Shridhar Kulkarni

• Managing USA and Canada 8 Zones and around 200 branches of engineering projects with 70+ engineers and 8 team leaders
• Evaluate TLs & IC's technical competency, identify training needs, and arrange training to meet competency gaps
• Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time
• Lead hiring, onboarding, and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
• Observed each employee's strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.
• Interact well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
• Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
• Analyzed and reported on key performance metrics to senior management.
• Launched quality assurance practices for each phase of development
• Ensure high customer satisfaction index and build healthy customer relationships
• Developing and implementing proper quality checks and systems, Root Cause Analysis

• Accountability for USA 4 Zones engineering projects
• Co-ordination with project managers to obtain site requirements
• Schedule turnover meeting with PM and support engineers
• Weekly zone performance review with operations manager
• Maintained, documented, and presented progress reports to leaders
• Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time
• Propose and review change orders.

• Accountability for the global branches of Security and Fire alarm systems
• Ensure design, engineering & programming of the system as per customer requirements and NFPA 72 guideline
• Review customer orders
• Plan and coordinate delivery activities
• Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements
• Analyze customer orders, set delivery priorities, and make schedule adjustments to meet timely delivery goals
• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

• Onsite Support & Remote Engineering
• Primary on-site leader for execution teams on project portfolio
• Interaction with the project coordinators and clients
• Fire Alarm and Security systems programming and commissioning
• Walkthrough with the Fire Marshall to make sure the system is designed/installed per NFPA 72.

Analysis and propose the project system requirement

• Design the system as per customer requirements and NFPA 72 guidelines
• Project initial review, assign tasks self & cad operator Generating fire alarm final submittal containing engineered floor plans, voltage drop, battery calculation sheets, cut sheets for devices, wiring details, security risers, etc
• Project engineering & programming estimation.

• Generate the BMS graphics perform and work on assigned project tasks.