Engineer Manufacturing

Santhosh Balasubramanian

abhtvr@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 217-***-****

Address:**** ******* ****** ****, ** 94598

Career Goal: To become a successful Engineering Manager, and eventually

become a Director of the Engineering Department and deliver new Products

and services in time and with quality.

Education:

Masters in Manufacturing Engineering Systems(New Product Development &

Product Management), Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL-USA (AUG

2005- JULY 2006). WEBSITE:www.wiu.edu

GPA-3.6

Department Topper

Outstanding Graduate Student Award of the year 2005-2006

Outstanding CAD Educator.

Bachelors in Engineering (Production Engineering, Mechanical &

Electronics/ Electrical engg), Government College of Technology, India

(AUG 2000- MAY 2004). WEBSITE: http://www.gct.ac.in/

GPA- 3.8

Experience:

I have more than 4 years of Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

Experience

Agilent Technologies (Formerly Varian Inc) Advanced Manufacturing

Engineer, CA,USA (OCT '06 - PRESENTLY WORKING)

Responsibilities in more detail: Product Manufacturing Engineer for MRI

front End Product/Console. Come up with better Product Structure,

Interconnect drawings, improve the installation and service of the product.

1.Responsible for reviewing drawings, 3D model from R&D department and

release them for production. Responsible to transition a product from R&D

-> Prototype->Pilot-> Production. This involves using drafting Packages

like AutoCAD, Inventor, Solidworks. This involves BOM(Bill of Materials),

Complete Assembly Packages 2.Responsible to maintain the product in

production till the production cycle ends for the specific product.

3.Responsible for the cost reduction of the inventory in the production

floor.

4. Responsible for ECO (Engineering Change Orders), NCR (Non Conformance

Reports), ER(Engineering Releases), Procurement, Material Management in the

production floor, Engineering Services( record all the assembly

procedures).

5.Responsible for CE /Safety testing coordination. Responsible for solving

Engineering problems on the production floor along with R&D.

6.Maintain Production Line, support supplier management. Have Managed

Projects to release products, Manage production line, Manage quality

control.

7. Responsible for releasing PCB's and establishing Functional test

Fixtures for Boards.

8. Responsible to establish functional tests and fixtures for Analytical

Instruments.

9. Prepare Test Procedure for Power Supplies, Amplifiers (Gradient

Amplifiers, Power RF Amplifiers), Transformers, Cables . Design LMR 240,

LMR 400 cables for reduced cable transmit loss. Very Familiar RF amplifiers

- CPC amplifiers, Herley AMT amplifiers. Gradient Amplifiers- Copley

Control, IECO .

10. Prepare working and assembly procedure for Probes(MRI, coils).

11. Use SQC / SPC techniques and Fish Bone diagram techniques to find root

cause quality issues of the product and get them fixed as soon as possible.

12. Use Lean Techniques like Six Sigma to keep the quality of the incoming

materials( Factory). 13.Responsible for CE(Compliance Engineering/UL

Electrical Standards) /Safety testing coordination 14.Create and maintain

Assembly Manual and Documentation for the New Products Introductions(NPI)

15. Board release to the Supplier and work with Board Manufacturer for

debugging Part issues, ROHS issues, Trace Issues, etc. This involves using

PCB express software. 16. Support Installation of the Product,track

Product Installation and Solve installation issues. Support Service of the

installed product. 17. Prepare Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics

interconnects(Systems Level, Sub Unit level, Installation Level) 18. Create

Bay Maps and product configurations. I have created detailed Product

configurations for the MRI product that's used by Manufacturing, R&D,

Sales, Scheduling. 19. Cable Designing for the Product release. I use

Solid works/ CAD package to create Cables, pin outs, special testes to be

conducted to check the durability of the cable, frame out System level

cable tests, get special tools made for Crimping, Pin installations etc.

20. Supplier Management is also a very important part of my responsibility.

I have interacted and worked with more than a dozen of suppliers( Machine

Parts, Sheet Metal, Cables, Amplifiers, Transformers, Boards, tool and

fixtures designers). I have also worked with suppliers (in China,

Singapore) to outsource some less complicated Sub assemblies and maintain

those units.

Specific Bullet Points about achievements:

. FTMS Product Line (Fourier Transform Mass Spec) Product : Once Varian Inc

bought a new company which was doing Research and Manufacturing FTMS

products, I took the responsibility to understand the product, improve

the product and align to the Varian Product standards. I implemented New

Product process, Assembly,Installation and service manuals. We were able

to ship more than 20 instruments within 1 year.

. MRI Product, Preclinical/Animal Imaging Systems (Custom Solutions): Iam

currently working in the MRI product, where we take a customer order,

sell them Standard Animal imaging systems or prepare custom solutions for

them. I have successfully released new family MRI Probes and have

significantly improved the quality of the MRI probes. I have introduced

new Gradient Amplifiers, Power Supplies and Cables. I got a new PRODUCT

STRUCTURE prepared for the product and it is used by Marketing,

installations, engineering and Service departments. I have improved the

installation manual. I have Service Kits prepared for the Service folks.

Iam currently working on a lot of new products and I have implemented NEW

PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE process. This has significantly helped us to release

new products faster and efficient. We have shipped more than 10 newly

released probes and we have gotten very good feedback from the customers.

Awards:

* Agilent Valuable Employee Award - 2010 Year.

* Employee Appreciation Reward - (given by the MRI R&D team).

Manufacturing Engineer Intern - Methode Electronics Inc., IL, USA (May

'06 - Aug '06)

Description of work: Rework and testing of PCB, Production Planning and

Control, Work Cell Lay out designing, SAP integrated Manufacturing,

Assembly drawings, reviewing of drawings to release to production floor,

introducing quality control steps in manufacturing, documentation of new

processes and new products. I used PCB design tool( PCB Express) to clean

and improve the PCB designs. The main project that I worked on was to

review the PCB manufacturing process, Rework process and come up with an

implementation plan to reduce root cause problem and improve the yield rate

of the Boards. The final result of the project was that the boards had

Trace issues and need to change the locations of some board parts to

reduce noise that was causing the failure of boards. I also found that the

rework did not address the actual issue. When we implemented the correction

to the boards we reduced the failure rate of more than 4 different type of

boards by 80%. I also improved the Manufacturing process by implementing

cable modifications and brought in new suppliers.

Graduate Assistant - Department of Engineering Technology, Western

Illinois University, Macomb, IL, USA (Aug '05- May '06)

Description of Work: Responsible of teaching AUTOCAD 2D, 3D, Solid works,

SAP integrated Manufacturing, Poka Yoke, and Production Planning, Work Flow

Charts for Sub assemblies, Top - Down assemblies, . Work for the department

project "Agent Based Supply Chain Management".

Skills:

New Product Introduction (NPI)/ Product Life Cycle Process

SPC (Statistical Process Control) and Operation Sequencing

SQC (Statistical Quality Control)

DOE (Design of Experiments)

Lean Manufacturing

MRP and MRPII

CRP

Plant Layouts

Integrating Process Control with Manufacturing and quality

New Tooling design for reducing manufacturing lead time.

Supplier Management in the Manufacturing Environment.

Electro-Mechanics

Thermodynamics

DFM (Design for Manufacturing) concepts.

Assembly Flow charts

Product transition from R&D to Production.

Production Cost Control and labor charge accounting.

PRO-E (WILD FIRE MODULE)

AUTOCAD, SOLIDWORKS,INVENTOR (Design Modules)

Theory of operations

Fish Bone diagrams and Histograms

Calculations of Time standards for Sub assemblies and Final

Assemblies.

Cost Reduction strategies in the production environment.

Supplier Chain Management

Assembly Manuals and Assembly Procedures.

Project Management

PCB Express (for designing Boards)

REFERENCE:

1. Dr.Ralf Dirksen (Professor, Engineering Technology Department, WIU)

Email: abhtvr@r.postjobfree.com

2. Dr.Hunter (Professor, Engineering Technology Department, WIU)

Email:abhtvr@r.postjobfree.com

3. Mr.Scott Darrow, Manuafcturing Engineer,Methode Eectronics Inc,

Golden, IL, Phone:217-***-**** (EXT:34062)

Email:abhtvr@r.postjobfree.com

4. Government College of Technology

Address:

Coimbatore City 641013,

Tamil Nadu State,

Phone: 91-422-*******

Email:abhtvr@r.postjobfree.com

Website: http://www.gct.ac.in/

5. Methode Electronics

Golden Plant

1015 Country Road 2400

PO Box 157

Golden, IL 62339

Phone: 217-***-****

Fax: 217-***-****

Web: http://www.methode.com/carthage/indexpage2.html

6. Agilent Technologies --- CAN PROVIDE CONTACTS AND RECOMMENDATION AS

REQUIRED.

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