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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• Led a program to create a Problem-Solving Tool to deep dive into missed hours related to missed productivity and expanded it to Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.
• Developed a tool (in excel) to determine an average staffing need, based on the demand forecasting, standard hours, absenteeism, cycle time and takt time of a manufacturing process and product.
• Designed a Virtual Accountability Board for Central Operations team on MS Teams to create a performance culture by driving accountability at all levels.
• Deployed a network wide Daily management Rhythm process to drive actions from Hr x Hr board all the way up to Plant and Virtual Accountability Board.

Denver Metropolitan Area

• Large scale kaizen events (shipping and panel quilting), resulted in improved productivity, less fatigue and higher customer satisfaction.
• Shipping kaizen - direct loading of mattresses/foundations after production resulted in safer work environment for employees and on time in full (OTIF) delivery for final customers. OTIF improved from mid-70s to 90s.
• Panel quilting – changeover operation has high fatigue and more time involved in it. A simple kaizen resulted in consolidating production tickets of alike product SKUs; outcome - 20%-25% less changeovers.
• Created ergonomic rolling tables for plant quality techs to reduce fatigue and stress for mattress teardown and inspection.
• Overall weekly productivity has improved by 6% since the implementation of these kaizens.

Brighton, Colorado, United States

• Performed Pay Equity analysis for 2300+ employees with 10+ independent variables like Race, Gender, Tenure, Age and Education (R Studio).
• Leading Lean Events across different divisions within county to improve efficacy of processes.
• Created Tableau dashboard with information like total employees, gender, race, turnover, turnover cost for specific position, leave percentages, leave forecasting with filters like department, division, county.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Warehouse Work Standard development

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Performed 5S for more than 1000 components and tools. Organized lab and maintaining work standards of Lab.
• Made an Automation of Concentration game on Avengers theme using sensors, PLC and pneumatic actuators.
• Made smart Inventory sorting model to demonstrate future students about lean manufacturing in automation systems.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Found an opportunity where state can save $104,000 per IT contract. Potential saving of $2,000,000 per year.
• Studied contracts and spends from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, which could help states come together with more buying power.
• Suggested a plan where state can provide inmates 24% less charges on phone bill and generates decent revenue.
• Created a low code application for vendors and state on a platform called Knack, which have potential of saving millions of dollars to state.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Working on optimizing process, using Lean Six Sigma concepts.
• Reduction of non-confirming materials and analysis of skip-lot system with hard savings of $1000 per year plus soft savings.
• Data analysis, using Python, of rejected parts from both supplier and in-house and root cause analysis.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Predicted the NPS score of a product based on sentiments and star ratings given by customers on various online platforms.
• Created a new scale for measuring sentiments & star ratings and made recommendation about when to intervene.
• Quantified sentiments data and developed a Markovian model for predicting NPS scores which was 83% accurate.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Mechanical Engineering, 3.75

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering, 3.55