MANIKANDAN K

Accomplished Lead Engineer with 12.5 years of experience, specializing in quality-driven solutions, customer satisfaction, and effective project management. Proven track record in leading teams, managing projects, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Adept at driving innovation, maintaining high standards of excellence, and fostering collaborative environments to meet both business and technical objectives.

• Leading the e-IPC team, Technical writing & s-bom Readiness team of 12 members to deliver customer requirements on time.
• Leading the Dynamic-bom project for restructuring Service Bill of Material
• Managing the complete lifecycle of spare part manuals by close collaboration with SME and external customers to deliver projects as per requirements.
• Consultant management: Effectively managing consultant by defining their objectives, workload and work coordination to ensure alignment with project goals and timelines.
• Act as key stakeholder for end users and inter-linked departments for project decision making processes and solutions.
• Training and mentoring team members on updates, process changes & new projects.
• Process optimization in documentation: defining standards & decision making in process workflow & guidelines
• Successful testing & implementation of e-IPC & Windchill driven Technical writing project by actively driving scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Create ECM Problem Reports (PR) and ensure the PRs get evaluated and the Change Requests (CR) created.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Drive alignment, validation, and review process together with relevant stakeholders
• Close collaboration with project managers, module owners, development & aftermarket sales teams to understand & deliver project requirements
• Plan and execute illustrated Parts Catalogue (IPC) & SWI (Service Work Instructions) for New Mk upgrade projects.
• Review of Illustrated Parts Catalogue and SWI's
• Expertise in creating high level Illustrations for IPC, technical writing for SWI's and handling service now/SIS tickets
• Responsible for development of software product documentation such as User Guides, Release Notes,
  training materials, FAQs, Tooltips and Popup content.
• Created training manuals and help guides on IPC creation, Windchill handling Process & EUP's for change management process.

• e-IPC implementation project: Driven the e-IPC & e-IPC 2.0 projects to deliver IPC through a system based approach.
• Driving 3D visualization project for e-IPC.
• Project manager for documentation & process control
• Publication structure & Creo illustrate automation project.
• End user site optimization project
• IPC quality improvement (IQR) project
• Windchill (CCMS) migration project
• Feedback loop system implementation project
• Implementation of reuse strategy ( Bom tool creation) across documentation area)
• Leading the dynamic document distribution project

• Core Branding member: Lead & drive the mission of community engagement & brand impact throughout Vestas Chennai
• Driven CSR activities
• CI (Continuous improvements) lead

• Arbortext Editor
• MS office tools
• JIRA
• Adobe Acrobat
• Power Bi
• SAP DMS
• DevOps
• Windchill
• CREO Illustrate
• CREO View
• CREO Parametric
• Teamcentre Vismockup
• Canvas

• Customer Focus
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Project Management
• Ideation
• Strategic thinking
• Communication
• Team/Relationship building

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