Harshit Vijay Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Greater Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cupertino, California, United States

• Designed DOE trials for NPI to validate product design and process changes on overseas assembly line.
• Analyzed statistical data in JMP to perform ANOVA, t-test, correlation, regression etc. to validate design changes, new suppliers, and process performance in NPI development cycles.
• Resolved hardware quality issues by collaborating with product development, operations, engineering, supply chain, and customer services. Prioritized quality of cosmetic features to enhance customer experience.
• Delivered 2 NPIs of different modules as a quality lead from prototype to market launch in 7 month of development cycle.
• Led global vendor meetings to define Commodity quality plan (CQP), Gauge R&R, inspection strategies, fixture design/qualification and set efficient assembly process flow for high volume manufacturing of power supply.
• Secured buy-in for ML project from senior executives by estimating cost reduction of $1.5M over the product lifetime.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

India

• 1 direct report and 2 indirect reports
• Researched and defined user-cases and created product vision and roadmap, pricing strategy, and go-to-market plan for the development of an e-commerce Android app targeted to support nearly 2000 retail pharmacy stores.
• Directed 12-member team of engineers, UX designer, marketeer, internal users, legal and sales to develop App user interface for manager, salesman and retail store (buyer). Achieved savings of $30K in promotion expenses.
• Reduced stock inventory cost by 15% by supply chain optimization using across 9 cities covering approx. 1300 miles.
• Increased online orders by 40% in project phase II by promoting first-time app user discounts and referral promotions.
• Optimized transportation cost and response time using Excel Solver thereby increased the annual turnover by 8%.

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• 2 indirect reports
• Led 15-member cross-functional team of product/process design, quality, supply, sales etc. for 4 NPI development for BMW.
• Performed EFFA (Early Field Failure Analysis) on returned products to advocate customer requirements.
• Facilitated 2 European customer audits for 4 NPIs to successfully achieve the PPAP approval as per ISO9001.
• Revamped PFMEA process by integrating SAP and production data to PMO dashboard to rapidly address product roadblocks.
• Reduced project delivery time by 9 days. Used value stream mapping to cut down time spent in non-value-added activities.

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• Decreased the cycle time at the bottleneck machine by 0.5 seconds under lean Six Sigma project.
• Reduced defects from 15ppm to under 6ppm for grinding machine by experimenting different grades of machine tool.
• Collaborated with the sales and supplier team to release monthly production plan for 17 production lines. Scheduled the line setting changes in fast-paced environment to ensure on time delivery to customer of approx..
• Led an IoT project to implement predictive analytics on production line. Defined new SOP for predictive maintenance.
• Developed new training modules and trained 90+ engineers which reduced monthly machine stand-down time by 4%
• Identified user requirements and built Tableau dashboard for live tracking of process parameters. Lowered the reaction time of maintenance team to attend the machine breakdown.

India

• Identified risk and highlighted risks to stakeholders. Supported risk mitigation strategies.
• Absorbed project status from engineering stand-up and sprint planning meetings without adding additional meeting burden
• Articulated and documented the technology requirements, goals and milestones
• Reported project status to key technical and business stakeholders and clients
• Collaborated and closely communicated with product, operations, engineering, quality, sales and supplier team to successfully drive projects to completion with highest level of quality.
• Collaborated with internal teams to ensure that project deadlines are met.

India

• Worked closely with the Process Engineering and Production teams to support and assist with projects related to Process, Production and Continuous Improvement as assigned.
• Supported and participated in Lean/5S and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assisted and/or Proposed ideas of changes to layout (finished goods warehouse), physical structures (racks), and related processes, all accompanied with to-scale drawing proposals
• Assisted in the evaluation of improvements to the process, process safety, process flow, and efficiency, to increase capacity/output in the plant.
• Maintained compliance with all Comtran Environmental, Health and Safety policies.
• Worked as a team with peers, supervisors, managers and operators.

India

• Supported manufacturing technical readiness in collaboration with NPI teams; working directly with R&D teams to drive results from early prototype phases through program completion.
• Supported Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFM & DFA) in support of product, system, jig/fixture and process design.
• Collaborated across functions on complex engineering and operational challenges.
• Supported implementing tools, equipment and process methods to ensure reliability and quality of products.
• Supported production lines in ensuring technical capability to meet production goals.
• Utilized factory data to analyze process capabilities and troubleshooting at Suppliers and Contract Manufacturers.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering, 3.86

Activities and Societies: Aspiring Product Managers Club Lean Manufacturing Endeavors Club CASE Consulting Club American Society of.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: -- SAE BAJA Automobile Club Founder and Vice-President -- Robotics Club Member