High-visibility position, working on products directly improving the revenue stream of the company. Involved with end to end product lifecycle; defined product and system requirements; developed business case. Responsible to take an idea from concept to reality and provided support to field crews for installation. Products were designed to improve the cost stack by at least 30%.

Lead structural design and mechanical design of products and components to provide cost-effective solutions. Performed advanced system modeling and static finite element analysis for structural and mechanical components using Abaqus. Products developed: Oasis 3.0 Tracker, Helix Carport V2, OneRoof^TM, SunVault, Hub+.

Designed components for variety of manufacturing processes, qualification tools and gauges, and testing fixtures. Applied GD&T in drafting and performed statistical-analysis based tolerance stack-up analysis. Developed electro-mechanical controllers for accelerated lifetime testing. Collaborated with manufacturers to qualify high-volume tooling. Defined quality control plans, acceptable Ppk/Cpk and measurement frequencies. Participated in 8Ds and 5Ys. Performed DFMEAs, DFMs. Reviewed PFMEAs.

Trained contractors for installation of solar energy producing systems. Trained engineers for the design of solar energy producing structures.

Research performed in structural mechanics and solar energy performance analysis to provide novel design solutions.

Published white papers, research papers and patents for supporting structural engineering and analysis of products and systems.

Managed and mentored 250 design teams and steered them towards a successful completion of the capstone senior design project

Defined and developed design projects with industry partners such as Faurecia XWorks, Boeing, Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, and Anheuser-Busch, to be executed by a team of mechanical engineering seniors. Organized course activities, coordinated with GTAs and faculty during the execution of projects. Projects included Component Design, System Design, and Product Design

Research performed in the area of compliant mechanism design. Created new mathematical models for the design and analysis of compliant segments and compliant mechanisms using the pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) concept that build on rigid-body synthesis and analysis techniques

Presented the concept of deflection-domain for compliant segments and compliant mechanisms. Provided a novel approach for determining the static-mode shapes of compliant mechanisms. Presented a stepwise approach for evaluating mechanical advantage of compliant mechanisms. Utilized analytical software like Matlab, Maple, and Mathcad to implement the approaches. Verified all results using ANSYS^® and testing

Mentored four graduate students for their MS thesis and two graduate students for their PhD dissertation

Led a team to perform mechanical design for a Fuel-cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (FCPHEV). Designed all structural mounts using NX, performed finite-element analysis using Nastran and tested the Vehicle at GM proving grounds and EPA. Presented to industry experts and wrote mechanical design section of the reports. Obtained five awards

Led a team to provide designs for implementation of hydrogen energy infrastructure. Performed feasibility studies. Obtained two awards

Worked in EPC environment, performed detail engineering activities for rotating equipment, process packages, material handling packages and machineries. Engineered a variety of equipment, including pumps (reciprocating and kinetic), pneumatic conveying plants, bagging and packing lines, TEG dehydration unit and CCR regeneration unit. Worked with process equipment, pumps, valves, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and piping and instrument diagrams (P&IDs)

Coordinated with vendors, internal experts and external consultants to resolve conflicting requirements

Acquainted with equipment design codes like ASME Section II, Section VIII Div. I, Section IX, API 610 and API 520