Experience

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  Cover

  • United States
  • Construction
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Head of Operations

    • Jul 2023 - Present

  • Operations Project Manager

    • May 2022 - Jul 2023

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  Alstom

  • France
  • Rail Transportation
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Project Operations Manager

    • Jul 2020 - May 2022

  • Leadership Development Program: Project Operations Manager (ROTATION 4)

    • Mar 2020 - Jul 2020

  • Leadership Development Program : Supply Chain Logistics (ROTATION 3)

    • Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Leadership Development Program: Quality & Continuous Improvement (ROTATION 2)

    • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Leadership Development Program : Manufacturing Operations (ROTATION 1)

    • Aug 2018 - Feb 2019

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  Bosch USA

  • Charleston, South Carolina Area

  • Manufacturing Engineer

    • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
    • Charleston, South Carolina Area

    • Prepared PDCA for low KPI values which resulted in the increase of Cp/CpK values by almost 20% and decrease of maintenance costs by 18%.•Identified and prioritized 16 potential projects in the department during system CIP (Continuous improvement) workshops. •Documented current state and future state map to suggest improvement areas using value stream mapping and updated the values monthly by recalculating with latest figures to track the progress. •Converted paper TPM checklist into electronic TPM using excel VBR of which the archives can be stored easily for almost 7 years. • Established a standard procedure for line shutdown and prepared training videos and achieved an annual cost saving of $20,000.•Conducted GRR studies, established stability parts at the gauges and reduced the gauge differences by 80%. • Reduced cycle time of a grinding machine by 27% by modifying the design of a grinding wheel and thereby reducing the dressing time of it. •Implemented Process improvement initiatives using Lean six sigma principles like FMEA, Root cause analysis etc.• Improved OEE by 24% by reducing the cycle time and thereby increasing the productivity. •Performed 5S audit on the shop floor every week as per the checklist in the 5S work audit sheet.•Implemented CAPA for the shop floor problems using A3, root cause analysis, PDCA and other suitable six-sigma tools. Participated in APQP and PPAP activities during new product development. •Evaluated suppliers by RFQs and their history for ordering spare parts for the equipment and reduced the indirect materials cost by 14%.•Evaluated BOM in SAP to identify the material flow and estimated the inventory requirements which reduced the total inventory and material storage costs. •Designed the necessary tooling in Solid Works for the smooth flow of operations.•Identified and converted external changeover activities to internal and thereby reduced the changeover time by 26%.

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  Rochester Institute of Technology

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

    -Assist teaching in Mechanical dynamics, Principles of Statics, Characterization of non-Metals, Fluid mechanics courses -Instructing labs of all these courses and evaluating students based on their performance.

  • Grader

    • Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

    Grading students in Mathematics of Graphical Simulation course which deals mainly with MATHEMATICA software.

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  Hyundai Motor India Ltd.

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Sales and Advertising Intern

    • Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    -Designed a survey to evaluate customers’ preferences for Hyundai cars with a focus on various advertising models.-Conducted a survey and performed statistical analysis on customers’ behavior in selecting Hyundai cars and recommended efficient marketing techniques.BharatAs a part of my MBA curriculum, I worked as a intern in Hyundai motors where I worked on a project related to study on sales patterns and various advertising effects on Hyundai car sales. I studied the customer prospective and thought process in selecting a Hyundai cars and and how various advertising and Marketing campaigns of Hyundai effect those thought process of Customers.

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  Bharat Electronics Limited

  • Machilipatnam Area, India

  • Production Intern

    • May 2014 - Jun 2014
    • Machilipatnam Area, India

    -Programmed CNC vertical milling machine as per scheduled orders.-Scheduled production orders based on delivery commitments for CNC Lathe machine in workshop.

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  Electronics corporation of India Limited

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Design Intern

    • May 2013 - Jun 2013
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    Parametric Design of Rack using CATIA -Designed a rack for Navy applications using parametric design method in CATIA.As a member of three members team, I worked on creating a parametric design of Naval Rack which automatically changes its dimensions according to the number of racks desired rather than designing a new rack for required number of racks everytime. We had done this using CATIA software .