Thuvaragan Vithiyananthan (P.Eng) Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

• Formed a team that can act as a bridge between software development, technical support, and product management.
• Developing and defining process that can streamline addressing field issues, conducting alpha, beta, and discovery trials, andproviding software updates.
• Engaging closely with technical support, technical analysis, and software development teams to ensure customer issues are addressed in a timely manner.
• Interviewed and hired application engineering candidates to ensure best fit within the company and the application engineering team.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Provide technical leadership to a team of software developers and help them become experts in the field of industrial robotics.
• Collaborate with product management to understand and validate customer needs and helping to define product vision.
• Engage closely with Quality Assurance to help define robust testing procedures.
• Interview software engineering candidates to ensure best fit within the company and the development team.

Ontario, Canada

• Manage development and delivery of user stories to provide product management with level of effort estimates for key initiatives.
• Engage with software engineering and prioritize backlog items to ensure bugs and features are developed and tested withinpre‑planned release schedules.
• Carry out root/cause analysis in complex problems and provide direction to software engineering on possible solutions.
• Coaching and mentoring junior application engineers in the robotics industry.

Ontario, Canada

• Virtual calibration of robots, part positioners, external interfaces, and rails to ensure accuracy and repeatably when using theoff‑line programming software for Welding, Milling, Painting, and Trimming application.
• Conducting on‑site demonstrations for a variety of applications to highlight the capabilities of the off‑line programing software.
• Developing, testing, troubleshooting, and implementing post processors for ABB, Yaskawa, Universal, and Cloos Robots.
• Training customers and new employees on robot motion planning strategies, OCTOPUZ off‑line programing software, and multiaxis Mastercam tool path generation.

Ontario, Canada

• Improved the automated touch sense motion planning algorithm to provide the user with ability to control the yaw, pitch, and roll angles of a weld torch.
• Developed a Tool Manager add-on that enables the users to attach CNC milling tools and holders to robots available in the simulation.
• Developed a machine code parser that translates GCODE into a form that robots can understand and manipulate.
• Improved the software user experience through continued improvements to the interface and bug fixes.

Cambridge, Ontario

• Developed a visibility algorithm to ensure the application engineers can create variables and specify the visibility of those according to predefined conditions.
• Developed a C# function to provide translation support that can be used in various C# applications.
• Identified solutions to various software bugs to allow for a smooth user experience.
• Rephrased variables descriptions to improve the user experience.

Ontario, Canada

• Created and updated work instruction to ensure higher quality products are being manufactured and delivered to the customer
• Designed work stations ergonomically to ensure the operator can function effectively and efficiently while eliminating the possibilities for strains and injuries
• Prototyped new products and delivered them to the customer on time while ensuring zero non-conformances
• Designed robot fixtures that perform the required task effectively while minimizing non-conformances
• Updated safe entry documentation to ensure the technician powers down the robots and the machinery in the correct sequence prior to entering the cell

Ontario, Canada

• Serve customers efficiently in both drive-thru and store front while meeting standard service time of sixty seconds and help customers resolve their problems in a professional and courteous manner
• Balance the cash transitions at the end of the day to ensure 99% accuracy
• Keep the store front clean and stocked up while servicing customers to create a welcoming environment

Ontario, Canada

• Designed forming and alignment checking templates using Creo AutoCAD to ensure consist parts that met the drawing’s tolerances
• Conducted capacity analysis on the brake press to classify the parts that should be formed at the plant and should be outsourced
• Improved production at the plant by conducting time studies, analyzing work procedures and balancing the assembly lines
• Assisted the engineering & advanced manufacturing departments with the ISO audit and CATERPILLAR welds audits