Praveen Paul T
Mysore
Summary
Tech lead with hands on experience of execution of project with 12+ years plus professional experience with various departments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
L&T Technology Services
11.2024 - Current
- Led end-to-end project management from concept proposal to safe launch, ensuring alignment with scope, timeline, and budget.
- Defined project goals, milestones, and deliverables, while coordinating cross-functional teams including design, manufacturing, quality, and procurement.
- Conducted project planning, risk assessments, and feasibility studies to support VAVE execution, identifying opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
- Monitored project performance, identified risks, and implemented corrective actions to avoid schedule slippage or budget overruns.
- Managed customer communications, including requirements gathering, status reporting, milestone reviews, and post-launch feedback.
- Oversaw supplier coordination for component sourcing and validation, ensuring technical feasibility and adherence to delivery schedules to maintain budget control.
- Supervised the design and development of automotive components (plastic, sheet metal, stamped parts), ensuring quality and manufacturability.
- Led engineering change management and maintained product documentation including BOMs, drawings, and 2D/3D CAD deliverables.
- Applied quality control principles including DFMEA, GD&T, and compliance with industry standards to ensure design robustness.
- Utilized tools like SolidWorks, MS Project, and Excel to manage schedules, track deliverables, and generate executive-level reporting.
- Fostered team collaboration, drove accountability, and ensured clear communication across departments and external partners.
- Led VAVE team projects, overseeing timelines and deliverables.
- Delivered VAVE strategies and cost-reduction concepts, providing support for accurate cost estimation of components and assemblies.
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions and teardown activities for idea generation, competitive benchmarking, and product optimization.
- Conducted teardown sessions for mechanical components to generate innovative ideas.
- Managed customer interactions to gather requirements and provide updates.
- Coordinated with suppliers to ensure timely delivery and quality standards.
- Feasibility study for VAVE execution.
- Facilitated brainstorming sessions to develop cost reduction strategies.
- Delivered VAVE and cost-effective concepts in response to project requirements.
- Should Costing estimation of Assembly & their parts for Commodity Sheet Metal, Casting, Machining, Welding.
- Experience in Client Communication and Status Reporting.
- Design of Automotive Parts (Plastic, Stamp Parts), Enclosure, Mounting Plates.
- Created detailed 2D/3D drawings in SolidWorks according to customer specifications.
- Design failure mode analysis, GD&T.
- BOM Creation & Change management.
- Product understanding, BOM scrubbing and competitor benchmarking.
- Performed teardown activities to analyse components and identify improvement opportunities.
- Experience in Client Communication and Status Reporting.
Project Lead
L&T Technology Services
07.2022 - 10.2024
- Lead the projects from RFQ proto stage to postproduction launch.
- Coordinated project management activities, analysed data and project deliverables, ensuring adherence to timeframe and budget requirements.
- Make APQP project time plan: Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, lead, manage and establish direction of realistic and comprehensive plans.
- Co-ordinating with Cross functional teams for design reviews & feasible study.
- Conducted meetings with vendors, customers, and project managers to update on project status, performing regular status calls weekly and monthly.
- Effectively communicate insights & plans to cross functional team members & management, being able to work to very tight timelines on multiple detailed activities simultaneously.
- Anticipate any potential project risks, identifying and establishing corrective actions.
- Safe launching the projects with Quality sign off with CFT Team.
- Performed root cause analysis (RCA) to resolve customer complaints using quality control tools.
- Time study new and existing lines to determine the bottleneck operation, calculate standard time and reduce the bottleneck operation & Cycle time.
- Managed drawing change requests by coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely updates.
- Determines project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements and performance standards: completing technical studies.
- Assist the product design and part design team to gather information that is required to complete the proposal.
- Designing of Electrical Connectors as per ISO Standard requirement.
- Designing of Special Purpose Machine & Retro Fitment End of line testing machine for Solenoid Coils.
- Design of the Jigs-Fixtures for assembly processes.
Sr Project Engineer, R & D
Omni Matrix
04.2017 - 07.2022
- Acquired technical expertise in engine assembly processes, enhancing overall assembly efficiency.
- Assembly of TATRA engines used in Military trucks.
- Analysed engines for reconditioning, preparing detailed reports for supervisor to support decision-making.
- Coordinated initial cutting process for sheet metal plates used in chassis of mining equipment, ensuring precision and quality.
- Fabrication of equipment chassis, water sprinkler tank and other components.
- Analyzing the drawings of components and drawing it in 2D AutoCAD and converting it into NC codes.
Intern
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
06.2015 - 06.2016
- Inspected inbound raw materials to ensure quality and managed storage processes for optimal inventory control.
Intern
Rangson's Electronics Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 06.2015
Education
B.E - Industrial & Production Engineering
The National Institute Of Engineering
Mysore, Karnataka01-2014
Diploma - Machine tool Technology
CPC Polytechnic
Mysore, Karnataka01-2011
SSLC -
St. Rita's High School
Mysore, Karnataka01-2008
Skills
- Project management
- Product lifecycle management
- Cost analysis
- Cost estimation
- Budget planning
- Supplier coordination
- Connector design and testing
- VAVE initiatives
- APQP
- GD&T expertise
- Ingress protection standards
- CAD software proficiency
- Technical documentation
- Microsoft Office suite
- Google Workspace
- Customer relationship management
- People management
Accomplishments
- ADR certification for ISO 7638 & ISO 12098 connectors from TUV Munich, Germany
- ADR certification for wires and cables as per ISO 6722-1, 14572, 4141-1,2,3,4
- Best kaizen project for Year 2017 & 2018
- Cost Saving Project of Copper for Electrical Coiled Cables - Project Value 36 lakh/annum
- Weight Reduction Project of various Plastic parts - Project Value 12 lakh/annum
- Elimination of manual process of insert assembly to Insert Molding process - Project Value 4.8 lakh/annum
- Upgrading of IP 54 rating of ISO 7638-1 electrical Connector to IP67 & IP69K weather proof/Sealed
- Certified as IATF internal auditor as per 16949:2016
Custom
- Awareness of IATF 16949: 2015 & ISO 9001:2016 Standard
- IATF 16949 & ISO 14001 Internal auditor Training
- 5 Core Tools Training (PFMEA, PPAP, MSA, SPC, APQP, CP)
- 8D
- 5s management
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Late Thejo Paul. P
- Mother's Name: Mary J.
- Wife Name : Steffi Markus
Timeline
Project Manager
L&T Technology Services
11.2024 - Current
Project Lead
L&T Technology Services
07.2022 - 10.2024
Sr Project Engineer, R & D
Omni Matrix
04.2017 - 07.2022
Intern
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML)
06.2015 - 06.2016
Intern
Rangson's Electronics Pvt Ltd
02.2015 - 06.2015
B.E - Industrial & Production Engineering
The National Institute Of Engineering
Diploma - Machine tool Technology
CPC Polytechnic
SSLC -
St. Rita's High School