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Westport, Ct, Us

• Directed sourcing and quality strategies for Lifelines' new product development and sustaining products across Asia and the USA, identifying gaps, creating innovative solutions, and driving impactful improvements in critical supply chain areas.• Led supplier sourcing, selection, and development strategies, collaborating with engineering teams to evaluate suppliers through audits and implement a continuous supplier scorecard for sustained performance.• Oversaw end-to-end quality processes by developing and implementing robust supplier, manufacturing, and field quality procedures, including Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and other critical supply chain deliverables.• Directed product safety, compliance, and reliability testing strategies to meet U.S. regulatory requirements and design specifications, ensuring optimal customer satisfaction.• Identified and optimized complex manufacturing and assembly processes using engineering principles to enhance design for manufacturing, improve efficiency, reduce cycle times, and boost quality across operations.• Identified critical gaps in supply chain processes, developing and deploying impactful solutions to optimize performance and deliver measurable wins.• Designed and implemented key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarking scorecards to ensure the sustainability of process improvements across supply chain functions.• Coached and influenced senior management and cross-functional teams to drive lean manufacturing and quality cultural transformation, foster engagement, and implement sustainable key processes and systems. • Applied Lean, Six Sigma, and world-class manufacturing (WCM/Kaizen) methodologies to execute Continuous Improvement strategies, enhancing operational performance in manufacturing, quality, logistics, and supply chain.

Cupertino, California, Us

• Lead the Vision Pro (Apple mixed-reality headset) product quality.• Lead new product development & manufacturing strategy by working closely with the key stakeholders in product, engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, and business leaders across the organization.• Develop a strategy to select, develop and maintain supplier relationships for new and sustaining products to meet Apple’s manufacturing and quality goals.• Implemented operational recovery, performance, and development actions at supplier production sites, defining and following up on detailed improvement plans.• Lead risk assessment using multiple methodologies to identify all risks and ensure all are mitigated starting from initial prototype to mass production.• Review supplier tool design, process flow, equipment selection, DFM, and DOE proposals.• Develop robust quality procedures, policies, and mechanisms to implement at the suppliers/CM to ensure the component and product development expectations are clear and followed by them.• Lead resource planning and hiring activity to meet company goals. Develop a high-performing team and provide direction, coaching, and mentoring to the required skill set.• Encourage the team to have a solid understanding of quality control and manufacturing concepts to develop a specific Product Quality Plan (PQP) appropriate to the program and commodity.• Provide technical direction and guidance to other Quality Engineers supporting the implementation of the PQP. Establish an audit procedure appropriate to the program and supplier to ensure adherence to Apple quality standards. Implement FAI and Cp/Cpk reviews of mechanical parts.• • Monitor each supplier's performance through measurement of production line statistics, company inspections, and audits. Prepare a summary of performance and communicate to appropriate management to ensure effective corrective action plans can be promptly executed.

New York, Us

• Develop the quality strategy, systems, and process to expand Peloton's product portfolio, JDM/ODM/CM locations, and Refurbishment centers across the globe to achieve the best customer satisfaction. • Develop, implement, and maintain robust supplier and manufacturing quality procedures, policies, and mechanisms, including ever-increasing organizational standards and benchmarks based on fundamental and leading-edge quality principles.• Develop and lead supplier selection and development (components and FATP) strategy with the sourcing and engineering team, including supplier evaluation through supplier audit, advance product quality planning (APQP) for product and process development, and other key supply chain deliverables. • Develop, maintain, and improve supplier performance by building relations with suppliers, improving their performance by supporting the implementation of new technology capability, and supporting continuous improvement activities to enhance the supplier quality systems using a variety of quality and continuous Process Improvement tools.• Perform a risk assessment for new product & process development by working with the appropriate product/process development functions to prevent critical and high-risk items before validating the final design and scaling to mass manufacturing. • Develop and track the quality department's and suppliers' key performance indicators (Supplier Scorecard) to achieve organizational success. • Deliver solutions to complex problems through in-depth data analysis and forensics by using methodical approaches, along with experience, innovation, and judgment to make decisions that may be based on partial information• Provide periodic updates, including quality risk, mitigation plan, and metrics to keep the best communication across all levels.

New York, Us

- Develop and lead a great team of engineers to develop and sustain manufacturing and assembly projects in North America.- Partner with key stakeholders to drive a quality culture through best practices and strategies for Peloton’s manufacturing expansion in North America. - Develop Quality assurance and quality control systems to create, validate, and improve products, including evaluating source materials and suppliers and manufacturing processes based on engineering principles.- Improve product performance by defining and driving core manufacturing quality metrics; provide monthly reports to leadership.- Monitor all quality-related aspects of assembly operations and production, developing and coordinating continuous improvement efforts and operational methods to streamline and improve product quality metrics and operational efficiency. - Provide leadership and guidance for site-level quality functions to Investigate complex manufacturing product quality and compliance issues for all manufacturing and assembly processes using lean six sigma and Lean methods; analyze results, make recommendations and develop reports.- - Identify and ensure the optimization of complex manufacturing and assembly processes using engineering methods for a design for manufacturing and continuous process improvement; Identify opportunities for re-design/design essential equipment, tools, fixtures, etc., to improve manufacturing processes and reduce risk by assessing PFEMA.- Ensure non-conforming material issues are appropriately dispositioned, analyzed, and corrective actions are requested to the supplier, including reviewing corrective actions effectiveness. - Create and implement standardized Supplier Quality strategies that are adoptable at Regional levels that align with Sourcing, Quality, and business objectives- Direct supplier qualification program (PPAP) for new suppliers and re-qualifying parts to increase operations capacity.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, Us

Lead a great team of Engineers with great success. • Manage quality control systems within the manufacturing facilities for both internal and external quality issues by providing recommendations for product and process improvements.• Lead and support different engineering projects including continuous process improvement projects with cross-functional teams in a structured business environment in accordance with internal procedures and external regulations.• Actively participate in the product development cycle by validation process of mechanical/electrical project documentation, participating in product risk assessments, and working closely with the product development team to develop appropriate verification and validation testing requirements which includes DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plans, Occurrence and Release (O&R).• Manage to define, communicate and implement with close interaction with product and process engineers throughout the design and development of the product, process, tooling, and assembly test system using APQP methodology (NIP Projects). • Facilitate corrective action responses and drive preventive actions (CA/PA) by evaluating solutions to solve the root causes of problems relating to components, assemblies, and finished products.• Continuous process improvement using process management, statistical process control (SPC), data analysis, analysis of variance, design of experiment (DOE), process risk analysis, control plans and Six Sigma (Opex).• Assist in material related failures & root cause analysis, rework procedures and corrective action/preventative action implementations with Quality Assurance / Quality Control and Manufacturing groups.• Implement and expand concepts such as Lean Manufacturing, 8D, Kaizen, etc., to solve critical issues, reduce manufacturing cost and increase product quality and throughput.

London, England, Gb

Started my journey as a Dimensional Control Engineer and promoted as a Product and Process Specialist• Responsible to develop, implement and maintain manufacturing processes for the best quality product.• Collaborate with suppliers to deliver process flow mapping, tooling/equipment designs, installation schedules, and validation activity prior to actual product builds.• Installation (IQ), operational (OQ), and performance qualification (PQ) validation for the new manufacturing process and tooling/equipment during launch.• Develop action plans with the quality teams to investigate and prioritize quality concerns and verify corrective actions on internal processes and supplier processes.• Lead projects for process improvements by modifying existing line layouts, tool & fixtures and automated equipment for better material flow, ergonomics, reduce cycle time and increase safety.• Development of process quality plans, Matrixes, QA networks, and driving corrective actions and failure analysis efforts• Continuous process improvement using process management, statistical process control (SPC), data analysis, analysis of variance, design of experiment (DOE), process risk analysis, control plans, and root cause analysis skills.• Product development, analysis, and modification using solid works and NX. • Implement and expand concepts such as Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, etc., to improve continually existing operation, for increased quality, productivity, efficiency and cost savings.• Interact and manage suppliers for supplier part quality improvement as necessary based on project scope.

Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, In

• Responsible to Ensures operation of Automatic Machinery, Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Robotics equipment by completing preventive and breakdown maintenance on them and on Conveyor systems, Material handling equipment and Production CNC machines by following Electric schematics, , Operations manuals, Manufacturer's instructions, Engineering specifications and Engineering skills. • Investigate & troubleshoot the problems in machine control systems and plant controls.• I have worked on  CNC Machines:- juaristi , Mazak, phoenics, Gemini, Senco, Lieberr Robotics :- Fanuc. Kuka, Cognex and IFM cameras CNC Controller or PLC:- Siemens , Fanuc, Allen Bradley (for CNC Siemens 840D, Fanuc CNC 30IB)• Perform daily activities related to process controls, installation, and support and testing of all Automatic equipment including industrial robot, CNC machines, Material handling systems and Hydraulic& pneumatics based machines. • Programming and debugging of control software, like PLC’s, HMIs, Servo Drives and Vision inspection systems.• Actively worked under 5S and TPM influenced area.

Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, In

• Worked on hydraulic system design.• Worked on ongoing project of improving manufacturing efficiency by introducing conveyor system for transportation of manufacturing parts.

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechatronics(Robotics, And Automation) Engineering