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Dearborn Heights, MI, US

Fremont, California, US

✔ Suyati Technologies Private Limited, Kochi, India – A specialized services provider and a consulting company. Suyati serves many verticals and has significant domain expertise in the Retail, Engineering and Utility industry.Founded a specialized software services provider to support to multinationals that want to enter India and succeed. Engagements.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY Built an impressive record of achievements and advancements through a series of increasingly responsible positions for this leading automotive manufacturer. Recognized for ability to consistently.
• Led team of 15 composed of internal business and external corporate partners, vendors, and IT counterparts in reintegrating applications and personnel into direct positions within Ford.
• Identified and handled key operational issues including security and control items to prevent interruption to daily production.
• Avoided $0.5 M expenditure by identifying alternative to migrating data via outside supplier. Project returned additional savings through collective efforts of all parties involved.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• ✔Selected to perform the business planning and project management for the deployment of technology infrastructure and standardized tools across a group of 7 production facilities based on rapport established with peers.
• Built a strong and credible rapport with the business partner through regular communication, substantiated business cases, and consistent delivery to plan and budget.
• Spearheaded the manufacturing IT stand-down effort to account for all software applications and the implementation of the proper security & controls required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Championed the effort to modernize the IT infrastructure at the stamping plants which was used as a model followed by assembly and powertrain facilities.
• Established network of key contacts and escalation plans to quickly resolve critical issues.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• ✔Promoted to lead a plant support team serving over 1800 employees running 3 shifts up to 7 days per week. ✔Appropriately managed and implemented critical business and plant floor applications and infrastructure..
• Piloted two major early releases of the Production Monitoring and Downtime System to resolve design issues prior to implementation at any other facility.
• Led the effort to update and replace plant communications equipment and successfully negotiated new vendor contracts which reduced annual costs by 30%.
• Tripled end-user access to computer-based technology without increasing local support needs or costs.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• ✔ Requested by the former customer for a cross-functional assignment to procure and oversee the implementation of new inspection equipment at the majority of the NA Assembly and Stamping plants. ✔ Managed a budget of.
• Partnered with suppliers to effectively prioritize and adjust schedules to meet dynamically changing needs of individual plant schedules and labor agreements.
• Simultaneously implemented standards for new technology to enable supportable infrastructure and software across the enterprise.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• ✔Recruited to assist in providing optimal support to 80 Dimensional Control Engineers/Technicians for the NA Assembly & Stamping Plants. ✔Designed, implemented and enhanced multiple software tools to appropriately.
• Team leader of the Global Tolerance Analysis committee – a 30 member panel accountable for evaluating commercial software packages and specifying the Ford global standard tool for Tolerance Analysis and simulation.
• Ford representative to the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) committee for coordinate measuring standards.
• Developed the final versions of the Ford INSpection System which automated the programming of coordinate measuring machine (robotic probes) code based on graphical paths placed directly on 3-dimensional CAD models.

Bellwood, PA, US

• Established proven track record developing and implementing quality solutions on schedule and under budget for the world's leading flight simulator manufacturer. Recognized for early ability to quickly adapt to new.
• Only team member to achieve customer sign-off of completed subsystem prior to on-site delivery of the supersonic flight simulator.
• Delivered certified DC-10 flight simulator to airline customers achieving full resumption of pilot training as scheduled.

Ms, Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering

Bs, Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering