Arjun Kumar Perla

Results-driven professional experienced in managing over $10M in starter/alternator supplier accounts across multidisciplinary teams. Successfully resolved 10 CPI warranty issues, saving $500K, and boosted aftermarket sales through strategic branding initiatives. Spearheaded lab safety enhancements, achieving zero injuries and 65% efficiency gains.

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, I developed prototypes to demonstrate capabilities of wearables, joysticks, and large touch screens to potential customers. My routine task comprised of finalizing multiple simultaneous projects within given timeframe by prioritizing and communicating with customers and suppliers. Furthermore, I streamlined communication with offshore team in China to facilitate product development, process reviews, and drawing approvals with keen focus on resolving production issues in high-volume projects. Following are my achievements within this job role: • Supported projects worth more than $10M in revenue by designing complete line of UICO touch sensors and integrating it in customer products. • Slashed 75% of DFM (design for manufacturing) time by complying with manufacturing requirements across multiple suppliers to create standard drawing templates and design guidelines for sensors and PCBs. • Improved quality and reliability of products to face harsh environments by supervising validation of new products, while establishing new standard procedures and formulating effective Vibration, Thermal shock, Thermal cycling, and Impact test reports.

At UICO LLC, I served as document engineer to document and release all changes to production team. My organization showed faith in me to ensure seamless workflow by creating Bill of Materials for all UICO products and maintaining part numbering system. My major contributions within this role are as follows: • Leveraged lean manufacturing and six sigma principles to improve tolerance of alignment by 70%, as well as increased quality of the touchscreens by redesigning all the fixtures in assembly line. • Reduced review and approval time by 50% and overall lead time by 2 weeks to implement a change by developing ECR process at UICO through coordination with multidisciplinary teams.

Received assistantship after securing 4 GPA in 1st semester | Nominated for best teaching assistant award for CAD/CAM(Creo), Engineering Mechanics & Strength of materials courses. Developed a program to calculate the common normal between wheel and rail surfaces and the methods were published to ASME. 1. Computation of Common Normal between a Wheelset and Straight Rail at Singular Position 2. Computation of Common Normal between Wheel and Rail Surface via Linearized Track. Developed a rectilinear motion (straight-line mechanism) using six-bar linkages and is published to ASME