Vikas Singh Sawan

Meticulous Automotive R&D Professional (CAE Engineer) who excels at juggling multiple tasks and working under pressure. Broad industry experience includes Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Industrial Products with strong leadership skills. Highly Experienced, Technical, Team oriented Leader with excellent project management skills who works effectively with all levels of employees in cross-functional teams.

Total 13+ Years of Experience as CAE Engineer in different domains

• Currently Working as Manager- CAE Structures ( CAE Program Lead, Vehicle Engineering ) since 2.5+ Years in OLA Electric, Bengaluru
• 1.5+ Years worked as CAE Onsite Lead in Honda R&D Center, Japan
• 3 Months worked as CAE Onsite engineer in Mazda Corporation, Japan
• Worked as CAE Engineer/Project Lead/Project Manager for different domains like: Passenger Cars, Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), Scooters & Motorbike, Electric Vehicles
• Automotive OEM Experience like Ford, Tata Motors, Mahindra, Volkswagen including onsite experience at Mazda Motors, Honda R&D Center, Japan

Key FE Analysis/Product Development Projects Handled

• Component, Sub System & Full System level FE Analysis on Automobile & Vehicle Structures
• Executing and managing CAE projects involving Crash & Safety, NVH, Stiffness Analysis, Strength & Durability, Interior CAE, Topology & Topography Optimization, Powertrain Engineering for Passenger cars and Commercial Vehicles (2W, 3W & 4W)
• Experience working from concept design to SOP
• NVH and Stiffness Calculations in Different full vehicle passenger cars, scooter and motorcycle analysis (Modal, Static, Dynamic)
• Component, Sub System & Full System level FE Analysis and design proposals on Automobile & Vehicle Chassis and other structural components (BIW, Frames, Suspension parts, Swing Arm, Chassis, Wheelrims) using LS-Dyna, OptiStruct and HyperWorks package
• Worked on dynamic and some other quasi static Analysis for different load cases for vehicle structures
• Worked on Non Linear Contact Analysis along with Correlation with physical test
• Worked on Explicit analysis like: Drop Test, High Speed Impact Crash Simulation etc
• Sub Modeling of Wheel, Chassis, Drive line assembly to perform detailed study and optimization of different component with Full system level loadings
• Perform and handle different Optimization projects on Optistruct
• Perform Bolt analysis for the Wheelrim and Vehicle Structures
• FE Analysis/ Fatigue Life Calculation/ Correlation of FE Results with Actual Test/ Product development/ Design Calculations/ Design Iterations for various OEMs for lightweight solution
• FE Analysis & Meshing of different components of Car, Auto, Scooter & Motorbike

Key Achievements as Project Co-ordinator (SPOC) / Manager

• Being in Automotive Industries 4+ years of total experience in Project & Program Management
• Managed and Co-ordinate team size from 2 to 30+ team size
• Implemented different CAE Methodologies in project for continuous improvement
• Always work on project delivery and CAE driven solution
• Spend 3000+ hours only in project management

• Certificate Course in "Introduction to Python Programming" (Udemy)
• Attended 1 Week HyperWorks advanced Workshop for Solver Technique at OLA Electric premise
• Attended 3 Days LS-Dyna advanced Dynamic analysis Training
• 2 days basic training on Structural Optimization using OptiStruct
• 2 days basic training on Vehicle Benchmarking platform (a2Mac1)

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

Department of Management Sciences (PUMBA), Savitribai Phule Pune University

• Activities and societies: Entrepreneurship Development | Paper Presentation | Debate Team | Business Case Study | Storyteller | Marketer | Product and Service Marketing | Business Branding | Business Strategy
• Participated in multiple activities
  ✓ Presented Startup Idea for college group presentation.
  ✓ Participated in the discussion on Harvard Business School case studies on management decision making.
  ✓ Active member of our Marketing batch for various product and service marketing presentations.
  ✓ Case study and report presented on Digital Marketing.
  ✓ Participated in business case growth discussion

• Activities and societies: Engineer Projects | Paper Presentation | Social Worker | Team Work
• Active member in collage technical and cultural festival organizing committee
• ✓ Active member of our Mechanical Engineering batch for various college activities and competitions.
  ✓ Career Guidance for Juniors.
  ✓ Helping Hands Group for social work.