Nayan Patel Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ajax, Ontario, Canada

Ajax, Ontario, Canada

• Successfully took over the quality department for YOO1 during Peak 2021 holiday season to improve building quality performance by supporting inbound and outbound senior leadership.
• Worked beyond the scope of the role to drive targeted improvements in Inbound and Outbound departments. Improved site’s quality performance by 60%.
• Transitioned to continuous improvement manager role for the site with defined targets to drive process changes across the site.
• Conducted kaizen events for exceptional handling processes across operations department as a CI leader.
• Performed inventory placement optimization by strategizing process configuration to improve overall building productivity by 9% resulting in recurring monthly cost savings of approximately $80k.

Ajax, Ontario, Canada

• Led the quality department at YEG1 (Edmonton) facility, managing over 50 direct reports.
• Responsible for managing and driving improvements in quality KPIs weekly and monthly.
• Worked cross-functionally with department leads to drive actions and maintained inventory accuracy at 99.92% average.
• Launched Inbound stow department at YOO1 (Ajax) facility, onboarding over 70 direct reports.
• Drove process improvement projects for the inbound department to ensure quality and productivity focused onboarding.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Worked on Microsoft Dynamics ERP to record inventory transactions of raw ingredients.
• Coordinated with production manager to prepare inventory for daily production cycle.
• Developed a replenishment system to reduce procurement cycle times by 15%.
• Performed and increased efficiency of weekly cycle counts to improve inventory accuracy and ERP accuracy by 5% month on month.

Montreal, Canada Area

Teaching Assistant of graduate course INDU 6311: Discrete System Simulation.Responsibilities:- Guiding simulation projects for student teams- Assisting students in ARENA simulation labs- Marking and grading exams

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Worked in close coordination with Teardown and Benchmarking team on a customer project. During the internship I learned about the research and development process put in by OEMs to ensure superiorty of their product. Also I learned a lot about one of the widely used reverse engineering techniques used by automotive OEMs. Moreover, I learned many soft skills.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering, 4.03/4.3

Activities and Societies: The Operations Research Challenge (TORCH) Montreal Courses: Discrete System Simulation, Operations Research.

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Automobile Engineering, 8.75/10

Activities and Societies: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International, SAE INDIA), Indus Automobile Engineering Association (IAEA).