Fahad Azad
- Contact
- Save to list
-
About
Fahad Azad is engineering manager with overall 10+ years of experience. Currently working with mechanical and electronics R&D team for series A funded warehousing automation start up Grey Orange India Pvt Ltd in India.
Prior to this he Co-Founded Robosoft Systems which ran for 6 years. During that time it was was mentioned in MIT TR 35 innovator's list of 2011 for designing a robot for cleaning air duct.
Robosoft was also Awarded Leanest startup by Silicon Valley Robotics 2014 and top 5 robotics start up in at Innorobo 2014 France. It was mentioned in Forbes, Economist , MIT technology review magazine and various national news papers.
Prior to his entrepreneurial venture, he worked 1.5 years as product designer, sheet metal and plastic molding manufacturing consultant for an IIT Bombay incubated educational robotics startup Thinklabs.
He has been making drones and flying gliders since 1998. In march 2014, he made an experimental drone which did India's 1st drone delivery with a pizza in Mumbai. -
Education
-
Ignite Program Innovation and EntrepreneurshipStanford University Graduate School of Business2013 - 2013Stanford Ignite is an academic program for individuals formulating, developing and commercializing ideas. This innovative program provides exposure to both the fundamentals of business and the practical aspects of identifying, evaluating, and moving business ideas forward. The program uniquely combines current graduate student with innovators, scientists, and engineers from leading companies.
-
B.E AutomobileM.H.Saboo Siddik College of Engineering -Mumbai University2004 - 2009
-
Engineer's Degree Automotive Engineering Technology/TechnicianG.H.Raisoni Polytechnic Nagpur2001 - 2003
-
-
Experience
-
Programme ManagerGurugram, IndiaNov 2015 - Present (10 years 8 months)Leading team of 15 engineers for developing-
Natural Navigation Driverless kits for indoor vehicles.( 2 Patent)
Automated storage and retrieval mobile shuttle 10x efficient then AMAZON Kiva robots (4 Patent)
Unlimited flight 6kg ToW Tethered Unmanned Air Vehicles( 1 patient)
Making Companies dream Products into reality -
Technical LeadGurugram, IndiaJul 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year 4 months)Established Installation Division of 30 and executed 25 Installations worth USD $5M under 6 months.
Technical lead for 15 Interdisciplinary engineers designing parcel sortation systems with 100,000 USD R&D Budget.
Released 2 arms based sortation conveyor in 3 months which reduced deployment time from 15 days to 6 days. Increased throughput from 3000 to 6000 packets per hour.
Implemented mathematical model for 10k per hour cross belt sorter input system. -
Director Business Development & Strategy ( Co-Founder)Robosoft SystemsMumbai, IndiaJun 2008 - Jul 2014 (6 years 1 month)Co founded Robotics Startup in industrial mobile robots and educational robotics
Air duct inspection robots (DuctBot) cleans and inspects centralized HVAC Ducts & also winner of TR35 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Created India's educational largest online robotics store and
Offer Consulting services for Universities and Research organization for setting Robotics Lab and Implementing complex Robotics Projects -
Technical AssociateThinkLABS Technosolutions Pvt. Ltd.Jun 2006 - Feb 2008 (1 year 8 months)Responsible for
Designing and conceptualizing new educational Robots along with kits Instructional design.
Exploring and Implementing methods of cost effective low batch lean manufacturing.
Managing and explore new vendors in material and manufacturing.
Conducted India 1st robotics workshops courses and covered more than 5000 students across India. -
Robotics Engineer- InternEnviromental Protection Service companyAug 2004 - Apr 2006 (1 year 8 months)Design and Prototyping of New duct cleaning Robots
Managed 2 engineers for project and maintenance of equipment
Launched New duct Robot at NADCA conference Dubai 2005
Service existing Duct inspection robots and equipment
-
-
Awards
Innovator of the yr TR35 M.I.T
-
Affiliations
Start up leadership program, Stanford Graduate school of business - Ignite
-
Skills
-
Elsewhere on the Web
-
On Coroflot@azad2fm, member since 2013
-
-
Followers 1
