Siddharth Sudhakaran, Pmi-Pmp® Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spearheaded the overall Wheel Ends Design, development activities in line with their timelines & product requirement for all EU Market and Mack AUS Trucks.• Successfully led a team of 5 subsystem engineers, fostering collaboration & ensuring alignmentwith project goals & objectives.• Facilitate constructive dialogue, transparent communication and consensus-building to drivealignment on project objectives and deliverables.• Fostering a collaborative and transparent supplier ecosystem, to facilitate knowledge exchange,innovation, and continuous improvement.• Nurture strategic partnerships with international/domestic suppliers, leveraging strong negotiationskills and a solutions-oriented approach to drive mutual value creation.• Seasoned Professional in working in multicultural environments and possess strong interpersonal skills• Strong cross-functional collaboration with project (Engineering,Purchasing and SQE and Operations) as an Epic owner.• Understanding and developing new products based on Market and homologation requirements.• Worked on new concepts along with suppliers to developed improved product (Lower RRC & Golden Tire)• Agile oriented Scrum Master for the entire team.• Project Lead for the Aerodynamic Wheel Cap Project, to improve fuel efficiency by 0.5%.• Project Manager for the Introduction of new Alloy wheel supplier while having due to monopolisticissues with existing supplier. Cost saving of €2.2M /Year.Lightweight Initiative, with a project budget of €0.85M, offering pay load improvement andreducing CO2 footprint.•Implement VA/VE idea to reduce PNs diversity in wheel end & steering, result to save €0.5 million• Engineering Lead for new EU Regulation R141→ Mandatory TPMS for all Trailer Trucks.•Introducing a new generation of tire sizes and tread patterns that align with the roadmap ofvehicle level objective.• Project Lead for intro of aesthetic looking chrome nut caps for all AL wheel applications(In line withbrand roadmap)

Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India

Design and Development➢ Tire and Wheel Spec finalization for each project in consideration with the Vehicle Performance Targets & Marketability Requirements➢ Supplier Evaluation & addition into OEM Panel for development Activities(RFQ to PSW convergence)➢ Supplier Coordination to achieve the benefits of tread patterns and rubber compounding without compromising on Vehicle Performance Target.➢ Interacting with Styling team for Alloy Wheel convergence (from initialstyling intention); Tire & Wheel Drawing Finalization tool go ahead forDevelopment.➢ Worked as a Quality Engineer both during Development phase andCustomer Field Quality, strategizing quick Countermeasures to arrest the Defects.Foreign Assignments➢ Nissan Global technology center, Kanagawa, Japan Duration : 6 months cumulative(Activities: Global Nissan Project Support, Improvement of Remote Engineering Activities as a Liaison/Pilot)Design Responsibility – Nissan Project Lead (Oct 2019 / present)Tire and Wheel for New Face-lift Nissan Sunny for GCC Market• Tire & Wheel Design Responsibility• Establish and Maintain supplier contact• Optimizing product to meet Project design, cost and timeline targets.• To meet the specific homologation road regulations for GCC and Saudi ArabiaResponsibility – Nissan Cost Reduction and Quality Pilot (Oct 2019 / present)Local Nissan Projects – Tire & Wheel• Brainstorming/Generate ideas to meet current year targets & roadmap creation for next year withoutimpacting product’s Q targets• Quality topics analysis, C/M proposal finalization, Quick strategy creation for C/M execution, NG outflowstoppage.Nissan Remote Engineering Pilot/Lead for NTC Japan (Sept 2018 / Oct 2019)Nissan Global projects• Lead Engineer for Tire and Wheel• Managing and Negotiating with the clients (NTC Japan) for sign-off against the deliverables • Mentoring and Upbringing trainees and other engineers in the team.• Drawing Check, BOM Creation, Design Change Management.