Raghavendra Hegde

Mobile: +91-9986387596
Email: raghu.siddapur@gmail.com
#18 2nd Cross, 1st Main, Green garden layout
Near Jubilee college, JK Halli, RM Nagar, Bangalore-036

Career Objective: To enhance my working capacities, professional skills, business

efficiencies and to serve my organization in best possible way with sheer determination
and commitment.

Career Profile and Expertise:

 Total over 9+ years of experience in Product Design & Development,

Manufacturing process development/flow, Tolerance stack up analysis, VAVE
methodologies, FMEA, Prototyping and testing, for electrical drives, consumer
electronic products, handheld appliances & power distribution products
 Over 2 years of experience in R&D at customer place @ USA (Injection
molding, epoxy molding, fixture design, tool design) for power distribution
products like reclosers and electrical drives.
 Deft in swiftly ramping up projects in close co-ordination with industrial design
team, Project managers, manufacturing vendors, other external agencies, ensuring
on time deliverables
 Hand on experience in electro-mechanical integration project
 Good in implementation of new projects at Off-Shore and decision maker
 Substantial skills in Plastic designing die Casting, sand casting, permanent mold
casting, Sheet metal, Design calculations and materials management
 Hands on experience in GD&T, Tolerance stack up analysis, key pad design, light
guide designs, heat sink design, surface finishing.
 Fair knowledge on Industrial design concepts & methodology
 Extensive usage in Enterprise Product Data management tools like SAP.
 Expertise in Ergonomics and usability
 Good Knowledge of Manufacturing and Reverse Engineering processes
 Outstanding interpersonal relations and communications skills; handle
extensive daily contact and meeting with customer, Vendors & internal cross
functional team across international teams
 Exposure to International standards like NADCA, LM79 & 80, IEC, IEEE
and MIL.
 Good at identify and implement the process improvement opportunities in
design activity.

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Accomplishments:

 Developed two products at very short duration of time from concept to

manufacturing.
 Guided teams in investigating and developing engineering solutions and
generating drawings, parts lists, Engineering Change Orders, etc. to document the
designs in accordance with the New Product Development and Introduction
(NPDI) process.
 Resolved unforeseen, critical problems during the projects within the short time
frame, not affecting the project schedule.
 Two projects got EC&M product of the year award.
 Two products won the innovative product of the year award.
 Successfully developed essential mechanisms required in the products
 Won the team performance award and individual contribution award in many
projects

Academia:

 Mechanical Engineering Degree: University of Visvesvaraya College of

Engineering, Bengaluru, India
 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering: Govt Polytechnic Karwar, India.

Technical Purview
 Solid works, Autodesk Inventor, Pro-E Wildfire/Creo 2.0,, Auto CAD, Catia,
Solid edge.
 PDM / PLM (Others) SAP, Agile and PDM works
 Microsoft suite(MS Project, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio)

Professional work Experience:

1. L&T Technology Services (Dec 2010 – Till Date)

Designation: Assistant Manager

Project 1: Design & Development of Battery energy storage system in containerized

environment
This scope of this project is to develop battery energy storage system in containerized
environment(20’ container).This project demands the new area like seismic compliance to
critical areas, compliance with transportation norms, HVAC design and fire suppression
system design.

The tasks involved are closed co-ordination with multi functional teams, supplier, and
customer. Do requirement analysis, creating mechanical design specification, HVAC
calculation, seismic calculation & detail design

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Project 2: Design & Development of Boltless NEMA explosion proof motor control device
This scope of this project is to develop Boltless, explosion proof motor control
device/enclosures for multiple configurations of circuit breakers, starters and switch

This project is a first attempt to come up with an explosion proof enclosure without using
bolts.

The tasks involved are closed co-ordination with multi functional teams, supplier, and
customer. Do requirement analysis, creating mechanical design specification, strength
calculation, mechanism developments and detail design.

Project 3: Design & Development of Mid-range electrical drives, High voltage drives (At
client location USA)
This project involved in product design support for midrange electrical drives and
DFE(Diode Front End)power supplying unit. These products are used by packaging
industries, tire industries and paper mills. The products are mainly constructed by using
sheet metal, plastics.

The tasks involved are requirement analysis, creating mechanical design specification
and detail design till prototyping and manufacturing support.

Project 4: Research and development of implementing the current and voltage sensor in
single phase and 3 phase vacuum Recloser (At client location USA)
The scope of the work was to integrate six Voltage Sensing through capacitive voltage
dividers embedded in the epoxy insulation of each phase of the recloser. The capacitive
voltage sensors are isolated from the grid and are able to read phase angle and voltage
amplitude with a relatively high accuracy.

The tasks involved are to select the sensor (Resistor), check the coating provided on the
resistor, perform the design changes in the recloser to mount the sensor, check the
thermal compatibility, structural strength, prototype support, high voltage BIL, Hipot,
Partial discharge(Corona discharge) test and evaluate the results.

Project 5: Design of Multi Lumen Flood Light for Hazardous locations

This project involved in design a new flood light by using LED’s which should meet the
hazardous location application standards.
The tasks involved are requirement gathering, design specification preparation, concept
generation, detail design, FEA and CFD analysis co-ordination, tooling support, testing
support and certification support.

Project 6: Design of LED down-light

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The project involved in designing the LED Down light for hazardous location. The
criticality of the project is to meet the Div1 Zone 1 hazardous locations, effective heat
sink design and rugged structure to meet the intended certification tests.

Tasks involved are from concept to market release ownership of the product

2. HCL Technologies
Designation: Design Engineer

Project 1: Design of a Hand held thermal imaging camera

The project involved in designing the hand held thermal imaging cameras which is
mainly used in surveillance purposes. The contest of the project was to the camera should
be IP-67 and more ruggedized to use in harsh environments. The range of the product is
about 500-600 meters without the extender and 1000m to 1200m with lens extender.

Tasks involved are human anthropometry study, requirement gathering, quick concepts
generation (Line diagram), detail concept generation, detail design, proto support and
product environmental testing support.

This product has been designed with different manufacturing process such as injection
molding, over molding, insert molding, sheet metal, die-casting and metal injection
molding.

Project 2: Design of a Bi-Ocular thermal imaging camera

This project involved designing of a Bi-ocular thermal imaging camera which has more
range than the handheld thermal imaging camera (1000m without lens extender and
1800m with lens extender).This product also should meet the IP-67 standard and meet all
the environmental requirements as per the MIL standard.

Tasks involved are from concept to manufacturing designing and testing support

Project 3: Design of a camera charger which is compatible both for handheld mono
and bi-ocular thermal imaging cameras
This project involves the development of the battery charger for both the cameras
developed above. The criticality involved is to meet the tooling challenge of the plastic
part (it should mount on the wall and cameras should mount at 45 Degree to the wall).It
also involved the light pipe design.

Activities performed for all the above projects:

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  Industrial design support and Ergonomics study
 Requirement analysis and creating mechanical design specification
 Concept design & brainstorming for concept generation
 Part split up and creation of parametric models according to DFM
 Packaging feasibility study
 Interaction with hardware team for PCB layout and placement of electronic
components
 Interaction with structural, thermal, mold flow, testing teams & tooling vendors
 Modification of parts as per analysis feedback
 Detail design (Plastic parts design including DFMA)
 Tolerance stack up analysis
 Part detailing with GD&T
 BOM creation and assembly instruction documentation
 Data management in Enterprise Product Data management tools like SAP
 Stage gate review participation and close the activities timely.

Trainings and certifications:

 NTTF extensive training on plastics, GD&T and tooling
 VAVE training by SAVE international
 ASME GDTP technologist level
 PMP training