Vikram Kalidas Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California

Santa Rosa, California

Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) investigation owner - Managed non-conformances for Line Clearance issues pertaining to violations on the manufacturing floor. - Created changes within current Line Clearance procedure to separate our work instructions as these are associated with the process- Coordinated retraining exercises with operators to ensure better understanding of the importance of Line Clearance. Manufacturing tooling control -Creating systems for tooling care and maintenance since none exist at current state -Changing old processes using scientific reasoning to extend life of current and newly purchased tooling -Training and coaching operators and technicians on proper care of all components using best practices -Designing and redesigning fixtures to help increase yields and quality at production linesSupply quality – lead manufacturing engineer for inter-company quality issues -Manage defect notifications and non-conformity reports received from inter-company manufacturing site -Conduct investigations to mitigate or find the root cause for the presented issueManufacturing expense budgeting -Creating budgets for operation and capital expenses for upcoming year -Purchasing all tooling required for production lines -Working with maintenance team to help create proper systems to maintain inventory for equipment needed for production

Santa Rosa, Ca

Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) investigation owner -Managed non-conformity reports from customer regarding 20-35% scrap rates for visual defects on the material -Followed the A3 DMAIC problem solving tool to approach the CAPA in a systematic function in order to find the root cause (in progress) and reduce the scrap rate to under the allowable 6% rate -Worked with Extrusion R&D engineers, Core team R&D engineers, and Quality engineers at all sites to determine the gap in inspection criteria that is causing the sudden spike in scrap rates --Root cause, thus far, has determined an over inspection of defects at pre-sorting and therefore majority of scrapped material was in fact within specificationCell operating system conversion for production lines -Attended training sessions at academy in order to coach operators through the conversion -Determined tooling cost and requirements for all production parts in the cell

Santa Rosa, Ca

A3 DMAIC driven projects- Reduction of production line downtime due to visual defect related issues on tubing (owner)- Creating a visual standard for tubing part relating to cut quality and understanding cutting procedure for harder or thicker tubing to a higher degree (owner)- Reduce number of visual problems regarding die lines on tubing causing downtime (team member)- Improve tracking of wear on melt pumps to avoid using worn components during production builds (owner)I am working within the manufacturing department as an intern for the extrusion center. My responsibilities thus far have been:Implementation of real time statistical process control software (WinSPC) to monitor extrusion production lines as well as tooling and component wear for extrusion equipmentValidation processing (IQ) for old and new equipment within manufacturing departmentStandardization of laser gauge tubing part measurement programs for all extrusion production linesCreating parts, assemblies and drawings using Solid Works for the departmentUse of Solid Works to design and create a 3D printed prototype for a fixture design

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

(2012 Transfer), Supporting Coursework To Pursue Biomedical Engineering Degree

Activities and Societies: Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)