Shrawan Kumar Email & Phone Number

Glen Allen, Va, Us

Greater Richmond Region, Virginia, United States

United States

> Devised a comprehensive strategy to nearly 50% of Refrigeration legacy architectures and new model line proposals, ensuring they align with evolving market demands, Resulting in $40M incremental DCM revenue to FD segments.> Formulated and executed DTV programs on SXS platform to uphold and enhance DCM, achieving a consistent 15% year-over-year improvement.> Create & align with the leadership team on 1-5 year P4G targets by Architecture & a sustainable list of key EPI (Existing Product Introduction) improvements.> Managed a GPO organization comprising over 30+ employees, to manage a portfolio of projects to ensure KPI deliverables are met year over year.> Monthly communication with the leadership team and BU’s on progress and escalations.Roles & Responsibilities • Own the delivery of cost and quality projects for the platform• Creating and driving strategy for maintaining existing architectures through implementation of a cost/quality planning cycle.• Manage a portfolio of projects, prioritizing the projects appropriately to deliver the platform’s goals• Responsible for system level cost/quality/time tradeoffs and issues within the project executionManage monthly communications with Regional CBT’s (Category Business Teams) and Regional Procurement Reviews• Develop strong working relationships with the various manufacturing facilities globally.Portfolio Planning (5 Year Product Plan) • Defines product roadmaps and resource planning that sustain PLSC and ROIC target achievement within the given budget and resources constraints, prioritizing initiatives at global level.• Resolves trade-offs and issues, drives alignment across groups to develop global platform.• Ensure product leadership is sustained through lifecycle management including architecture launch and sub-sequent model line cadence, respond to tactical opportunities prioritizing drop in request,

United States

Lead a global team of engineers responsible for developing Sub-system/technology roadmaps aligned with architectural and functional roadmaps to support Platform and Regional Product Plans, ensuring the attainment of Attribute targets for NAR refrigeration architectures. Develop cost and quality strategy initiatives and implement projects following the WPD (Whirlpool Product Development) methodology.Translate technical and sub-system attribute targets into module/component targets, working collaboratively with the FDSSIM Planning Leader to establish cost reduction targets for the Structure’s subsystem and delegate these targets to global team members. Foster communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams (GSS, Quality, EES, manufacturing) to track progress and address issues.Manage a portfolio of Structure sub-system projects, prioritizing them to achieve platform goals. Collaborate with cost and quality integrators to ensure project predictability and address system-level tradeoffs and issues during project execution. Conduct monthly communications with the Leadership team.Drive the completion of Design for Manufacturing reviews by leveraging manufacturing and tooling suppliers. Cultivate strong working relationships with various manufacturing facilities worldwide.Align the current capability of architecture, supply base, manufacturing, and customer solutions with attribute targets (Project KPIs). Identify areas where the existing architecture, supply base, manufacturing, or customer solutions are incapable of meeting attribute targets with current knowledge and develop solutions (aka N.U.D.s).Additionally, serve as the Global Attribute owner for Usability and act as an expert in Features.

India

Project Management: Lead and deliver Mega or Major projects related to global Refrigeration interior features with the support of the team.Budget Planning: Develop project budgets at the project's outset and manage them throughout the project lifecycle. Coordinate team travel plans within allocated budgets and requirements.Expense Management: Communicate and review expense budgets with the department manager and global project lead for approval.Design Review: Collaborate with the engineering team to review designs and provide feedback to ensure the achievement of project targets established at the project's inception.Resource Management: Hire and manage resources and contractors to successfully execute projects.Competency Development: Develop a competency development plan for team members to enhance their skills and capabilities.Strategic Initiatives: Contribute to strategic initiatives aimed at driving organizational growth.Overall, this role involves managing a global engineering team, overseeing project budgets and execution, facilitating design reviews, and contributing to the strategic growth of the organization.

United States

Understanding Process Variation: Analyzing current process variations in the plant and preparing a Critical Path Method (CPM) document. Updating the design to account for these variations.Enhancing Design: Utilizing 3D parametric modeling to create an improved design that meets cost targets and enhances craftsmanship and sensorial aspects.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with a cross-functional team to meet design requirements.Modularity and Innovation: Leveraging parts from different platforms, engaging in brainstorming, idea generation, and concept development. Using tools like the Pugh matrix for concept selection.Performance Prediction: Employing various tools such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA), hand calculations, testing, and validation to predict and ensure performance.Documentation: Maintaining various documents including Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R), Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), CPM, A3's, and 8D reports.Quality Support: Providing support to the manufacturing plant in resolving quality issues.Safety and Testing: Coordinating with the Product Assurance (PA) and Safety teams to develop test plans and collaborating with different labs to obtain approvals for General Product Approvals (GPA) and Safety test plans.Overall, this role involves comprehensive design and development activities, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a strong focus on quality and safety throughout the project.

United States

Value Analysis & Value Engineering (VA/VE): Using VA/VE techniques to generate ideas for projects aimed at improving cost and quality.Technical Feasibility: Assessing and evaluating the technical feasibility of these improvement projects.Business Cases: Preparing business cases to justify the implementation of cost and quality improvement projects.Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA): Employing FMEA tools to identify different failure modes and their potential impacts.Tolerance Stackups (3D Stackup): Performing tolerance stackups, often in a 3D environment, to account for process and component variations.Product Testing: Conducting product testing for verification and validation purposes.DCL Tools: Utilizing DCL (Data Conversion Laboratory) tools to expedite project execution.C2C and RPD Tools: Applying Cost-to-Cost (C2C) and Rapid Product Development (RPD) tools to drive project efficiency and speed.Plastic Component Design: Designing plastic molded components using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software like Pro-e.3D Parametric Modeling: Utilizing 3D parametric modeling techniques for design and analysis.Financial Evaluation: Employing WMCS/SAP software to evaluate the financial feasibility of cost-effective ideas.Supplier Coordination: Collaborating with suppliers to obtain samples for proposed designs and conducting testing to evaluate the designs.Quality Project Implementation: Implementing quality improvement projects with the help of Operational Excellence (Opex) tools such as Thought Map, Product Map, Measurement System Evaluation (MSE), Component of Variation (COV), and Design of Experiments (DOE).Modular Design: Incorporating modular design principles to enhance project efficiency and flexibility.These activities collectively represent a comprehensive approach to improving cost and quality in engineering and product development processes.

India

India

India

India

Part of Minda group of companies, Minda industries limited is one of the manufacturers of automobile components – Switches, Automobile horns, Alternate fuel kits etc. It is a major supplier to OEM’s both in India & Abroad. It has got plants located at Maneshar (Gurgaon) Chakan, (Pune) & Hosur.; Handle projects on Mold Design and product design.Handle projects for other units in the group such as Mindarika.Train the members in pro-e wildfire-3 at MIL, Pune.Handle projects on Mold design for outsourced moulds to ancillaries and vendors (SAM mfg., Technocrat, Venalak Polymers, Suyog Engineers, Trimurti Plastics)Technical support for ancillaries and vendors.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Post Diploma In Plastics Mold Design, Product Design & Tool Design

Activities and Societies: Cricket organizer & Led the cricket team, Annual function organizer, Received best student of the year award.

Diploma In Plastics Mold Making Technology, Mold Making Technology & Plastics Materials

Activities and Societies: Organized annual function, Led cricket team, Received an award for securing all India first rank.