies & concepts which increased the revenue of the company by 6%.
• Saved $14,000 annually by identifying and improving product KPIs, preparing improvement proposals, performing Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and identifying the Critical to Quality (CTQ) parameters in-house.
• Collaborated with vendors using strong interpersonal & negotiation skills for manufacturing and buying of key components.
• Designed parts using PTC Creo Pro-E, AutoCAD and Siemens NX modeling software.

India

• Responsible for designing new business processes to improve the customer experience when they come in for inquiry.
• Improved service rate by 23% and acquired 44% increase in the number of customers by leading a continuous improvement team focusing on implementing kaizen events, capturing Voice of the Customer (VOC), using PDCA.
• Achieved a 21% reduction in customer acquisition time by standardizing processes and training 3 sales associates.
• Increased the profit by $36,500 by communicating & negotiating with customers & contractors for the development of the product.
• Managed social media content and collaborated with the marketing agency to create advertisement content.
• Led meetings with big advertisement company like Magicbricks, Quikr, Commonfloor and Olx to publish Parkons Group advertisement.

Pune Area, India

• Saved more than $87,000 by achieving a 35% increase in overall output and reduced safety-related accidents by 100%.
• Achieved 30% reduction in space utilization by redesigning plant layout, applying the line balancing & 6S technique.
• Assisted in preparing process manual and quality manual according to the ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS).
• Prevented loss of operational cost of $5000 p.m. by improving material handling & constructing an ergonomic mobile cart.

Master'S Degree, Industrial And System Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member of IISE - Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Member of Ideas Labs (Startup Club). Treasurer.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: MESA - Mechanical Engineering Student Association. Played as a goalkeeper in college soccer team. Managed.

Diploma In Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: MESA - Mechanical Engineering Student AssociationDiploma in Mechanical Engineering.