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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

03/2009- present
Industrial designer, New brand development & strategy | case-mate ®

Working to develop case-mate's brand of products, branding and also working on their next line of products. Also in charge of day to day operations with product development, vendors, manufacturing liaison and sourcing contract manufacturers.
Hug® - First WPC certified wireless charging system - ID,engineering and manufacturing.
I.D case® - First credit card case for Iphone 3G.
Pop - Unique co molded solution now being utilized with every platform at the company.
Cut & sow products & soft goods.

08/2007- 08/2008
Department of Industrial Design, North Carolina State University

Research Assistant : Dr.Sharon Joines, PHd (Assitant professor, ID) on human factors/ergonomics research, working on various
projects doing human factor subject testing, Usability testing, research and literature review, electromyography, Tekscan and posture data research and data analysis, qualitative and quantitative research.

08/2006 - 08/2007
College of design, IT Lab technician

Responsible for acquisition, maintenance, check in and out of materials and equipment, troubleshooting with printers, computer hardware, software and general issues including 3d printing on the BST printer.

04/2006-08/2006
General Motors Tech Centre

P r o d u c t L i n e L e a d e r Team leader for the Corvette and Cadillac XLR MPP teams, worked on Master Process Plans aiding GMNA. Worked
on entire body structure and also coordinated team with an active part in management initiatives to improve the process and workflow.

04/2005-04/2006
Allegis Group

S e n i o r D e s i g n E n g i n e e r : Work duties included mentoring a team as well as interaction with the plant at GMNA Warren. Used illustrator and solid modellers like UNIGRAPHICS extensively to work on automotive component files like body panels and door trims. Trained on Iman and Teamcentre.

07/2003-11/2003

Digital Globalsoft, Hewlett Packard
Backend Office support: Joined as a support technician for HP’s All in One division working on printers and AIO’s.

11/2003-04/2005

EASi Engineering
Design Engineer : deputed to General Motors Tech centre to work on Vehicle engineering. Exterior body group working on truck lines
like the Hummer H2, GMC Safari. Emphasis was to design and create production illustrations for GMNA plants.

01/2002-04/2002
Bharath Earth Movers Limited

Production Engineering Intern: Worked on the redesign of the BWTB wagon chassis rotating fixture and modelled the design in UNIGRAPHICS
and tested on ANSYS.

11/2001-04/2002
Larsen & Toubro Limited

Engineering Design Intern: worked on the design of a locating fixture to measure the accuracy of the assembly of the medical devices produced.

COMPETENCIES

- Sketching
- Pastel, Ink, Cintiq/wacom
- Rapid Prototyping
- Research and Trend analysis
- Human factors and Ergonomics
- Alias Studio Tools
- Unigraphics
- PRO - E
- Teamcentre (Iman)
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Corel Painter
- Alias Sketchbook
- Idea Generation
- Solidworks 2006
- Microsoft Office

REFERENCES *Available Upon Request