Ashwin Kumar

· As a project manager, I lead and managed a team of in house 4 engineers, 3 trade electricians and 2 design consultants (external resources) in new product development of 8MW Battery Energy Storage System - Project Value 6.5 million. Agile Project management, developing scope, finished within time and budget.

- Project manager for Service & Maintenance of Sydney Haymaker GIT Transformers. Project value - 1.2 million. Waterfall project type, completed in within time and budget. Increase project margin by 25% effectively identifying variation scopes in the work.

- Project manager & Lead engineer for CFD study and HVAC duct design of cooling system for Modular buildings containing Battery Systems and Inverters. Project Value - 500k. Agile Project management, developing scope, finished within time and budget.

- Managed small scale projects in parallel which includes, Transformer site installation, HVAC system installation & maintenance and Fire system installation.

● Technical review and development of Inspection & Test plan for reclamation of damaged XPT Loco in Wallan Incident.

● Cost control & Monitoring schedule of Reclamation works.

● Vendor management, monitoring & tracking status of part manufacturing. Supplier audit and Quality assurance checks. Implement quality control for the fabricated parts.

● Welding procedure and mapping in reclamation work.

● Client & internal stakeholder management - Weekly status reports. Conducting daily standoff meetings with the production staffs.

● Chairing and leading the design review meetings.

● Technical lead for design, development and maintenance of Railway products.

● Reverse engineering of electromechanical components such as motors and solenoids.

● New product prototype development, testing and iteration management.

● Detail failure investigation using tools such fish bone analysis and 5 why analysis.

● Performing Failure Mode and Effects Analysis for improving product reliability, identifying and mitigating risks at early design and prototype stage.

● Reliability Prediction & Modelling such as Weibull analysis & MTBF Calculations.

● Field inspection and commissioning of installed equipment's.

● Raising and managing document & design change requests, approval of drawings & parts on SolidWorks PDM.

● Product performance and efficient study.

● Root Cause Analysis of failed product in services.

● Incorporate redundancy and easy-to-maintain features in critical systems to improve uptime and availability.

● Resolve problems by failure investigation and root cause analysis.

● Design and implementation of performance monitoring process/systems.

● Establishing maintenance level and schedule.

● FEA analysis for checking strength of component/structure at fatigue loading.

● FEA thermal analysis of the brake disc.

CFD flow study for HVAC unit upgrade

● Design of parts for manufacturing in accordance with BS and ISO standards.

● Injection moulding and casting drawings.

● Drawings for sheet metal fabrication.

● Reverse engineering of OEM components.

● Tolerance evaluation and component interaction study.

● High level assembly drawings and Bills of materials.

● Design of specialised tools and fixtures.

● Creating Bill of Materials.

● Creating build and test instructions for products.

● Constant build operation review and update to achieve better quality and time efficiency.

● Ergonomic design & layout of production work cells.