• Gender: Male
• Age: 43
• Designation: Department Head
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 28.5 Year(s)

Education

MBA From Anna University Chennai in 2008

B.S. in Engineering Technology From BITS, Pilani in 2003

Diploma in Tool Engineering From GTTC Chennai in 1995

Skill Sets

Techno/Commercial business development professional with leadership qualities and excellent hands-on experience in the project management. An assertive manager with outstanding interpersonal, communications, negotiation, people management skills and customer relationship management”

Work Experience

Operations Head 
Since Jun 2011
Company Profile: An offshore engineering services providing organization for USA & Canada, Automotive tooling industries
Job Profile:
Provided 2D – 3D design conversions
Provided Plastic Mold flow analysis
Provided Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Provided Plastic Mold designs
Exported Oil Tooling parts to Canadian Oil Industry
Clients – Cavalier Tool, 1 Source Designs, AarKal
Developed the tooling Vendor base in India, China, Korea & Japan
Car Care Solutions: (Franchisee of 3M Car Care, 3M India Ltd) (Since Jan-2012)
Set up the Car detailing Centre and established 3M processes
Ranked No. 1 store across India for 3 consecutive quarters on the process audit, technical audits, mystery audit, tele-calling audits.
Running successfully for more than 3.5 years
New start up Diagnostics centre to collect sample from patients and delivering to lab
Working on promotions, marketing efforts in establishing the diagnostics to the new level in Indian Health Care
Establishing the processes to make the customer experience at the Centre 


Manager - Tool Shop
Dec 2009 – Till Jun 2011.
Company Profile: Automotive tooling company
Job Profile:
Head of operations for CNC machining, Design, Assembly, Plastic Injection molding
Taken care of every day operations of 10 Large size CNC VMCs & Horizontal Boring machines (3000 mm x 1800 mm travel), 3 EDM/WEDM machine, Tarus Gun drilling machine (2500 meter deep hole drilling)
Taken care of 80-team members team size at the moment
Taken care of every day operations molding machine ranging from Engel 80 Tons to UBE 2500 Tons
Taking care of mold makers daily schedule to meet the delivery schedule
Responsible for running the operation efficiently
Implementing the continuous improvements
Delivering the products in time

Manager – Projects 
Jan’2005 – Nov’2009
Company Name: Synergetic Engineering Solutions Private Limited
Job Profile:
Account managed North American customers and Project Managed the tool design & developments for 1 Source, Valiant Tool & Mold, Lamko, etc.
Developed the customer in North America and managed the projects right from the quote, execution till the product delivery
Costing/Budgeting the program and take appropriate decisions on sourcing of the product development
Established a new design and development team and processes for offshore Engineering Design center for North American product manufacturers. Provide necessary supervision and support on the daily activities
Vendor Development for the tooling sources in India / China and execute the projects to export /domestic markets (Contract agreements). Create appropriate relationship with the suppliers to build the strategic relationship

Product Feasibility Review: Review with Customer Product Design team in giving input to reduce the product complication & to reduce the tooling cost and for easy manufacturing 
Design Reviews and approvals with the internal design source / vendor design to keep going with the projects on time
Involve with Engineering team in feasibility for the developments
Design Review and follow up Engineering Changes at several stages of the project implementation
Cost controlling through out the development and implementation of the projects
Received Performance Excellence award for 2004-05 in the Project Manager level from Megasoft (Synergetic was part of Megasoft)
Exposure to Asian companies – Korea, Japan, China and India
Recent Projects: TATA NANO Air Inlet Manifold Mold for Tata Visteon. Tools developed in India as well as Canada 

Deputy Manager 
Aug 2003–Jan 2005
Company Name: Siemens VDO Automotive Limited
Job Profile:
Project Manager for the Indica Electronic Cluster & Suzuki Swift Electronic Cluster tooling development 
Costing/Budgeting for the new projects 
Part of Product Design team in giving input for the Design feasibility for the easy manufacturing of the moulds
Cost controlling in the development phase
Vendor Development (Contracting) for mold and molding of Instrument Cluster products
Cross Function Team (CFT) member for new projects. Awarded for best contribution in Indica Fully Electronic Cluster developments and the project implementation at the record breaking short lead times
Implement Engineering Changes (EC) in the process and tooling’s
Vendor audit and contract review/approvals for the development jobs
New Projects handled: TATA Indica facelift Electronic Cluster, Maruti Suzuki Swift (SX2) Electronic Cluster, Bajaj CT100, Bajaj Discover, Bajaj Pulsar, Bajaj Eliminator, Hero Honda CD100 Deluxe

Technical Assistant 
Mar 1998 – Aug 2003
Company Name: Visteon Automotive Systems India Private Ltd 
Job Profile:
Technical Assistant for Interior / Exterior division maintenance, molding and post molding assembly activities
Received Visteon Quality Award for maintaining “0” PPM at Ford India consecutively for 5 years
Implemented Kaizen activities like reducing the molding cycle time by optimizing the process parameters and by modifying the molds, and tool change over time reductions, etc.
New project product and process trials, implementations, etc.
Projects Handled: Several Bumper molds, Instrument Panel, Instrument Cluster, HVAC molds for the various programs of Ford, Hyundai (MXI & LCI), Hindustan Motors (Lancer), Toyota (Corolla) 

Technician
Jan 1997 – Mar 1998
Company Name: Kunal Engineering Company Limited
Job Profile:
Supervised the tool room for building the plastic injection moulds for Textile bobbins
Vendor development for machining outsourcing activities
Mold break downs and periodic mold maintenance 

Tool Maker 
Apr’1995 – Jan’1997
Company Name: Global Magnum Tapes Private Limited
Job Profile:
Tool maker for the commercial molds
Worked on all the conventional machineries
Additional Professional Activities:
Traveled overseas on special assignments for the business developments, vendor developments, new program feasibility discussions, Tool developments, etc.Traveled countries were Canada, USA and China
Well versed with Quality systems: QS, TS, ISO 9002, ISO 14000, etc.
Well versed with problem solving tools
Negotiation with vendors (Contracts)
Have USA B1 Visa & Canada Tourist Visa
Overall Areas Expertise:
Strategic Planning
Budget planning
Project Scheduling
Marketing
Vendor Development
Team building, Leadership and Mentoring
Cost Control & Estimation 

Future Goals

Obtain a Senior Profile position in a young and energetic engineering team with the obtained organizational, project management and entrepreneurial professional expertise.