Dayananda K

Accomplished Associate Vice President at Tata Advanced Systems Limited, adept in strategic planning and operational management. Demonstrated expertise in enhancing manufacturing processes and integrating cutting-edge technologies, achieving significant productivity improvements. Skilled communicator and team builder, successfully leading projects that meet stringent cost, quality, and timeline benchmarks. Proven track record in driving performance and operational excellence across defense and aerospace sectors.

• IPC - Association Connecting Electronic Industries, 2011
• ERAI, 2016

• Contributed in ensuring regular on time delivery of major defense systems/equipment to the MoD (Ministry of Defense)
• Pivotal in establishing a new electronic manufacturing facility in Tata Power Company's Strategic Engineering division in Electronic City - Bangalore in 2009
• Initiated training and certification on various IPC Standards across the organization
• Played a significant role in getting the company certified for AS 9100
• Led a team which implemented ORACLE ERP
• Escalated Overall Operating Efficiency (OEE) by 15% through measures such as creating manufacturing effort estimation modules, setting up Quality benchmarks, qualifying Operations team on world standards in manufacturing
• Recognized for increasing the in-plant capability by 20%; was appreciated for the same
• Completed ToT for a mission critical product with a global defense major
• Conferred with Silver Medal in IGMC's Green Manufacturing challenge-2015
• INFHRA FM excellence award for Safety & Security-2018

• Pinaka: Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers & Command Posts: Indian Army
• Akash -Air Force: Surface to Air Missile Launchers: BEL-Bangalore
• Akash -Army: Surface to Air Missile Launchers: BDL-Hyderabad
• TCT-Agni: ICBM launchers: VRDE-DRDO
• ULAD: ASAT Launcher: DRDO
• CMS: Combat Management System for Indian Navy: CSL
• MRSAM: Medium Range Surface To Air Missile Launchers: Air Force
• Lakshya: LRUs for Pilotless Target Aircraft: HAL
• DMFC for Arihanth (Nuclear Submarine): Indian Navy
• Variety of LRUs for various military sub-systems for multiple customers

Date of Birth: 02/02/68

• English
• Kannada

Multi Product/Project based manufacturing Operations, Continuous process & quality improvements, Latest manufacturing techniques, IPC standards, Shop floor management, Customer driven KPIs, Providing leadership and direction to the team to ensure business and operational strategies are executed in line with organizational strategies, Ensuring the organizational objectives & performance benchmarks are cascaded to the lowest levels in the organization, Managing manufacturing under a challenging 'Concurrent Design To Manufacturing' environment, Expertise in handling both BTS & BTP manufacturing environment, Successfully achieved a record delivery of Rs. 425 cr. during FY-18, In-depth knowledge of manufacturing, supply and life-cycle support of mission critical products/systems of strategic importance, Proficiency in managing technically advanced, cost-efficient & state-of-the-art production systems to ensure top & bottom line profitability, Familiar with Quality Management Systems for Defense & Aerospace industry; managed ToTs with major defense & aerospace OEMs, Proactive and team-oriented leader with proven expertise to lead & manage diverse and large teams using strong organizational skills, Played a major role in setting up a very large manufacturing facility (Green Field Project) near Kolar-Karnataka, 180

• Bells Controls Ltd., Mysore, 01/01/96, 01/01/98, Engineer - Assembly & Testing
• CHIP Tech Electronics Pvt. Ltd., Unknown, 01/01/92, 01/01/96, Engineer - Assembly & Testing
• Ventronics, Mysore, 01/01/91, 01/01/92, Engineer - Assembly & Testing
• Sasmos HET Technologies Pvt.Ltd. General Manager - 01-Nov-2019, 26-May-2020