EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Worked with teams around the globe for over 10 years to support “Concept to Launch” of high volume consumer electronics, automotive and mining products.
• Experience with Electro - Mechanical Design lifecycle of Wifi/Bluetooth enabled Mobile and portable devices; table and wall mounted Home Entertainment products.
• Extensively worked for Mechanical development of Printed circuit boards (Epak/ECAD - MCAD design exchange).
• Good understanding of PCB terminologies like vias, testpoints, keepouts, JDEC/refdes, layers, ground, routing etc.
• Hands on experience in PC board Palletization and cost optimization; designing for assembly into final product; meeting electrical shielding and heat transfer requirements and providing manufacturing support.
• Experience in design mock-up, rapid prototyping (using Objet, SLA, FDM) and pilot builds of new concepts.
• Change Management for Cost reduction, End of Life, Second-Source, Field failures, and Regulatory Compliance.
• Worked extensively with cross-functional teams, vendors and production facilities both onshore and offshore.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, self starter and creative. Mentored new team members.
• Working noledge of Statistics, Cp, Cpk, Six Sigma, DFMA, ASME drafting standards and GD&T.
• Comfortable with complex and large Bill of Materials (BOM), 3D/2D Design, Assembly and Drafting.
• Software: UG Nx 8, IDEAS-Nx, Windchill, Teamcenter, EPAK, Cadence/Zuken, Autodesk Moldflow, Solidworks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Design Engineer

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Concept, Design, Prototyping, Manufacturing and Continuing Engineering support for Home theatres; Soundbars and Sounddocks; portable, wireless and bluetooth enabled mobile speaker systems.
• Significant design responsibility of atleast two home entertainment product upgrades for Wifi compatibility.
• Worked with overseas and onshore suppliers to develop Plastics and Metal parts tooling.
• Worked extensively with cross-functional teams to develop prototypes and perform pilot assembly builds.
• Implemented acoustic, mechanical and electrical requirements including but not limited to EMI shielding and heat transfer and debugging. Developed relevant design documentation for manufacturing.
• Significant responsibility for electromechanical packaging of Wi-fi products series, involving PCB assembly design with Boards & Panels, flex-cables / harness, LED’s, switches, antennas, connectors and keypads etc.
• Supported engineering changes like compliance to European power regulations, Phthalate-free requirements, RoHS, UL compliance and International warranty requirements.
• Successfully completed several cost reduction projects that helped bring several million $ savings
• Improved the Design processes between Electrical and Mechanical departments to eliminate overheads in PCB design and achieved over 75% reduction in design review effort.
• Created new UG Nx libraries/processes to standardize mechanically significant electrical parts and enable reuse
• Mentored team members on CAD and PLM tools, Confidential processes and design methodology.
• Expertise in ECAD - MCAD design data exchange, handling Cadence/allegro/Zuken file formats.
• Recognitions and performance awards for efforts towards different projects.

Design Engineer

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Completed design and prototype development for Dual-Centrifugal Fan Resistor Gridbox deployed on Hitachi’s EH4500 and EH5000 giant mining dump trucks, for heat dissipation during electrical retardation (braking).
• Successfully completed design upgrade and pilot run of the Single-Centrifugal Fan Resistor Gridbox. Airflow improvements through simulations reduced losses from 40% to 14% and carbon-fiber fan design improved overall efficiency of the system. Improved system design helped Siemens won multi-million dollar contracts.
• Significant design responsibility for the ‘Inverter enclosure assembly’ on Hitachi EH4500 and EH5000.
• Extensive collaboration with overseas vendors and Hitachi Engineers to gather end requirements and develop a prototype that can replace the operational Gridbox in the mines.
• Design for operation under extreme temperatures and dust conditions; maintain ambient air flow, normal working temperatures and necessary lighting.
• Work with cross functional teams for electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic testing of the assembly.

Design Center Bengaluru

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop 3D and 2D design of complex automotive power train components, including designing the parting line, maintaining wall thickness, boss sizes, filleting, gate locations and drafts. Worked on sand castings, die casted, sheet metal and plastic components.
• Developed parts of varying complexity like engine blocks, crank case covers, cylinder head, chain case, oil pan, rocker cover, intake and exhaust manifolds and crankshafts.
• Used CAD annotations, exterior and interiors class A surfacing modeling, BIW filleting and harness development.
• The fuel distribution featured 4000 liters of diesel fuel storage, 80 liters/min calibrated fuel dispensing in rough and inaccessible terrain with one manpower resource and using Tractor PTO drive as power source.
• The design addressed the problems of intensive labor requirements by replacing 5-6 operators by 1. Several hundred production hours per day added by eliminating machinery downtime due to fuel shortage/contamination.
• Lower repairs due to cleaner storage of Fuel / hydraulic oil.
• Performed Cost v/s Performance analysis for off road excavation machinery.
• Was responsible to oversee limestone production and maintenance schedules of the machinery in use.