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San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for all engineering and sales activities. Developed best practices and procedures as well as implemented new processes to help track, change, and execute new projects across the organization. Established an Engineering Request process, dashboard, and corresponding weekly meeting to track engineering requests. Hired, trained, developed, and mentored the members of my engineering and sale team .Led continuous improvement efforts for presales strategies within highly matrixed international teams based in US, India, Middle East and Europe.

Technical team leadership experience in variety of project types. Dynamic team player with effective communication and presentation skills, able to coordinate with management, vendors, and staff to achieve goals.Oversaw the development of the CAE Department including the Implementation of New software and analysis processes. Managed the design/simulation resources and budget for the simulation group. Recruited/Managed the personal resources for the engineering department. Trained junior engineers in performing CAE analysis for different products. Presented CAE technical presentations for customers under all verticals.• Determined the structural integrity of an automotive seat structure in front crash, rear crash and federal regulatory tests, FMVSS 210 and FMVSS207 using Ls-Dyna. • Performed non-linear FMVSS 206 analysis on Tesla Model-X Primary Door Hinge using Abaqus.• Implemented work procedures for developing different products including flex plate, Tensioner, shaft spacer, Engine Belt, Pulley, OWC Spring using Abaqus. • Provided piping stress analysis for oil and gas industry, international experience in Onshore and Offshore projects including developing and responsibilities of analysis, design and review of piping systems and supports, hot pumps, heat exchangers, reboilers, transfer lines, heaters and compressor using CAESAR & CAEPIPE per Piping Codes ASME B31.1 & B31.3. • Performed thermal mechanical finite element, structural and fatigue analyses to A.S.M.E. Section VIII Code for various pressure vessel designs using ANSYS.• Design of static mechanical equipment using PV Elite pas per ASME BPV Code Section VIII, Division 1 and API 650 vessel & tank. Thermal design of heat exchangers using HTRI (Shell and tube HX, Air-coolers).

Responsible for annual sales forecast/budgeting and providing leadership to make forecast a reality with double digital growth rate for entire international area.Wind Energy: Project Management of Wind turbine components and sub systems. Expert in Design, Validation & Manufacturing techniques of Composite Nacelle, Hub Spinner, Tower Shells, Flanges, Welded Joints, Bolted Joint Analysis, Foundation and Anchor Cage Design & Analytical Calculations for Fatigue Life, Fluid Dynamic Study of Nacelle Cover Cooling, Generator Cooling, Contact Simulations using GH Bladed and Ansys. Automotive / Ancillaries: CAE Model Building, Meshing & Analysis / Drop Tests / Impact Study/ Fatigue life calculation / Contact simulation of bearings / axle housings, ROPS & FOPS techniques using Abaqus and Ansys. Handle & execute product development & Validation solutions:• Team Lead: Mentored and lead team members on technical front. • Cross functional: Liaise with the test teams on correlation of test results with FEA. • Customer Interaction: Root Cause Analysis of components & Field Failure Study. • Provided technical leadership for all engineering activities. • Tracked resource allocations to reduce overhead costs. • Established and maintained project schedules to assist with resource management.Responsible for managing Strand7 in India and engineering consulting:• Drove Strand7 revenue four times in two years with taking effective marketing strategies • Contract execution, order implementation and control, and resolution of technical and non-technical problems between customer and Strand7 • Technical support and engineering consulting • Built up and maintained the good relationship with key customers in different industries

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Simulation driven product Development of Medical devices and surgical equipment’s using advanced coupled Eulerian techniques, Drop Tests, Impact Study, Contact Interaction Studies etc.Extensively utilized Hyper Mesh, Abaqus to perform FEA (Finite Element Analysis) to verify the functionality and structural integrity of new packaging products prior to prototype builds, ensure new packaging products meet cost, reliability, schedule and performance integrity requirements.Understood initial concepts and aesthetic designs, collected product performance requirement information, worked jointly with CATIA designers to prepare CAD models. • Created project estimates, timelines, design changes, budget control while assuring specification compliance. • Handled the CAE Simulation & correlation Platform individually. • Interacted with Client, formulated the Statement of Work, Project billing & method Formulation. • Project Management and resource planning. • Client Liaising engineer for Energy & medical devices domain.

Providence, Ri, Us

Responsible for Complex finite element procedures including linear, non-linear, static, dynamic and thermal analysis for Kautex.• Managed several projects in the areas of design and analysis of components of Plastic fuel tank.• Planned, coordinated & directed all engineering activities to warrant success of all managed projects. Developed & engineered fuel tank for Nissan, Volvo, VW, Ford. • Engineer liaison between customer, tool shops, testing facility & manufacturing plant.• Formulated technical reports & design verification, testing, prototyping, analytical studies and technical proposals.

Thane, Maharashtra, In

Primary responsibility was to provide support and solutions to Product Engineering, FEA and Product sale. • Engineering and design of new product or modifying current products and solutions for vehicle powertrain, car body, chassis and suspension and exhaust systems, sheet metal design, injection- molded parts, castings and formability analysis of sheet metal. • Thermal performance comparison of New Class D Amp IC with current amp design (Class A/B) was done using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for Nissan. A heatsink design optimization was carried out in order to match the thermal performance of New Class D design in line with current base line design so that current thermal performance can be achieved in Class D AMP with reduced heatsink mass and increased size of PCB so more components can be placed if needed. • Simulated CFD analysis on the Nexus reactor to understand the flow and thermal behaviour.• Trelleborg Automotive (Germany and France): Directed more than 10 engineers to conduct Liner & Non Linear stress analysis on Automotive Powertrain components (Bracket, Housing, Links) for Ford, Nissan, VW, Honda, BMW and Audi. • A sports equipment company (Master Sports) in US: Entire design project right from the concept development to design, prototyping, testing and validation of the machine (Pitch-N-Catch machine) for Baseball and adaptable for Softball, Field Hockey using Solid-Works.Responsible for managing Strand7 as Indian Reseller: • Managed key customer relationship and interacted with distributors, dealers • Responsible for strategic planning, annual sales forecast/budgeting and management expertise to make forecast a reality

Singapore, Sg

Extensive work on thermal, structural analysis on Gas Turbine hardware. This was principally done to establish LCF (Low Cycle Fatigue) life for hot gas path components. Included in the effort was vibration, scope limits determination, creep analysis, use of six sigma methods for design and life estimation and improvement. ANSYS was used to make the DOE runs for three DOE configurations to determine the sensitive parameters and arrive at a robust design configuration to maintain flex frequency, minimize dynamic stresses, maintain mass constraints and minimize dynamic stresses for the Two stripe frequency. Accurate response surfaces were computed to calculate first frequency, mass, two stripe dynamic stress and standard deviation. An optimization tool was constructed to validate the graphical robust design configuration.• Developed gas turbine full engine combined thermal/structural and secondary flow models to predict temperature, stress and growth due to thermal and centrifugal loads. • Developed advanced parametric method for coupled thermal/fluid flow/mechanical analysis using UG NX and ANSYS, which resulted in a significant cost savings and design improvement. • Redesigned of GE-5 and GE-10 Gas Turbine Inlet Plenum using DFSS Methodology by GE Power.• Performed FE Analysis programs to create 3D sub-models from 2D axisymmetric models for detailed analysis of 3D features while applying additional cycle conditions such as; temperatures, displacements, boundary conditions, pressures, torque, omega, and pre-loading. • Final reports containing technical data to substantiate the analysis performed Perform technical review of analyses done by team members.• Rotor Dynamic analysis of Turbine MS5002E HP and PGT10/1. Buckling Analysis of PGT5 Liner.

Canonsburg, Pa, Us

• Technical Support Engineer for benchmark production, presales meetings, post-sales training, and internal production schedules. • Technical liaison with customer support and field service to resolve escalated customer issues.• Developed and presented multilevel classroom courses on ANSYS (APDL & Workbench) to more than 100 engineers and students with varying levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.