Smrithkruth Mathikere Somasekhar Email & Phone Number

Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

• Managing a team of 18 Engineers for NPI team on various technology design projects with budgets upto $1.8 million ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Aiding the planning, execution and tracking development of $5.5 million machine for the power device industry in collaboration with the Product manager and the Program manager.
• Facilitate daily collaboration with cross-functional teams encompassing engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and supply chain to ensure the smooth execution of high impact projects.

Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Vacaville, California, United States

• Developed an Inventory database for the retail start-up with over 1900 SKUs; exercised statistical forecasting methods to achieve 83% forecast accuracy.
• Designed a Kanban board for timely reordering of 900+ varieties of Inventory (Patches); reduced backorder rates.
• Refocussed the manufacturing operations to calculated quantities by analysing the demand and reduced bottlenecks.
• Evaluated the start-up’s performance over the years; forecasted future targets and recommended plan of action.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Directed and executed the development of a $3.5 million state-of-the-art Ion Implantation tool for a US client; Led a six-member engineering team in a collaborative effort to design and develop the new product against.
• Lessened licensing and infrastructure costs of the team by 16% to enable timely execution of a new product design worth $4 million; Performed cost-benefit analyses to optimize resource allocation for the same.
• Devised program proposal and execution strategy that resulted in HCL being awarded a $3 million project on Silicon Carbide wafers, an alternative to widely used Silicon wafers in the Semi-conductor Industry; Partnered.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Conserved $3.5 Million for HCL’s Semi-Conductor division by conducting ROI analysis on the efficiency of a new design error reporting software; Identified monetary losses related to design errors across a team of 700.
• Achieved a cost reduction of $30,000 (15%) per machine by coordinating with suppliers and influencing clients to use alternate ready-to-assemble frame structures in the exhaust system of Chemical deposition machines.
• Administered several customisation projects with clients from USA, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Netherlands including Fortune 20 companies.
• Motivated and mentored new members and revised training curriculum resulting in reducing training lead times by 20%.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Youngest engineer in the Semi-Conductor Division (Mechanical Domain) of HCL Bangalore to visit customer in USA. Received “Livewire” Innovation award given to only a handful of new recruits in their first year of work.
• Tracked amount of work completed by each of the 5 members in team with a self-developed tracker and prepared the billing report on a weekly basis. Headed a 5-member team to complete a customer specific project for a.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Coordinated with vendors to manage their account on Amazon.com, the world’s largest E-commerce market place and leading multinational technology company.

Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

• Managed a 15 member workforce for India’s leading manufacturer in Total NVH (Noise, Vibrations, & Heat) reduction components for use in the automotive industry.
• Oversaw production line of Vibration Damping materials for Daimler trucks (Mercedes Benz), the client with the highest quality standards requirement.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Coordinated with Suppliers for raw materials needed to maintain Power Plants & renovate/modernize Steam Generators.
• Supervised the production line of orders from top companies such as BHEL & Enmas Andritz.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Operations Management, General Management & Technology Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering, 8.35