Purushotham Kamath

Business Process Excellence & Development: - Spearheaded the development and implementation of Processes, Systems & Standards across across Engineering, Sourcing, Manufacturing Operations & Sales-Service functions. - Improved, optimized and automated key business processes to ensure value addition & efficiency at each stage. PMO - CEO’s Office: - Coordinate key business / program meetings, agenda, channelize the discussion and maintain MoM. - Drive high potential and high impact projects in line with expectation of management and leadership. - Working with stakeholders to achieve set objective with required quality and timeline. - Driving leadership meetings and take action items to closure. - Drive program & key communication across the organization to cascade management’s vision and expectations. Program, Operations Management: - Program Management of Body Works (Plastics) commodity of Simple Energy’s flagship Electric 2-Wheeler and led other vehicle program related deliverables. - Project Management support for Simple Energy’s Manufacturing Operations related requirements w.r.t planning and coordination.

- Managed the Data Analytics team that provides analytical solutions to the manufacturing engineering teams & global manufacturing plants. - Launched various visualization dashboards that assists in providing meaningful data insights & interpretations for quick decision making (Descriptive, Diagnostic & Prescriptive analytics). - Led the Innovation council / Idea Hub cross functional team that focuses on key technology disruptors. - Led the Learning & Development team for skill and competency enhancement of Global Digital Engineering team.

- Administered cross-functional projects for ensuring cost benefits on new programs, to maximize facility reuse, minimize facility and tooling investments. - Supported benchmarking and business case driven decisions for insourcing / outsourcing the processes.

- Low-Cost Country Sourcing (LCCS) for Digital Engineering Activities o Requirement gathering w.r.t Headcount, Skills for Program/Projects and for the Services being requested o Recruit experienced professionals who meet the requirements through Agency or Purchased Service model o Establish a Governance model w.r.t Deliverables, Escalation and Communication channels o Monitor day to day Operations, Quality control measures & Performance against established KPIs o Drive Efficiency in work methods to enhance Productivity and ensure Cost savings o Skill and Competency enhancement through Learning & Development - Managed the Digital Pre Assembly assessments team for Final Assembly Engineering, covering global programs & led other assignments in the area of Digital Engineering. - Set up and administrated the Advanced Engineering team responsible for Global Manufacturing Requirements (GMR) checks, Process Writing, PFMEA, Simulations, P release support, Program cost study etc.

- Responsible for Industrial Engineering, Digital Pre Assembly assessments & CAD Illustrations support for global programs. - Supervised the Industrial Engineering team responsible for Time Study, Work Allocation, Line Balancing & Process CAD Illustrations Support.

- Consulting engagements entrusted with the responsibility of bringing sustainable operational improvement in the organization’s process, system & behavioral aspects - Identifying improvement opportunities, preparing implementation strategy and delivering realized values that impact the top line and the bottom line - Bringing about visible operational improvement, cost reduction, & quality improvement through improved management control systems

One year full time MBA - Specialization in Operations and Project management

Attended strategic consulting seminar & completed a consulting project.

- Managed product lifecycle - Aligned the activities in operations, materials, variants, quality etc. and collaborated with global product lifecycle DSN (Demand Supply Network) on overall status and direction. - Was responsible for providing logistics expertise to assigned product or project in order to ensure that the new products can be delivered in the most cost efficient way and the demand requirements are fulfilled.

- Established & Coordinated the operations audit and final inspection as per outgoing quality sampling plan - Conforming to global quality assurance concept.

- Managed the Ford Consumer Product Audit (FCPA) report out and concern resolution reviews, CAI(Customer Acceptance Inspection) and containment actions before release for shipment. - Led the Squeak and Rattle(S&R) cross functional team to resolve both internal and external drive test concerns.

- Managed final drive test, periodic audits of line processes, product audits and final inspection of cars.