Veerendra Ticam

Experience

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  Zenith Meta Plast Private Limited

  Jun 2003 - Jun 2004

  Assistant Manager - Tool-room & Development

  Design and Development work done for VIP,ABB, Samsonite & KORES(writing instru)

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  Supreme Technologies

  Jul 2004 - Nov 2007

  Sr.Design Engineer (Product design/Mold/Tool devopment)

  Reverse Engineering Projects done for Automotive and General engineering.

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  Tooltech Global Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

  Dec 2007 - Dec 2012

  Team Lead - Product Design & Development,Toolings

  → Design and Development work done for AMC Motors (Finland), SILA (Italy, Tata Motors)

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  Mahindra Engineering

  Jan 2013 - Sept 2013

  Project Lead
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  Bentley Motors

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2017

  Manufacturing feasibilty & Process Engineer

  - Development Engineer for Product development/Manufacturing Feasibility, Car Assembly Process & Virtual Car build in Process planning Team. - Co-ordination between Design Engineering team & Manufacturing/assembly/ production.

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  Tech Mahindra

  Aug 2017 - Feb 2019

  Project Lead( Automotive Product design & Dev,Interiors, Plastics & sheet-metal)

  - Design & development of Door Trim assembly for, Skoda India2.0 program. - Teardown & benchmarking project of best seller Indian automotive car for European client, providing them all the inputs such as benchmarking, design recommendations inputs with manufacturing/ cost saving & process optimization inputs.

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  LS Automotive

  Mar 2019 - Jun 2022

  R&D Manager(Product Lifecyle Management/NPD)

  - LS Automotive is leading Korean MNC & Tier-1 supplier for automotive interiors Switches. -Project management, managing customer milestones, deliveries phase wise from Project kick-off to SOP.- Leading a team of 10 engineers from design to development till SOP support.- Work starts after receiving RFQ, making technical reports inline support from Korean HO team, TRSO, CTR sign off and Design and development activities start after project kick-off- Master plan follows up from Project management team, Design micro plan.- Product 3d design, weekly Design reviews with customer, 2d assembly drawing submission.- DFMEA, Child parts 2d design & supplier DFM, customer review, Tool kick-off, project handover for VD team.- Proto samples submission, TO, TI samples follow up according to customer milestones.- All ECNs/ECRNs internal or from customer, Quality audits & R&D support to production.- Weekly meetings with Team & other departments (Project Management, Vendor Development (SCM), and Quality) for meeting the milestones as per Master product development plan to meet the customer milestones.- Reporting the project development status to Management & Head office in Korea.- Yearly R&D budget Planning with finance team, such as R&D cost (including DVP test, man-hours, software licenses, Tooling /design improvement budget, travel India & abroad, T0/T1samples costs, etc.) Show less

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  Kineco Limited - World of Composites

  Jun 2022 - now

  Head R&D (Product Lifecyle Management/NPD)

  - An Indian organization working in different verticals in Aerospace (JV), Defense, Railways & Industrial for Indian & international clients.- Leading R&D Department for Railways division with Team of 6 design Engineers & 2 assistant Managers.- Products include Electro-mechanical such as Vacuum Pressure Toilets (Patented), Automatic Sliding Door Mechanism (Straight & Curved- PRMs), Baby Nappy Change Table (with Patented mechanism), Plug & Slide Door (To be Patented/in Design) – Software Used CATIA V5 & SOLIDWORKS.- Work Scope includes core R&D from Scratch Design to Proto Development in-line guidance of European Experienced Design Advisors.- The Product Life cycle includes – Design 2d/3d (CAE Analysis), Project Estimation, Supplier Selection, Budget Approval from Management, Outsourcing/Procurement & Follow up (Vendor Development), Proto Assembly in -house in R&D, Product Functional check, in-house Validation, after approved, handover to Engineering Department with Design/Drawings/Manuals/Assembly sequence Process/electrical Layout etc.- Project Management, Team Management, Timeline management of Projects in line with Management Targets.- Bi-weekly R&D Projects review with Management for Timeline, Budget Planning, Validation Timeline. - Planning & Implementation of completed Product display for the international Exhibitions (Ex- INNOTRANS). Show less