Raghu Prasanth Muthusamy Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Saved approximately $750,000/year in transportation cost by reducing the dimensional weight of temperature controlled shipper boxes.• Team lead for warehouse & inventory optimization - warehouse configuration redesign, inventory analysis, dedicated storage bins re-assignment, demand forecasting, MRP adjustments, contracts and purchase negotiations. • Successfully transitioned ERP from SAP R/3 to Oracle NetSuite and trained the peers on system processes and reporting.• Guided the infrastructure project with GANTT charts, process maps, time studies, bottleneck analysis & KPIs for automated track implementation.• Redesigned the blood sample clamshell using Autodesk Fusion 360 to optimize the tray usage and reduce inventory by eliminating one SKU.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course "Visual Basic for Applications - VBA" at Oklahoma State University.• Led a team of 8 TAs for the course, provided instructions, held weekly meeting to track the progress and distributed materials for the course.• Lectured on Microsoft Excel basics, pivot tables, V and H look-ups, Visual Basic, macros, modular programming, loops and user-forms.• Tutored to undergraduate students during the help sessions.• Developed assignments, projects, quizzes for the course, conducted quizzes, exams and graded them in timely fashion.

Mumbai Area, India

• Managed the operational constraints, allocated human and equipment resources and led a team of 18 employees to accomplish the primary goals of a production line.• Handled production planning and scheduling to meet the production targets, took continuous effort to improve the key performance indicators and reported on the daily performance to the General Manager of the plant.• Performed SQL programming to pull out the required data from server and generated dashboards in Tableau to report the production status of orders, plant performance, inventory stock, yet to produce order quantities and other useful information to other plant Mangers.• Supervised the internal logistics, maintenance plans and SAP R/3 for the production line.• Ensured appropriate inventory availability, while balancing operational efficiency, material demands and inventory cost.• Working knowledge of Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Continuous Improvement and implemented Lean Manufacturing principles in several projects of the plant.• Ensured the operation department’s objectives like safety, quality, schedule and cost performance are met.• Acted as a liaison in the integrated plant, giving planning and feedback to avoid fluctuations and delays in the process.• Over-viewed and rectified errors in SAP transactions and generated SAP reports for the plant.

Mumbai Area, India

• Worked towards the project commissioning of an automated production line and tuned the process parameters.• Studied the role of operations department, plant production capacity, process flow, material in-flows, internal logistic systems, production processes and controls, testing methods, logistics and dispatch strategies.• Had three months of in-class sessions, lectures and power point presentations (PPTs) from the departmental heads at the plant headquarters in Bellary, India.

Coimbatore Area, India

• Worked on a project that aimed at reducing the fatigue endured by workers in lifting pump stators and loading them in the CNC machines to perform the turning operation.• Studied the shop-floor constraints in space and machine layouts to design a semi-automated material handling component.• Designed the component using Solid Works with reference to design considerations, as recommended by Aquasub Engineering to assist the workers in lifting the pump stators.• The bill of materials and individual component designs were done and these components were analysed for essential and critical stress and strains like Von-Mises stress, maximum stress, bending stress and maximum strain.• Presented a report to the company that this semi-automated material handling component can lead to a significant reduction in workers fatigue and can increase their overall productivity.

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial Engineering And Management

Activities and Societies: Alpha Pi Mu, INFORMS, IISE, APICS, M24D - Malaysian Drums Troop, ISA - Indian Students Association, OSU.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering, First Class With Distinction

Activities and Societies: MEA - Mechanical Engineers Association, GCT Hockey Club, GCT Badminton Club, GCT Athletics Club.