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Vik S. is listed as Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a with 7230 employees, based in Buena Park, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Vik S..
Vik S. previously worked as Hardware Quality Assurance and Engineering Liaison Engineer at Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Engineering Project Manager at Danaher Corporation. Vik S. holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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A creative leader who brings systematic thinking within the cross-functional teams for autonomy and purpose-Demonstrated leadership that transcends cross functional teams to focus on purposes driven critical objectives to foster growth. -Spearhead Innovation for autonomy that led to the development-execution of processes, products and strategy to discover, deliver capture and sustain value to the organizations and its customers.-Focused on Strategic value that positioned products and services per customer’s perceived value to maximize profitability.-Global business perspective that forged long term relationships and customers stickiness, as a mean to deliver recurring revenues, add stability and improved risk taking capabilities.Trainings and Skills:- NASA /JPL Standards implementations, Space systems and Space craft composites manufacturing, assembly and testing, Project Management, Crucial conversation, Lean product development, Leadership Training. Strategy Negotiations, Voice of the Customer, DISC, Speed design Review, Accelerated Product Development, Toll Gate Process, New Product Velocity, Leadership Essentials, Policy Deployment, Product Development, PPG, PLCM, Value Selling, Funnel Management, Visual management, Value Stream Mapping, Policy Deployment. CDT&R, CAPA, 5 S, Standard Work, Flow, Problem Solving, Train the trainer, Shin Kaizen, DBS boot camp, DBS orientation, Quality System Basic, Reliability Boot Camp, Customer Defect Tracking and resolution, CAPA, Daily management, VAVE, Variation Reduction Kaizen, SMED, 3P, Design for Reliability, FMEA, Model Cell, Space flight systems simulation and testing for reliability, AS9100 Aerospace standard. Attached are links for more information on companies and projects worked.
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Pasadena, California, United States
Contract Technical Manager (CTM) -Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding Ocean to Near-surface ( REASON) Europa Clipper. Manage JPL and its Subcontractor teams for the delivery of REASON to JPL. Deputy lead and CogE for system integration and testing of REASON instrument at JPL and Subcontractors.System Integration and test lead - Farside Seismic Suite
Pasadena
- As an intermediary between JPL, Maxar/SSL, APL, Lockheed, ASU, SpaceX, DTU, supported AIT at Maxar for Psyche spacecraft delivery to JPL-NASA , ATLO at JPL for payload integration and full testing of the Psyche spacecraft, launch Campaign at Cape, for August launch of Psyche mission to explore the metal world for deeper understanding of an asteroid Psyche that appears to be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of our solar system. -Managed quality and overseen manufacturing/assembly/testing of spacecraft for Psyche mission at Maxar space systems to ensure assembly, testing of the spacecraft per JPL/NASA’s engineering requirements and bridge the gap between vendor and JPL/NASA teams for dynamic change in project requirements, at design and manufacturing/assembly/testing phase to deliver project per specifications/contracts to JPL -Led quality at vendor’s sites and oversaw manufacturing/assembly for successful delivery of flight components, sub systems and science equipment (i.e. robotic arm assembly, core drill assembly, actuators for steering and wheels, rover mobility suspension, sample caching system etc.) for the final assembly of Mars 20-20 rover at JPL to meet on schedule mission launch. -Foster vendors, engineering, projects and manufacturing teams for implementation of NASA- JPL standards and procedures.-Oversee vendor’s project management and identified time conservation opportunities to support on schedule launch of space mission. -Streamline/influence vendor’s manufacturing/assembly instructions for in process quality and implementation of countermeasures.-Managed vendors for processes and deliverable, identified quality gaps, engaged cross functional teams for RCCM/procedural updates.
Valencia, California
P&L responsibilities of 20M for custom engineering projects business unit of Aquafine Corporation (Danaher Corporation). Responsible for custom projects pricing for improved margins and customer acquisition in collaboration with sales team. Responsible for employee’s development plans and improving the annual employee’s satisfaction survey for the project engineering business unit. Responsible for setting long term (3-5years) and short term (1 year) plans as a part of strategy planning to support targets to improve for policy deployment.Implemented custom engineering projects acquisition and delivery process resulted in 25% improvement of on time delivery, 30000 ppm quality defects improvements and 7% contribution margin improvement. Transitioned project engineering business unit from company level to corporation level process-oriented business system platform-Danaher Business System. Managed customers relationship leveraging Danaher Business System partnering with sales and operations team. Overview company and position:- Aquafine is a part of Hach/Trojan technologies (A Danaher Corporation Business) and 50% of Aquafine’s business comes from custom engineering projects, where product is unique and is manufactured per customer stated guidelines and technology is packaged by conforming to regulatory requirements like EPA, FDA, CE, UL, NSF, DVGW etc.
Valencia, California
Responsible for entire product lines of the company with 15 different products worth 40M in revenue for pricing, margin and discounts to support the top & bottom line of the business. Responsible for the marketing of the products, products catalogue, promotions, product recalls and value selling plans for sales and marketing, new product launches, product road maps, rationalization, product obsolesce. Responsible for the Voice of the customers (VOC) collection, customer segmentations, market research, product and technology roadmaps creations for go to market strategy and channel selection. Responsible for creating the business plans for the opportunity priorities and development funnel supporting the growth strategy of the company. Visit customers sites for order acquisition and product demonstration with sales team as a product subject matter expert and get genuine market initiative for genuine parts usage to support spares business.Implemented accelerated product development process for new product development to prioritize and launch new product and for product line review process for product rationalization and obsolescence. Train sales team, customers and distributors for value selling and managed the customers complaints. Lead the initiative to transform commercial part of the organization to Danaher Business System. Re-branding of the company website for the new logo and face lift of the website with transition to e-commerce platform-online ordering and delivery. Face-lift the existing products with new controller for data and user interface capabilitiesOverview company and position: - Aquafine corporation ( Danaher Corporation Business) is the manufacturer of UV equipment for water treatment. Company has a wide range of products including legacy products to meet customers water treatment requirements. Final products are the combination of electronics and mechanical assemblies, and delivered across the globe from US manufacturing facility in California
Valencia, California
Responsible for lean conversion of manufacturing facility for driving the continuous improvement and implementation of DBS system throughout the operations. Responsible for value stream mapping to understand the gaps and identify the opportunities for kaizen resulted in 5% reduction of fixed overheads. Conducted 24 kaizen in one year resulting in reducing the working in capital to 20% and 30% better space utilization. Implemented standard work, point of use for quality built into the system and implement processes to improve process efficiency and reduce quality defects by 15000ppm resulting in 10% productivity gain. Responsible for training 5S, standard work and flow implementation to support lean initiative and 5 why’s for root causes analysis and problem solving. Responsible for developing the culture of team building and deep dive problem solving methodology vs firefighting. Implemented one-piece flow, U-shaped cells, point of use inventory, value stream mapping and Kanban to improve quality and reduce inventory for just in time manufacturing per customer needs. Set the daily management and KPIs to measure the improvements resulted from lean manufacturing. Responsible for setting targets to improve to support policy deployment initiatives. Help conducting the ISO 9001: audits with external auditors and follow up actions for ISO reporting’sOverview company and position: - Aquafine corporation is a fully vertically integrated manufacturing facility with capabilities of state-of-the-art machining, welding, fabrication, electronic assembly integrations and final assembly of the components. Company has a lot of potential to benefit from lean manufacturing and transitioning to corporation level Danaher Business System (DBS).
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Vik S. works for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Vik S. is listed as Systems Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Vik S. is based in Buena Park, California, United States while working with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Vik S. has worked for Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Danaher Corporation.
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Vik S. holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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