SANTHOSH KUMAR T

Bangalore-560103
9481286384- santhoshtakkarsu@gmail.com

SUMMERY

Efficient Mechanical Engineer with 4 years of experience in product design and development for Diesel
Engines. Instrumental in company POCs which demonstrated new design capabilities to customers and added
value to the business. With strong engineering fundamentals, experience in NX and analysis, seeking an
opportunity to collaborate and innovate.

SKILLS

 Good at product design and redesigning for 3d printing.

 Proficient in UG NX, Team center, Ms office, good understanding of PLM process.
 Well versed with Drafting, GD&T, tolerance analysis, ASME 14.5Y and engine components.
 Good knowledge in sheet metal operations, Design calculations, manufacturing processes, material
specifications, and Engineering design fundamentals.
 Building global customer trust with value-added service.
 Self motivated, good verbal and effective collaboration skills.

WORK HISTORY

Design Engineer (Mechanical) April 2017 to Present

QuEST Global Engineering - Bengaluru, Karnataka

 Designing and development of Engine components for Locomotive, Marine, Genset applications.
 Understanding design requirements, developing concepts and supporting till the release of production
drawings as per customer standards.
 Solid, sheet metal modeling and creating assemblies following DFA, DFM methodologies.
 Detailing in NX 2D drawing/ 3D model-based definition (MBD) for machining, casting parts, weldments,
sheet metals, tube routing, with high quality and preparing assembly instructions.
 Working closely with other team members, leading engineers to understand design requirements and
propose solutions and finalizing the design.
 Planning and releasing the drawings and eBOM through Engineering change requests as per schedule.
 Identifying and sharing best practices to reduce the turnaround time and to improve the deliverable
quality.
 Redesigned the products for additive manufacturing(DfAM), achieved significant reductions in weight,
lead time and parts integration by optimizing the topology.
 Supported for rollover fixture, welding fixture design from concept to release of manufacture drawings.
 Performing component/assemblies interface analysis, structures strength analysis, tolerance analysis and
engineering calculations for bolted, welded joints.
 Maintaining process adherence, following customer practices, standards and handling data as per
customer guidelines.

EDUCATION
2011 to 2016 Masters in Manufacturing systems with 81.62% marks.
(Integrated Dual Bachelors in Mechanical engineering with 73.33% marks.
degree program) JNTUH college of engineering, Hyderabad.
Academic Research projects- Funded by University Grants Commission, India.

2105-16 Modeling sheet forming process in ABAQUS to study of formability of cups in

incremental sheet forming process.
Role: CAM programming and conducting laboratory experiments

2014-15 Modeling of Friction welding process in ANSYS to study of Weldability of dissimilar metal
joining in friction welding process.
Role: FEA modeling, performing design of experiments(DOE).

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
 Investigation of residual stresses in cold expansion process on an additively manufactured
component -December 2018 at NAPC IIT Kgp.
 Numerical modeling of Single Point Incremental Sheet Forming using ABAQUS and optimized
Significant of process parameters for better Formability of Conical Cups with experimentation-
June 2016 in IJEI vol 5 issue6
 Finite Element Analysis of Friction Welding Process for 2024Al Alloy and AISI 1021 Steel and
optimized the process parameters using Taguchi technique -May 2015 in IJSR vol4 issue5.
 Presented papers on Power generation through Speed Breaker in the Technical fest of IIT Roorkee
-March 2015.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Appreciation award
Award received for completing the Design for Additive manufacturing Proof of Concept. This project
played a key role in attracting AM business from customers.

Best compliments
Received “Best compliments” from the technical experts' team for being the company’s representative
in the National level technical conference to speak about whitepaper.

Award for Design project

Received award for contribution towards Rollover Fixture design. This project paved the way for
getting later fixture design projects.

National level Technical examination -Graduate aptitude test in engineering(GATE)

Acquired 55% in Graduate aptitude test in engineering exam and secured a place at all India 5400 rank
out of 2 lakh competitors.