Projects completed during Graduate School (2008 - 2014)
2005 to 2008: General Manager, Engineering Solutions, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Technology development and management, project supervision, customer feedback and relationship management, and business development.
2003 to 2005: Assistant General Manager, Engineering Solutions, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Manage project requirements including review of system specifications with customers, estimating project timelines and costs, technical development, and project delivery.
2001 to 2003: Systems Engineer, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Development of customized analog and digital data acquisition systems for PC based control.
2005 to 2008: General Manager, Engineering Solutions, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Technology development and management, project supervision, customer feedback and relationship management, and business development.
- Led a team that developed the pre-processor and post-processor for Tire Noise Simulation Software. Implemented high-speed parsing and packaging of multi-million-point arrays. Software allows tire noise estimates at the design stage, thereby significantly cutting prototyping cost, meet noise regulations, and provide competitive advantage by reducing design cycle duration.
- Led a team that developed software to implement Design of Experiments (DOE) based waveform analysis approach for locating defects in tire building process by using data from tire uniformity machine.
- Supervised design and development of software for gear “health” monitoring system for detection, identification and quantification of gear defects such as eccentricity, misalignment, backlash, broken tooth, and imbalance. This product won an award at the National Instruments India annual user conference in 2005.
- Conducted Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) studies, for a pharmaceutical company, which involved a diverse group of stakeholders such as design, quality, production, finance, and marketing.
- Expanded business in overseas markets, specifically, sold the tire noise simulation software and coordinated software supply and technical support for a tire manufacturer in Malaysia.
- Negotiated exclusive India representation for bolted joint analysis software from a Lancashire, UK based company.
2003 to 2005: Assistant General Manager, Engineering Solutions, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Manage project requirements including review of system specifications with customers, estimating project timelines and costs, technical development, and project delivery.
- Led a team in the development of Tire Extruded Rubber Offline Profilometer. Specs: PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) bus architecture, dual laser non-contact measurement, real-time SQL Server data storage, 25-micron accuracy along gauge, and 10-micron accuracy along length. The product helped improve accuracy of extrusion die, reduce rubber waste, and reduce tire rejection at tire building stage. Product was delivered at 50% cost of similar imported system and achieved a return on investment in six months.
- Formulated a software coding model that improved hardware resource utilization, lean and efficient programming, and maintainable project structures.
- Established practices to bring fresh software development recruits to full productivity on live projects.
- Negotiated India representation for contact pressure imaging systems from a leading technology company based in Alberta, Canada.
2001 to 2003: Systems Engineer, QATSPL, India
Responsibilities: Development of customized analog and digital data acquisition systems for PC based control.
- Implemented real-time data encapsulation and data storage schemes for high speed and long duration computer-controlled data acquisition systems.
- Designed and developed an automotive clutch Bearing Endurance Testing System. Integrated a third-party test rig with off-the-shelf electronics and custom software code. Post-processing of measurement data and statistical analysis helped the customer find out design robustness and identify causes of typical failure modes.
- Designed and developed a race dimensional measurement system for bearings. Recycled sensors and power supply from the existing manual measurement setup. Implemented software-based noise filtering routines to handle high sensitivity and micron level precision measurements. The system allowed the user to archive full test data and perform statistical analysis. Achieved over 25% reduction in the testing time over existing system.
- Established a business channel with a noise and vibration control company based in Illinois, USA to assist a leading research organization in India get dynamic material property characterization of their composite materials as per SAE J-1637 (Oberst Bar) standard.