Experience

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  aioneers

  • Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Manager - Software Sales

    • Dec 2023 - Present
    • Pune, Maharashtra, India

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  Blue Yonder

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Senior Business Consultant

    • Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
    • Hyderabad Area, India

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  Zimmer Biomet

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

  • Senior Manufacturing Engineer

    • Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
    • Fort Wayne, Indiana Area

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  Mylan

  • United States
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Lead Operations Engineer

    • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

    • Led product health team on manufacturing floor as part of a daily audit to resolve existing machine and product related problems and proactively prevent issues by collaborating with shop floor employees. • Manage floor staff in daily shift-to-shift work, assure operators comply with the standard operating procedures (SOPs), cGMPs and oversee daily production activities to assure planned targets are achieved.• Authored various Continuous Process Verification (CPV) reports for assigned products by gathering data, running statistical analysis, identified and shared recommendations with department leadership.• Proactively identified risks, developed mitigation plans and presented recommendations for high risk products based on CPV findings and related statistical process analysis. • Designed several Work Instructions (WIs) as a way to methodically document and improve different operational procedures (product running, equipment set-up and equipment cleaning) spanning multiple pharmaceutical departments.• Collaborated with other lead engineers on process improvement projects. Led Kaizen events in Coating department to streamline the cleaning effectiveness and remove redundancies. • Scheduled product and resources for stewardship group by collaborating with manufacturing, supply chain and scheduling group.• Prepared and managed various reports for KPI metrics at the site to align with business objectives. These included Right First Time (RFT), Yield, Rejections, Out-of-Stock/Potential Out-of-Stock batches (OOS/POOS).• Authored and managed various product investigations in Trackwise for over four years to resolve product issues on manufacturing floor. Initiated and managed CAPAs, Change Controls (CCs) and troubleshoot the root cause by proper documentation. • Facilitated several Kaizen events aimed at improving efficiency and compliance. Trained and coached bargaining unit employees within their departments for operational efficiencies.

  • Industrial Engineer - Manufacturing Management

    • Jan 2014 - Aug 2017

    • Evaluated product performance by collecting, developing and tracking various data related to run, set-up and cleans for all pharmaceutical products to support operational performance and improvement. • Responsible for various data management projects and initiatives. This included collecting, organizing and analyzing production data, drawing conclusions and providing recommendations. • Determined department production capability and provided guidance to leadership to take on new production capabilities.• Developed dashboard applications using Excel, SAP etc. to generate various reports such as Work in Process (WIP) for the Morgantown plant to share it on a weekly/monthly basis with the senior leadership.• Designed product logbooks used on manufacturing floor to reduce manual data entry thereby enhancing process efficiency.• Increased the storage space for a small inter-departmental warehouse by almost 700 Square Feet (equivalent to storing an additional 200 pallets) in conjunction with engineering to store products. Made the storage space 6S compliant for periodic audits.• Improved cleaning process (used to clean a pharmaceutical room between two different raw materials to be processed) and reduced the total clean and setup times by 5% through Kaizen and Continuous Improvement.

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  L.L.Bean Inc.

  • United States
  • Retail
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Associate Industrial Engineer

    • Apr 2013 - Oct 2013

    • Led and drove process improvement projects on inbound and outbound order processing lines in the LL Bean Fulfillment Center (FC) resulting in efficiency improvement and annual cost savings of $40,000.• Executed planning and control methodologies and analyzed the feasibility of Just-In-Time production environment at L.L.Bean manufacturing facility for direct Ship/Retail service.• Formulated cost savings by 10% reduction in the Work- In-Process (WIP) for the Just-In-Time project at L.L.Bean manufacturing which resulted in an annual cost savings of $175,000.

  • Continuous Improvement Analyst

    • Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

    Continuous Improvement Inspection Process task Assessment.•Project Lead – Responsible for comprehensive task assessment of the various Inspection Processes to support Order Fulfillment, Returns, Customer Satisfaction and Retail.• Applying various Lean/Six Sigma principles for process improvement within the OFC (Order Fulfillment Center), Returns, Customer Satisfaction and Retail.•In- charge of providing comprehensive statistical analysis for efficiency assessment and labor utilization by identifying various non-value added tasks.•Responsible for identifying the best practices that enable efficient and accurate order processing.

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  Northeastern University

  • Boston, Massachusetts, USA

  • Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

    • Jan 2011 - Dec 2012
    • Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Degree Courses - Operations Research. Simulation Analysis, Production Systems, Engineering Project Management, Mass Customization, Lean concepts and Applications, Engineering and Organizational Psychology, Financial Management for Engineers

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  • System Engineer

    • Nov 2008 - Jan 2010

    Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCSL), India Nov 2008–Jan 2010•Designed and developed a project for the development of Capital Market System for National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.•Optimized the throughput of the Trading System of the Stock Exchange from 2500 orders/sec to10,000 orders/sec.•Aligned with the client for their business goals and objective by optimizing the Trading System Operations with a constant target of enhancing the trading system output.•Developed and created various test cases and test scenarios for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Integrated System Testing (IST).•Acted as the key liaison between the development, testing and the maintenance team along with regular client interactions for troubleshooting purpose for optimizing the efficiency of the trading system.•Lead several benchmark tests and managed a team of four members to ascertain the optimal performance of the application. and analyze the behavior of the new database SMFS under stress conditions and check the system performance.•Received client appreciation for the successful roll-out of SMFS into production.

  • Assistant Systems Engineer

    • 2008 - 2010

  • Initial Learning Phase (ILP)

    • Nov 2008 - Jan 2009

    •Successfully completed a three month ILP at TCS with concentrations in C, C++ and PL/SQL

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  Larsen and Toubro Case Equipment Private Limited

  • Pithampur SEZ, Indore, India

  • Industrial Design Trainee Engineer

    • Jun 2007 - Jul 2007
    • Pithampur SEZ, Indore, India

    •Designed and tested a “Crane Hook” and made it cost effective by taking stress and other factors for L&T•Developed a set of guidelines to reduce costs in the design division through value improvement programs.•Trouble-shooting activities which included regular performance checks of yield fallout to determine and rectify errors.•Designed and supported the R&D work with various modeling designs in AUTO-CAD.•Created detailed drawings and specification documents for the design teams.•Designed and implemented effective production processes.•Performed key role in providing local engineering support, significantly reducing operational cost•Assisted the technical and non technical staff with equipment utilization and maintenance.