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Richmond, VA, US

Glen Allen, Virginia, US

Glen Allen, Virginia, US

Detroit, Michigan, US

• Responsible for planning, directing, and controlling efforts of the Quality Engineering Group, support manufacturing & Operations to facilitate high quality products deemed by internal & customer specifications
• Maintain and develop strategic relationships with key customers and suppliers and work closely with management to companywide improvement initiatives
• Conduct RCA, CAPA, drive CI projects and utilize effective quality problem solving tools to develop quality control procedures and processes
• Serve as Management representative for IATF 16949 & ISO 14001 and spearhead QMS, EMS creation effort
• Manage and architecture the analysis & interpretation of test/production data, production KPIs, CARs, CAPAs using SCADA systems and Power Bi paired with SQL data dump

Northville, Michigan, US

• Determined & implemented quality improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to manufacturing processes using Minitab & SPC on shop floor
• Assisted the product engineering team to refine machine & part specific PFMEA, Control plans & lead creation of Inspection orders for multi layered rivet process on QSYS – Quality management system
• Lead New Production Introduction initiatives by utilizing explicit layered methodology of design, specifications, feasibility study, Prototyping, tooling, pre-production and mass production across 17 plants worldwide
• Facilitated DOE & Gage R&R studies to drive continuous improvement actions to examine machine capability and manufacturing process to meet deemed quality specification of customers
• Co-ordinated & resolved quality issues with internal sister plants & customers by manifesting quality core tools APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, 5Why & lean manufacturing to drive process improvements
• Participate in developing and maintaining IATF 16949 policies and procedures by defining clear quality standards/inspection orders on process check sheets

Northville, Michigan, US

• Implement & research micro resistance weld development techniques on precious metal clad tape for spark plugs
• Improve process standardization to drive down CAPEX $500,000 by defining clear modular system design
• Facilitate the internal & external development on implementation of the MAS equipment for global installation
• Revamped tooling and fixtures for long term plant process improvement to save machine overhaul by 80 hours/week
• Responsible to organize & streamline BOM, RFQ, Global Supply chain and support Business Acumen activities using Product Lifecycle management tools
• Lead the team of through a complete cycle of NPI/CPI of automotive aftermarket products by incorporating QFD, DFM/DFA, DVP&R, Product quality (PFMEA & PPAP), SPC & VOC

Northville, Michigan, US

• Designed micro resistance weld specs for shell to ground & center electrodes on 10B30/1010 steel, Nickel alloy and precious metals Pt30Ni & Pt40Ir
• Improved control variability & process stability on a Proof-of-Concept Machine and validated final quality, testing mechanism by designing a robust LabVIEW & PLC machine code architecture
• Assessed the production output samples by incorporating quantitative & qualitative measures following Lean manufacturing principles - Poka-yoke and Kaizen
• Examined the redundant manufacturing process of parts by comparative study of 2 sample T-test and evaluated the major indices of process capability on Minitab & SPSS to help drive down CAPEX by $ 1 million worldwide
• Redesigned the machine tools on Creo by following appropriate GD&T guidelines as per ASME Y14.5 2017 to reduce the gross weight by 10% of the weld force requirement
• Implemented design modifications of the weld head in plants based in France and China to slash the scarp rate by 15% in a period of 2 months by meeting other APQP and PPAP deliverables

Bethesda, MD, US

• Planned pre-post flight inspection schedule to check fuel pump, hydraulic valve, prop rotor, auxiliary power unit on AC-130 and improved the GUI of maintenance manual to save 240 hours of labor monthly
• Inspected the Flight management system on V-22 Osprey to assimilate the output on Spectrum Analyzers, Infrared/RF hardware to debug and validate data form closed loop control feedback system embedded with flight.
• Organized aircraft application information by developing Illustrated Parts Catalogs & Wiring Diagram Manuals and co-coordination with suppliers to improve the flight readiness from 40% to 75%
• Scheduled streamlined update of the Total Quality Management, restored policies on Environment, Health and Safety by utilizing the model of Digital Enterprise Systems and fortified the existing model of CRM, ERP and.

Washington, DC, US

• Designed the girder and frame of a 20 ton- EOT crane on HSLA hollow steel sections to reduce the gross weight by 30% and improve the yield strength after validating the FEA simulation of the structure on NASTRAN & ANSYS
• Evaluated the quality specifications norms for incoming parts based of thermal, FEA and vibrational study on SIEMENS NX to ensure supplier compliance to meet structural strength of hot rolled tubes and MSH sections.
• Documented and revised inspection manual for motor, lifting equipment & rigger training set by OSHA, CMAA, and internal NASA compliance for crane operation within the facility

Melbourne, Florida, US

• Assessed boundary layer separation of morphing airfoil to find optimal performance of aerodynamic efficiency using MATLAB to calculate geometry and simulated the performance at 10,000-15,000 ft altitude on Simulink
• Complied the data to evaluate the correlation between transonic flows over complex geometries and presented research paper at AIAA region II Conference in 2016 at Davidson Space Center, Huntsville, Alabama.

Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering

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Bachelor'S Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

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