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Engineering Systems Technical Leader, Senior Component Design Engineer Resume

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SUMMARY:

  • Product development engineer with over twenty years’ experience in automotive, locomotive and engineering services
  • Experience as passive safety and design release engineer of automotive body structures and interiors
  • Experience in PLM, part release, Confidential creation process, engineering change management process, linear/non - linear Confidential, explicit transient dynamic, quasi static, high and low cycle fatigue calculations
  • Filed 4 patents in the areas of Confidential, Interior trim, Engine and Turbo

CAD TOOLS SKILL SET:

Radioss, Hyperworks, Easicrash, LS-Dyna, Abaqus, Nastran, NX 10, Vis-mockup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Engineering Systems Technical Leader, Senior Component Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Engineering focal for in-country sourcing/supply chain and SQE cross functional teams for the region
  • Responsibilities included building strategic partnership with suppliers for development of major engineered systems of locomotive like APU, HVAC, event recorder and screw compressor
  • Author and review of system design specifications, interface control documents ( Confidential ’s) purchase specifications, Confidential, engineering risk assessment, design verification and validations plan, carry out trade-off studies for major engineered systems of locomotive
  • Represent the Confidential review board from engineering, review of supplier plan, schedule, risk assessment and review supplier deviations requests
  • Work with senior leaders and program management for project status, risk management and mitigation plans
  • Manage product requirements through requirements management tool including impact assessments, customer change notices and internal requirement flow down

Confidential

Senior Component Design and Confidential Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for design and analysis execution of locomotive and engine components as per quality, cost & schedule
  • Provided technical leadership for component design, development and verification for locomotive cabs, seats, platform and diesel engine components to support various locomotive programs
  • Plan the design, analysis and verification activities for new product and requisitions. Deliver on program milestones by estimating task durations, identify resource needs and track tasks to closure
  • Responsible for all Confidential led design and design verifications of Tier 4 diesel engine development; worked on design improvements, reliability fix and design verifications of various engine components like cylinder head, oil pan, muffler, Confidential, turbo containment etc. Helped develop internal capabilities like thermo-mechanical fatigue of power assembly components, weld fatigue of oil pan, muffler etc.
  • Developed Confidential models of seats & seat attachment to the platform to verify the design for durability and vibration by simulating lateral, vertical and buff loads
  • Led the implementation of CAD PLM and NX 10 for design and development of Engine and Locomotives parts, release the drawings and Confidential in the design release and drawing retrieval system
  • Responsible for strategic outsourcing of none core engineering work for the CoE. Identifying engineering service partners, evaluating, building partnership and development. Implemented key performance indicators for tracking quality, schedule and cost. Adjust the outsourcing requirement based on the demand forecast
  • Partnered with engineering service providers to build drafting, analysis, should-cost & engineering change order teams
  • Strategic insourcing of the core engineering works from specialized vendors, identified gaps in capability and capacity. Help recruit talent and build teams, developed HPC infrastructure, identified and procured required tools
  • Established design and Confidential process & methods through development of design guides, analysis templates for various components and load cases for locomotive components and systems. Created check lists for quality and consistency of the models developed. Championed the Confidential culture from following the design to leading the design, reducing late design changes
  • Developed an archive system to provide a place holder for archiving the models, results & reports as per record retention police, role based controlled access to the archival system across the geographies and traceability

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Worked with Confidential group in Confidential Tech center to develop Confidential PA’s for various Confidential business teams
  • Worked with various automotive clients to provide vehicle crash support through Confidential
  • Responsibilities include setting up of offshore development centers for various clients, plan and ramp up the technical resources for executing the projects both at client sites and offshore development centers depending on the complexity and of the projects, risk assessment and mitigation, projection and expansion of business
  • Assisted Confidential teams to develop Confidential models for seat belt anchorage, child seat ISOfix, rearward moment push, downward strength, luggage retention, head impact and modal analysis
  • Responsible for all Confidential methods development activities to support various client needs and requirements. Review Confidential analysis work, free body diagrams, boundary conditions, interpretation of results, Haigh/Goodman diagrams for fatigue calculations, Campbell diagrams for resonance conditions, load path and energy absorptions for impact calculations
  • Reviewing RFI’s and RFQ’s responses, effort and cost estimates for engineering services

Confidential

Passive Safety Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Expat employee at Confidential responsible for federalization of C platform vehicles to meet NA requirements
  • Passive safety engineer for side impact (IIHS Side, FMVSS214, Side NCAP), roof crush (IIHS, FMVSS216), counter measures development for the B, C and Confidential Platforms
  • Assessed seat belt and seat belt anchorage strength to satisfy FMVSS 210 requirements through Confidential and correlated with the model with test results
  • Developed side air bags and structural reinforcements for Ford Fusion & Focus platforms which earned Side NCAP 5 star and IIHS top pick ratings
  • Support prototype and countermeasure mockup builds, positioning of dummy, accelerometers and camera. Carryout post-crash reviews, analyze test data, interpret the results, report out and correlate the Confidential crash models. Work with various prototype developers and testing vendors
  • Creation of safety test plan and author the safety compliance demonstration document
  • Developed side impact sled with SID2S and ES2RE dummies to quickly test and validate side airbags for various sizes, orientation, vent holes, stiffness and fire time to validate various door trim countermeasures like torso and pelvic foams, armrest and door trim profiles. The door initial velocity during impact and orientation of airbags were predetermined using Confidential full vehicle models and sled models
  • Organize and lead post-crash hoist review, post process the test data and lead detailed crash result analysis reviews

Confidential

Design Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Design and release engineer responsible for design of B-Pillar reinforcement for Confidential platform, cascading design requirements and targets, working with studio design engineers, Confidential attributes teams for design verification and validation, define material and boundary conditions for Confidential teams, coordinate with drafting team and suppliers to release the production drawing and part list in the design release system and provide factory support
  • Developed and implemented a detailed benchmarking strategy for car body design and door interior trim to enable execution alternatives and meet new regulatory requirements, perform trade-off studies
  • Worked with various teams from body engineering, design studio, packaging, weights, restraints, structures, interior, closures, durability, safety, Confidential teams and to ensure that the B-Pillar meets all the requirement
  • Author system design specification, purchase specification, sub-system interface control document ( Confidential ’s), DVP&R, and carry out required Confidential and root cause analysis
  • Support design studio feasibility meetings, master section reviews to ensure all the interface requirements are met
  • Worked with manufacturing to ensure feasibility of stamping, spot welding, assembly sequence, support pilot builds and resolve build issues

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