Prapulla R

DevOps Engineer

India10 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in New Product Introduction and Lifecycle Management.
  • Proven track record in quality assurance and manufacturing engineering.
  • Skilled in change management and process optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Reliability Engineer with expertise in Manufacturing and Quality Assurance in the Technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Manufacturing EngineeringQuality AssuranceManufacturing Operations Management

Other Skills

BOM managementPrinted Circuit Board ManufacturingNew Product IntroductionPCBA designManufacturing test plan developmentDefect analysisContinuous process improvementChange ManagementSupplier onboardingDesign Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)Design for ManufacturingElectrical DesignCMatlabPowerPoint

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Apple

Reliability Engineer

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

BOM managementPrinted Circuit Board ManufacturingManufacturing EngineeringQuality Assurance

Western digital

Staff Quality Assurance Engineer

Jun 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Cisco

2 roles

Senior Electrical Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2021May 2022 · 11 mos

  • Products: Edge and Aggregation Routers
  • New Product Introduction:
  • Delivered multiple New Products launches in parallel, from the concept phase to release, meeting committed cost, quality and delivery at launch.
  • Defining the new product requirements, manufacturing six sigma quality goal, customer reliability metrics, product qualification plan, new supplier on-boarding & qualification and new manufacturing process with design engineering and Contract manufacturing.
  • PCBA design, stack up and DFM review of 25+ layered boards.
  • Prototype BOM review, management and transfer from new product to mass production on Agile.
  • Manufacturing test plan development, support prototype testing and troubleshooting the failures to drive 8D and ensure six sigma goal is met before mass production.
  • Ideation of cost avoidance opportunities leading to 10% reduction in overall COGS of the product at launch.
  • Identification of alternate vendors, resulting in cost advantage of 5% and reducing the end-to-end supply chain risk.
  • Product Lifecycle Management:
  • Sustenance product ownership of multiple product portfolio with $1B yearly revenue.
  • Consistently meet the Six-Sigma quality yield during production by defect analysis and implementing continuous process improvement.
  • Regular tracking of Reliability ratios, MTBF, Annualized failure rates, DOA, DOS and Immediate returns, to proactively engage with component, design, and manufacturing team to resolve any spike in the failures.
  • Process and Product Initiatives:
  • Global Chip shortages: Mitigate shortages by alternate design solutions, new supplier on boarding and site balancing to reduce extended customer delivery lead times from 10-12 weeks to 4-5 weeks.
  • Change Management: Lead change management process optimization(PCN, ECO,EOL) to achieve quicker implementation of change at vendor site and Contract Manufacture sites to deliver better quality and reduce scrap cost of over $500K.

Electrical Engineer

Jul 2015May 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master's degree — Quality Engineering

Jan 2022Dec 2024

PES University

Engineer's Degree — Telecommunications Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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