Senior Professional in the area of Product design and Product Strategy. With about 44 years experience with Global Corporations like Ford Motor Company, Mitsubishi Agri. M/c and John Deere USA and with Major Indian Companies like TATA Motors, Eicher Motors and TAFE Tractors. Added significant value and Lead successful Product programs ranging from 2 and 4 Wheel 5 ~100 Hp Tractors and 70 ~ 300 Hp Trucks and Buses.Trained on Attractive Quality , QFD and House of Quality by Dr Noriaki Kano ( Kano Model), Chairman Deming Prize Committee at Tokyo Univ. of Science & JUSE Japan. Developed Product Quality and reliability Strategy . Holder of One International and Five Indian Patents and over 25 technical papers. Guide and Mentor to student programs for MS at San Jose State CA USA and M.Tech.at IIT Kharagpur, and twelve Graduate programs at Bangalore ,Pune & Chennai Universities.Designated as Innovation Guru at John Deere India for leading teams who generated the maximum number of Patent disclosures in a calendar year.Mentored teams to win the Global Enterprise Engineering excellence awards across John Deere USA and teams who won the best paper in SIx Sigma and Value Engineering at the National level.Widely travelled across the World and familiar with World class engineering practices .A keen student of creative leadership with studies at the Indian School of Business Hyderabad, and programs with Franklin Covey and Profilor 360 USA. Developed processes to evaluate future Business and Product strategies supported by Organization Change and Risk Management.Listed in the International Cambridge Directory of Who is Who- USASpecial mention by the BBC award committee for Design at the Delhi Auto Expo in 2004 as Chief Engineer for the first Indian Low Floor CNG Passenger BusProvided Leadership for the establishment of Innovative practices at R&D centers at Eicher ,Mitsubishi India,Tata Motors, John Deere India and TAFE Tractors.