• Gender: Male
• Age: 44
• Designation: Manager
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 18.5 Year(s)

Education

M.Tech From Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET), Chennai.in 2006 with 84%.

B.Tech From Crescent Engineering College, Chennai in 2003 With 78%

Skill Sets

A Post Graduate of Engineering in Plastics Technology, result oriented, proactive and hard working professional with nearly 9 years and 6 months of experience in New Product Development & Technical Support in the Plastic and Abrasive industry has, Hands on experience in product development of Polymers like PF, PET,  PBT,  PEN,  PTN,  PBN, COPOLYESTERS & TPU and handled international projects for customers like Pepsi, Coco Cola, Savola, DuPont, GE etc.
Good experience in Polymer Synthesis, Processing, Testing and Characterization.
Hands on experience in Coated Abrasive product development.
Hands on experience in technical trouble shooting and Technical Support at the customer end. 
Comprehensive knowledge of the test protocols for Mechanical Testing, Physical, Electrical, Thermal, Flame retardant testing according to ASTM, UL etc with respect to testing of plastics.
Hands on experience in Injection Molding Machine, Single screw and Twin screw compounding line and PVC and HDPE pipe

Work Experience

Senior Manager - New Product & Application Development
Since Nov 2011
Company Profile: Manufacturers of coated abrasives, bonded abrasives, Abrasives for Stone / Construction Industry, super refractories, electro...
New Product & Application Development/Technical Support
Job Profile:
Job Responsibilities:
Drive the new product development activities through Development Management Pillar.
To develop new product as per customer requirement
To identify new application for the existing product.
Taking care of complete establishment of new products in the market to increase the sale.
Interacting with Marketing persons and customers for conducting field trials.
Supporting Marketing and Customers Technically to solve problems.
Preparing Technical reports every month and presenting to President.
Identify Alternate / Economy Raw material to increase the product contribution.
Identifying ideal usage of Raw material to improve the yield and contribution.
Interacting with Foreign consultants for New Product development.
In-charge of Application development centre and taking care of Internal Testing of new products.
Leading the Joint Development projects with group companies.
Improving the infrastructure of Technical, R&D and Application Development Centre.
Achievements / Projects:
Implemented TPM in new product development and reduced the development time and cost.
Identified alternate and economy source for Vulcanized fiber disc and increased the contribution from 30% to 40%. 
Worked jointly with sister concern and implemented alternate economy AZ40 which increased the contribution from 35% to 45%.
Increased the sale (21% for the year 2014 - 2015) through New product development and establishment in the market
Developed 'Cumi Zing' Fiber disc with new PF resin system to compete in the market which the company was struggling for more than 20 years.
Completed IDC plant commissioning for Cumi Zing fiber disc production to increase the production capacity from 12 lac numbers per annum to 60 lac numbers per annum.
Established 'Cumi Zing' across India in various applications and increased the sale by 50%.
Developed Ceramic Fiber Disc, Aloxide Fiber disc, SiC Fiber disc and Economy fiber disc for metal grinding and wood sanding applications.
Working on Pilot (NPD) plant and R&D facility implementation

Senior Executive - BD & Technical Service
Oct’ 2010 – Nov'2011
Company Profile: Leading polymer manufacturer
Role: Business Development & Technical Services
Job Profile:
Developing New Products as per Customer requirement and developing new applications for the existing products in TPU.
Handling Plastic processing machineries like Extruders, Injection Moulding Machine etc., 
Supporting Marketing Team by suggesting suitable grades for specific applications.
Handling testing equipments like Tensile tester, MFI, Burst pressure tester, Mathis Coater, Compression tester, Dart Impact Tester, Brookfield Viscometer etc., 
Giving technical support for new Business Development as well as to the regular commercial customers.
Completely taking care of ISO and Safety for the Application Development Centre. 

Senior Engineer 
May 2006 – Oct’ 2010
Company Name: Futura Polyesters Limited
New Product Development & Technical Support 
Job Profile:
Product Development 
Responsible for complete developmental cycle, starting form conceptualization, literature searching, formulation, experiments, internal trials, characterization, testing, sample sending for the approval and technical supervision of trial at customers end and to participate in Intellectual Property application.
Development of suitable grades according to customer requirement by molecular / additive level tailoring. 
In charge for Esterification, Poly condensation and Solid state Polymerization Pilot Plant.
Process development and optimization for polymerization of various grades of polyester prior to scaling up.
Scaling up of the products developed in pilot plat with the coordination of main plant production team.
Conducting trials of the developed product at customer end and provides technical support to the customers.
Characterization /Testing / Processing Equipments handled
Characterization  of the polymer alloys/blends to generate comparable data for evaluation
DSC,GC, GMS (Gas Measuring System for CO2 permeability in bottles), MFR, MFI instrument, Hunter  CIE Lab
Comprehensive knowledge of the test protocols for Mechanical Testing, Physical, Electrical, Thermal, Flame retardancy testing according to ASTM, UL etc with respect to testing of plastics.
Haake Rheometer, TGA, UTM, UL 94 Vo apparatus, HDT, VSP, Injection molding of specimens at CIPET Chennai
Berstoff twin screw extruder 25 L/D, Erema single screw extruder.
Technical Support:
Provide customer support and technical issue resolution in person and via E-Mail, phone.
Obtain and evaluate all relevant information to handle inquiries and complaints
Respond promptly to customer inquiries and record details of inquiries, comments, complaints and action taken.


Engineer Trainee 
July 2003 – Nov’ 2003
Company Name: Vinplex India Private Ltd
Job Profile:
Production planning and Process Control for PVC and HDPE pipe extrusion.
Control of production wise Quality and Trouble Shooting.
Maintaining records related to Production.

Future Goals

Growth