SENIOR MANAGER – Quality (Seating – Western Region) (additional role)• Responsible for Quality performance of 5 plants for Seating Business. • Developing and executing quality assurance strategies, processes and initiatives. • Leading quality assurance resources and processes, interfacing with customer quality representatives and plant Quality Managers for warranty management, problem solving and improvement plan execution in alignment with customer expectations and business objectives.• Managing quality control, incident system and customer quality for OEMs like Daimler (MBIL), Fiat Chrysler (FCA), VW, GM, Honda (HCIL), M&M and TML• Reviewing Quality Performance Indices, Customer Score Cards and Cost of Poor Quality for all plantsHighlights: • Consistently achieved all OEM Scorecard targets for all plants (GM- Severiety score & PPM, VW- PPM, MBIL- faults/car, M&M- Supplier score, Honda- GQI score, FCA - PPM) • Achieved all Quality metrics targets for Western Region (Customer Complaints, warranty, COPQ and Certification) SENIOR MANAGER (Program Quality and Systems) – India Lead• Responsible for Advance Quality, APQP deployment and Quality Systems at all Lear Plants in India• Driving flawless launch execution and customer satisfaction improvement in quality processes of new programs• Leading customer Audits for new programs as per OEM Customer specific requirements • Responsible for final PPAP approvals • Responsible for APQP Gateway Clearances and Manufacturing Site Approvals based on Audits.Highlights• Launched new programs for OEMs like TML (Hexa), M&M (Marazzo), GM (Beat export), Renault (Captur), Fiat (Jeep Compass), Honda (Amaze) and Daimler India. (Located at the manufacturing plants during pilot and launch phases)• M&M Supplier Excellence Award for Best Development Performance for Marrazo Program • Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding performance in the category of Delivery from Honda Cars Indial Ltd (Honda Amaze Launch)

• Responsible for Advance Quality, APQP deployment, New Product Development and Quality Systems at all Lear Plants in India• Leading and driving flawless launch execution and customer satisfaction improvement in quality processes and deliverables of new programs• Leading customer Audits for new programs as per Customer specific requirements of all major OEMs• Developing Quality KPI’s to measure launch performance at all gates & builds and reporting out monthly. • Responsible for final PPAP approvals • Launched new programs for OEMs like TML (Hexa), Mahindra (Marazzo), General Motors (Beat export), Renault Nissan (Capture), Fiat Chrysler (Jeep Compass) and Honda (Amaze). Located at the manufacturing plants during launch.• Reviewing and approving DFMEAs, PFMEAs, Control Plans and related process planning documents.• Responsible for APQP Gateway Clearances and Manufacturing Site Approvals based on Audits• Reviewing Supplier APQP development and Qualification status• Lead the problem-solving processes related to product development in coordination with corporate and manufacturing functions• Lead the migration from TS to IATF 16949 system certification for all India plants• Ensuring personnel qualification in quality tools by managing and executing Quality System, Core Tool and Audit Execution trainings.

MANAGER – System Certification ● Managing and controlling the certification business performance at Bangalore including MIS reporting on invoicing and profitability.● Conducting TS16949 Audits in India and abroad.● Conducting Training programs related to Auditor Qualification and Core Tools● Responsible for audit planning to meet monthly scheduling deadlines, monitoring pre-audit team approvals, audit execution and post audit activities.● Ensuring competence building of auditors and staff.● Extending technical support to all offices in South India for planning and execution of TS16949 audits.● Companies audited include: Lear Automotive India Ltd, Johnson Controls Automotive Ltd, TACO Hendrickson Pvt. Ltd, Rane Steerings Ltd, JSW Group, Yazaki Torres Inc (Philippines), Japan Aviation Electronics (Philippines), Carsen Group (Malaysia), JJ-Lapp Cable SMI (Indonesia) etc.Highlights: ● Successfully completed IATF witness Audit by VDA QMC with written appreciation regarding auditing approach● Lead a Value Stream Mapping project for tracking bottlenecks and delays in the certification process with an objective to reduce the certificate issue time.

Worked as Quality System Auditor, involved in conducting TS 16949 Audits since Nov 2009. Headed North Karnataka and Goa operations from July 2009 to Apr 2011. Responsibilities included Business Development for all certifications and training programs.

Handled various functions in Production, Process Development and Quality.

Responsible for routine production activities and process monitoring..