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Vignesh Vishwanathan Email & Phone Number
Manager - Manufacturing Quality and RMA and NPI
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Lambda
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@getcruise.com
2 phones found area 669
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Manager - Manufacturing Quality and RMA and NPI
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Vignesh Vishwanathan is listed as Manager - Manufacturing Quality and RMA and NPI at Lambda, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at getcruise.com, phone signal with area code 669, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Vignesh Vishwanathan.
Vignesh Vishwanathan previously worked as Senior Hardware Engineer, Quality - Autonomous Vehicle Platforms at Cruise and Private Investor / LP at Self-Employed. Vignesh Vishwanathan holds Pat Imba from University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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About Vignesh Vishwanathan
Driving Innovation and Quality in Autonomous Vehicles @ CruiseI am a Senior Hardware Engineer of Quality at Cruise, the leader in self-driving technology. With over 8 years of experience in robotics, mechanical product design, and quality and manufacturing engineering, I am passionate about solving the most complex challenge of our generation and transforming the future of transportation.As the Quality + Manufacturing Lead for new product introduction programs, I manage a team to execute hardware bring-up and readiness for R&D programs, spin up and transfer quality processes and workflows to Commercial Ops, and ensure Cruise hardware meets PPAP requirements and are approved for vehicle builds. I also support multiple vehicle platforms and hardware products, such as Bolt Cargo, Origin Cargo, Origin Sensors, Sensor Pod Auxiliary Modules. Additionally, I am an active private investor and LP in several robotics and technology startups.
Listed skills include Finite Element Analysis, Autocad, Product Design, Matlab, and 24 others.
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Senior Hardware Engineer, Quality - Autonomous Vehicle Platforms
Current- Quality + Manufacturing lead for NPI programs - Driving phase gates to ensure readiness of the supplier’s manufacturing process and quality controls before each build. - Ensuring Cruise hardware meets PPAP requirements, for vehicle builds / integration. - Managing sensor testing, validation and automation processes.- Developed Cruise's EMS /.
Sep 2019 - Present
Private Investor / Lp
Current
Self-Employed
2023 / Orchard Robotics 2021 / EarthSense 2020 / Leaf.Trade2019 / Fan Controlled Sports League / Football League 2018 / Flower CoExits / Made In Space | 2019 Investment > Sold to private equity
Mar 2018 - Present
Las Board - Alumni Connections & Advocacy Committee Member
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer
- Helped build & grow the iDC MQE team
- Designed the FB Datacenter supplier manufacturing quality audit process, tools & dashboards
- Oversee manufacturing + automation improvements at supplier facilities
- Partnering w/Suppliers for NPI Phase Gates: Factory & product readiness, production ramp
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Manufacturing Quality Engineer
- Part of the SOE - Operations Engineering team, that worked on the internet.org, connectivity & internal collaboration hardware projects.
- Mechanical lead for internet.org hardware: design, reliability & manufacturing quality for OpenCellular and Terragraph
- Test fixture development for proof of concept connectivity projects - Portable Network Towers for San Jose deployment, Radio isolation units, automated test setups for internet.org
- X-fn work, prototyping AR/VR/MR hardware & software experiences
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Manufacturing Engineer
- Designed and manufactured mechanical & electrical hardware.
- Wrote firmware & software scripts for Raspberry Pi and Arduino for Proof of Concept prototypes.
- Led the business review, design & interfacing effort with vendors for a new product under OCP
- Supported projects on-site in China, providing solutions to manufacturing quality issues.
- Managed & setup EFFA procedures for a connectivity lab product and proposed design changes to decrease failures in the field.Shipped Programs: - Place Tips Beacons - Optical Patch Panel for FB Data Center
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Researching methods to improve the wicking properties of the vascular panels.
- Optimizing VARTM and manufacturing processes for new proof-of-concept.
- Designing test setups to identify ideal parameters for autonomic cooling of composite panels.
- Identifying comparable autonomic mechanisms in nature to better understand our results.
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Product Design Engineer
- Worked on the next generation of Apple computers, power and battery systems.
- Responsible for concept generation, product component integration, enclosure design, prototype creation/demonstration, product analysis and testing through mass production development and manufacturing ramp-up.
- Designed mechanical components for high volume manufacturing in areas of injected molded parts, sheet metal components and machined parts.
- Supported projects on-site in China for line bring-up and EVT.
- Collaborated with industrial designers, product marketing, module and electrical and hardware engineering teams.
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Manufacturing and testing fiber-reinforced polymer composites with integrated vascular circulatory systems to improve structural performance.
- Pioneered the use of lasers to create vascular networks in PLA+metal composites within the group.
- Setup and standardized laser cutting guidelines within the research group.
Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
Illinois Formula Electric - Chassis Team Leader
- Designed, Analyzed and Fabricated the Chassis according to stringent competition rules.
- Redesigned the break pedal mechanism to minimize space requirements and improve reliability.
- Trained new team members in the use of power tools, welding equipment and FEA software.
- Implemented the use of Gantt charts at Formula Electric to improve project efficiency.
Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
Illinois Formula Electric - Chassis Engineer
- Designed the headrest for the 2013 race car, increasing its minimum safety factor to 2.17 from 0.81 of the earlier designs
- Building/Designing the Chassis of the race car, and performing Finite Element Analysis on the components.
- Designed the support structure of the battery box, that needs to be attached to the Chassis.
- Designed an Engine brace, allowing us to attach the engine onto the Chassis.
Sep 2012 - Jun 2013
3 education records
Vignesh Vishwanathan education
Pat Imba
University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)
University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gce A Levels, Physics | Chemistry | Biology | Mathematics | Further Mathematics
Jerudong International School
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What company does Vignesh Vishwanathan work for?
Vignesh Vishwanathan works for Lambda.
What is Vignesh Vishwanathan's role at Lambda?
Vignesh Vishwanathan is listed as Manager - Manufacturing Quality and RMA and NPI at Lambda.
What is Vignesh Vishwanathan's email address?
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @getcruise.com for Vignesh Vishwanathan at Lambda.
What is Vignesh Vishwanathan's phone number?
AeroLeads has found 2 phone signal(s) with area code 669 for Vignesh Vishwanathan at Lambda.
Where is Vignesh Vishwanathan based?
Vignesh Vishwanathan is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Lambda.
What companies has Vignesh Vishwanathan worked for?
Vignesh Vishwanathan has worked for Lambda, Cruise, Self-Employed, University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Facebook.
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Vignesh Vishwanathan holds Pat Imba from University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Vignesh Vishwanathan is listed with skills including Finite Element Analysis, Autocad, Product Design, Matlab, Rapid Prototyping, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Materials.
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