SUMMARY:

Analytical, detail - oriented, and hardworking professional, with 12+ years of hands-on experience in Catia V5 product designing and project management in the Confidential industry; expert in vehicle seats, press tools, and wiring harness design. Knowledgeable in product design; Catia V5 and AutoCAD; solid modeling; testing and approval; documentation; and production implementation. Equipped with outstanding international experience as well as proven adeptness in providing effective technical solutions along with developing applications and designs that drive operational efficiencies. Armed with outstanding ability to create sound decisions and overcome complex challenges in competitive and fast-paced environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plymouth, MI

Design-Catia V5/Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Take charge of designing, prototyping, validating, and integrating the proprietary Confidential seat components, structures.
• Designed metal components, focusing on its strength, safety, assembly, and poke-yoke
• Identify the packaging feasibility and create the design verification plan and report (DVP&R) for all products and witness the tests and signoff the tests according to Customer Specs.
• Ensure accuracy in designing and analyzing the product through kinematics and packaging studies for all the structure and mechanisms in case of multifunctional seats
• Carry out the validation of the control plan or callouts of the design failures in design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEA) are listed on the assembly drawings or in quality control plan as wells as provide safer products to end users
• Initiate systematic design sign off (DSO), safety signoff (SSO), and manufacturing signoff while ensuring compliance with the Confidential ’s product launch methodology
• Guarantee smooth launch of Confidential seating systems by conducting product gate reviews.
• Demonstrate expertise in creating product drawings and performing releases in Honda specific product life cycle management (PLM) NAVi
• Conceptualized design structures for driver and passenger seats for the upcoming Honda Pilot programs by designing a strong mounting feet to fit inside the available packaging space, meeting all the requirements and passing all the tests specified by Honda
• Assumed full responsibility for the design and CAD work of all the Honda’s pilot driver and passenger seats, which consisted of the structures, layout studies for, packaging space study, joint evaluation sheets for fasteners, and weld sheets to ensure the safety of all joints in case of emergencies
• Expertly collaborated within a team and worked in several supporting design activities, such as CAD packaging, design proposals, drawings, mass matrix, visual bill of materials (BOM) creation, and seat testing
• Demonstrated exceptional knowledge regarding the Honda specific testing requirements for safety, durability, and marketability of the seating’s systems
• Performed sign-off and witnessing on the test to identify any failure mode and apply necessary changes to enhance the product

Confidential

Design/Catia V5 Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Proposal for seat components
• Six Sigma Layouts
• Complete seat drawings
• Complete seat packaging studies and proposal accordingly
• Study Presentations for meeting and for customer discussions.
• Exhibited outstanding skills in accomplishing several design projects on diverse countries, including:
• Rendered support to several design activities by attending daily meetings with the team in Germany, discussing the development of design proposals for seating components; layout, fasteners, and exploded drawings
• BOM creation; as well as changes in Confidential 's EPIC system, kinematic studies to verify the manikin and seat clearance with steering wheels, consoles, door, and second row structure for the design of a quality product
• Conducted systematic validation of all the structure and mechanisms interfaces with the vehicle environment in all possible occupant positions through specialized techniques, such as Six
• Spearheaded the design activities for the group in Germany, which consisted of the design proposal for seating components, layout drawings, and kinematic studies to check manikin and seat clearance with steering wheels, consoles, door, and second row structure to efficiently design a quality product
• Recommended new design concepts and performed design and feasibility studies for the new proposals and existing production issue based on daily meetings with the team in Germany
• Offered advice regarding new concept and modified the exiting production designs for the improvement of the product performance which resolved the current product and production issues without sacrificing the safety, comfort, and mass of the product
• Expertly designed the second row cushion structures with strong mounting feet without sacrificing a critical change in the exiting back frame design
• Executed systematic design of front row structure components.
• Functioned as a key member for the Confidential 422A driver and passenger seat structures design, responsible for handling all the prototype and design drawings, safety, comfort, and packaging studies for structure
• Worked as a key member in charge of designing a driver and passenger seat from inception to completion.
• Completed the project with a very less packaging space while complying with the customer’s demand to be at Whiplash safety score 3.0 for quote. And Supported the program later on till DV gate.

Confidential

Design/CAD Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertly worked on the Confidential Nano vehicle, responsible for designing grommets for harness passing and creating sheet-metal brackets proposals to support and mount electrical components
• Managed and created the packaging concepts of floor, console, and floor wiring harness in vehicle
• Directed the development of design and packaging concepts for battery, fuse-box, windshield water systems, and wiring harness

Confidential

Design/CAD Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the grommets for harness passing and created the wiring harness drawings of the Confidential
• Complied with the customer’s requirement in formulating the packaging concepts of floor, console, and floor wiring harness as well as the packaging of electrical components

Confidential

Design/CAD Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Generated components for automatic food packing machines; formulated drawings and assembly for machine components

Confidential

Design/CAD Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged proficiency in working on the Godrej chair slide mechanism as well as the press components for Piagio and Confidential
• Took charge of designing piercing dies, strip layouts, as well as press tools and fixtures
• Planned and created layouts for each sheet metal operation in accordance to the tooling station
• Generated the model of components for core cavity software
• Performed components drawing and tool room work management, such as the development of purchase order and material purchase required for tool room