Kalyana Sundaram Sridhar
Monument,CO
Summary
Results-driven professional with 12 years of experience in the medical device industry. Skilled in design, quality, manufacturing, and supply chain launches. Currently dedicated to supporting Quality Engineering in developing and executing strategies for the packaging department. Throughout a 13-year tenure at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, fulfilled engineering duties and successfully led a team of 15+ contractors onsite, managing various roles. Additionally, effectively coordinated and led a diverse onshore team of 20+ professionals with multiple skill sets, while providing exceptional support to customers from different geographical locations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineer II
Jabil Inc
05.2023 - Current
- Supported design of packaging solutions that protect and preserve new and sustaining products during transportation, storage and handling
- Supported analysis of data and researching to improve the Supply chain process from Jabil to customer distribution center
- Developed and executed standard operating procedures and guidelines for product packaging and shipping/handling of products
- Investigated customer complaints and non-conformance issues
- Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors.
- Developed and implemented corrective and preventive actions
- Developed and maintained weekly and monthly quality metrics and reports
- Participated in internal and external audits (both front room and back room)
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives
Supply Chain Lead
DEPUY SYNTHES VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
09.2021 - 04.2023
- Planned, scheduled, conducted, and coordinated detailed phases of engineering work in part of a major project or in a totally new project of moderate size & complexity on a weekly and bi-weekly basis
- Performed design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound start-up of new processes, identify the nature and scope of various business problems that arise and facilitate synergy between different groups affected and communicate business-related issues or opportunities to next level management
- Conducted DFMA sessions during the Charter & Design phase
- Selected & worked together with suppliers & designers to finalize the product design, material selection & final process selection
- Worked with Manufacturing vendors to set up manufacturing & assembly operations that meet team objectives for product quality, cost & performance
- Provided all documentation & specifications for process & equipment including drawings, process specifications, failure modes & troubleshooting guide
- Collected business data to create process maps, perform time & motion analyses and process comparisons
- Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
- Organized review and governance meetings to discuss progress, risks, challenges, and accomplishments
- Collaborated with internal teams to improve outputs to meet demand and supply requirements, ensuring inventory integrity targets for finished goods.
- Oversaw demand planning, purchasing, and logistics.
- Implemented inventory-management strategies to maximize availability and decrease waste.
- Tracked and monitored purchase orders, deliveries and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance.
- Improved, standardized and documented planning and scheduling processes.
- Formulated demand planning and generated supply chain management metrics.
- Monitored and tracked supplier performance to enforce adherence to quality standards and established timelines.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align production plans with customer requirements.
Supply Chain Associate
DEPUY SYNTHES VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
06.2017 - 08.2021
- Standard ME duties: Supported resolution of backorders- Worked with Planning and Supplier quality to ensure product backorders at distribution site are resolved- Activities involved- Co-originating with supplier/planners to receive certs, updating/creating Routers-Change management support
- NPI Launch Support: Worked with the design quality and NPI groups creating the Product Quality Plan, Inspection Sheets, and routers for receiving products at the Distribution site
- UDI Manufacturing Supported/ Reviewed laser marked drawings and determined the changes needed at manufacturing site- Subsequently updated the inspection and process sheets for both external suppliers and internal manufacturing unit
- Validation Support Assisted Manufacturing unit with IQ for Nail product lines
- Design Quality Support Initially supported and then overlooked Product Transfer for transfer of products from European vendors to US based vendor.
- Sustaining product Support- Supported Product Focus Team (PFT) to ensure projects (New & Sustenance) are closed successfully by coordinating with Vendor engineering counterparts- also handling product obsolescence (working with marketing), MPI/Techfile cleanup (working with Regulatory and MDR groups)
- Purchase Order Support- Provided support to Monument plant for centralized PO creation and now providing the same support to PFT team
- Offshore co-ordination & lead for Ireland, Switzerland and USA geographies (overall 20+ resources)
Design Engineer
DEPUY MITEK VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
01.2014 - 05.2017
- Supported engineering design development through analysis and simulation of prototypes and 3D computer models.
- Performed predictive analysis such as Tolerance Stack-up
- Provided Design/Sustenance support for Supplier change requests, UDI implementation
- Addressed design challenges and evaluated alternative design models to meet project requirements.
- Implemented various best practices
- Assisted drafters in developing structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) or drafting equipment and software.
- Offshore co-ordination
- Conducted and attended knowledge-sharing sessions
Design Engineer
DEPUY MITEK VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
08.2012 - 12.2013
- Provided support as a Design engineer during peak workload
- Created 3D models and 2D manufacturable prints
- Performed predictive analysis such as Tolerance Stack-up
- Coordinated with different cross-functional teams to ascertain whether the correct documents have been correlated to the finished goods or not
- Linked or created traceability of documents like Design History File, Drawings, Risk Management reports, and Design control plan, thereby ensuring Device Master Record Management for existing product lines
- Initiated change management activity in PLM Systems and ensuring that the traceability is created so as to help in successfully migrating the DMR structure to a new PLM system
Manual Test Engineer
British Airways VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
05.2010 - 07.2012
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Executed performance tests for Message Services
- Prepared Scripts for generating load and monitor the system metrics
- Prepared test data required for the Performance tests
- Provided tuning recommendations
- System Testing (Automation and Manual) Documented and communed test results
- Cooperated and performed with development group to resolve the difficulties came across in a test execution
Education
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING -
SASTRA UNIVERSITY
05.2009
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management
- Experience with Medical Devices
- Quality Assurance Management
- Multitasking and organization
- Customer service
- Customer complaint handling
- External audit support
- Creo Proficiency
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Bengali
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Quality Engineer II
Jabil Inc
05.2023 - Current
Supply Chain Lead
DEPUY SYNTHES VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
09.2021 - 04.2023
Supply Chain Associate
DEPUY SYNTHES VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
06.2017 - 08.2021
Design Engineer
DEPUY MITEK VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
01.2014 - 05.2017
Design Engineer
DEPUY MITEK VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD
08.2012 - 12.2013
Manual Test Engineer
British Airways VIA TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.
05.2010 - 07.2012
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING -
SASTRA UNIVERSITY
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