Greater Bielefeld Area
An Engineering Professional with over 20+ years of experience in Automotive Design & Development. Competent in managing and leading multi-functional and multi-cultural teams across several locations. Capacity to work under tight deadline & willing to take up challenges and responsibilities. Constantly contributing towards individual as well as organizational growth in design and development. High level of interpersonal, intercultural and social competence in working together with other people to achieve best results.
Foreign subsidiary/offshore design center establishment, development, management & governance. Automotive Seating-Interior Design & Development. Managing R&D support from best cost countries. Strategic Planning & Implementation. Coaching/Performance Management. Leadership & Team Building - Building and leading best in class cross-functional teams. Multi-tasking abilities with strong technical skills.
- Complete Seat programs experience, working complex assemblies, cost saving proposals. - Core Knowledge of Design, development, manufacturing/tooling of plastic, foam & metal components. - Commercial/passenger Seat Prototype building, testing, regulatory compliance experience. - Client facing/management, Project management, offshore-onsite model management, team building, mentoring. Innovation & creativity. - Proficient in NX, Catia, Teamcenter. - Soft skills: Excellent communication, problem solving, decision making, team building/mentoring, time and resource management, multitasking, requirement analysis. Projects:- Seating project development of Driver, co driver & bench seats for numerous commercial /passenger Vehicle customers - Daimler, DAF, MAN, SKA, VW, FIAT , GAZ, IVECO. ISRI Project platforms: - NTS, NTS2, NTS3, etc.
Automotive Interior & Seating Product Design & Developement. Worked as Resident Engineer in Germany for 4.5 years. UGNX, CATIA, Teamcenter. Projects:- Full-fledged program involving design & development for 1st and 2nd row seats, kombi van/Bus and also for other variants for seating Systems, 1.Ford Transit (V36X) 2.GMC Equinox -MY 2010 program 3. Chevy VOLT – E-Flex 4. JCI-Nissan plastics -Nissan Path finder Program (America)
UGNX, CATIA, TEAMCENTER CAD & PLM Software Support & Break fix: - Unigraphics, Catia, Teamcenter, Agile. Working in a Global support environment serving all technical centers and sites of automotive client. Project:- Delphi
Automotive Interior Product Design, Majority being plastics. UGNX, Teamcenter. Worked as a Resident Engineer at Opel/EDAG, Russelsheim, Germany @1 year. Projects:- Lead role in Design & development of interior Systems, Onsite in Germany (For Opel at rüsselsheim) @ 1 year for design & developement of GM Epsilon 37XX -AIR VENTS (Center & Side),Side Window Defroster, Glove Box Cooling, Nozzle Defroster, 2nd row Console & its airvents. Opel Vectra - Ashtray, Opel Mariva - Airvent, SAAB - Cupholder, Lead role in Design of multiple Opel airvent programs.
Product Design for 2, 3 wheeler & Generators CARBURETOR Systems. UGNX Projects:- Involved in Design of CARBURETOR Systems for following companies, TVS star, Diesel Engine component developement R.A.S.E.D (ITALY), Kanda Motors, Choke lever assembly for Dellorto (Italy), Deepak Diesel (Rajkot).