Surinder Kumar Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, CA, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Generated $200M in revenue with a 10-12% profit margin by serving as the point of contact for 4 EV client projects worth $50M, managing 2 projects worth $150M for traditional customers, and selling various value-added.
• Closed an $8M EV customer claim within 3 months of record time by negotiating with engineering and management teams and building relationships with the client team to resolve incomplete engineering work and address.
• Optimized organizational performance by leading training sessions with local and overseas NPI sites on reducing overall build times, improving customer relationships, providing world-class service, and increasing daily.
• Served as single point of contact for 3-4 Silicon-valley EV emerging customers ($50M) project, supporting day to day needs and managing 2 projects ($150M) for traditional customers

Austin, Texas, US

• Increased profit margin by 4% by developing a material payment plan with an emerging customer and NPI site that reduced internal material exposure and decreased the client’s carrying cost charges.
• Enabled earlier launches and increased revenue generation by proposing and building an NPI line for automotive customers to speed up processes, improve the overall cycle time for 2 months, and create a new competitive.
• Delivered an enhanced customer experience by collaborating with senior management to implement a unique structure that provided emerging Silicon Valley clients with a single point of contact.
• Managed project meetings, schedule, resources, risk, budget, FPLC Gate processes, customer audits, customer meetings and customer sample and engineering/ mass production releases. Projects included: Infotainment.

St Petersburg, Florida, US

• Saved ~$2M in annual costs by transferring the J&J and Tesla sustaining projects from the U.S. to Malaysia/Mexico site, including overseeing operations for 3-6 months, providing regular reports to senior leaders, and.
• Increased customer satisfaction rate to 90% by leading the Jabil manufacturing team to launch new J&J and Tesla products on the company site and managing all project phases, including design, prototyping, piloting, and.
• Generated $500K savings on extra and obsolete material by enabling the manufacturing team to work with the customer engineering team during the prototype phase on bill of materials (BOM), testing, and process readiness.
• Collaborated between Mexico/ San Jose and customers to close all open actions.
• Launched projects at NPI San Jose and then transferred to Jabil Mexico for mass production for automotive customer.
• Lead the transfer medical project from Jabil – Auburn Hills to Penang. Projects included: Infotainment, Lane Assist Camera, Heart Rate Monitor and Endoclene machines

US

• Managing NPI Operations, Stock room and purchasing for the pcba’s and box build level material for fuel cells.
• Develop manufacturing systems – Work instructions, work order, weekly yield report and action item.
• Initiated work order system for traceability & accountability system for XX25 and XX55 Fuel cells.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed camera module projects from NPI to mass production
• Launched 1st VGA camera module at Flextronics - China site within six weeks after customer approval by leading the engineering team in Matrix organization.
• Coordinated PRD, customer approval, customer audit, supply chain, manufacturing qualification, Vendor development, forecast and maintained project budget of $1M - $2M.

Austin, Texas, US

• Lead the NPI processes for Networking customers boards.
• Provide DFM/ Build report to customer and discussion with customer engineering team on engineering issues.
• Led the local team of process and test engineers for all test and process related issues internally as well as externally for major US customers

Concentration Marketing, Finanace And Managerial Economics

Concentration Logistics, Human Resources And Business Strategies

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Electronics

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