Ajit Tulo

• Building a state of art flexi-work office space and laboratory
• Built a strategic sourcing team
• Built a product configuration team
• Increasing GEC (Global Engineering Center) Global In House Center (GIC) Maturity model for Pumps, Filtration, and IoT domains
• Drove pump design effort globally
• Established engineering analysis first approach, grew high performance computing architecture
• Implemented DoE PEI compliance to all residential & commercial pumps
• Delivered four minimum viable products for dis-infection and filtrations technology
• Delivered IoT solutions for Water Softener, Water Quality Measurements, and Swimming Pool Controls
• Built a strong IoT team skilled in AWS cloud architecture, User experience APP, DevOP, scaled Agile Development architecture
• Successfully completed companywide implementation of New Product Development process based Sopheon Accolade / Clarizen Platform for project portfolio management
• Developed IP / Landscaping strategy team for Innovation Portfolio, NPD growth, and M&A
• Developed a technology innovation team.

Led cross functional team of 150 plus strong teams engage in development of state of art pumps, valves, pool, aquatics, filtrations, electronics cabinet development.

Complete financial, operational excellence of the one of kind Pentair Design Centre. Simplified financial hygienic factors, established engineering assets e.g. best practices, test & validations, CoE Models for functional engineering team spanning mechanical, electrical and electronics team. Full program/ project manager ownership of Pentair Blue Chip Projects. Developed 3D/IP team.

Drove Pump Energy Efficiency index improvement strategy.

Development of Strong Bio Gas, IoT Team. Developed a robust hydraulic, CFD, mechanical design philosophy and in house test facility for clear water pumps. Developed state of art fish pumps.

Team got company wide recognition for building IoT monetized solutions in GLM 2018 from Chainman.

Establishing Design Practices, Best Practices for FEA / CFD. Strong communication models. Introduced 3D (Discover / Develop / Deploy) NPI / NPD and enabled training across Pentair.

Regional product strategy, commercialization of global products to fit into regional eco-systems.

• Leadership span of 180 members team with 10 direct Manager and 3 Principal Engineers to work on development of New Products/ Fulfillment/Fleet Modernization on Steam Turbine and Electric Generators engineers worth ~3B$ order
• Developed regional coal based reference plant for 660 & 800 MW
• Championed re-organization and integration of steam turbine and generation engineering teams
• Technology transformation road map for CC steam turbine, achieved 15% span reduction, 20% component cost reductions
• Successfully developed structured generator product line for large water (475 to 645MW), medium hydrogen (250 to 390MW)
• Drove regional cleaner coal product strategy.

Grew the steam turbine engineering team from 70 to 150 members. Strategized and developed plan to transformed analytic based team to design team. Drove fulfillment excellence, engaged team towards steam turbine services opportunity. Trained resources in turbine design skills and team successfully achieved 100% ownership maturity in providing retrofit solutions.

Conceptualized and developed 20 members design productivity team for automated design. Design tool modernization strategy to fix all broken process and transform from UNIX based platform to windows. Developed rotor bucket3D, rotor 3D. Achieved close to 50 product intellectual properties.

Developed steam turbine LP casing manufacturing strategy from china, re-design and cross collaboration resulted 40% cost reduction on hoods ($5MM to $ 3MM) and established in-house capability.

Drove Engineering Excellence strategy. Team achieved outstanding bi-annual GE-opinion survey, achieved best in class 97% employee retention.

• Developed IGCC team from scratch to 70 members strong
• Developed skill centric organizations structure and implemented across Bangalore and Huston
• Established 100% autonomy maturity in executing coal to syn-gas conversion work from Bangalore
• Drove several in process simplifications, automated integration of heat and mass balance to water tables, stronger integration among PFD, H&MB, equipment design and P&ID
• Achieved OTR cycle time reduction from 26 weeks to 18 weeks by applying lean six sigma technique.
• For India Engineering Operations for, plus engineers located in Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bangalore
• Developed and managed metrics for on time delivery, training completions
• Coordinated the ISO recertification and internal audits
• Drove recruitment strategy to hire 250 employees annually
• Developed a cost out strategy for entire GE energy business using GE-workout methodology, resulted 1100 ideas and established project funding
• Strategized P&E investment, established HPC for computations and managed $80MM engineering budget.

Provided analytical support to various aircraft engine external systems such as Fuel Supply, Oil Supply, Scavenge, Vents, Drains, Active Clearance

Successfully supported three full NPI GE90-115B, CF34-10E, and GP7200 engine developments. Achieved 99% design throughputs using analytical techniques.

Led the cost out strategies post TG7 of NPI for GE90-94B, GE90-115B and CF34-10 engine programs. Tested and validated damping behavior of the metal & hose interactions brought changes to DP (Design Practice)

We pioneered in the engine fuel system design, development and validation. We successfully designed the fuel system with 100% throughputs.

Team achieved best in class 120% average global effectiveness score among all GE aviation global operations (Survey Based Scoring for global operations).

• Developed airworthy cooling and dry air system for Transmitter
• Developed ground systems for continuous on ground testing of Radar System
• Design and Development of Air Intake manifolds for RAM air heat exchanger
• Design, Development, Test and validation of heat exchange, pumping and module complying aviation / military standards.