rahul shah

Joint responsibility for North American subsidiaries' P&L with full responsibility for business development. Worked with the global Board Of Directors to determine the product portfolio, sales policies, strategy and goals Achieved goals and generated over 30% CAGR over 7 years in an extremely commoditized and competitive market Generation and launch of over $73 million in new business via multi-year contracts from global customer-base Eliminated non-value added operations from the quoting process to increase on-time quotes by 50% and regularly beat the industry average hit rate of 5% Proposed and implemented a restructuring of the department to improve efficiency as well as reduce and control the cost of sales and engineering Ensured good opportunity management through the implementation of a CRM and quote management system Supported the launch of Mexican subsidiary and led business development activities in Mexico

General responsibility for the applications engineering, project management and prototyping teams for North America Successfully launched over 40 projects into production ensuring or exceeding ROI on each Developed and initiated a new system in order to track critical phases of a project for transparency as well as ease of future reference for personnel throughout the firm Managed and organized the prototyping operations to control costs, delivery and quality while converting it from a cost center to a profit center Supported customers on six-sigma and VAVE initiatives that resulted in customer patents and increased profitability Received several awards and “Certificates of Excellence” from customers for project support and performance

Interfaced with the customer engineering teams to design, prototype and test components for several automotive systems including but not limited to braking, steering, seating, safety and powertrain Designed stampings, wire-forms and springs using non-linear finite element analysis that were innovative for their respective application and developed specifications for the relevant manufacturing processes and equipment Functioned as the internal program manager, led cross-functional teams and streamlined information flow between departments for the smooth product launches Generated the DFMEAs and supported the quality and manufacturing functions to generate the PFMEAs Supported the sales function to validate part designs and prints prior to quoting

Designed and modeled new components for the Natural Gas Scroll Compressor system and testing equipment using Pro-Engineer Modeled design improvements into compressor parts Graphed and analyzed compressor performance data Compiled the owner’s manual for the natural gas compressor Analyzed gasket failures and implemented a corrective solution Worked on cost reduction projects Worked daily on cross-functional teams (corporate, engineering, manufacturing) to launch a new product

Executed a project to maintain automatic brake cylinders per the ISO 9000 standards of the firm Understood the various manufacturing processes via orientation in different departments Drafted various parts of the train carriage using AutoCAD

Designed a stopper-arm on a gravity conveyor Carried out a crank-case rejection analysis in order to find flaws in the manufacturing process Studied the crank-case, transmission-case and cylinder-head manufacturing processes

Executed a project to modify the feed shoe mechanism for uniform density of powder-metal products Designed density scale and green powder-metal part sanding fixture Modified designs of assembled powder-metal camshafts Tested the micro-hardness of new materials and carried out the metallography Studied the various powder-metal processes

Global responsibility for the Purchasing, Manufacturing, Quality and Logistics functions for US and UK sites Restructured the group over 6 months to achieve goals and better support the sales, engineering and service groups Developed and deployed a supply chain management strategy to consolidate, leverage and align global supply base Brainstormed and deployed an inventory reduction plan and improved inventory turns by 30% Improved sales order on time delivery by 10% points to average over 96% Drove costs savings of over 2.5% ($300,000+) annually and achieved negative PPVs 50% reduction of incoming quality issues through supplier development activities Reduced variances to multi-million dollar department budget from 13% down to within 0.25% in 5 months Being integral to the acquisition process of DCM Industries, led and completed the operations merger on target

General responsibility for custom solutions, mechanical engineering, product development systems and engineering change management processes Conceptualized, quoted, designed, built and commissioned fully automated $100,000+ electro-mechanical and software solutions to sustain over $2 million of annual sales from custom designed solutions Ensured and achieved project profitability and a high performance-price ratio for 200 - 400 projects/year Streamlined the ECO process and eliminated a 5 year backlog of engineering changes within 16 months Provided dependable applications evaluation, training and proposals to sales teams in various geographical locations Led and utilized engineering resources with maximum efficiency to meet ongoing product development, operations and custom-engineering project requirements and deadlines Supported marketing activities through routine publication of several new system application notes and white papers

Activities and Societies: Indian Student Association Asian Student Association Student Mentor

Activities and Societies: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, The Honor Society of Epsilon Mu Eta