Sandeep Gowda Ramaswamy

Project: Design of off grid solar charging station Worked on design and development of off-grid solar power charging power station for multiple product lines. Created product nomenclature and numbering scheme. Responsibilities * Assist with component selection including vendor & pricing research * Generate in-house design and create production drawings, renderings, component lists, wiring diagrams, subassembly instructions and associated product development documentation as required * Assist CTO with development of improved charging stations, customer siting procedures and forms * Support CTO and Productions Manager with customer siting meeting including collection of customer data and accurate completion of the customer siting form. * Assist with finalization of all non-standard product design options including customer specific requirements * Assist CTO with customer order fulfillment task completion and support on an as needed basis * Perform other product line support duties as assigned by the CTO that fall within the contractor skills and abilities

Worked on developing electronic course content for flipped classrooms for online teaching. Analyzed different teaching techniques to understand the effectiveness of student learning and created course content based on survey results. Analyzed different factors (light, temperature, sound, etc) influencing classroom performance. Studied modular school concepts and designs. Assisted business professor in co-ordinating with his students on their projects. Researched and identified potential industry sponsored projects.

With professional experience of 8 years and 5 months I worked as Technical Lead with HCL Technologies 1 Ltd and HCL America Inc. Worked on design and development of plastics, connectors, sheet metal and machined components using various CAD tools for clients Amphenol TCS, Cisco and Cymer Inc.

Project: Design of backplane connectors Worked on design and development of lead frame, insert mold, overmold, daughtercard housing, backplane shroud, power module and guide module for product lines like GbX, XCede, XCede HD, Stacker and RAM. Worked on CAD modeling, assembly and detailing of connector drawings. Designed, developed, verified and validated the drawing automation tool for the XCede product line. Responsibilities * Understand the requirements analyze products variants and processes * Design components and conduct reviews with the stakeholders. Create product drawings and follow it through release * For drawing automation, develop DOS script, CAD models and programing in CAD software * Perform the automation tool testing, verification and validation * Conduct tool review with client and get approval and acceptance * Release the tool for engineer's usage * Troubleshooting the tool if necessary during the usage

Project: Design of consumer products and its value engineering Worked on rugged hand held mobile device with ip67 rating. Performed value engineering evaluation activity for Cisco products. Responsibilities in Product Design * Conduct input study meeting with sales, marketing and industrial designer to understand the product requirements and design constraints * Develop concepts, conduct concept review with marketing, industrial designer & hardware designers * Finalize the design to meet rugged and ip67 rating and perform the detailed design * Conduct detail design review with design team, hardware team and manufacturing team * Vendor management for off-the-shelf parts and also for manufacturing or fabricating the components * Track all the design artifacts in agile * Verify and validate manufactured products for form, fit and function Responsibilities in Value Engineering * Identify the areas in various product lines to perform value engineering * Suggest the product to client for the evaluation or work on suggested product for evaluation by client 2 and perform the tear down analysis to track down the bill of materials * Generate multiple ideas/concepts in creative phase * Prepare percentage cost savings and calculate return on investment * Post approval, work on the implementation phase

Project: Tool design for photo lithography machines Worked on design and development of tools for hoisting and shipping assembly components and designed support structures for vacuum sub-system modules of EUV Systems. Responsibilities * Conduct input study meeting to understand the requirements and constraints * Develop multiple concepts and conduct concept review with all the key stake holders * Finalize the design and perform the detailed design * Perform structural and thermal calculations * Ensure the design is meeting the safety standards and perform the volume clearance check * Conduct detail design review with design team, manufacturing team, field service and quality team * Contact multiple vendors for off-the-shelf parts & fabricate/manufacture parts * Test and verify manufactured parts for assembly fit and function * Follow up for the release of product drawings in Agile