TVS Motor Co. Ltd., Hosur (TN)

3 year 1 month

Project design Engineer

July, 2010–August, 2013

•Market research and NPD design process for TVS Jupiter & Zest. Thus, achieved product development timeline reduction from 3 years to 2 years
•Designing, DFMEA, DVP planning & implementation and thus Achieved 100% timeline compliance, an improvement of 30% on existing production project deliveries.
•Manage Design changes: Solved numerous Field problems, VE / Customer feedback (Jupiter Customer satisfaction- highest- JD Power Survey)

 

Bajaj Auto Ltd., Akurdi (Pune

7 years 8 months

 Manager- Design Engineering

August, 2013– April, 2021

•Successfully transitioned 3 new (Chetak, New Duke & Dominar) & numerous refresh R&D projects from concept to production with increased product validation accuracy by 10%

•Activities- Generating design concepts & DIS, Benchmarking, concept design management, Initial Failure Analysis and respective design optimization following with best practices and GTS standards & guidelines, including ergonomics standards, CAE, DFMEA & DVP planning

•Cross team handling & collaboration for Quality & Production management

•Customer complaint for seat comfort resolution in New Duke & Dominar ergonomic improvement

•Converting Market sentiments regarding high vibration in Bajaj Vehicle into actionable items and thus resulting in 40% increase in customer satisfaction

•Project planning via resource management (Project timeline reduction by 20%) Using standardization of design verification process & stringent PPAP tools implementation

•Project specific team handling of 4-10 members based on work content and their cross-training