Porla Gayatri Rao
Manteca,CA
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Engineer
NEOTech
Fremont, CA (On-Site)
02.2023 - Current
- Planned and drove CFT meetings with customers to update on progress of production builds and communicate any hindrances encountered during process.
- Created custom process flows for mass production of PCBAs and system builds for multiple customers.
- Drove technical and quality related discussions with customers regularly that improved quality of products and increased forecast volume by 10%.
- Analyzed failure modes of production units and performed root cause analysis using A3s,8D, Fish bone analysis.
- Created quality data pareto, presented yield reports to internal team members and customer for production performance evaluations.
- Evaluated change order requests in response to out-of-scope work activities.
- Determined and scheduled priorities as required to meet revenue goals for month/quarter.
- Support sustaining and New Product Introduction (NPI) projects for manufacturing and production.
- Review customer provided product documentation such as BOM, CAD files, schematic files with engineering team to verify design for production and provide NRE quote to program manager for production processes (testing equipment and fixtures required).
- Participate in internal and external audits and analyze quality findings to suggest any process improvement measures.
Systems Engineer
Exact Sciences
Redwood City, CA (Remote)
11.2021 - 01.2023
- Communicate with customers and product developers to understand needs and derive stakeholder requirements.
- Create block diagrams and system architecture for new product development (Product references: Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score Test).
- Perform reviews for various project requirements and product description documentation in Jama Connect - Requirements Management Tool.
- Perform administrative tasks in Jama Connect such as giving accesses to users, creating, and organizing projects, integration JIRA stories and issues with requirements, and creating relationship diagrams for different levels of requirements.
- Create and maintain trace matrices that includes design inputs and outputs for different projects
- Create SOPs and Work Instructions for systems engineering process standardization across company.
- Train different functions on using Jama Connect tool for requirement document reviews and generate reports.
- Participate in risk assessment and analysis activities from early project planning and evaluation stage and deliver risk management plan and assessment before phase exit.
- Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
Embedded Software Engineer
Fresenius Medical Care
02.2019 - 11.2021
- Operated closely with engineering development and testing team members and coordinated with cross-functional team members to design and develop robust embedded software solutions to meet requirements for functionality, scalability and performance by following design control process workflow (IEC 62304:2006 Medical Device. Software – Software Life Cycle Processes) for project development.
- Updated software in Embedded C to address defects and add features to production code for Peritoneal Dialysis Machine and update bug tracking tool for any defects identified in software.
- Automated code in embedded c or python using Microsoft Visual Studio Project to test updated software and generate Windows command line applications.
- Collaborated with Failure Analysis team to analyze software aspects of failure and perform root cause and regression analysis using Imagix 4D tool to identify root cause of software anomalies.
- Generated engineering requirements and design outputs that include flow diagrams based on software feature/defects being addressed for project and link them to verification testing for tractability and records
Engineering Project Manager
Fresenius Medical Care
08.2018 - 02.2019
- Determined project scope and plan design and development activities accordingly.
- Held regular cross-functional teams meeting to discuss updates and challenges team encountered during development.
- Reviewed progress of project with upper management using Microsoft Projects.
- Addressed new defects produced during development by meeting with key stakeholders and determining risk and priority of risk for defect disposition.
- Generated meeting minutes for design reviews, software defect reviews and phase exit reviews.
Education
Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering
California State University - Fullerton
Fullerton, CA05.2018
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Mumbai
Mumbai, India06.2016
Skills
Manufacturing Process Improvement
Data Driven process planning
Project Management
Defects/Task tracking
Communications
Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint Presentations
Certification
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance, Inc. Badge ID: 1528400.
Excellent Technical writing and communication skills.
Additional Information
- Experience with using MS Excel for data reports and maintaining requirements.
- Trained in IVDD/IVDR frameworks by Qarad company.
- Solid technical understanding of engineering principles and procedures.
- Working knowledge with standards - ISO 13485, ISO 15189, ISO 9001, and IEC 62304:2006.
- Plan and document verification/testing activities. Write unit/system level verification protocol and reports.
- Create and maintain Manufacturing Procedure Instructions for PCBA and system builds.
- Drive meetings between different stakeholders and track progress and provide meeting minutes for review.
Timeline
Project Engineer
NEOTech
02.2023 - Current
Systems Engineer
Exact Sciences
11.2021 - 01.2023
Embedded Software Engineer
Fresenius Medical Care
02.2019 - 11.2021
Engineering Project Manager
Fresenius Medical Care
08.2018 - 02.2019
Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering
California State University - Fullerton
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Mumbai