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PRANEETH SAI CHARAN VADDEPALLI

Quality Engineer
Tualatin,OR

Summary

· Experience in Manufacturing quality control in automobile and glass manufacturing industry.

· Strong knowledge in process flow, data mining across the process and commonality analysis for each individual unit.

· Acquired and owned the process of modelling, assembling, and drafting parts with QC delivering 95% First Time Yield within 4 months thereby gaining the trust of customer.

· Individually worked on a sustaining activity by submitting weekly reports internally and communicating with clients through standard meetings.

· Led full project lifecycle efforts, providing leadership from design phase, through quality assurance testing to final production.

· Hands on experience with Milgard Proprietary Tools, 5Y analysis, Root cause analysis, deriving CAPA and stakeholder management.

· Managed critical projects by identifying the defect modes, brainstorming inputs from cross functional teams thereby improving the FTQ metric

· Implemented a new process by following 5S to improve throughput and reduce downtime.

· Strong knowledge on GD&T, tolerance stack up analysis, FMEA, and 6 Sigma

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Engineer

Milgard Windows and Doors
03.2021 - Current
  • Analyzing quality defects using data collection from customer service tickets to improve the FTQ to 98.5%
  • Experience in taskforce meetings and creating Special Interest groups to gather specific details of any issue/quality defect
  • Responsible for an Engineering change in a product using DOE and stack up analysis
  • Leveraged excel to build Value Stream maps with data collected from shop floor for identifying 30% waste source
  • Escalated material issues and tool failures to cross functional teams to find the root cause
  • Reports of weekly and monthly EOL defects were presented to the supervisors.

Industrial Engineer

Production Modeling Corporation
01.2020 - 02.2021
  • Reviewed schedules and suggested key improvements to develop leaner and more cost-effective manufacturing processes.
  • Experience in using problem solving tools like PDCA, 8D, Kaizen, Error-Proofing (Poka-Yoke), 5S, Ishikawa diagram
  • Trained in World Class Management related projects like workplace organization, workplace safety and quality control
  • Created project charters and PFMEA for expeditious commissioning of customer projects
  • Engaging in forecasting, planning and operations for catering to clients’ requirements efficiently
  • Honed conversance in packages of Python like pandas, NumPy, Seaborn, SciPy, Matplotlib by utilizing them periodically.

Associate Engineer

Tech Mahindra
05.2016 - 11.2018
  • Developed FTY reports and performed statistical analysis using Excel
  • Improved the outcome by 30% through analytical kaizen events
  • Utilized pivot tables and VLOOKUP with due diligence to categorize assemblies and their respective parts
  • Rendered brainstorming sessions using Ishikawa diagram to know about the process and the source of defects
  • Skillfully drafted dimensions using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) to perform reverse engineering on valves & coupling

Education

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI
01.2019 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

GITAM University
06.2012 - 05.2016

Skills

Quality assurance

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Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 5 in the development of FTQ by doing Pareto analysis on defects from each line.
  • Trained and supervised a staff of four quality inspectors
  • Achieved 98.5% FTQ by collaborating with Service and Production to solve problems with accuracy and efficiency.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop defect tracking spreadsheets.
  • Documented and resolved Glass fit issues using Stack up analysis and Design of experiments

Certification

Six SIgma Green belt: July 2020 - Oct 2020

Timeline

Quality Engineer

Milgard Windows and Doors
03.2021 - Current

Industrial Engineer

Production Modeling Corporation
01.2020 - 02.2021

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

University of Michigan - Dearborn
01.2019 - 12.2020

Associate Engineer

Tech Mahindra
05.2016 - 11.2018

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

GITAM University
06.2012 - 05.2016
PRANEETH SAI CHARAN VADDEPALLIQuality Engineer