Velmurugan Patchamuthu Email & Phone Number

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Performed thermal mechanical finite element, structural and fatigue analyses to A.S.M.E. Section VIII Code for various pressure vessel designs using ANSYS.

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• Final reports containing technical data to substantiate the analysis performed Perform technical review of analyses done by team members.

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.