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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

Root cause analysis

Continuous Improvement

Risk management

Project management proficiency

2D and 3D modeling

Quality improvement plans

DMAIC, 5Y, 5S, FMEA, Fishbone, A3 analysis

Autodesk Inventor, Slidworks

Excel, Minitab, Python, JMP

Time Studies, PPAP, Simulation

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