Contact Rajeshkumar Seetharaman

Nachiarpatti PO, Value Engg, Strategic sourcing, Product & Tool Design, Social Entrepreneur
Srivilliputtur, TN, India
626125

+917010310470 (Home) Summary

rajshsg@gmail.com
• Value Engineering, NPD, Product design, Tool Design, Project
www.linkedin.com/in/
rajeshseetharaman Management, Reverse and Re-Engineering and other manufacturing
methods

• FMEA, DFX, Engineering Change management, GD&T, CAPA

Top Skills
Product / Process Design • Associate Value Specialist certified from SAVE (Society of
Value Analysis Value Engg American Value Engineers)
Project Management
Tooling / Manufacturing • Value Engineering / Cost Out Strategies
Strategic sourcing • Teardown / Brainstorming / Moonshine
• Process carding
• Competitive grouping
Languages
• Commodity grouping
Tamil
• Companion Benchmarking
Telugu
• Spring board sessions
Kannada
Malayalam
English • Module costing, Target costing, LCR sourcing
Hindi • 3P Kaizen
• Purchase / Procurement Strategies

Honors-Awards • Custom tool "AVA" for phase wise VAVE execution, monitoring and
VAVE Kaizen reporting
VAVE Kaizen
Pinnacle Award Plastic components & Moulds Thermoforms / Vacuum forms
Associate Value Specialist Sheet metal & Tools Die casting
Frist Class Honours Jigs & Fixtures And Assemblies

Aerospace
Automotive
Consumer durable
Medical & Diagnostic systems
Agriculture, Cosmetics & Food products

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Experience
Grandmaa's care
Lead - Operations
May 2015 - Present 
Srivilliputtur Area, India

Leads a startup company on Production, Logistics, Sourcing, NPD, Value improvements, Marketing,
Customer interaction.
Agricultural setup design, value addition and process design, crop input vs yield calculator

ITW
Sr Sourcing Analyst
December 2014 - May 2015 (6 months)
Greater Chicago Area, USA

Lead Strategic sourcing team - Metals

LCR / BCR sourcing strategy
VAVE study and implementation across factories worldwide, including vendors'
Vendor evaluation and approval Process evaluation and optimization Analytical & Systematic solutions

Alliance Laundry Systems LLC

Project Engineer - RGBSI
July 2013 - December 2014 (1 year 6 months)
Ripon, WI USA

Lead VAVE study in implementation in existing product lines.

VAVE analysis and recommendations in NPD ECE Management.

Danaher Corporation
Manager VAVE - L&T IES
December 2010 - July 2013 (2 years 8 months)
FL - USA, CO - USA, BW-DE, KA - India

Manage VAVE Team.

VAVE analysis and recommendations in NPD
ECE Management up to FDA approval
Lead Reverse & Re Engineering team.

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Experience
Cyient
Project leader - design
May 2010 - December 2010 (8 months)
Bangalore, India

Product Design & Review, Project management, Legacy conversion, VAVE

B/E Aerospace
Project Lead design
July 2008 - July 2010 (2 years 1 month)
Hyderabad, India. KA USA

Value Engineering and Weight optimization

Whirlpool Corporation
Deputy Manager - Technology
July 2005 - June 2008 (3 years)
Pune / Pondicherry, India

Value Engineering, Total Cost Productivity, CVT

BRIGHT BROTHERS LIMITED

Engineer Design
August 2003 - July 2005 (2 years)
Mumbai, India
Value Engineering, Product optimization,

Adeep Locks Limited

Assistant Engineer R&D
March 2001 - July 2003 (2 years 5 months)
Bangalore, India

Research and Development of Automotive products such as Locking systems, fuel control systems

Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
B.Tech, Mechanical · (2001 - 2004)

NTTF, Coimbatore
Post Diploma in Tool Design, Tool Design · (2000 - 2001)

GTTC, Chennai
Diploma Tool Engineering, Tool Design · (1995 - 1998)
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