Experience

GBF, Inc

• United States
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Process Improvement Engineer

  • Dec 2020 - Present



Matcor-Matsu Group

• Canada
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Process Improvement Engineer

  • May 2019 - Dec 2020



Reading Truck

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Continuous Improvement Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - May 2019

  Working on Continuous Improvement projects addressing KPI’s (Quality, Safety, Cost and Delivery)• Implemented lean principles like standardized work, 5S, kaizens in the plant to improve the process and productivity by focusing on elimination of 7 deadly wastes• Project on flow change, WIP reduction: Increased throughput by 16 additional bodies making $200k/quarter savings• Participated and lead kaizen events for improvements at different manufacturing facilities kaizen 1- Project on Material handling, Morgan- Realized Savings- $150k Kaizen 2- Fab Shears Kaizen, RTB- Realized Savings-$100k• Provided continuous improvement support to the focus factory managers of different areas in the plant to achieve throughput goals in effective way• Supported assembly operations by improving the production rate by 36%.• Conducted time studies and line balancing on standard assembly line and gained 2 FTE’s and realized savings of $66,500 within a span of 4 months.• Contributed $350k of savings to the company while working on various continuous improvement projects in FY2018 • Performed demand analysis and set a line side inventory for master lock build and eliminated over production and increased labor efficiency• Initiated and developed 5S program, created 5S committee and trained committee members on 5S and lean principles to promote 5S in the facility.• Created standard work instructions • Supported with routings for implementation of JDE(ERP Software) in the company



Mack Trucks

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Industrial Engineer

  • Oct 2016 - Feb 2018

  Worked as a New Product Introduction Engineer for Mack "ANTHEM" LaunchConducted time studies and line balancing for cab line to reach the expectations of rate change from 74/day to 114/dayCreated layout for complete assembly flow, materials and workplaceLiaison between design and operations by providing immediate feedback for efficient design for manufacturabilityAddressed quality issues due to the new process implementation, lack of training by providing efficient tools(poka-yoke)



Northern Illinois University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Teaching Assistant for ISYE 450/550 Lean Manufacturing Systems•Assisting Graduate and Undergraduate students in simulation rounds performed at Lean manufacturing lab for clock manufacturing factory (Timewise Solutions Inc.)•Grading assignments, quizzes and also assisting the professor in conducting lab sessions, classes and providing ideas inclined to student expectations. Teaching Assistant for ISYE 450/550 Lean Manufacturing Systems•Assisting Graduate and Undergraduate students in simulation rounds performed at Lean manufacturing lab for clock manufacturing factory (Timewise Solutions Inc.)•Grading assignments, quizzes and also assisting the professor in conducting lab sessions, classes and providing ideas inclined to student expectations.



Caterpillar Inc.

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Engineer Intern

  • Oct 2015 - May 2016

  Quality Control and Continuous Improvement of Weld Inspection- Fabrication of Medium Wheel Loaders:Work comprised of application of Lean and Six Sigma tools in fabrication area in particular welding, with a focus on eliminating the inconsistencies among the inspectors.•Performed time studies on weld inspectors and recommended cycle time for weld inspection by eliminating non-value added times.• Worked on reducing weld defects and paint defects through statistical quality control, gaugeR&R, Process Capability Analysis to ensure repeatability and reproducibility using Minitab and Excel• Conducted attribute agreement analysis on weld inspectors and succeeded in improving % of agreement from 33% to 67%.• Coordinated with quality supervisors, team leads, weld engineer, weld inspectors, and operators in the course of collecting data.• Interacted with several people from different departments like quality managers, supervisors, quality technicians, ME's, operators and weld inspectors to gather the information in the course of analyzing the current practice.



Minvesta Infotech Limited

• India
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Analyst

  • Feb 2014 - Nov 2014

  • Worked on the project that deals with the creation of maps on JAVA based tool owned by Google.• Responsible for checking the quality of work completed by Analyst (Quality Control)• Identifying the quality issues and sending back to the analyst to fix the issues.• Approving the package only with zero issues.• Conducted several meetings and discussed the root cause of the issues.• Various presentations and handouts were sent to analysts to minimize the issue rate.• 25% increase in meeting daily targets is observed.



Silicon Business Solutions Pvt Ltd

• India
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • May 2013 - Jan 2014

  •Trained on different ERP solutions provided by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) for manufacturing industries.•Worked on Microsoft Dynamics CRM for migrating data from ZOHO CRM by customizing the templates.•Created templates for entering customer information, creating orders and invoices.•Tested and validated all features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.•Have done research on the requirements of different manufacturing industries and their expectations.•Attended conferences on Cloud Computing. •Have earned knowledge on different software solutions provided by TCF, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Samsung.



JNTU Hyderabad

• Student

  • Sep 2009 - May 2013

  Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering