Rauhon S

• Aggregator of Engineering Development and Manufacturing, working with leadership, design, RF Engineers, production to successfully design and launch a product for sales. • Hire and develop engineers and other support staff by directing their tasks around their personal development while achieving the companies’ goals of productivity. • Directing and overseeing engineering processes, procedures, and best practices to ensure timely and accurate support of sales, customer service and manufacturing operations. • Managing and implementing product development efforts from conceptualization through prototyping and commercialization in close cooperation with sales and customer service departments while meeting expectations for budget and timing purposes. • Define, establish, train, and enhance the roles, goals, and responsibilities of all associates within the department. Ensuring that all associates are effectively trained, and their aggregate skill sets match performance requirements. On a consistent basis assess and review general and specific goals with both the team and individuals within the department. • Interact with customers to discuss project activities and address technical concerns. • Work with Sales and Marketing to develop strategies for increasing market share in existing markets in addition to penetrating new markets. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement for the most effective use of resources and driving improvements in product quality. • Planning, organizing, and coordinating the engineering change order process. • Partnered with cross functional roles to ensure project timelines are met and identified continuous process improvements. • Provided subject matter expertise and advice team members, on all rules and regulations associated with rights governing the development and use of technical data and best manufacturing process.

• Plan work and resources to ensure group deliverables across a portfolio of projects. • Responsible for reviewing all manufactured product, part numbering, and BOMs for correctness and accuracy. • Interacting with customers to discuss project activities and address technical concerns. • Manage and oversee all Engineering and Research & Development team members and projects. • Manage current products throughout life cycle for revisions, updates, resourcing due to cost / supply chain issues and Engineering Change Orders. Manages technical quality / failure issues, determines, and executes best course of action with department directors. • Design parts and assemblies in CAD, create drawings for manufacturing. • Coordinate with vendors for parts quoting, problem solving, and manufacturing related communications. • Creating, reviewing and approving specifications, product briefs, design documentation and plans. • Oversees design validation by testing and utilizing various techniques including, 3D printing, prototype manufacturing, analytical calculations, and simulations with Development Team. • Propose and implement department improvements and resolve issues within the department. • Technical design responsibilities including researching and recommending equipment design and process improvements. • Provide technical support to Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Service, Purchasing, Quality and other Engineering groups. • Assure developments are launched on schedule, at required levels of quality, at cost and meeting internal and customer performance requirements with Development Team and other departments involved in the new product manufacturing process (marketing, sales, etc.).

• Working with antenna designers and other engineers to designe new antennas and its accessories (end items and components) considering product styling, design for manufacturability, robustability and user ergonomics in SOLIDWORKS, for use in conceptual planning, manufacturing and marketing. • Generate detailed part production drawings fully dimensioned with GD&T verified to meet functional requirements by use of tolerance stackups. And created assembly drawings with BOM’s for parts ordering and inventory management. • Provide technical guidance and supported in-house fabrication and assembly teams by creating assembly work instructions manuals and fabricating Jigs and Fixtures to increase production. • Communicating designs with manufacturers and component suppliers and assured cost-effective products. • Creating and maintaining accurate and UpToDate design library for all CAD files, assembly design files, part files, Jigs and fixtures designs, assembly instruction manuals, installation instruction manuals etc. using SOLIDWORKS PDM.

• Designed, Manufactured and characterized structural capacitors for Automotive applications that can store charges as well as can be used for structural applications. • Manufactured the different types of composites using Autoclave, Compression molding and Vacuum assisted resin transfer molding methods and Characterized these engineered material systems using Impedance spectroscopy and Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BbDS) technique and then validated them using MTS Tensile Testing and sensors like Fiber optic sensor, strains sensors etc. • Designed and Built devices and rigs for testing and research and supported in publishing two journal papers and currently working on two other papers. • Supervised junior interns for operating Wabash Compression Molding machine, VARTM, BbDS, MSA and profilometer. Certification: SolidWorks-Associate Mechanical Design Certificate. Software’s used: SolidWorks, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, MasterCAM, Ansys, Abaqus.

Competes in University Rover Challenge by The Mars Society 1. Designed and Manufactured efficient, light weight rocker bogie suspension system that is capable of traversing rough and mars-like terrains. 2. Reviewed multi terrain wheels 3D models and printed for accuracy and manufacturability. 3. Design reviewed and machined rocker bogie parts. 4. Assisted multi-disciplined team members in applying Mechanical Engineering discipline fundamentals into design work for Rover body-works, suspension and arm & gripper.

1. Daily interfaced with Manufacturing Manager and Project Manager to establish clear lines of communication and provided task status. 2. Worked with manufacturing team to develop 3D CAD designs for production processes to obtain maximum sq. foot of marble sheets from the massive marble rock. 3. Interacted with customers and reviewed/ created the 2D and 3D CAD designs to create the production process. 4. Designed, implemented, and reviewed production tools and fixtures.

1. Worked on the project “Design, development and testing of the pilot plant for biodiesel extraction” collaborating with chemical engineering department. 2. Designed and developed a batch wise producing plant to a continuous flow pilot plant that improved the time and cost for manufacturing the fuel by about 50% and 40%. 3. Researched and selected equipment, vendors and consultants that were required for buying/ manufacturing the parts of the pilot plant. 4. Tested the plant by producing bio-diesel and characterized the fuel by finding its viscosity, density, flash point, fire point, octane number etc. 5. Determined the optimum biodiesel: diesel blend ration for highest engine performance by testing various blend ratios in a 4-cylinder diesel engine. 6. Built bill of materials and documented the design concepts, drawings, test results etc. in accordance with the R&D. 7. Helped in setting up a new Research and Development lab. 8. Published 3 journals and presented 7 conference papers.

Tasks accomplished: Logistics Planning for multi-project program, project planning, feasibility assessment and design for Swatch Bharat project.