PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Currently open to Sr. Director or VP level positions in any company which can leverage on my experience to come up with robust and reliable products for our customers.
• I am able to act as a good interface between Top Management and Staff who when motivated can deliver world class products.
• I achieve this by clear communication Top - Down (driving down the company Vision and Mission) and Bottom-Up (understanding the day to day challenges experienced by staff and converting them in to tangible actions for top management).
• Director, Engineering with Confidential .
• Experience in R&D, Reliability, Manufacturing & Service
• 25 years Global experience in Asia, Europe and USA.
• Design for Six Sigma - Black Belt
• Agile Implementation.

SKILLS:

• Product Design (Telecom, Medical Electronics, Engineering)
• Reliability Engineering
• Design Robustness, Design for Six Sigma
• Risk management processes and analysis
• Team leadership
• Staff development
• Budgeting and Planning
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Agile SCRUM Master & Product Owner

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Project, Functional & People Management
• Manage a staff of 40+ with Sr. Managers and Directors reporting to me
• Act as interface between R&D, Manufacturing, Service & Marketing
• Create status reports and present to President & CEO
• Commercial product support post launch
• Manage Run like a customer testing in R&D to reproduce & mitigate field issues
• Lead the Reliability program of a Multi-year, multi-site project
• Cost Center and Project Budgets
• Perform intense negotiations, collaborate and create win-win situations

Confidential

Center of Excellence Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create a Center of Excellence for Confidential within Confidential healthcare.
• Earned Confidential Black Belt (Taguchi Methods for Robust Design)
• Cross trained people across various functions.

Confidential

Service Innovation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage a multi-department team to improve Serviceability features.
• Identify service Innovation features such as condition based maintenance, automatic alignments, error recovery, service diagnostics etc
• Conducted intense inter-department negotiations to balance
• Serviceability against SPC, performance, reliability etc.
• Filed for patent on Serviceability features.
• Created a Knowledge Transfer Package to transfer product knowledge from R&D to Service organization

Confidential

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Reliability program of a Multi-year, single-site project
• Manage a staff of 10+ with Engineers/supervisors reporting to me.
• Create a Reliability plan and strategy for Reliability Analysis (Allocation, FMEA, Root Cause Analysis)
• Execute Reliability Testing (Reliability Growth Testing, Accelerated Life Testing etc)
• Create status reports and present to Management.

Confidential

Sr. Reliability & Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The project involved reliability testing of Mechanical/Optical design
• Created reports and presented to Management
• Studied the intricacies of the Subsystems.
• Wrote labview programs and the protocol document for the testing.
• Solved the teething problems of the Mechanical design .
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for failure modes
• Performed FMEA and Risk Assessment of design.

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Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Establishment of a quality system in the Manufacturing department
• Studied the Bellcore/Telecordia requirements
• Made Qualification / Testing procedures for Optical Products.
• Statistical Sampling Plan using MIL standard for incoming inspection.
• Wrote a MS Excel program for calculation of Production Yield.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Temperature/Humidity v/s Insertion Loss for Polarization Controller.
• The project was to acquire Temperature & Humidity from an Environment al Confidential
• Measure Insertion Loss at various intervals for a Polarization Controller

Confidential

Asst. Manager

Responsibilities:

• The project involved design, supply, installation and handing over a complete communication system to AP TRANSCO, (Transmission of Electric Power, Southern India)
• Made engineering drawings for Manufacturing & Testing.
• Bill of Materials using SAP & project documentation for customer
• Supervision of the manufacture & testing of the terminals.
• Software configuration and factory acceptance tests.
• Give a detailed training of the fiber optic system to the customers.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• The project involved design of an Engineering Order Wire.
• This is an emergency calling system.
• Analog and Digital circuit design
• PCB artwork and Electro-mechanical design
• Documentation for Manufacturing & Service
• Training to customers

Confidential

Sr. Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Telecom and Tele-protection equipment design
• Wrote labview programs for automated testing of Multiplexer
• Test relation between Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Bit Error Ratio (BER) on a channel.
• Created context sensitive help
• Wrote users guide for Telecom product
• Provided training to customers