SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, results oriented team player with over 16 years of work experience in architecting PLM, Engineering and IT solutions.
• I am eager to master new skills, and look forward to taking on key responsibilities which drive strategic growth. Track record of delivering results in projects as well as consultative settings.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Over my career I have excelled in a variety of roles, including PLM Application Architect, IT Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Systems Engineer and Product Creation and Applications Engineer.
• Over sixteen years of extensive experience of Product Lifecycle Management, Product Creation and development and Systems Engineering and Design in Industrial and manufacturing environment.
• Experienced in CAx/PLM architectural analysis and process management.
• Hands on knowledge of managing Multi - CAx environments, PLM, global eBOM, mBOM, architecture and product structures management.
• Extensive experience in engineering process management and product structure change and configuration management.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Project management, Six Sigma and QA procedures in design and manufacturing.
• Proven ability to lead multiple projects and to move quickly among concurrent projects.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

TeamCenter Engineering

CATIA V5

CATIA V6

I - DEAS

UG NX

ITK Programming

VisMockUp

Visual Studio .Net

C

C++

JAVA

OO techniques

ITK API

UG Open

Knowledge Fusion

OpenIdeas

JAVASCRIPT

VBSCRIPT

HTML/DHTML

XML

ACCESS

MySQL

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage)

MS SharePoint

MS Windows (32/64 Bit)

UNIX (Sun Microsystems)

Adobe PhotoShop

Adobe Illustrator

3D Studio Max

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PLM Application Architect

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Investigate the current business processes and tools to identify problems, complexities, non-value-added steps, and inefficiencies that could be improved.
• Map customer processes to the technology through a solid understanding of Teamcenter Engineering PLM software capabilities and the designed usage of the software.
• Engage customers at the functional manager levels and across functional groups to drive alignment and execution.
• Generate regular metrics and communicate the same to all stakeholders to assess project progress, risks, timing, cost overruns, etc.
• Support case study development and provide lessons learned feedback.
• Deliver on-site customer training as appropriate.
• Design, development and deployment of several Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) tools (using C++, JAVA, ITK Programming) for Ford Powertrain Operations.
• Parametric and Template Modeling of several powertrain components in I-DEAS and CATIA V5.
• Software / Hardware assessment of Legacy PDM Infrastructure at Ford which includes Metaphase and hundreds of local Data Managers across Ford Global.
• Created Decommissioning roadmap for Legacy PDM system.
• Architected web-based sql server Archival solution to archive roughly 3 million CAD data files from Metaphase.
• Led a global business team to identify CAD data for archival, extract and convert data to JT format and transfer the Metadata and the JT files from Metaphase to the Archival system.
• Conducted benchmark studies with companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin to understand their Archival Processes.
• The project resulted in an annual savings of $3 million to Ford.
• Configured Digital Product Structure for Powertrain.
• Led Configured Digital Powertrain set of projects to develop a collaborative & integrated Product Development environment between the Engineering, CAD, CAE and Manufacturing disciplines, leveraging PLM suite of tools.
• Worked diligently with Engineers to understand their processes related to PLM. Helped move Powertrain engineers to a common BOM management tool - a massive improvement over stand alone excel files and local disconnected databases.
• Developed automated scripts to create Program Nodes, Placeholders, Design Solutions, Design Instances, etc. to assist CAD community in managing CAD data in TCe
• Automated creation of variant rules and options based on inputs from Engineering BOM and applied to various Program Nodes
• Developed advanced product creation methods and workflowsin the Powertrain product development cycle for the Powertrain Operations & Digital Innovation departments.
• Common Global Engineering Requirements Management.
• Worked on a project to deploy a common Requirements System throughout Ford which would enable system engineers to identify, capture and propagate customer requirements to various stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• The project was to get engineering requirements out of excel sheets and local disconnected databases into a web-based third party system called E2KS.
• Eventually all requirements would be migrated into Teamcenter Requirements from E2KS.
• Worked with IT to develop a CAD Connector tool to propagate and validate CAD requirements from E2KS into Catia V5 using CAA.
• Deployment of Teamcenter Engineering within the Powertrain CAD and Engineering Community
• Successfully migrated Ford Powertrain Community (approx. 1000 Engineers and CAD Designers) from the Classic Metaphase system into the Next Generation Teamcenter Engineering Solution.
• Validation of JT files created in TCe and troubleshooting of JT translation failures.
• Developed a Program by Program migration schedule based on Model Year Master plan to generate a phased migration approach to Teamcenter.
• Generate regular to track project progress and risks and communicated regularly to key stakeholders such as Chief Engineers and Directors.
• Led a team of and application support specialists to identify, migrate and validate Product CAD Data from Metaphase to Teamcenter Engineering.
• Developed and Conducted Training Sessions for Engineering and CAD community to help them get through the initial pains of using the new PLM System.

CAx/KBE Consultant

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Systems Analysis (technical discussions with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and requirements gathering, preparing Business Case & Project Charter documents), Design, Application Development, QA Testing, Change Management and Project Management.
• Evaluated current engineering processes, identified improvement / automation opportunities.
• Designed, developed and deployed several engineering related tools and applications that significantly helped in reducing design time for key systems such as Engine Valvetrain, Lubrication, Transmission, etc.
• Actively participated in the Confidential Company Global Initiative to move towards C3P-NG as the new platform for best-in-class (BIC) integrated product delivery system.
• Team Member on the KBE Methods & Evaluation Team to evaluate and perform gap analysis in KBE systems such as Knowledge Fusion and UG Open to support the C3P-NG project.