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CHETAN BHUSANUR

CHETAN BHUSANUR

Design Engineering Manager
Atlanta,Georgia

Summary

Insightful technical Manager with experience directing and improving products through effective employee motivational strategies, mentorship and strong design ethics enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with design engineer background which helps to assist impact of decisions on business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Power Electronics Design Manager

Sonnen.Inc
Current
  • Successfully built and transformed design teams through effective hiring, mentoring, and team-building strategies
  • Established design, development, and cross-functional guidelines, contributing to improved project execution
  • Led the redesign of products for cost reduction, implemented repository control, and developed file structures
  • Managed resource planning, allocation, and technology improvement projects, ensuring optimal team performance
  • Conducted market evaluations, contributed to project planning, and supported Project Management Office (PMO) in project execution
  • Cost and budget estimations
  • Altium platform management (project management, library management, resources and license administering)
  • New equipment/Lab planning
  • Market research and Competitor product analysis
  • Contractors and external vendor management
  • Guidance to other cross function teams such as NPI, Firmware, Systems team
  • Next generation power converter technology roadmap
  • PV converter design and development
  • Implementing various design tools and processes and conveying the importance of those to higher management and CTO
  • Bidirectional grid tied Power converter development
  • Coordination with test team for establishing testing guidelines, pass /fail criteria, NPI support.

Power electronics designer/lead/manager

Ensync Energy Systems
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Design of high power grid tie converters
  • Leading the test team with design validation, how to skillset development and process improvements
  • Managed resource planning, allocation, and technology improvement projects, ensuring alignment with business goals
  • Conducted market evaluations for optimal technology selection and contributed to project planning and execution
  • Project planning and execution of projects
  • Risk evaluation, Cost and budget estimations
  • Make V/s buy evaluation for various time constrain decisions
  • Resolved compliance hurdles and provided production support for an Asian plant, facilitating issue resolution
  • Led the transfer of files from R&D to production and managed contractors and external vendors
  • Process improvements, issue resolution for cross function teams
  • Designed modular residential DC-DC, DC-AC, and PV converters, addressing legacy issues and process improvements.

Power electronics computer system engineer

Rockwell Automation- Contract
01.2013 - 01.2014
  • Simulation support and programming the drives
  • System integration, analysis, Test planning and execution
  • Root cause analysis
  • Legacy issue debug, resolution and test platform establishment
  • Compliance pre validation, EMI-EMC resolution
  • Documentation control.

Power Systems Magnetics Design Engineer

Cooper Bussmann (Contract)
01.2007 - 01.2013

Design Engineer

Securaplane, Inc (Contract)
01.2007 - 01.2013

Executive Design Engineer

InCap CMS Services Pvt Ltd.
01.2007 - 01.2013

Design Engineer (R&D)

Dubas Engineering Pvt Ltd.
01.2007 - 01.2013

Education

Masters Degree - MS-EE

University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Communications

VTU University

Skills

Small scale and large scale business

New product development and Product Lifecycle

Engineering guidelines

Cross country team challenges

Team building & Team Collaboration

Process Improvement

Employee Coaching and Mentoring

PCB design -Altium

Compliance UL1741 and IEC 62019

Magnetics , Mechanical & Thermal

EMI/EMC practices and solutions

DFM ,FMEA, Risak analysis & Safety

Strong knowladge of power electronics

Complex Problem-Solving

Performance Evaluations

Patents

  • 6kW & 4.8kW grid tied power converter with multiple project variants.
  • 8kW dual channel PV converter.
  • 9kW and 4.7kW Grid tie Residential energy storage system.
  • 25kW Stackable inverters and converters for industrial applications.
  • 33kW Industrial Power Supply using phase shifting technology.
  • 3kW Battery charger for automobile.
  • 60kW Power supply for Military application.
  • PV insulation failure detection- Approved.
  • Digitized System & Methods For Verifying Power Relay Disconnect -Approved.
  • 8 level PWM phase shifter a pure hardware-based solution – Invention but not patented.

Accomplishments

  • Achieved high quality product by implementing Derating analysis, DFM, FMEA, and safety guidelines .
  • Implemented design guidelines from scratch to enable engineers do quality design and product development.
  • Implementation of usage of various tools and software in design to aid the team.
  • Resolved legacy product issues and enabled business to sell products which were otherwise counted as loss to the business.
  • Implementation of Thermal analysis to extract more out of the product hence saving cost and time to business.
  • Collaboration and driving mechanical and firmware team to enable them to help develop best solution for product needs.
  • Supervised team of 6+ staff members.
  • Cultivated trust and honesty in team where team is motivated to be over performer even when no one is noticing.
  • Resolved multiple hard to identify product issue through right testing methodologies.

Software

Altium 365

LT Spice

Microsoft office suite

Visio

Wrike

Git

Sharepoint

Code composer studio

Plexim

Interests

Wood working

Chess

Crafts

Tennis

Carrom

Drawing/Art

Movies

Camping/traveling

Timeline

Power electronics designer/lead/manager

Ensync Energy Systems
01.2014 - 01.2017

Power electronics computer system engineer

Rockwell Automation- Contract
01.2013 - 01.2014

Power Systems Magnetics Design Engineer

Cooper Bussmann (Contract)
01.2007 - 01.2013

Design Engineer

Securaplane, Inc (Contract)
01.2007 - 01.2013

Executive Design Engineer

InCap CMS Services Pvt Ltd.
01.2007 - 01.2013

Design Engineer (R&D)

Dubas Engineering Pvt Ltd.
01.2007 - 01.2013

Power Electronics Design Manager

Sonnen.Inc
Current

Masters Degree - MS-EE

University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Communications

VTU University
CHETAN BHUSANURDesign Engineering Manager