Lav Patel Email & Phone Number

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Plano, TX

• Led product development projects for the Seismic Monitoring Group at Trimble, managing project scope, cost and schedule. Managed projects and collaborated with cross functional teams to assess valuation, justification.
• Implemented project schedule for planning, design, validation and manufacturing phases of the project for the development of a new Accelerograph product.
• Successfully completed the project to deliver Seismic Monitoring instruments to the Port Mann Bridge to evaluate seismic activity at the bridge, within cost and schedule, resulting in $1MM revenue.
• Present project phase review to higher management/stakeholders for approval.
• Collaborate with cross functional team to prepare the project schedule/timeline and cost estimates.
• Led and developed cost estimates projection with cross-functional team members to create financial analysis for stakeholder review.

• Mechanical Engineer responsible for all mechanical aspects of the product from conceptualization to production collaborating with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Teams.
• Led design and fabrication of 10 functional prototypes to validate the design with test procedures created.
• Minimized cost and time of prototypes by using in house 3D printing to understand product shape, size, fit, and form.

• Mechanical Engineer responsible for designing and developing new product design for the Seismic Monitoring Group within Trimble. Applications include structural monitoring of buildings, dams and bridges, volcano.
• Improved testing efficiency by standardizing the test procedures used for the seismic recorder.
• Selected the right manufacturing method, material and finish based on the tradeoffs between cost, quality and lead-time of the project.

• Managed a part of the automobile assembly line ensuring parts are streamlined as per the vehicle order, minimizing errors while maintaining assembly time down. Benchmarked prototype vehicles by performing extensive.
• Reduced repairs by 20% on vehicle assembly by using welded nuts to ensure first time right assembly.
• Analyzed test data and presented the conclusions and recommendations to the higher management and design team.
• Identified and procured equipment and resources required for testing to meet the project schedule.
• Performed benchmarking of the prototype vehicle and prepared a test schedule to meet production timeline.
• Reduced assembly time of vehicles by modifying parts, using flange bolt instead of bolt and washer on assembly.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Marketing

Activities and Societies: - Conferred with special honors as a scholar with high distinction by The University of Texas at Dallas..

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Organized ‘Ingenium 2006 - a national level Technical symposium held at Nirma University, Ahmedabad’ under.