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Chennai, Tn, In

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

India

Member of IICA involved in active discussions on customer experience, technology and upcoming trends with like minded business associates

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Lead a team of 30+ engineers to handle End-to-End Quality: Mfg engg, NPD, Customer quality, Supplier quality & In-process quality.- Ensure customer complaints & warranty complaints are rightly addressed in discussion with all internal & external stake holders.- Secure launch quality for all new project / programs through robust product & process design and deploy lessons learnt across future projects.- Work & lead CFT to address change management, quality concerns, project / program / business deliverables.- Deploy lean manufacturing principles and promote quality culture across organization through continuous improvements - QCC / Kaizen / Six Sigma projects / Suggestions.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

- Regional technical head responsible for overall vehicle serial life & launch quality in Africa, Middle-east, India & Korea, setting up & monitoring of budget and resource against project / serial life requirements. - Handling importer specific customer quality issues in small business units / countries like Japan, Australia, Indonesia and other SAARC countries through technical reviews & design changes. - Delivering projects aimed at Organization transformation models with close association on project & program viability

Chennai Area, India

Customer satisfaction pilot for A-Entry platform launch vehicles - Kwid - all over the world. Demonstrated quick reactivity towards customer issue resolution, crisis management, serial life quality management and capitalization of downstream issues in upstream project activity by adapting product design changes in coordination with Engg, plant and supplier quality. Instrumental in deploying Agile way for serial life quality management, validation of new launch vehicles, prioritization and continuous quality & customer satisfaction improvement.

Chennai Area, India

- Local vehicle integration lead for Overseas global project – Worked in France for 9 months exclusively as part of Engineering and Program management team.- Establish system / component level requirements based on marketing functional requirement - Co-ordinate with architecture team on overall vehicle design layout, packaging, prototyping and carry out mock up builds to demonstrate and validate functional requirements. - Critical link for cross functional teams like Purchase, Mfg, Quality & Marketing for various Project to Industrialization phase. - Specialize and lead CFT for vehicle platform for all aggregates through DFMEA, PFMEA and PPAP procedures- Change management in Engg BOM & Materials BOM and carry out change impact analysis on total delivery cost, retro- fitment and associated quality risk.- Manage vehicle test specification sign-off and productionize variants in assembly line- Well versed in product cost activities for all new launches and made multiple business case scenarios for assessing product viability prior to launch.

Gurgaon, India

- Responsible for designing fuel & brake pipes inline with customer proposed vehicle layout, prototyping & development for various OEMs in India - Maruti, Honda, Tata Motors- Design, approve and validate new jigs and fixtures used for production and quality checks- Established manufacturing processes & quality standards in Chennai green field plant

Chennai Area, India

- Involved in establishing Green field project on "high strength heat treated and formed tubing" - A business venture of 30 Cr with a business turnover potential of around 250Cr annually.- Responsible for New product development, validation and process establishment for Advanced High Strength Steel tubular product line.- Generate new business through concept presentation focusing on benefits related to AHSS like reduced weight, increase performance and optimal cost.

Chennai Area, India

- Worked deeply on establishing commercial process for induction heat treatment and development of advanced high strength steels (AHSS) primarily for automobile applications.- Key member of the team involved in creating a new unit - Tubular Components Division - under Tube Investments of India (Murugappa group)

Chennai Area, India

Schedule daily plans for HF induction welding tube mills against monthly plan

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 8

This program has significantly sharpened and honed my skill set. The comprehensive curriculum not only deepened my understanding of core.

B.E, Metallurgy

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