Engineering professional seeking a challenging and rewarding upper level position in a growth-oriented organization, which offers diverse job responsibility in mechanical engineering and will fully utilize both my technical and managerial abilities.
Core Competencies
Engineering Design & Product Development
Oil & Gas Experience
Research & Development
Engineering Reports & Documentation
Project Life Cycle Management
Team Training & Mentoring
Hardware & Software Development
Technical Writing
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Six Sigma Green Belt
Laboratory Qualification Testing
Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)
Professional Experience
- Design and development of API 6A Surface Safety Actuators for the Wellhead & Christmas tree equipment.
- Design and development of API 5DP Drill Pipe, Drill Pipe body, tool joints & API 7 Heavy Weight Drill Pipe.
- Design and development of laboratory and production-scale lyophilizer for peptides.
- Product line extensions for longer life, more reliability and cost effectiveness.
- Extensive training on metallurgy, NACE, & corrosion mechanisms.
- Managing, monitoring, and coordinating all aspects of the project to meet the schedule, cost and profit of the project.
- Development and implementation of project management tools.
- SWOT Analysis, Risk Identification and Optimization & Iterative methods.
- Six Sigma Green Belt I, II & III course certification.
- Writing of technical report, conference publications, business correspondence, test procedures and presentations.
Education
Master of Science: (Aerospace Engineering)
Certificate in Business, Mays Business School, TAMU Graduated: Aug 2005
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Bachelor of Engineering: (Mechanical Engineering)
University of Pune, Pune, India. Graduated: June 2000
Skills
- Analytical Software: COSMOSWorks (FEA), FloWorks (CFD), ANSYS 5.4 (FEA)
- 3D Modeling: Inventor, SolidWorks
- Mathematical Tools: MathCAD, MATLAB, SPSS, MS Access, MS Excel
- Miscellaneous: SAP, MS Project, LabView, MS Office Suite
Career History
Engineer III at Cameron International, Houston, TX (08/08 to date)
- Designed surface safety actuators (hydraulic & pneumatic) for customers such as BP, Exxon, TOTAL, FMC, Shell & Vetco Gray.
- Investigated and corrected the field performance reports related to the product failures.
- Evaluated and dispositioned the non-confirming components in production.
- Developed new features in limit switch sensing mechanism for the hydraulic actuator product line.
- Managed Green Belt projects and supported the master black-belt in implementation of lean Six Sigma in the plant.
Project Engineer at Grant Prideco, Houston, TX (11/06 to 08/08)
- Conducted various fatigue tests such as cantilever fatigue, combined load, torsion to failure, thermal loads on drill pipe and rotary shouldered connections.
- Coordinated with a team of engineers in the design and development of proprietary new rotary shouldered connections.
- Analyzed the test data and compiled technical reports and presentations for internal and external customers.
Mechanical Design & Development Engineer at Sigma Genosys, Woodlands, TX (10/05 to 11/06)
- Conceptualized, Optimized & implemented a design Methodology for automation of different manufacturing processes of DNA, RNA & Peptides.
- Prototyped and designed Experiments for different conceptual designs and processes
- Strategized and implemented Project life cycle management process.
Mechanical Engineer at TATA Motors, Pune, India (07/’00 to 07/’01)
- Exposed to various facets of design and manufacturing operations of the passenger car, TATA Indica and TATA’s other range of heavy commercial vehicles and Light commercial vehicles.
- Prepared the scheduling agreements for the suppliers and generating inventory control data using SAP for the Materials Department.
Projects
Six Sigma Green Belt Projects (01/09 to 06/10)
- Analyzed the existing actuator designs with faulty limit switch sensing mechanism.
- Proposed a better and cost effective design to correct the faulty limit switch sensing problem.
- Performed the root cause analysis on the slow moving inventory and proposed solutions for better utilization of the inventory.
Design of a Down-the-Hole(DTH) Percussion Drill bit ( 09/’04 to 12/’04)
- Designed the drill bit that can efficiently pulverize rock; provides increased drill bit life and increased speed.
- Calculated the maximum energy that hammer, drill bit face can withstand.
- Calculated drill feed rate, maximum torque that can be applied on drill bit.
- Used SolidWorks to create 3D models and 2D drawings, COSMOSWorks for FEA analysis and FloWorks for Flow visualization, extensively for simulations.
Testing and Evaluation of different coatings to improve the performance c...
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