Kaushik Krishnamurthy
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Tamil Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials
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Six Sigma Green Belt
-Jun, 2013- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Engineer
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Jun 2011 - Present
• Lead projects for Design Improvements, New Technology Introduction, New Product Introduction and New Product Development; Define project technical specifications. • Determine product requirements to meet customer targets; Create, maintain and implement project plans for functionality evaluation, performance testing, durability validation. • Design and acquire prototype parts; Review structural, hydraulic, metallurgical analysis reports. Validate and certify new products for structural integrity, durability and performance. • Define and execute experiments on performance benches & test cells; Setup, calibrate and debug data acquisition & measurement systems; Reduce, analyze & optimize data to define optimal operating ranges, targets, tolerances. • Verify and validate manufacturing line plant moves, sub component supplier changes, material supplier changes and cost reduction projects; Provide engineering guidelines, validation and approval for part’s changes. • Create, maintain and implement production build and performance test programs. • Undertake RCFA to provide solutions for top assembly build & performance test failures thereby providing an increase in throughput. • Perform process capability analysis to detail individual build, assembly & test process efficiency and provide improvements; Monitor build, assembly and performance test data to improve gage r&r, bench control and determine preventive maintenance criteria. • Create quality criteria and conduct regular audits to improve built in quality; Lead projects to ascertain failure cause and solve quality issues. • Perform statistical analysis (Weibull) of field data to evaluate product life cycle and predict failure rates in the field;Evaluate in service DPU metrics to monitor field performance. • Analyze factory/field returns data & claim stories to identify issues;Conduct teardown analysis, visual analysis, and test under field conditions to verify failures causes and provide fixes. Show less
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University of Michigan
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Assistant
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May 2010 - Apr 2011
Evaluated available education tools to determine best practices/methodologies to generate interest among K-12 students on vehicle electrification Evaluated programming languages to ascertain compatibility for easy assimilation of educational toolkit onto existing instructional setup Designed, developed and validated portable vehicle electrification software toolkit Evaluated available education tools to determine best practices/methodologies to generate interest among K-12 students on vehicle electrification Evaluated programming languages to ascertain compatibility for easy assimilation of educational toolkit onto existing instructional setup Designed, developed and validated portable vehicle electrification software toolkit
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Research Assistant
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Jan 2009 - May 2009
Collate design parameters (geometrical, mass, density etc.) on door’s & door components Defined & developed data analysis methodology to evaluate mass to area ratios, identify outliers and document best practices to create benchmark Investigated benchmarked low mass doors to provide a better understanding of mass efficient door design Collate design parameters (geometrical, mass, density etc.) on door’s & door components Defined & developed data analysis methodology to evaluate mass to area ratios, identify outliers and document best practices to create benchmark Investigated benchmarked low mass doors to provide a better understanding of mass efficient door design
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Infosys
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India
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IT System Custom Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Test Quality Engineer
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Aug 2005 - Jul 2008
Quality Analysis – Validated software quality by understanding business requirements to create requirements traceability and test scenarios, detecting defects and certifying defect fixes. Quality Analysis – Validated software quality by understanding business requirements to create requirements traceability and test scenarios, detecting defects and certifying defect fixes.
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Education
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University of Michigan
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Automotive Engineering -
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology -
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Automobile Engineering