Vice President of Engineering
Expertise in leading construction and manufacturing engineering projects and new product development projects from inception to completion. Recognized for spearheading production operations, including developing significant initiatives for production and quality improvement. Formulated advanced strategies, processes, procedures, systems, and standards for deriving operations excellence, cost reduction, process automation, and revenue optimization.
- Assembled a team from scratch and produced $20M cost savings within 2.5 years.
- Controlled $100M spend and achieved cost out run rate by $20M in 2020 with forecasted $25M in 2021.
- Reduced COGS by 30% ($2M) and resolved capacity issues by outsourcing electrical assemblies, e-mobility inverters, switchgear, and Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
- Saved product costs by avg ~20% by raising manufacturing and design efficiencies and using supply chain synergies.
- Planned and organized training sessions for the skills enhancement of new hires on New Product Introduction and VAVE Stage/Gate processes.
- Finalized the construction and opened a new factory on time (one year), as per contractual obligations, and within $40M budget.
- Built and directed push/pull teams for efficient transfer, thereby enabling on-time shipping and start-up of manufacturing-first orders, resulting in generating $100M in revenue in one year and currently $200M per annum.
- Minimized capital costs by $4M through equipment and construction negotiations as well as material optimization.
- Launched new products in the new factory and accomplished first shipments within 3 months after building completion.
- Assured the successful transfer of product line to new facility by heading a team of >300 people.
