Ref. No. : CA - 25913 - (Production - Moulding – with 30.6 years in Plastic Industry)

Education

Post Diploma From IPI, Bangalore in 2011 with 60%

Diploma in Metallurgy Engineering From Govt. Polytechnic, Bellary in 1994 

Skill Sets

Plastic Molding Processing, Plastic raw material customer support, Molding Supplier handling

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt From IIT- Indian Institute of Technology in 2015
Injection Molding Essentials-online course From RJG Inc-USA in 2014
Application & processing of Plastics- course From CIPET in 2000
MS Office (Word, Excel & Power Point), Good Presentation skills

Work Experience

Plastic Molding Consultant 
Since Aug 2016
Company Profile: Manufacturer of automobile parts.
Job Profile:
Overall involvement from new Plastic product development stage to till SOP, technical problem solving, molding process improvement- optimization for existing plastic products at molding suppliers.
Closely working with Plant SQE team, NPI, PD & global Company team for knowledge sharing/ transferring.
Training the molding suppliers towards scientific molding process setting
Achievements
OSS- PAB covers rejection reduced from 50% to 25% by improving molding process & involved to reduce from 25% to 3% by improving the Mold/Tool.

SME- Subject Matter Expert- Molding process
Jun 2013 to Jun 2016
Company Profile: Manufacturer of Tier 1 supplier to automotive OEM’s globally, products such as automotive safety equipment's supplier- Steering, Braking, Seat Belt, Air bag & Electronic products. 
Job Profile:
As SME molding- Mold flow analysis reading & suggestion, Plastic Molding process optimization, Parameter setting for new & existing molding process.
Advise tooling considerations for proposed concepts during Detailed technical review
Technical revives, design revives, project kickoff, product improvisation activities.
Connect & Co-ordinate with PM, NPI, Engineering team towards product.
Visiting existing molding suppliers, plastic material manufacturer audits & onsite support
As SDE- PPAP, AIAG, GSQM. Conducting Supplier weekly telephone con calls for PPAP status
Provide tooling feedback of part maturity for builds and testing. Coordinate with Engineering, Product Development, NPI, 
Provide onsite support to molding supplier for project to meet target date.
Provide training to Molding suppliers & SDE team. Finding root cause for molding failure.
Supporting to SDE during PPAP/APQP & 8D finding root causes.
Successfully develop a molding parameters scientific molding methodology which has capability to find optimum holding time, check cavity balanced, best fill time, processing window. 
Successfully took part and driving supplier in maintaining tight schedule in a project and became the first person to identify issue that had would became a show stopper 
Successfully resolved several red flag issues using Mold flow and holistic approach to identify root cause 
Achievements:
Took ownership & successfully completed for one OSS- Korean supplier for Improving Molding process & reduced Molding rejections, customer complaints & kept supplier into existing supplier list by training supplier into molding process optimization. Supplier score changed from RED to Green.
Took ownership & successfully completed towards CQI-23 Molding special process assessment for new introduction & establishment towards Global TRW molding suppliers. Training Global SDE’s & equipped suppliers with CQI-23 process. Within a year able get 80% of suppliers CQI-23 process audits. 

Product Development- Technical Support- Molding 
June 2008 to June 2013
Company Name : DuPont Engineer Plastics Distributor
Company Profile : Plastic raw Material Supplier of PA6, PA66, PBT, POM, PET, PPA, TPE, TPV. 
Job Profile : 
Main responsibility is providing plastic injection molding technical support to Customers.
Contact Window person to Customer towards Polymer grade selection/suggestion, Technical discussion & for molding problem solving.
Plastic Injection Molding- Process stabilization/optimizing
Process Trouble Shooting, Plastic molding Technical support to molding-Electronics, Electrical, Automobile, Telecommunications & Medical (companies- Rexim, Armor & Nypro) components manufacturing customers.
Technically by giving support & developing new Product wise, adding business to the company
Achievements
Successfully managed, kept customer good relationship and supported South India Karnataka plastic molding customers.
Successfully propose method of molding & suggesting new material change during product failure stage.
By providing technical support kept customers in company fold for increasing or for adding new business.

Molding Engineer 
Dec 2006 to Apr 2008
Company Name : Ray Moldings
Company Profile : Manufacturer of molding parts
Job Profile : 
Handle overall molding plant.
Troubleshoot molding machine, molding process. 
Setup molding machines including mold setting/loading, pre-drying material.
Manage 3 shifts, operators, Technicians.
Achievements
Training entire molding team: technicians, operators, sorters for new plant establishment.

Molding Engineer 
Jan 1999 to Sept 2006 
Company Name : TE - Tyco Electronics
Company Profile : Manufacture of plastic automobile, electronics, electrical, telecommunication connectors/connecting systems.
Job Profile : 
Molding shop floor experience. Molding process study, DOE, Scientific Injection Molding methods.
New molding transferred project stabilization for production. Training molding team on new project. 
As a molding Technician- Setup Plastic Injection molding machines parameter setting including mold setting/loading/unloading, pre-drying material. Troubleshoot molding machine, molding process.
Improve production process to maximize production output
Liaise with tool maker on tool maintenance and modification. Handling of Mold insert changeover.
Molding PPM reduction, post molding activities.
Achievements
Started carrier as Molding Technician- Senior Technician- Shift Eng- Molding Engineer.
Mold loading & unloading time reduced from 40 minutes to 15 min by SMED.
Scrap rate PPM reduced from 2500 to 800 by process improvement, regrind standardization, operator training
Many molding products/projects stabilized during project transfer to India TE for production from other TE region.
Visited overseas during molding tools transfers to India for training.  
Over all molding shop floor handling & Tool storing, plastic material loading, driers, last shot samples, first piece inspection.
Suggesting molding machine maintenance, new molding machine suggestion & recommendations. 

Plastic Molding Technician 
Apr 1997 to Dec 1998
Company Name : Cinch Connectors Private Ltd
Company Profile : Manufacturer of Plastic passive Electronics, Electrical, and Automobile connectors.
Job Profile : 
As Molding Technician- Mold loading and unloading/ Tool setting on the machine.
Set the molding machine process for production.
Troubleshoot/optimize molding defects
Mold cooling line cleaning, preserving last shot samples.
Mold, machine, driers daily check list maintenance.
Plastic raw material preparation/pre drying. 
In process inspection, first piece inspection during production.
Achievements
Involved total cycle time reduction process/team.
Involved in reducing molding defects for Black specs by introducing purging agent/material. 

Plastic Molding Technician 
Mar 1996 to Mar 1997
Company Name : Power Molds Private Limited
Company Profile : Manufacturing plastic parts to Watch Industry.  
Job Profile : 
Mold loading and unloading/ Tool setting on the machine.
Set the molding machine process for production.
Troubleshoot/optimize molding defects
Mold cooling line cleaning, preserving last shot samples.
Mold, machine, driers daily check list maintenance.
Plastic raw material preparation/pre drying. 
5S activities.
Achievements
Able to handle independently molding machines, molds/tools/ driers/Mold temperature controllers & plastic material grades.

Plastic Molding Technician
Mar 1994 to Feb 1996
Company Name : Molex Connectors India Private Ltd
Company Profile : Manufacturer of Plastic passive Electronics, Electrical, and Automobile connectors.
Job Profile : 
Mold loading and unloading/ Tool setting on the machine.
Set the molding machine process for production.
Mold, machine, driers daily check list maintenance.
Plastic raw material preparation/pre drying.
Sprue/runner crushing or grinding 
Achievements
Involved with molding team to learn molding machines & molding process.

Summary -  21 yrs Plastic Molding multi skill Experience 
Plant/Floor/Molding Manufacturing Experience: 13 years direct work experience at Plastic processing Molding manufacturing department as Molding - Technician, Shift Engineer, and Engineer. 
Molding Customer technical Support/development: 5 years working experience in different crystalline plastic material processing PA6, PA66, PBT, POM, PET, PPA, TPE, PMMA and TPV. New material change suggestion, plastic material property comparison and plastic material suggestion. Strong background on molding manufacturing and good technical knowledge such as dealing with tooling issue and hands-on injection molding process, analyze and interpret Mold flow result. Customer support/ relationship/ follow up/development.
Plastic Molding Supplier Development Experience: 4 years as Supplier Plastic Molding process Trouble shooting, Plastic Molding Technical Support & Plastic Molding tool trials. Co-ordinate with Engineering, Product Development, NPD, Commodity, Buyer, SQE, Plant & Supplier. Molding supplier process improvement for Quality & reducing for rejections. Supporting to Engineering team for Plastic material selection, material performance during product development. Plastic Molding process Improvement for material change at supplier base
Global Purchasing- Supply chain- Supplier Development Engineering (SDE) team at ZF-TRW for directly handling for Automotive Molding Suppliers, from new product development to SOP stage, AIAG, PPAP, GSQM, Technical/Design Review, project Kick off meeting. SDE- role experience at ZF-TRW, Molding Supplier Handling, Molding Process Expertise, Plastic/Polymer processing-behavior knowledge, Mold/Tooling Knowledge
General: Confident interaction with individuals at all levels of authority within & outside of the company. Team oriented, also operate independently self motivating, problem solving- tooling and molding technical problems, hardworking, quick learner, analytical, highly adaptable to new working environment
Co ordination cross functional team such as Product Development, Designers, Engineering team, Commodity, Purchaser, buyer, Plastic raw material manufacturer, Tooling departments, molding machine manufacturer, Quality, Molding team, SDE. 

Future Goals

Growth

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