Prabhakaran (Karan) Raghavan

Experience

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  Energy Economy & Environmental Consultant

  Jan 2002 - Mar 2004

  Project Engineer

   Worked with DFID to test Enpower software for Indian Scenario for better energy alternative Worked with World Bank and National Productivity Council in facilitating, sharing and implement good practice among industries such as bulk drug, formulation & electroplating  Performed Energy Audits and prepared process improvement proposal through performance contracting with Cipla Pharmaceutical, Indo National Ltd & TPL Worked with GTZ and KSPCB in analysing Hazardous waste generation across industry and region in Karnataka. Team member and Internal auditor in implementing ISO 9001:2000 Show less

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  AVEVA

  Apr 2004 - Jan 2014

  Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

   Technical lead for Product Quality Assurance Team handling 5 different groups and products distributed globally (include service provider).  Lead auditor, plan and performed close to 250+ project stage audits/assessments to assure conformance to release criteria, group level standard and customer requirements. Additionally to improve group & organizational standard for an effective corrective action Work with project team in providing process consultation and implementing improvement proposal. Performed verification audits to all products before undergoing various 3rd party certification Developed audit procedure, plan, checklist, training modules to improve the productivity of new QA resources and toward harmonization Performed gap analysis, synchronized audit database to serve as an common framework to support organizational dashboard in an efficient way Integrated CMMI concepts in audit metrics to understand process maturity, OTD and automated these in sharepoint site that are getting presented to senior management  Performed intergroup metric gap analysis, followed by peer/industry based bench marking to design organizational level product/process metrics framework and estimate internal standard Studied and performed operational gap for all development lifecycles transition using simulation and FMEA technique.  Performed root cause analysis for high incoming customer incident rate and proposed mitigation plan to top management Introduced collaborative maturity model for QA function to plan and monitor QA activity for each group Evaluated service partner quality program and defined the entry criteria to complement Invensys process framework and to meet customer requirementsPerformed process risk analysis based on supplier and in house process to have an effective mitigation plan, while outsourcing work to service provider  Performed gap analysis in integrating nuclear standard within existing organizational process assets Show less

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  Schneider Electric

  Jan 2014 - now

  • Manager - Technical Quality Projects

    Apr 2016 - now

  • Principal Software Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Mar 2016