Suri Venkatraman

Experience

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  Siemens Healthcare

  Sept 1987 - Aug 1992

  Responsible for Turnkey solutions at SIEMENS India as a Field personnel for site planning, installing, commissioning, customer demonstration and handover of the Imaging systems. Recruit field personnel for servicing and maintaining medical imaging systems. Responsible for maintaining and servicing Radiological imaging systems like X-ray, CT, Nuclear Medicine and MRI systems across the whole Indian peninsula and Nepal.

  • Installation & Field Service Manager

    Jan 1990 - Aug 1992

  • Field Service Engineer

    Sept 1987 - Jan 1990
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  Center for Nuclear Imaging Research (CNIR)

  Sept 1992 - Dec 1994

  Graduate Reserach Assistant - UAB

  -Research Experience with Philips 4.1T MRI and custom RF and Gradient coils for Imaging and Spectroscopic studies.• Designed & developed a dual-tuned Radio frequency (RF) surface coil for MR Cardiac imaging & spectroscopic studies at the Center for Magnetic Resonance research labs at UAB, Birmingham.• Prototyped RF coils for High-Field magnets using novel architecture of TEM (Transverse Electromagnetic) designs.• Circuit modeling using PSPICE and EESOF software application tools. 2D and 3D Electromagnetic field modeling Show less

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  GE Healthcare

  Jan 1995 - Oct 2007

  Systems Engineering - team leader responsible for system integration, delivery of new features and new subsystem development for the Volume CT (Computerized Tomographic) product.• Led the VCT- Cardiac system upgrade project and realized increase in sales revenue by 20%. • Resolved Customer Satisfaction issues, drastically reduced customer complaints by 50% relative to prior years. Implemented CAPA, streamlined SOPs and complaint management process.• Reduced material cost by $1.5M annually thru variable cost productivity programs.• Collaborated with Global Research Center and engineered the DAS resulting in increased detector sample rate at reduced power.• Managed successfully $15M state-of-the-art Global Archival eLibrary project that became the hub for all DHF and engineering design processes and standards. • Increased significantly the productivity of Manufacturing and field service teams through development of DAS diagnostic troubleshooting kit utilizing MATLAB applications.• Increased customer patient throughput over 50%, by optimizing system performance and improved hardware architecture.• Streamlined Patient Workflow operations, introduced new system front-end integrated consoles yielding $5M incremental revenues.• Delivered an innovative and productive application (DMPR) enabling Radiologists to look at images in multi-dimensional planes in real-time gaining diagnostic accuracy and speed. Show less – responsible for supply chain operations for preowned healthcare products having annual turnover of $218M.• Accurately forecasted the product supply and demand resulting in exceeding the OP target by 6%.• Institutionalized operational methods from weekly dashboard to better track the gap between supply and demand.• Reduced Working Capital by $1.0M using LEAN concepts in inventory control. • Volunteered to support to the sourcing team with technical expertise to import and/or sell equipment. Mentored and coached Engineers for creation of the “Early Warning System” tool. Show less - Responsible for creating pre-owned PET & Nuclear Imaging Product portfolios for “Aftermarket Solutions” a refurbishing/remanufacturing unit of GE Medical Systems.• Led product management of the Functional Imaging Products line achieving $2.4M global sales, 9% V’00 and -43%VOP for 2001. Created product catalog structure, managed pricing, produced sales support tools, and developed promotions.• Integrated SMV (a GE acquisition) product line to the pre-owned portfolio and strengthened our product line-up. Shared best practices and operationalized the newly acquired product line.• Implemented World Wide Product Plan, utilized DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) to produce a 3-year roadmap and proposed two NPI (New product Introduction) programs aimed to produce $1.5M in ‘02 growth revenues. Show less Responsible for RF Coil design, Supplier Management and third party coil development for the MRI products.• Patented and developed “Smart Coil Identification for RF Coils” on MR Imaging systems, increased patient safety and serviceability for the devices. US Patent# 6,356,780• Designed and developed indigenous RF Coils for various anatomical regions in MRI Imaging systems increasing by 50% revenue. Qualified third party coils through design collaboration and system integration enabling clinical application growth.• Developed new methodology for E-field measurements in RF Coils and used Six-Sigma tools to analyze and mitigate its effects on surface coils.• Enabled design transfer to Manufacturing for mass production through engineering drawing releases and facilitated validation of manufacturability.Developed testing procedures for RF coil interaction and set specification limits for performance and Safety/Reliability of the design. Show less

  • Lead System Designer-CT Products

    Jan 2003 - Oct 2007

  • Champion - Customer Order Fulfillment

    Jan 2001 - Dec 2003

  • Global Product Manager

    Jan 2000 - Dec 2001

  • Lead Hardware Designer

    Jan 1995 - Dec 1999
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  TomoTherapy

  Oct 2007 - Dec 2008

  Senior Systems Engineer

  Responsible for the CT integration for the LINAC Cancer treatment System.• Led the cross-functional CT integration team in design initiatives and achieved diagnostic level CT image quality for the therapeutic system.• Generated requirements and testing methods for LINAC dose measurement schemes for SIEMENS.• Institutionalized efforts to bring in-house development for critical components of the system.• Reduced material cost by 0.5% through LEAN methods from product re-engineering initiatives resulting in a $1M annual savings. Consolidated use of Nodal designs for different subsystems, eliminated unwanted parts and simplified design.• Resolved customer escalation issues in a timely manner on technical aspects. Established and sustained customer retention through timely and efficient resolution of problems. Show less

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  GE HealthCare

  Jan 2009 - now

  Responsible for Field Install quality and Manufacturing staging quality/productivity. Led 15 member Tiger Team on Manufacturing System Staging quality improvements. Proactive Solutions to MR Install Base to improve Customer Uptime and Satisfaction. Minimize Unplanned Service dispatches and MFR. Engineering project leader for TESLA program, minimizing field install failures and reduce install time and improve field and factory productivity. Engineer complete staging activities for MFG and design early problem identification and rectification.• Reduced Failure Rate in the Customer Field during installation by 75% of parts. • Reduced Field applied/install time by 50% basically brought 4 weeks of install to 2 weeks by performing High level assembly and pre-install at the plant and complete staging of parts and enhanced system testing. • Delivered high quality products and lowered customer field escalations by 20%. • Created Lean and sub-assembly kitting process to minimize missing in shipment and improve field productivity. • Instituted operating mechanisms to continuously improve NPI on product defects and quality improvement opportunities. Show less Primary focus on Safety and Risk Management for MR products including PET/MR systems.Mentor and Lead cross-functional global team on designing safe products and manage risks on a strategic and tactical basis.Responsible for the Risk Assessment and Control, Cause/Mitigations and Residual Risk Management. Manage NPI and Install Base product issues and decide cross-functionally for system ALARP status. • Launched state-of-the-art PETMR product. Develop and Institutionalize complete safety and risk management process for the PETMR product lines. Trained 2 team members during development. • Led the Install base for MR issues and New Product Introduction Safety assessment on technical aspects. Show less -Trimodality -Design and implementation to allow customers to meet a critical workflow need for the Tri-modality MR-PET/CT program.-Compare PETCT sudy and MR study to characterize attenuation and generate maps for various anatomies with multiple sequences.Showed great initiative, external focus and courage in innovating the trimodality product with air hockey design for easy transportation of patients across PET/CT and MR product.Managed Trimodality MR-PET/CT product to allow customers to meet critical workflow and generate attenuation map for PETMR products. • Designed, Developed and Delivered a patient interface mechanism between PET/CT and MR products for fused images for better diagnostic quality. Blended deep understanding of metabolic function with a view of anatomy high in spatial resolution and contrast. Show less

  • Senior Quality Manager

    Jan 2021 - now

  • Quality Engineering Leader

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2021

  • TESLA Senior Project Leader

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Safety and Risk Management Leader

    Dec 2009 - Dec 2015

  • Lead System Designer - Trimodality Products

    Jan 2009 - Dec 2011