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Canfina D'Souza

Sr. Design Engineer
Pune

Summary

Senior Design Engineer with six years of experience in Automotive Seating. Considered valuable asset while contributing excellence in cross-functional project leadership to deliver tasks and solutions on-time and with good results. Strong communicator to translate design requirements into actionable plans.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr. Design Engineer

Faurecia
Pune
07.2016 - Current

Clients : BMW , AUDI (PPE , Landjet) , Daimler , Dyson


  • Handling a team of 3-4 team members. Assign daily tasks to them , quality check after each task and delivery to clients
  • Daily meetings with counter parts
  • Study of Seat at various lifecycles : Design , Validation , SOP


Portfolios :

  • Data Packaging of various parts in a seat like trimming profiles, wiring harness, heating mat, bladders, EPP etc.
  • Seat Architecture
  • Internal and External Clash Analysis of seat
  • Complete Seat drawing as per OEM standards
  • Regulations of seat
  • Safety Study
  • Fit and Flush Drawings
  • Tolerance Stackup in a seat
  • Strak scan study of a seat
  • BOM creation and Updation
  • PDM tool usage - Data and Part Management
  • Interface checking for fixation concepts for complete seat
  • Swept Volume of a seat
  • DMU management along with Kinematics and Variant management creation and execution

Design Engineer

Faurecia Autositz Gmbh
Munchen
01.2018 - 11.2018

Worked on BMW and Mini Project


Handled Row-1 and Row-2 DMUs

Attended customer meeting as CAD support

Point of contact for India team on behalf of German pilots

Observation of seat assembly, perceived quality check and quick modification of parts like EPP and foam to achieve desired results

Belt Buckle packaging and parking study

Headrest study along with backset and trimming

Wire harness complete design for Row-2

Seat Architecture

Scan Strak Study

Data preparation for Prisma


Apprentice

Bosch
Nashik
03.2016 - 07.2016

Apprentice at Bosch Nashik at Hardening Stage of Injectors


  • Understanding of various processes for hardening injectors
  • Understanding the machines used and assisting Blue collar staff
  • Worked on various machines at Hard Stage
  • Conducted a Study on Scrapping of Injectors at Hard Stage due to various reasons.
  • Reduction of number of Scrapped parts after various studies and analysis of parts

Internship Student

R. S. Consultancy
Pune
08.2014 - 06.2015
  • Designing of air Conditioning System for an IT Park
  • Calculating area of IT park in AUTO CAD
  • Calculating Heat load of various rooms in an IT Park
  • Suggesting Indoor and Outdoor air conditioning units for each room
  • Worked on AUTOCAD

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

JSPMs Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering
Pune, India
08.2011 - 07.2015

HSC - Science PCM

Nowrosjee Wadia College
Pune , India
06.2009 - 04.2011

SSC - NA

St. Anne's High School
Pune, India
06.1998 - 04.2010

Skills

    Communication skills - fluency in English

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Trainings

  • Safety and Regulations training
  • Leadership Competency
  • effective presentation skills
  • NX part, product management and drawing

Certification

German Language Training

Interests

Baking sweet and savoury Won first runner up for christmas cake in Faurecia

Art and Craft - Handmade cards

Trekking - Trekked the highest peak of Maharashtra and the Alps - Germany Austria border

Timeline

German Language Training

12-2020

Design Engineer

Faurecia Autositz Gmbh
01.2018 - 11.2018

Sr. Design Engineer

Faurecia
07.2016 - Current

Apprentice

Bosch
03.2016 - 07.2016

Internship Student

R. S. Consultancy
08.2014 - 06.2015

Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

JSPMs Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering
08.2011 - 07.2015

HSC - Science PCM

Nowrosjee Wadia College
06.2009 - 04.2011

SSC - NA

St. Anne's High School
06.1998 - 04.2010
Canfina D'SouzaSr. Design Engineer