About

Naga is a seasoned Industrial Engineer and PMP with over 9 years of international engineering experience. He has a verifiable history of contributing directly to company growth and expansion throughout his career. Naga is recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for project management, as well as for crafting data-informed strategies and incorporating Lean Six Sigma methodologies into operations. His professional focal points include process engineering, workflow optimization, risk mitigation, schedule and budget management, and production data analysis. Currently, Naga is a Sr. Advanced Manufacturing Engineer at Honeywell where he oversees and coordinates new program launches expected to generate new business opportunities totaling $2.5 million in annual revenue. He pilots the creation and execution of cross-functional improvement programs by driving Kaizen events across operations and supply chain, with an emphasis on optimizing business KPIs connected to cost, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. He charted the successful course of investigation into root causes for high-frequency manufacturing issues, such as machine downtime and overprocessing, by implementing 8D methodology, securing an annual savings of $120,000. Naga has standardized processes and implemented metrics and best practices to meet quality standards. He has also utilized Tableau and Excel to collect and analyze production data, create heatmaps, and perform trend analysis in an effort to target bottlenecks in production, increasing OEE by 25%. Naga is a progressive, driven, down-to-earth, technical, and managerial expert who can be relied on to offer superior solutions that deliver profitable results on time and under budget. He has worked with companies such as Akebono Brake Corporation and Enforge LLC, where he scrutinized existing processes and tooling and applied DMAIC methodology to enhance productivity and efficiency. He has also engineered Value Stream Mapping VSM of existing processes to document procedures and enhance process performance metrics across Operations, Finance, and Customer Experience (VOC). Naga holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Acharya Nagarjuna University. He has experience in various technologies such as Search, AI, Elastic Search, AWS, Backend, Big Data, Kubernetes, ML, Kafka, Microservices, Python, and Java.