RANJITH BALAKRISHNAN

Experience

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  Gas Turbine Research Establishment, DRDO,

  Apr 2003 - Jul 2004

  Senior Package Engineer
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  Quest Global

  Jul 2004 - Jan 2005

  Project Engineer
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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Feb 2005 - now

  Lead a motivated team of MultiCAD developers, working towards achieving customer requirements in developing custom tools / utilities in NX for one of the major client based out of US. Primary responsibility involves,• Worked closely with Product Owners to prioritize the release backlog items• Create Sprint plan using Velocity planning and create tasks for the sprint backlog items• Facilitate daily standup meetings, Sprint Planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospective• Gather the customer requirements through telephonic, and face-to-face meetings, check the feasibility of the requirements, and give time and effort estimates for the Software Development Process. • Continually work on enhancing the existing custom tools, and developing new tools, processes, and practices as periodic value-adds to the customers. • Owning the release related activities, consolidating the configuration and code changes by various developers. • Preparation of Functional, Technical and User-help Documents.• Interacting with other Engineering IT Teams, during various phases of requirement gathering, design, development, testing and release phases. Suggesting alternate design approaches, and resolving bottlenecks through Brainstorming sessions. Show less Primary role working for the L3 Support team involved,  Root Cause Analysis of frequently occurring Issues in Production Environment for NX, Teamcenter & TcVis Issue de-bugging & replication in Non-Production Environments. Issue validation in latest Patch for NX and TcVis. Working closely with SIEMENS GTAC support team for few of the NX, TCE and TcVis related issues.Worked mainly on NX9 / NX11, Teamcenter10 / Teamcenter 11, and TcVis11 suite of applications.Also a member of the GTAC NX Design Discussion Forum.Achieved ITIL - Foundation Examination certificate from AXELOS Global Best Practice. Show less Worked as a Production Support Lead (L1/L2 Support) for Applied Materials with a team of 12~14 associates supporting a worldwide user base (24/5). Was primarily involved in supporting NX 7.5 and Teamcenter 8 application related issues along with few NX Custom Tools as well. Involved in, Installation and trouble shooting with Teamcenter suite of Products, guiding team members on the best known methods (BKM’s) for trouble shooting, and conducting training sessions on the product for team members. Was also involved in performing Application Health Checks for all the weekend releases, to ensure smooth functioning of all day to day activities of the end user. Excellent written and Verbal communication skills and good problem solving skills which are key as part of the Production Support activities. Was also responsible for maintaining the customer defined SLA to achieve the desired customer satisfaction. Was also involved in the monthly Metrics preparation for the customer's review. Show less Was primarily responsible for providing end to end training sessions in NX4 for the existing amateur NX4 / AutoCAD users at Bethlehem, PA (For the Applied Technologies Div) to scale them up to start using the NX4 application. Was also identified as the specialist for reverse engineering using a portable CMM machine, and later converting the point data into a CAD data using UG NX4.Was involved in the revamping of old turbo machinery components into CAD data by performing reverse engineering, for it to be re-designed and revamped into a new compressor, thereby saving a lot of time on the design cycle and supporting the customer’s revamp team in design / after-market team in sales. Show less Worked primarily on the Legacy data conversion of 2D Drawings into 3D Models using UGNX4 and Teamcenter V9.1.3.0 Applications with new detailed drawings as per the customer specifications and standards for Dresser-Rand (Turbo Products Div) for Centrifugal Compressors and Steam Turbines. Worked extensively on all the modules / applications in UG NX4. (Modeling, Surfacing, Drafting, Assembly, Sheet metal).Was also responsible for Co-ordination of work between Onsite and offshore and ensure timely & good quality deliverables in the form of 3D Models & associated 2D Drawings. Was also responsible for conducting training sessions on the UG NX4 software and Dresser-Rand product for new team members. Show less

  • Consultant

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Associate Consultant

    May 2017 - Jan 2022

  • Associate Consultant

    Aug 2014 - Apr 2017

  • Assistant Consultant

    Jan 2011 - Jul 2014

  • IT Analyst

    Feb 2008 - Dec 2010

  • IT Analyst

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  • IT Analyst

    Nov 2006 - Jan 2007

  • IT Analyst

    Aug 2005 - Nov 2006

  • Assistant System Engineer

    Feb 2005 - Aug 2005