KUMAR VARADARAJAN

Proactively working for new strategic customers, strategic client partners and leadership team to provide business solutions and developing new strategy, framework, road-map, new teams, incubations under Design & Development portfolio across QuEST.

Owned Cost Engineering portfolio across QuEST. Played solutions leader role, was very instrumental in building cost engineering center of excellence to support cost reduction projects for our strategic partners viz. General Electric, Siemens, Honeywell, Sikorsky, UTC. Have led multiple turn-key projects and realized cost more than $ 50 million. Well versed with PCM methodologies like should costing, Process & material optimization, VAVE, scrap recovery, tools like aPriori, DFMA Boothroyd, Siemens ProCalc.

Built and led a sizable cross-functional project team of sixty members supporting General Electric, Locomotive, Marine Engines, and Flow and pressure technologies. Managed and led turnkey projects for Design, Development, Implementation, Design Conceptualization, Ergonomics, Capture Engineering specifications, DFMEA, Design verification, DFA/DFM, Design review, Test build plan, Should costing, Value Engineering, Value Analysis, other Engineering activities.

Built and led a cross-functional project team of ten members supporting Design and Development of turbochargers for diesel engines. Worked towards developing, validating new application turbine wheels for different product lines for commercial vehicles and passenger cars. Was instrumental in developing a new variable stator blade mechanism for the turbocharger, supporting the design, kinematics, and that the design is granted patent - US8112995 B2.

Built and led a sizable cross-functional project team of twenty members supporting TEREX mining, Knox Kershaw Inc., Bucyrus. Managed and led turnkey projects for Design, Development, Design Conceptualization, Design review, DFMEA, Design verification other Engineering activities. Supported Product definition, successful implementation of first off project, Engineering CAD data management of Heavy engineering vehicles viz. Off Highway mining trucks, Rail maintenance equipment, Earthmovers.

Learned, and deployed my experience in the field of product & process design and validation of engineering subsystems of Automotive braking system viz. Caliper brake, Clutch, and Wheel cylinders. Primarily focused in value analysis, executed many projects to reduce carbon footprint and downsizing through replacement of metal components with high-performance engineering polymers. Have a greater insight in design, prototyping, testing and validation of subsystems.

Leadership Essentials, Managing Change, Customer Relationship Management, Finance Essentials, Management Problem Solving, International Business, Entrepreneurship

Innovation Management, Elements of Design, Design Sketching, Design research, DFMA, Advanced Manufacturing and Materials, Mechanism in product design, Need identification, Blue ocean Strategy, Product design and development