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Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

High Point, North Carolina, United States

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Working in the design and implementation team in a fast paced new warehouse startup business with goods to person robot technology and conventional warehousing.
• Designing inbound, outbound, racking and other processes required.
• Designing end-to-end processes and identifying features required to eliminate operational constraints based on project requirements.
• Working with GreyOrange (Goods-to-Person) vendor to design and review layouts as well as defining detailed operational process flow translating operational requirements into Functional Specification Document for IT.
• Follow-up with vendors on progress tracking timelines of project.
• Install and commission equipment including Pick Put Stations, mobile storage units, chargers and bots.

Greater Memphis Area

OLE Improvement: Identified and implemented solutions to increase robot picking rate from 350 UPH to 700 UPH. Achieved 30% reduction in line reworks ensuring better material flow.  Optimized dunnage processing workflow resulting in not only 10% increase in throughput but also removed a major failure mode in sequencing orders in robot thereby reducing.

Alpharetta, GA

- Perform time studies, reduce Non-Value Added Activities.- Design workstations.- Create and modify floor layouts.- Analyze reasons for reject, develop quality tool (CAPA) to prevent it.- Define and prepare Standard Practices/GMP (Mistake Proof) and ensure 5S.- Prepare process flow chart and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Management of academic data (Audio visual, PDFs, PPTs, notes)
• Quality check of all material to ensure there are no discrepancies and maintain data integrity
• Worked with huge volumes of data and prioritized to ensure right data is available at the right moment

Chennai Area, India

• Capacity Increase Using DMAIC
• Conducted time study on ‘Pinion Shaft Line’ and based on the pareto analysis, identified that ‘Turning Machine’ has idle time.
• Increased the diameter of milling cutter tool in ‘Facing and Centering Machine’ such that the area of contact between the tool and material is increased.
• Increased the productivity of ‘Pinion Shaft’ by 26%.

Master'S In Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Gpa: 3.76/4.00

Courses: Production Planning, Scheduling and Inventory control Manufacturing Process Engineering Occupational Biomechanics

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, 8.73/10

Activities and Societies: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE, India chapter), Energy and Fuel users Association of India.