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Kamalakar Bojja

Sr Staff Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

15+ years extensive experience in Product life cycle management of design, manufacturing & vendor collaboration, fleet management & Costout in Turbo-machinery/Aircraft engines components, Semiconductor Fab Tools.

• Expertise to work in extensive product portfolios. Aircraft engine bearings, seals, oil system & structures and Steam turbine Nozzle&Seals

• Expertise driving field issue resolutions to closure, repair Implementations & Fleet Management.

• Expertise in leading complex projects to closure per program requirements with effective project management & diverse global teams cross functional collaboration.

• Bringing Cost reduction on table is my key strength. With agile methods, led cost leader role for Aircraft engines, Steam turbine hardware & processes to meet business cost goals. Impacted cost reduction in various phases NPI / final designs and in Fleet operations.

• ERD/management/ Purpose award and ~20 Internal awards in GE
• Six sigma green belt / Caltech's System Engineering Certification.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr. Staff Engineer

Applied Materials
11.2020 - Current

• Semiconductor ALD Fab Systems, NPI Chamber Module, Product design for high vacuum mechanical systems, Thermal subsystems and Integration.

• Owning, Fielded tools, Life cycle engineering and Service solutions for the Chamber module by working closely with Product support Teams and guiding vendors on critical hardware development.

• Design validation with Thermal, Structural, flow analysis and hardware Lab qualifications.

• MCOS focal driving cost reduction.

Advance Lead Engineer

GE Aviaiton
09.2013 - 08.2020

6+ years experience in GE Aviation as ALE.

• Ownership of GP7200 engine MS-Mechanical system hardware ( Bearings, seals & structures...) and Led responsibilities from conceptual to final design, drawings & specs, sourcing & vendor interactions and seamless field introduction with effective systemic collaboration.
• Resolved critical hardware/oil system driven field issues to closure. Industrialized critical hardware repairs in MRO shops, enabling $3.2M CSA costout.
• Led LEAP engine costout for MS module, brainstormed & delivered costout of ~$10K/engine to meet cost targets.

• Led LM6000PF+ Nozzles team and completed LPT nozzle design PDR/DDR.

• Expertise in diverse & cross functional connect, sourcing & vendor collaboration, agile methods of project management in driving the projects to closure.

Lead Engineer

GE Power
04.2011 - 09.2013

2+ years experience in GE Power as Lead Engineer.

• Tech lead for Steam turbine sealing technology with design to field intro responsibility, completed 4-NPI, 23+ Requisition OTR projects with execution rigor, detailed documentation by working with Bangalore, US & Mexico teams.

• Led Costout leader role for steam turbine nozzles & seals and impacted design in early NPI stage for cost out and also delivered on $1.74M costout for final designs exceeding the team cost targets.

Engineer

GE Power
09.2007 - 04.2011

4 years experience in GE Power as Engineer.

• Delivered Steam Turbine Nozzle design for new & CMU orders, with $10K costout in first project. Authored and updated numerous Design Data Books, oil seal design practices and ISO documentation.

• Engineering Focal for manufacturing non-conformance dispositions.
•Six sigma Green belt certified.

Sr Engineer

Pitti Engineering Solutions
06.2005 - 04.2007

~2 years experience in Pitti Engineering Solutions as Sr Engineer.

• Product development and design of custom production tooling & assembly fixtures for manufacturing, GE-Rail locomotive Electric motor & generator laminations and frame bodies and also for other Power generators.
• Optimized production processes & raw material stocks for cost reduction and seamlessly transitioned to production.

Education

PGTD - Tool Design

Central Institute Of Tool Design
Hyderabad
06.2003 - 02.2005

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

JNTU
Kakinada
06.1998 - 02.2002

Skills

Design, Life Cycle Mgmt & Costout

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Software

UG-NX with Teamcenter, ANSYS, CATIA-V5, aPriori

Timeline

Sr. Staff Engineer

Applied Materials
11.2020 - Current

Advance Lead Engineer

GE Aviaiton
09.2013 - 08.2020

Lead Engineer

GE Power
04.2011 - 09.2013

Engineer

GE Power
09.2007 - 04.2011

Sr Engineer

Pitti Engineering Solutions
06.2005 - 04.2007

PGTD - Tool Design

Central Institute Of Tool Design
06.2003 - 02.2005

B.Tech - Mechanical Engineering

JNTU
06.1998 - 02.2002
Kamalakar BojjaSr Staff Engineer