Sumit Sah Senior Engineer, Becton Dickinson

Curriculum Vitae Becton Dickinson Technology Campus

India, Bengaluru
Phone: +91-9175793547
Sep 2023 Email: sumit.sah1993@outlook.com

Profile Summary
• Senior Product Engineer with more than 6 years of experience in new product design and
development for Automotive and Medical Industry.
• Comprehensive understanding of product lifecycle management, including requirements analysis,
specification finalization, design, prototyping, validation, testing, and risk management.
• Strong engineering professional with M. Tech in Mechanical Design from IIT Delhi.
• Experience with development of mathematical models and solution techniques for complex physical
system using finite element method.
• DfSS Green Belt Certified and well versed with DFSS concept as RMSC, PDSC, DFMEA and Risk
Management & DVPR.
• Experience of research collaboration and interaction with global clients in Industries.

Professional Experience

Senior Engineer, Becton Dickinson Technology Campus India Dec 2022 – till date

• Working as a Senior system engineer on multiple new product development and innovation
projects for BD medical delivery and catheter care segment.
• Involved in requirement and specification development for new products working along with
cross functional team such as marketing, clinical and manufacturing for product scope and target
definition.
• Worked on optimization of valve seal design to avoid stick down failure observed during design
verification. This involves development of finite element model, optimizing the seal strain
without affecting the performance and come up with new seal design. Design got approved by
leadership for development and verification.
• Worked on building simulation capabilities for core common problem in disposable medical
device to help team optimize the design and reduce lead time and cost for testing.
• Actively involved in innovation activities for future pipeline development. Worked on problem
scoping, concept development and feasibility analysis of concept.

Senior Engineer, Eaton India Innovation Center (India) Nov 2021 – Nov 2022

• Lead new product design and development for advanced Variable Valve Actuation (VVA)
products for Chinese OEMs to meet the upcoming China VI regulation and emission norms.
• Work responsibility includes assessing the customer requirements, drawing the design
specifications from given requirements, conceptualization the product, identifying CTQ’s,
creation of design specs & translating it into drawing, proto development assistance to supplier
 development engineering & internal DV/PV validation & support to customer DV/PV test
validation.

Project Handled

Engine Brake for type III valve train system for 5.5L / 7.7L Diesel Engine

• Design and development of engine braking system for a leading Chinese OEM to meet the
upcoming China VI emission regulation.
• Started from assessing the customer requirement and maturing them analytically followed by
concept level validation. Shipped CV samples to customer for performance test.
• Worked on DV design finalization and analysis capturing modification in engine layout and
performance parameters.
• Leading packaging analysis, design optimization, tolerance stack up and lost motion spring design
for engine braking system.
• Evaluate FEA analysis report and report out acceptance of design based on structural assessment.
• Prepare and manage/update requirement management scorecard, Design Scorecard, DFMEA and
DVP&R for complete system.
• Work closely with reliability engineering to set up reliability target, change point analysis, risk
mitigation and reliability growth model.
• Lead FRACAS reported during CV validation through a structured 8D approach, identify the
probable root cause, determine the actual root cause and implement the permanent corrective
action.
• Managing design reviews with global team for the projects and resolve technical issues.
• Developed analytical calculators (excel based) to perform LM spring analysis and design and
validated calculator with simulation data.

Engineer, Eaton India Innovation Center (India) Aug 2017 – Oct 2021

• Complete responsibility of new product design & development for core valve actuation (VA)
products for Indian and Japanese OEMs to improve engine performance and fuel efficiency.
• Lead cross functional team meetings to update on CTQ/design maturity & support required.
• Lead internal testing with assistance from test lab consisting of activities as test procedure design,
preparation of cylinder head/engine for testing, preparation of sensor arrangement & initial run
data analysis, test result & passing criteria interpretation & communication to customer.

Project Handled

Type V valve train 2.2L Diesel Engine (Industrial application)

• Design and development of Type V valve train system for a Japanese OEM to with objective of
improved performance over past gen VAS system & considerable reduction noise, BS VI ready
engine platform
• Started with assessing the requirement to maturing those analytically & in later phase conducting
test trail on prototypes.
 • Co-ordination with lab for return part analysis of samples coming from customer test engines &
interpretation of results & communication to customer on part health status.

• Successfully launched the project, SoP in Q1 ’20.

Type V valve train 3.6L diesel Engine (Commercial Vehicle)

• Design and development of Type V valve train system for an Indian OEM for BS VI ready engine
platform
• Undertook work from proto development stage for this program as resource replacement.
• Supporting internal DV/PV validation and PV parts shipped to customer to support SoP in Q4
’2018.
• Experience of design and development of type V valve train system for BSVI ready engine
platforms with HLA, lifters, and engine braking technologies.
• Co-ordination with lab for return part analysis of samples coming from customer test engines &
interpretation of results & communication to customer on part health status.
• Developed analytical calculator (Excel based), design guidelines and product standard to support
engineering enhance pursuits executions and plant to adhere to required quality standard.

Skills

• New product development, Requirement Management, System engineering, Design Verification

and Validation, DFMEA, Risk Analysis and management, Root Cause Analysis, PPAP
Submission, ISO 13485, ISO 14791
• Mathematical modelling of physical system, Tolerance Analysis, Finite element analysis,
Kinematic and Dynamic simulations, Spring Design
• Pro-E/Creo, Solidwork, Catia, Enovia, Teamcenter, Polarian, SAP, Ansys workbench, and 3D
Simula, GT Suite, CETOL, @Risk, UVGS and Lotus (Cam profile Design), MATLAB, Python*

Academic details
M. Tech -Department of Mechanical Engineering June 2017 CPI: 9.11/10
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

B. Tech–Mechanical Engineering June 2015 Percent: 82.81

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, India

Research experience
Master Research, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Jul 2015 – Jul 2017
M. Tech Thesis: Rotor dynamic analysis of Turbopump (DRDO project, Hyderabad, India)

• Develop a rotor dynamic model of Turbopump using finite element method and investigate in detail
seal and bearing parameters analytically and experimentally.
• Integrate these parameters to the rotor dynamic model and perform the instability and unbalance
vibration analysis.
 • Dynamic response of the system in presence of operating fluid.

Bachelor’s Research, JNTU Anantapur Jun 2011 – May 2015

B. Tech Thesis: Design and fabrication of fertilizer spraying vehicles.
• Designed and developed a small size and low width fertilizer with spraying vehicle.
• A finite element analysis of Chassis along Sprayer pipe is carried out in ANSYS® to validate the
chassis stress and deformation.
• Designed fertilizer spraying vehicle is fabricated to check the usability and applicability.

Key projects at IIT Delhi

Vibratory model of fitness machine and its experimental validation Mar 201 - Apr 2016

• Develop a vibratory model of fitness machine and estimate the parameters of the system.
• Solve the mathematical model using MATLAB for response and validate experimentally.
Dynamic and kinematic analysis of four bar mechanism Feb 2016 – Mar 2016

• Develop the equation of motion of four bar mechanism using Newton Euler and Euler LaGrange
formulations.
• Perform dynamic and kinematic analysis. Validate the results with Recurdyn and Redysim.
Design and fabrication of remote-controlled aircraft Feb 2013 – Mar 2013

• Determine various parameters of the remote-controlled aircraft by calculation.

• Fabrication of model based on calculation and perform testing.

Certifications

• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Green Belt, Eaton India

• Geometric dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), Eaton India
• DfSS Foundational Course, Becton Dickinson

Awards and Achievements

• Filed #3 disclosure and #2 U.S. Provisional patent on advanced VVA technologies

• Filed #2 disclosure and #1 U.S. Provisional patent on Cather Securement Device and Occlusion.
• Successfully executed #3 NPD project (Japan & Indian OEM’s) meeting the SoP timeline.
• Successfully executed multiple pursuit project to Business Awarded to Eaton
• Awarded DFSS GB of the quarter for outstanding work on analytical methodology development for
predicting brake power for bleeder braking system.
• 15 EATON star awards for Learning, Customer Focus, Accountability, project execution, business win,
CSR activities & analytical methodology development.