• Gender: Male
• Age: 61
• Designation: Vice President
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 38.6 Year(s)

Education

M.E. (Plastics) From U.D.C.T., Mumbai in 1990 With 72.40%

B.E. (Prod.) From  V.J.T.I. Mumbai in 1986 With 64%

H.S.C. From Pune Board in 1982 With 85.67%

S.S.C From Pune Board in 1980 With 43%

Skill Sets

Product Design, R & D
Tooling, Jigs & Fixtures Design
Mould & Die Design of plastic and sheet metal components
Design of Hydraulic & Pneumatic Controls, PLC, Automation
Capability to convert any idea into machine / equipment, SPM
Innovation
Estimation, Costing & Cost Control
Budgetory Control
Factory Management
Plant Efficiency & Productivity Improvement
Maintenance Management
Plastic Product Development, Estimation & Costing, Tooling Design, Production by Injection, Blow Moulding & Extrusion with Quality Control
Quality Management Systems

Work Experience

Asst. Vice President 
Since July 2014 to Jan 2015
Company Profile:  provider of Composite Structures to India's DRDO and Defence Agencies
Job Profile:
Looked after documentation of mfg. engg., RFQ Estimations, Tooling design with a team of 10 engineers.

In charge of Tool Design 
Feb. 2012 to April, 2014
Company Profile: manufactures and develops aerospace and defense equipments, which includes precision machinery, embedded systems, etc
Job Profile:
required for aerospace and defence Products. Also looking after Product Development, Design, Design Calculations, Testing, Validation and estimation of projects for aerospace & defence and their tender documents.

Corporate Production Head cum R & D In charge
Sept. 2010 to Jan. 2012
Company Name: Samruddhi Industries Ltd, 
Job Profile:
Designed and manufactured plastic items, sheet metal components and their tooling. Was monitoring production, quality control of Plastic items and maintenance of 90 machines and 250 moulds (Injection & Blow Moulding) at their all four plants all over India.

Chief Manager – Engg
July 2007 to Aug. 2010
Company Name: Walchandnagar Industries Ltd
Job Profile:
Looked after design of Special Products of national importance in Aero Space, Nuclear Power Plants and Defence including design calculations, Testing & Design of Tooling, Jigs & Fixtures required for mfg and testing them for cliets - BARC, ATVP, NPCIL, R & DE, MDL etc with a design team of 25 people.

Asst Professor (Mechanical Engg)
July 2005 to Jun 2007
Company Name: VP’s College of Engineering
Job Profile:
Theory lectures and practicals to Mechanical Engineering students. Final year project guidance to Mechanical Engineering students with additional charge of Training & Placement Officer. Placed 160 students out of 240 in a year as record placement.

Asst Professor (Mechanical Engg)
July 2004 to Jun 2005
Company Name: SVERI’s College of Engineering
Job Profile:
Theory lectures and practicals to Mechanical & Procuction Engineering students. Final year project guidance to Mechanical Engineering students.

Manager - Technical
Mar 2001 to Apr 2004
Company Name: K P Machine Craft
Job Profile: 
Designed & Manufactured 6 types of Plastic Processing Machines as per the customer’s requirement. Manufactured machines with PLC control in Injection and Blow Moulding types.

Manager - Technical
Feb 1998 to Feb 2001
Company Name: S D Engineering & Plastic Works, 
Job Profile:
Development of 28 nos. plastic Auto Parts used in Two & Three Wheelers including their tooling development. Developed home moulding & other Plastic processing machines with PLC control. Developed Rabbit type fast Injection Moulding machine.

Director – Technical
Aug 1993 to Jan 1998
Company Name: Galore Plastics Pvt. Ltd
Job Profile:
Responsible for all the departments incl. design and over all working of the unit mfg Plastic Processing Machines of all types – Injection, Blow, Extrusion and Compression Moulding with a team of 60 people.

Production Manager
May 1990 to July 1993
Company Name: Niranjan Plastics
Job Profile:
Production of Injection, Blow Moulding & Extrusion Machines with complete responsibility of production, sub-contracting, quality control with the help of a team of 30 people.

Development Engineer
Sept 1988 to April 1990
Company Name: GENELEC Ltd
Job Profile:
Development of Plastic parts to replace costly parts in conventional materials of around 350 nos Lighting Fittings. Replaced 12% parts of conventional materials (Aluminium, Brass, sheet metal etc) by plastics.

Vendor Development Engineer
Aug 1986 to Aug 1988
Company Name: IBEL Machines Ltd.
Job Profile:
Indigenization of Imported Machine Components in phased manufacturing programme for automatic plain paper copiers. Indigenised 21 % components in two years.

Research Work: 
Development of Import Substitutes:
Polynet Extrusion Plant to manufacture polynets required for packing of fruits, air fresheners etc. first time in India. Introduced the Polynet for packing of fruit Ber and its marketing. 
Teleclimber, Telescope Machines required for TV Studio Lighting as an assignment for M/s. Canara Lighting Industries Ltd., Thane
Circlite Light fitting plastic parts as an assignment for M/s. Wipro Lighting Ltd.,Mumbai.
Coating machine for manufacturing photo-sensitive film required for image developing in screen printing . It is an import substitute for USA’s chromalene film.
Buffing machine for super finishing of a plastic float used in Malaria parasite detection kit as an import substitute.

Other Products Development:
Battery operated Bicycle named as ‘ E – bike’ having number of            
advantages over the conventional bicycle and mopeds. This E-Bike was selected for exhibition at “Innovations 2007” organized by IIT Bombay Alumni Association – Pune Chapter and TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). The work on other battery-operated vehicles is in progress.

Small Agricultural Implements:
Presently working on development of   small agricultural implements like mini-tiller, weed cutter, manned plough, mini-excavator   etc. for small farmers.


Power Generating Equipments:
Presently working on development of Tesla Turbine for power generation on steam generated from solar power and small wind turbines for generating power required for small applications and development of solar energy related equipments like parabolic dish type solar cooker, sterling engine working on solar energy. 

Patents Pending:
Transmission Mechanism of E-Bike. (Applied)  
Dual Conical Roller
Mechanism in Roti Maker. (Application In Process) Tyre Air Pressure Indicator. (Application In Process)

Professional Qualifications / Skill Enhancements / Training:
In-plant Training
6 months
Company Name: XLO Machine Tools Ltd., Thane

Auto-CAD
1 year
Company Name: Ashwath Computers, Solapur

Lead Auditor ISO 9001
4 Days
Company Name: Walchandnagar Industries Ltd,

Management Tools
8 Days
Company Name: Walchandnagar Industries Ltd,

Professional Summary:
A professional with over 26 years of experience in Design, Tool Design, Research & Development in Special Purpose Machines, Aerospace, Defence and Production of Special Purpose Machines, Plastic moulded components, Tooling design for machining, welding fixtures, forming of plates, sheet metal, plastic components, sourcing of raw materials, vendor development, estimation of components / projects for tendering, overall plant management for profit orientation as a profit centre to achieve goals set by the organisation. 
Proven experience of product development in which selection of materials, design and design calculations, testing, validation and interaction with customer for answering his queries and leading a design team as Design Head for design and R & D activities to achieve targets.
Am thorough in production processes. Can use all mechanical engineering processes while manufacturing components of machines and estimate the costing of processes.
Have very good knowledge of plastic materials and processing of plastic materials and product development in plastics. Can use alternative plastic materials in place of conventional materials and reduce cost or improve performance of any equipment.
Proven experience in design, manufacturing and maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic circuits for automation of machines using electric or PLC controls.
Proven experience in estimation of components / projects, costing & cost control with budgetary control and resource management, sourcing materials, suppliers and vendor development.
In-depth exposures to wide spectrum of functions, ability to manage profit centre operations, formulate strategies to achieve organizational targets and set standards for operations as Plant Head. 
Well versed with 5S, Kaizen and ISO 9001, AS 9100 and I am internal auditor for last six years.
Well versed with softwares like MS Project, AutoCAD, MS Office etc.