Thuvaragan Vithiyananthan (P.Eng) Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, On, Ca

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