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Danish Masood
Project Management
Chennai
Summary
Experienced and self-motivated Project Manager bringing forth over Fifteen years of experience with Project Management / New Product Development-R&D in Automobile Industry.
Adept in all aspects of project management including planning, budget management, and coordinating all working parts of a project. Experienced in working directly with stakeholders to ensure all the goals of a project are achieved and met within scope and budget.
Rich experience in Project Management, NPD (R&D), ECN management, Competitor Vehicle benchmarking and Team Management in Automotive sector. Proven experience on competitor Product Benchmarking, generating VA/VE Ideas for Cost saving and ideas implementation.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
1
1
Language
Work History
Project Manager
YAMAHA MOTOR R&D INDIA
04.2013 - Current
- Responsible for multiple development project of FZ , Ray ZR ,Saluto Rx , R15 Engine localization implementation by effectively planning, executing, reviewing & controlling
- Ensure product specification signoff with CFT & Product Marketing for the project feasibility & concept finalization
- Cross coordination with COEs to release Design on time for the part development in-line with Project schedule
- Proactively assess the project risks through Project gate reviews and define the contingency plan for the critical path
- Tracking & monitoring of the project cost and part development for proto build, validation & certification (TA/CMVR)
- Strong follow-up with VD/Proto shop/Testing for material availability, prototype buildup and testing & validation resp
- Interface with R&D, VD, ME, Power Train Engineering and with other COEs for first time right product launches
- Conducting daily morning review with HOD-R&D for project criticality & its progress
- Weekly & Monthly project review with top Management
- Input Kakatora item in claim DB and utilizing for creating design checklist along with CFT’s for must quality requirement
- Initiate Competitor Benchmark for VAVE/Cost saving idea generation, planning, execution and implementation
- Lead and mentor team for effectiveness of the process (New/modify) put in place to establish robust processes
- Leading the team for Cost Down, VA-VE, and New product development
- Analyzing and creating the technical requirements
- Benchmarking with competitor’s model & generate new ideas for future models
- Optimization of specification based on Indian market usage conditions
- Complete analysis of each part cost in terms of material, process & testing expenses before cost finalization
- Management and Co-ordination for organization level cost down activities
- Checking of process at vendor end & also suggestion of some improvement point if required
- Lead design changes/Revisions to address manufacturing, quality and service concerns
- Change of various standards (Design, testing, Manufacturing, Quality & Service) for product design and quality need optimization
- Development of local standard in line with local resource, quality and customer requirement
- Monitoring development with respect to cost, resource deployment, time over-runs and quality compliance; evaluating production progress & taking adequate corrective actions
- Identifying and developing potential vendors for achieving the cost effective purchases of the materials; reduction in prices & timely delivery
- Alleviating new product development initiatives with key focus on QCD (Quality, Control & Delivery) as well as conducting functional and reliability tests on various parts & initiating relevant action for enhancing their functions
- Designing and implementing systems and procedures to facilitate smooth functioning of overall quality operations and enhancing operational efficiency
- Key Projects:
- FZ cost reduction project , Ray ZR new model development , Saluto Rx project new model development and launch
- Cost saving of Rs1500 per vehicle
Manager-QA / SQA
INDIA YAMAHA MOTOR PVT LTD
01.2011 - 04.2013
- Assisting in Designing, evaluating and implementing systems and procedures to facilitate smooth functioning of overall quality operations and enhancing operational efficiency
- Assisting in formulating operational strategies for the quality function by carrying out long term and short term quality planning in line with the organization requirements
- Successfully improved straight pass ratio from 85% to 95% also ensuring the reduction of defects by deployment of poke yoke
- Responsible for the deployment of stringent Quality management system at suppliers to minimize defect ratio of bought out parts
- Leading root cause investigations to implement corrective actions on purchased components
- Demonstrating ability across FMEA, Control plans, Sampling, Capability studies, etc
- Instrumental in the improvement activity for optimized productivity also ensuring the adherence to quality standards for minimum rejection
- Analyzing technical requirements with the supplier prior to parts
- Tracked and reported facility QA metrics for failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and directed facility personnel toward associated process improvements
- Involved in 5S visualization at shop floor and vendor end also streamlining production, yield and sequencing guidelines of manufacturing activities on the shop floor by developing new process concepts
- Kaizen in shop floor to facilitate waste reduction
- Deployment of lean initiative at shop floor and supplier end to yield better productivity
- Achievements:
- Market claim reduction from 4% to 3% .
Asst. Manager
INDIA YAMAHA MOTOR PVT LTD
12.2007 - 01.2011
- New Product Planning and development with CFT/CGT (Program Management, Sourcing, ME, R&D, Quality)
- Co-ordination with project stakeholders for business case, time plan and its charter approval
- Risk analysis and Mitigation Plan for the Identified Issues of the project
- Project update and documentation into database by ensuring the completion of M Gates (M0 to M6) Product Life Cycle
- Conducting workshops on VA/VE and BENCHMARKING to generate cost saving ideas
- Identifying conceptualizing new features in motorcycles for product upgrade
- Preparing Bills of Materials and subsequently issuing it to various
- Analyzing production problem and market claim, study and countermeasure
- Liaising & coordinating with YMC Japan R&D for categorizing & resolving issues faced in parts designing process
- Anchoring Value Analysis/ Value Engineering for parts approval by confirming the evaluation result at YMC
- Steering efforts towards developing Engine Propriety Parts, Machined, Casting Part, and Fastener & Fabrication
- Spearheaded engineering activities encompassing new parts localization & review and Departmental EHS activities
- Achievements:
- Annual cost saving of 40million INR
- Received award for achievement of Proto part development Quality compliance target for consecutive 2 years
- Essayed a stellar role in ensuring on-time launch of the Four Models in the Indian market
- Stellar role in development and SOP for imported part localization
Education
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Board of Technical Education
01.2003 - 01.2006
10th - undefined
Dev Samaj Modern School
Skills
Time management
undefinedCertification
Six Sigma Black belt
Interests
Exploring new places
Learning new skills
Timeline
Six Sigma Black belt
07-2014
Project Manager
YAMAHA MOTOR R&D INDIA
04.2013 - Current
Manager-QA / SQA
INDIA YAMAHA MOTOR PVT LTD
01.2011 - 04.2013
Asst. Manager
INDIA YAMAHA MOTOR PVT LTD
12.2007 - 01.2011
Diploma - Mechanical Engineering
Board of Technical Education
01.2003 - 01.2006
10th - undefined
Dev Samaj Modern School
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