EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Sep23 to Present Senior Advisor and Consultant to Industry
Freelance consulting:
• Provide freelance consulting for engineering design of trucks, buses, and commercial vehicles.
• Provide guidance on new technology adoption, driving exponential growth, and modernization.
• Offer freelance consulting services to design teams, ensuring a deep understanding of customer needs, product design guidance, resolution of critical design issues, and cost reduction and optimization of products and aggregates.
Founder & CTO of The-Counsellor.com
Founded and serve as the Chief Technology Officer at The-Counsellor.com, a company focused on providing guidance to students and the industry.
Advisor to Industry
Act as an advisor to the board of various companies, lending my extensive experience and insights to support their strategic decision-making and growth initiatives.
Mar 23 to Aug23 Bharat Forge – Kalyani Group
Designation: President & Global Chief Technology Officer
Reports to: Chairman and Joint Managing Director
Team Size: 400+
Company Profile
Bharat Forge Limited is an Indian multinational company involved in forging, automotives, energy, construction, mining, railways, marine, aerospace and defence industries. The Group has a turnover of $3 billion has over 5000 employees in India, Europe, USA, and other parts of the world.
Job Responsibilities include:
• Contribute to development of corporate strategy and business planning.
• Development of technology for increasing business.
• Creation of long-term product plan.
• Align technology related decisions with organizational goals.
• Management and administration of all Global R&D Centres and resources for higher efficiency and performance.
• Technology transfer: Embrace new and innovative technologies by competence development.
• Adopt new state of the art tools.
• Maintenance and development of R&D infrastructure.
• Monitoring of Megatrends to evaluate impact on company’s business goals.
• Participate in management decisions about governance.
• Provide engineering services to overseas entities.
Dec 16 to March 23 Schindler Corporation, Pune
Designation: Senior Vice President & Site Head - Global R&D Centre
Reported to: CTO based out of Ebikon, Switzerland
Team Size: 350+
Company Profile
The company was founded in 1874 in Lucerne, Switzerland, and is today one of the world’s leading providers of elevators, escalators, and moving walks. Schindler is active in the areas of production, installation, maintenance, and modernization. The Group has a turnover of $10.2 billion has over 1000 branch offices in more than 100 countries, as well as production sites and research and development facilities in the USA, Brazil, Europe, China, and India.
Job Responsibilities include:
• Head of Product Development, Innovation, Technology: Corporate R&D.
• Management Board Member – CTO organization
• Global Head of Digital Transformation – Elevators.
• Heading NPD global team of Experts in Mechanical, Electrical, Embedded, Electronics, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, and Digitization teams.
• Expertise in Development of Motors, Invertors, Batteries, EV components and Control Software.
June 05 to Dec 16 Tata Motors, Pune
Designation: General Manager - Heavy Commercial Vehicles, ERC, Pune
Reports to: Head ERC – Commercial Vehicles
Team Size: 200; Cross Functional Team: 400 people
Company Profile
Flagship company of a large Business Group and is India's largest automobile company with revenues of US$ 40 billion in 2016. With over 5 million vehicles plying in India, it is the leader in commercial vehicles. It is also the world's fourth largest medium and heavy truck manufacturer and the second largest heavy bus manufacturer. Its cars, buses and trucks are already being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia and in Australia, besides India; Company has R&D centres in South Korea, Spain, and the UK.
The Engineering Research Division (ERC) is one of the most respected R&D set-up in India. Prima platform under development is the biggest new platform by sales volume for the company.
Job Responsibilities include:
• Chief Engineer and Design In-charge of two big Product Platforms of Tata Motors:
1. Medium and Heavy Commercial Buses: Responsible for Design and development of all M& HCV buses made by Tata Motors. Heading Engineering Research Centre Lucknow (120 people). Sales volume last year is 9000 crores ($1.8 Billion).
2. Heading Product Development of the Prima Platform: The product line has trucks, tractor-trailers, and tippers from 11-49 tons. The project sales expected to be $3 Billion by the year 2016. The products are being launched in 20 countries and are manufactured in Korea and India.
• In-charge of Fuel Cell, Hybrid buses, Electric Vehicles (EV) in Tata Motors. Developed Autonomous Bus. Partnered with IISC Bangalore to develop Fuel Cell Bus. The project received funding from DSIR.
• Heading Product Strategy committee for Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicle from engineering side. The committee works to develop a winning and pragmatic strategy that meets the company’s business objectives and regular monitoring of the same. Regular review of M & HCV Competition Analysis and global market trends. Product conceptualization and execution. Concept to launch and post launch responsibility. In effect have the ownership of this range right from strategic planning to the end of the product life cycle.
• Head – Vehicle Integration Prima trucks and Buses
• Driveline Integration: Design and Integration of Engine Cooling, Air Intake, Exhaust, Fuel Intake and Engine Mounting.
• Leading a cross functional team designing Chassis, BIW, Cabin, Styling, Suspension, Brakes, Transmission, Engines, Electrical and Electronics etc.
Nov 04 to May 05 Delphi Automotive Systems, Greater Noida
Designation: Divisional Manager - Product Engineering
Reports to: VP Engineering
No. Of Subordinates: 25
Job Responsibilities include:
• Head of Product Engineering and Delphi’s Ride dynamics and Chassis Module division in India.
• Design of Dampers, Shock Absorbers, Struts, Suspension modules, Independent Front Suspension and Engine and Transmission mounts.
Oct 02 - Oct 04 Dana Corporation – India Technical Centre, Pune
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Designation: Deputy General Manager
July 94 – Eicher Motors Ltd., Indore
Sep 02
Designation: Manager - Product Development
Sep 91 to Ashok Leyland Ltd., Hosur
June 94 Development Engineer - Product Development