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Kirubhakaran Srinivasan

Dublin,Ohio

Summary

With over 18 years of IT experience, I am a PLM Solution Architect and have proficiency in PLM system architecture and integration, J2EE technologies, and business process automation.

Have extensive experience in designing and implementing enterprise-wide integrations between PLM and other downstream systems such as ERP, MES and Supply chain systems. Also proficient in implementing solutions for variant management, program management, BOM Management, change management, and supplier data exchange. Have extensive experience in working with suppliers across different geographies, and implementing cross functional solutions.

Expertise in solution design and project management with good verbal and written skills. 10 years of experience in Honda.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff, PLM Solutions Analyst

Rivian Automotive Inc.
Dublin, OH
08.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for architecture design of all enterprise-wide integrations such PLM-SAP, PLM-MES, PLM-Basecamp (Supplier system) etc.
  • Master Data Management
  • Supporting SAP HANA team in Materials management,procurement, MRP, inventory management etc.
  • Supporting MES team on generation of Work instructions, enrichment and execution. Also have supported them on Order validation and execution.
  • Solution design and implementation for enterprise change management.
  • Solution design and implementation for variant management, program management and compatibility rules management.
  • Define process and implement design supplier data exchange.
  • Work with Rivian suppliers/vendors spread across different geographies (Asia, Europe, North America) for project implementation.
  • Supporting NPI team on New Product Introduction and production control team on processing changes from PLM.

Technical Specialist

HCL Technologies (Honda R&D Americas LLC.)
Raymond, OH
01.2011 - 08.2021
  • Responsible for supporting Honda’s PLM application which includes support to end users, implementing defects and enhancements for monthly releases for all system modules and coordination with offshore and JP teams.
  • Solution design and implementation of various projects during my tenure at Honda such as Maker Layout functions, DPM Pre-Check, Secure Media Asset System (for Honda Sales division), PLM Systems (WBOM, Cheetah, Girafe) development.
  • Responsible for maintaining the integrations between CATIA V5 and Enovia PLM
  • Have worked with almost all divisions of Honda (D-side, E-Side, S-Side and Powersports) to implement enhancements that business requested. Also, managed all monthly releases at Honda and acted as release manager for PDCAs as well as for all the projects executed.
  • Responsible for coordination with offshore HCL team, onsite DS team, JP NDES team for various implementation and infrastructure and platform related setup.
  • Identified performance bottlenecks in the application at various phases and provided recommendations to improve performance by scaling infrastructure, fixing code etc.
  • Managed a team of 10 HCL associates spread across onsite and offshore.
  • Involved in test automation and load automation using SahiPro.

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Johnson Controls Inc)
Chennai, India
07.2005 - 12.2010
  • Design and development of JCI’s PLM which includes customizing the web-based application and integration of the PLM system with various other systems within JCI.
  • Executed large scale migration and implemented a tool to migrate large numbers of parts and its metadata from a supplier system to JCI’s homegrown application.
  • Provided L2 and L3 support for JCI users and was involved in identifying bottlenecks in Performance and executed fixes for the same.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
05-2005

Skills

  • 3DExperience PLM (CATIA, Enovia, Delmia, xPDM Gateway)
  • Digital Manufacturing
  • J2EE Application Development and REST APIs
  • Project Management
  • Solution Design
  • Vendor Management
  • Enterprise Integrations
  • Agile Methodologies
  • TCL and EKL Scripting
  • SAP HANA
  • Rockwell MES
  • GitHub
  • Business Analysis
  • Continuous Process Improvement
  • Dell Boomi
  • SahiPro
  • Business Intelligence such as Qlikview, Tableau

Accomplishments

  • Fedex Day Award - Issued by Honda R&D Americas LLC (Aug 2017)
  • Crew Wiz, Star Wiz, Geo Champ, Star Team Award - Issued by Geometric PLM(HCL Tech)
  • Best Managed Project - Issued by TCS

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Staff, PLM Solutions Analyst

Rivian Automotive Inc.
08.2021 - Current

Technical Specialist

HCL Technologies (Honda R&D Americas LLC.)
01.2011 - 08.2021

IT Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Johnson Controls Inc)
07.2005 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

PSG College of Technology
Kirubhakaran Srinivasan