Milind Kumar

Engineering and Program Management Professional

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced Engineer with expertise in areas of design, manufacturing, process development, business development, and P&L statement for $60M business. Key skill set includes: • Managing multiple Business Units/Product Lines • Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Reporting on BU • Aerospace Engineering/Mfg/Quality exp • Composite design/mfg and certification exp • Automation Projects • Controls & Communications background Interested in design and automation projects, microcontroller programming and HMI design and development. Specialties: - Problem solving skills for Controls and Mechanical Engineering - Automation for manufacturing and Plant level Systems - Information Technology maintenance and development - Technical and Purchasing recommendation for automation - Remote Systems controls and management.

Experience

  • Sapphire Technologies (On-site)
    • Director of Product Management
      Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Senior Program Manager
      May 2023 - Jun 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Program Manager at Marvin Land Systems
    May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • AdelWiggins Group (8 yrs 5 mos)
    • Business Unit Manager
      Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr

      - P&L Responsibility for $60M Business Unit - Contract negotiations for existing and new business - Planning Sales and Bookings Plan for Financial Year - Led Sales and Operations team to submit and negotiate Commercial proposals to Airbus, Spirit, and Bombardier, and Defense proposals to Boeing, and Embraer ($5M). - Plan and Execute yearly Sales and Bookings Plan resulting in 11% YoY Business Unit Growth. - Managing Proforma Accounts ($8M), and Qualification deliverables for Sole Source and Competitive products. - Led Cross-Functional teams on multiple Notice of Escapes & claim negotiations (65% Savings against Reserve).

    • Engineering Manager, Composites & HH
      Aug 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Technical and commercial bids for Embraer Turboprop and Dassault Aviation’s Falcon Future lightning isolators ($120k NRE). - Led certification analysis program for Global 7500 Aircraft leading to FAA approval of report. Resulted in $250k savings. - Managed qualification efforts for HondaJet HA420 fuel isolators, displacing existing supplier. New Business of $7k per shipset. - Managed program to provide Boeing Military Aircraft with replacement fuel isolators. New Business of $400k.

    • Senior Project Engineer
      May 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      • Successfully designed, qualified and certified Static Dissipative Fuel System Dielectric Isolators for Boeing 777-9, resulting in 322 ship sets of fuel system equipment. • Qualified equipment for two (2) airframers (Boeing/Embraer), realizing revenues for NRE (upto $500k) and transitioning qualified equipment into manufacturing. • Continuous improvement programs (Airbus) successfully completed, resulting in savings of $80k every year.

  • Mechanical Engineer at Rain Bird
    Jun 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Decreased turnaround time for concept pump station designs by 70% & increased support for residential, commercial & golf business unit related specifier, proposal & approval requests. • Implemented standardization projects for commercial & golf pump stations that reduced system lead time by 30 to 50% and (engineering/material/labor) costs by 25 to 30%. • Reducing design and production times by 24 times by implementing standardization for pump stations that have flow rates ranging from 40 gpm to 2,250 gpm. • Supported engineering related cost reduction projects resulting in decreased material (~$75,000), labor (~$30,000), design and drafting costs (~$20,000) year-to-date. • Decreased engineering DMRs by 75% & reduced turnaround time for PRR & CAR. • Engineered Rain Bird Filter for pump stations to reduce cost by 50%. Awarded Excellence in Engineering for the year 2011-2012 at Rain Bird Corporation.

  • Mechanical Process Engineer at Altela Inc
    Apr 2008 - May 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Conceptualized & engineered modular water treatment systems (ARS 600) that incorporated AltelaRain technology & yielded 12X increase in treatment rate compared to ARS 4000. • Engineered and scaled water distillation towers for 6X increased treatment rate. • Designed tower manufacturing process automation for increased tower production rates and manufacturability. • Designed SCADA system & automated system operation report generation tool using real time data for multiple systems for management review & system diagnostics.