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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔– ❖ Quality Assurance Leadership: Leading a team of 98 professionals, overseeing all aspects of QA & QC for IQC, MQA, IPQC, and SQA, ensuring alignment with company standards and customer requirements. ❖ End-to-End Quality Operations Management: Managing quality operations across Incoming Quality, Process Quality, Customer Quality, and New Product Development (NPD), ensuring adherence to product specifications and driving continuous improvement. ❖ Client Relationship Building & Complaint Resolution: Building strong relationships with key clients such as Google, Cisco, Meta, Arista, and Celestica, driving the resolution and reduction of customer complaints, ensuring satisfaction across domestic and global projects. ❖ Customer Quality Standards Compliance: Ensuring compliance with customer-specific quality requirements by establishing processes and conducting regular audits to maintain product quality and consistency. ❖ Process Improvement & CAPA Implementation: Implementing quality tools like Control Plans and CAPA, monitoring processes, reducing defects, and driving corrective actions to optimize quality performance. ❖ Quality Audits & Diagnostics: Conducting multi-level audits and diagnostic assessments, utilizing quality management tools to ensure product quality across the entire production cycle. ❖ Policy Formulation & Quality Program Implementation: Formulating and implementing quality policies and programs that influence production schedules, quality standards, and cost management, driving operational efficiency. ❖ Rework Reduction & Cost Optimization: Promoting the principle of "doing it right the first time," reducing rework costs through process improvements and maintaining consistent quality monitoring. ❖ Cross-Functional Collaboration & Project Management: Coordinating with cross-functional teams during New Product Development to ensure smooth transitions, defining project scope, timelines.

Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔–❖ Led Quality Operations Across Multiple Areas: Led a team of 64 for quality operations for Process Quality Assurance (PQA), Customer Quality Assurance (CQA) & New Product Development (NPD), ensuring all processes aligned with customer requirements & quality standards. ❖ Steered Quality Mindset Across the Organization: Promoted a quality-centric mindset throughout the organization, aligning both short-term and long-term objectives, and driving continuous improvement initiatives across all teams. ❖ Ensured Product Quality & Performance Consistency: Ensured consistent product quality and performance by conducting multilevel audits and diagnostics, achieving high-quality standards for customer satisfaction. ❖ Led Cross-functional Projects for Product Launch: Directed the successful rollout of various projects, defining scope, timelines, and prioritizing tasks while working closely with cross-functional teams to manage dependencies, documentation, and resource planning. ❖ Reduced Rework & Improved Quality Performance: Implemented effective rejection analysis and reduction strategies, identifying root causes of recurring issues and preventing product returns, leading to significant cost savings. ❖ Analyzed & Addressed Failure Costs: Analyzed internal and external failure costs, taking proactive measures to prevent recurrence & ensuring continuous cost optimization in line with quality objectives.❖ Managed System and Product Certifications: Successfully obtained system & product certifications such as ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, TUV, UL, EAC, and CE for new product launches, ensuring compliance with industry standards & regulations. ❖ Achieved Significant Cost Reduction & Efficiency Improvements: Achieved measurable improvements in quality metrics, including reducing total quality costs from 5.21% to 4.42% & internal failure costs from 1.08% to 0.74%, while improving first pass yield from 98.18% to 98.89%.

Hosur Area, India

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔– ❖ My experience in this organization allowed me to gain valuable expertise and expand upon my knowledge of implementing quality management standards (QMS), ISO 9001; 14001: 45001 and handling TUV, UL, EAC audits. With a team of team of 3 Engineers and 6 Inspectors, I was directly reporting to Senior Director Quality-India. ❖ The products that I have handled are Electronics manufacturing services (EMS) / Industrial Automation Products Assemble: Variable frequency Drive (VFD), Photovoltaic Inverters (PVI), Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), DC Fans. My focus was to ensure that quality standards as per customers requirement in India, USA, Europe & China.❖ I was entrusted with the responsibility to set up a quality department at new plant (Greenfield project) and got it certified for ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015; ISO45001:2018. This task required a strong attention to detail, accuracy and exceptional analytical skills. Besides that, have successfully transferred and launched 259 models of Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) from China to India and brought in INR 226.4 crore for company. ❖ Carried out quality diagnosis in Thailand & China for sister companies while implementing solutions for critical quality issues. Improved yield-FPY from 87% in 2018 to 98.9% in 2019 and was commended for that. Have also played a major role in improving Supplier verified line rejection rate (SVLRR) from 5.29% in 2018 to 1.87% in 2019 and reduced line rejections from 0.06% in 2017) to 0.024% in 2019Handling 4 project transfers currently from China/Thailand to India

Bommasandra,Bangalore

𝑲𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔– ❖ Led Quality Operations Across Multiple Functions: Directed a team of 13 quality professionals, overseeing Supplier Quality, In- process Quality, Customer Quality, QMS, and Metrology Services, ensuring comprehensive quality management across all functions and industries. ❖ Drove Customer Complaint Resolution and Quality Audits: Reviewed 8D reports for customer complaints and actively assisted in customer audits (System, Process, and PPAP), ensuring timely action on corrective measures.❖ Implemented Process & Product Audits: Conducted extensive process and product audits, as well as layout inspections, to maintain product quality, mitigate defects, and ensure alignment with customer expectations & industry standards. ❖ Achieved Significant Production Approvals: Successfully managed the approval process for 32 PPAPs, securing mass production approval from major OEMs and Tier-1 customers in the automotive industry, leading to over $32 million in revenue. ❖ Enhanced Supplier Quality & Process Controls: Led the reduction of PPM (Parts Per Million) and FMEA RPN for non-performing suppliers through stringent process controls, fostering continuous improvement.❖ Introduced New Process Establishment & NPD Functions: Contributed to the development & establishment of quality systems for new products, ensuring process capability studies, audits, and smooth transitions from product development to mass production. ❖ Monitored & Reduced Internal Rejections: Reduced internal rejection rates from 1.44% (2015) to 1.02% (2016) through targeted corrective actions, process improvements, and closer collaboration with production teams. ❖ Successfully Managed New Product Introductions: Successfully introduced 24 Brush Guides and Slip Rings for mass production, generating over $12 million in revenue & driving the organization’s product portfolio expansion in multiple sectors, including Automotive, Home Appliances, Railways, and Power Tools.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Six Sigma Black Belt, Manufacturing Excellence

Six Sigma White Belt & Green Belt Certification, Manufacturing Excellence