Engineering Manager GM C1XX Structure & Mechanism:Successful Project Management: Smoothly executing major changes, including supplier transitions and die moves. A3/A4 approach to close open issues for GM C1XX & Nissan P42QR with weekly engagement of Plant team, SDT & SMTE.Product Safety & Quality: Ensuring product safety, functionality, and performance during supplierchanges and quality issues.Customer Relations: Building strong working relationships with plant and customer contacts.Cost Savings: Achieved cost savings by resolving metal issues at Metal & CS plant and definingquick short-term containments.Quality Improvement: Improved plant PIR closure and KPI for metal/mechanism issues with Taskforce for Nissan red card.Decision Making & Risk Assessment: Conducted risk assessments for safety issues, quality issues.Deviations to red flag & PPSC issues. Single point of contact for 3 plants and 2 programs.Warranty Management: Lead C1XX warranty and engineering, improved issue response time to GM.

Manager P42QR 2R Structure: • Responsible for design and development of many proprietary seating’s mechanisms, components, and structures. A3 creation to find out the root cause of problems, accordingly, to give corrective action.• Co-ordinate all functional groups to ensure successful close product open issues for metals & mechanisms.• Coordinate, manage and track multiple design iterations with CAE and Manufacturing team for design validation• Work with other engineering program leaders to coordinate and manage prototype development, schedule, and builds• Establish, organize, and track physical design validation targets and test cases for new product introduction• Crash / Abuse Testing, Reliability & Durability Testing, Corrosion Testing• Responsible for performing evaluations of seating mechanisms by performing effort calculations, joint analysis, and tolerance stack ups by applying our company-specific Core Product Portfolio (CPP) and Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) knowledge.Good experience on Systematic Problem Solving, Issue's tracking, change management & focus on process adherence.

Managing Structure & Mechanism Group - North America (Team Size 25)Chrysler-RU 2R & 3R; GM-C1UG, C1YX• Project management & execution with help of project team.• Responsible for Structure BU day to day design work• Ensure 100% work quality of daily deliverables.• Work planning, allocation and mentoring of the team.• Responsible for performance appraisals of team members.• Issue resolution and setting up preventive measures.• Interaction with the engineer, design leaders and OPC at Novi.• Arrange webex with customer for technical discussion.

Managed Complete Seat & Structure for VW(2R,3R), Lamborghini (LB72X,LB999) & BMW 2R• Business development & new project discussion with car & railway seating customer from Germany.• Developed new venture between Supplier & my company to start new FEA project for automotive seating.• Project co-ordination from Germany & responsible for all deliverables received from India team.• Design of seat components & product by considering manufacturing feasibility, design guidelines& load cases.• Packaging of seat mechanisms as per ECE regulations & optimization of structure in co-ordination with FEA• Development of components, mechanisms from supplier for proto till SOP• Representation of the technical issues & Engineering presentation includes cost, milestone schedule with customer and co-ordination of project task with team.• New concept developed using Carbon Fiber for back shell & cushion shell of seat.

• Development of Ultra-Light Seat for variants 4WM & 6WM seat cushion & reduced the 30% weight & cost of Seat.(Complete seat + Metal structure)• Responsible for the successful execution of all technical tasks of a BMW/RR project with D-FMEA & Engineering change request (ECR). • Rear seat Freestanding Seat structure concepts & development phase for Noveo concept. • Kinematics development & standard Mechanism concept developed to align all adjustment movement along one track. • Planning and coordinating the Proto/Development activities in coordination with the design & onsite team.• Most Innovative & Pro-active Person Award for Innovation projects handled with pro-actively— By Faurecia India in 2008-09