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Tejaswi vemuri

San Diego,CA

Summary

Innovative Senior Product Engineer known for productive and efficient task completion. Skilled in CAD software, prototype development, and product lifecycle management. Excel in problem-solving, teamwork, and adaptability to lead projects to success.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Product Engineer

Magna Exteriors
Troy, MI
04.2024 - Current

Project Management: Created RASIC for cross-functional teams during project kickoffs.

Team Management: Led offshore teams, ensuring seamless coordination with on-site colleagues.

Business Communication: Communicating the project status and bottlenecks on a time-to-time basis to the upper management.

Process Development: Collaborated with Manufacturing teams to establish efficient CAE processes.

Automation: Leveraged Microsoft Power Platform for operational efficiency.

Data Visualization: Created tracking reports and KPI metrics using Power BI and Excel to communicate with stakeholders effectively.

Collaboration: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive issue resolutions and provide countermeasures for part failure issues.

§ Material Characterization: Characterized Plastic materials based on Plaque tests.

· Best Practices: Developed Best Practices Manual based on learnings and findings of the history programs. These guidelines served as valuable references for future projects and ensure knowledge continuity.

§ Cost-Effective Design Countermeasures: Collaborated with cross-functional teams, suggested design modifications that balanced performance and cost-effectiveness.

§ Project Management and Reporting: Organized technical project meetings and ensured activities aligned with project deadlines and budgets. Created detailed reports documented countermeasures and provided valuable insights for future CAE activities.

Reduced Operational Cost: Introduced creative ideas to monitor the work progress, cost analysis, resource projections for Product Team using Live trackers for upper management.

Budget Quotes: Prepared budget quotes and provided estimated costs to customers based on scope of work.

Material Processes: Good knowledge of Plastic Injection molding, Stamping, and Casting process.

Validation: Work with the Validation team and test house to set up physical tests for prototype parts. Ensure parts are meeting customer DVP&R requirements.

Change Management: Documenting engineering changes and scope changes document to ensure the history is captured and released to customers at every milestone.

Root Cause Analysis: Root caused the issues and suggested Doe's to meet the spec requirements.

Cost: Developed test methods to simulate real-world loads and estimate failure modes in CAE during product development.

Sr FEA Engineer

Magna Exteriors through CAE Technology services Inc
Troy, MI
08.2016 - 04.2024
  • Stiffness analysis of closures and their design improvements to optimize weight and performance.
  • Worked on 9 Production Liftgates and 62 RFI/RFQ programs for Liftgates
  • 2- Patents developed by working with a team for Bulkhead reinforcement structures and effective bonding of metal reinforcement to Inner panels.
  • Overall customer feedback score is 0.98 for 47 projects
  • Have a correlation score of 83% for over 40 correlations.
  • Received kudos as a team for Grand Wagoner liftgate launch from CEO of Exteriors.
  • Improving the efficiency of the liftgate development by optimizing the liftgate architecture
  • Providing feedback to global customers based on lessons learned and best practices
  • Responsible for best practices, lessons learnt, adhesive material development, Lift gate development and optimizing designs
  • Trained Interns to educate them in CAE softwares and simulations
  • Experience in standardizing adhesive modulus for stiffness simulation
  • Experience in developing Manuals, Lessons Learnt, workflow for product development
  • Experience in working on multiple projects at the same time based on resource management, timing and cost
  • Development of RASIC for various cross functional teams during project kickoff and testing stage for smooth flow of the program
  • Material testing and correlating with CAE for the properties to be used in CAE loadcases
  • Resolving the plant issues during a launch of thermoplastic liftgate
  • Stiffness and Oil Canning for Thermoplastic Closures
  • Thermal Performance evaluation for Closure and Spoiler
  • Creep of thermoplastic Closures under Fitment and hot temperature
  • Fatigue life of Thermoplastic Closures for open close durability
  • Material Calibration for adhesives, Welds, and anisotropic materials
  • Spoiler firm feel and Stiffness and thermal expansions
  • Strength of lift gate for quasi static rear crash loadcase
  • Thermoplastic liftgate correlation with physical testing for different loadcases
  • Analysed Creep for composite Closures under hot temperatures and fitment Load case using Abaqus
  • Correlated the anisotropic behaviour of plastic liftgate with software's like digimat and converse
  • Optimizing the liftgates & Spoilers with the help of different software's like isight, Tosca and optistruct

Hyundai Motor India Engineering
08.2010 - 08.2015
  • Applying the concepts of Finite Element analysis (FEA) to Vehicle Components to assess their Stiffness and fatigue life of vehicle using Abaqus and FE-SAFE
  • Worked on projects like Sonata, Santa FE, 120, 110, Genesis GV80 and G70
  • BIW for fatigue life calculation of Structural components
  • Bending and Torsional stiffness of Body in white (BIW)
  • Development of Integrated model for Durability analysis
  • Towing hook strength and shipping durability analysis as per company guidelines and provide improvements
  • Front Seat Belt Anchorage Strength Analysis to check failure at body mountings as per FMVSS 210 regulation using Hypermesh and Abaqus
  • Analysed Side Impact Protection Static requirement of full car with rigid cylinder as per FMVSS 214 regulation using Abaqus and Hyperview
  • Calculation of strength index of Battery tray using Hypermesh and Abaqus
  • Calculation of Fatigue life for Accelerator, clutch, brake system using Abaqus and n-code
  • Full car modelling knowledge
  • Visited Hyundai motor group R&D centre in Namyang South Korea for training on Strength and Fatigue analysis related to Body structure
  • Experience in Durability simulation and analysing full vehicle and individual assemblies
  • Also gained insights into the Global Automobile Industry, Best Practices, Team Culture and Interpersonal Skills
  • Part of the team which successfully launched several models in India
  • Developed Quick Modelling Methods and was instrumental in Reducing the Pre-Processing Times by nearly 50%
  • Stood First in Departmental Modelling Assessment and promoted to the post of "Research Engineer" with Highest A-Grade rating

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India

Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan Dearborn
Michigan, USA

Skills

  • Design: DFEMA, PFEMA,DVP&R, GD&T
  • Preprocessors: Hypermesh, Ansa
  • Solvers: Abaqus,Nastran,Optistruct,LS-Dyna,n-Code,Adams
  • Product Management and Program Management
  • Data Analytic Tools: Excel, Power BI, MS Office
  • Scripting language: TCL/TK
  • PMP(Certification in Progress)

Timeline

Sr Product Engineer

Magna Exteriors
04.2024 - Current

Sr FEA Engineer

Magna Exteriors through CAE Technology services Inc
08.2016 - 04.2024

Hyundai Motor India Engineering
08.2010 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering

University of Michigan Dearborn
Tejaswi vemuri