Experience

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  India yamaha motor pvt. ltd.

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Industrial trainee

  • Received hands-on training on the various manufacturing/ fabrication and assembly techniques used in manufacturing plants.

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  Ve commercial vehicles ltd.

  May 2017 - Jul 2017

  Product design and development intern

  • Optimized brake air tank volume resulting in 34.2% volume and $14.89 cost savings per vehicle during sustainable innovations challenge initiative led by company to provide better priced products and grow market share.• Engineered brake mountings structural components with Creo and conducted sheet metal forming analysis using Dynaform.• Built VBA macros tool to calculate optimized air tank volume as per vehicle specifications and performance requirements.

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  Maruti suzuki india limited

  Jul 2018 - Jul 2021

  Product design engineer biw

  • Designed and developed novel self-locking collapsible bumper beam structure for Suzuki Alto using UGNX, improving energy absorption to reduce pedestrian crash impact by 30% through non-linear FEA using NASTRAN solver. Validated simulation results through Design of Experiments (DoE) during design and production prototype stages. Indian Patent 202111012512.• Directed the entire product lifecycle of hood member and radiator member subassemblies for Suzuki S-Presso facelift, from initial design stage through pilot testing, mass production prototype trials, and global launch of the model.• Designed and developed front bumper system, impact absorber and Front Skid Plate of Suzuki Wagon R model, selling approximately 212,340 units annually, complaint with External Projections (AIS-120), Low-Speed Crash Test, Pedestrian Protection regulation (AIS100), Wheel Guard Regulation, and IS 12218 (governing approach, departure and ramp angles).• Led cross-functional teams in vendor negotiations and project coordination, ensuring alignment between internal stakeholders and external suppliers by mediating between technical requirements and commercial constraints.• Spearheaded design review sessions, optimizing part manufacturing processes focusing on cost-saving strategies, achieving 16.6% weight reduction and $1.80 million as one-time cost saving and recurring $500k savings in annual production cost.• Evaluated technical bids to assess vendors' design expertise, and compliance with standards.• Performed tolerance stack-up analysis for BIW welding stages and formulated new welding sequence to produce uniform body panel gaps enhancing vehicle’s perceived quality, closely working with marketing team to better address customer needs.• Conducted detailed competitive benchmarking to improve in-house components using competitor design best practices.• Managed team of 5+ CAD engineers ensuring timely engineering drawing release meeting the design release deadlines. Show less

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  Evaluate health

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  Machine learning intern

  • Developed text extraction OCR pipeline for structured text using OpenCV 4 with pre-trained EAST model for text localisation and Tesseract 4 with CRNN-CTC loss network for text recognition from images. Achieved accuracy: 90.4%