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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• Develop and track the quality department's and suppliers' key performance indicators (Supplier Scorecard) to achieve organizational success.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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