SHAROY EKKILA VALAPPIL
Mechanical Engineer
Summary
Mechanical Engineer with 6+ years of experience in Design. Looking for opportunities in management roles in product design and development.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Wheel & Mold Design Engineer
Kosei global centre of excellence, Thailand
02.2022 - Current
- Lead the design and development of a OEM alloy wheel to the customer specification.
- Perform the manufacturing feasibility study to resolve the production issues.
- Responsible for static and dynamic simulations of alloy wheels as per OEM and industry standards.
- Lead the mold design and development.
- Collaborate with production for mold improvement activity.
- Responsible for flow-forming design, Mandrel design and necessary calculation for flow-forming.
- Perform casting flow analysis to determine the casting defects
- Support quality coordination and knowledge sharing within group companies & scout for new technologies and methods for wheel and mold design.
Wheel Design Engineer
Kosei International Trade & Investment Co.Ltd, Hong Kong
10.2019 - 02.2022
- Responsible for aftermarket alloy wheel design based on the current market trend for customers in Japan, India and USA.
- Responsible for OEM wheel design to customer specifications.
- VA/VE to optimize design and weight in aftermarket and OEM wheels.
- Create high quality rendering images of aftermarket wheels for customers.
Engineer
Minda Aluminium Co.Pvt.Ltd, Chennai
12.2017 - 10.2019
- Take part in trials for new product and implement the lessons learnt for the subsequent projects.
- Preparing technical and manufacturing feasibility study.
- Review product drawing for accuracy and implement necessary drawing updating.
- Support product strength performance test and report preparation.
Associate
Larsen & Toubro Technological Service, Bangalore
05.2017 - 12.2017
- Create / Modify harness routing in CATIA V5 as per the standard requirements of customer.
- Create / Modify the EBOMs and documents as per the requirements.
- Work with customer's VPM / ENOVIA software and interface from offshore.
Junior Design Engineer (CAD/CFD)
Airframe Aero Designs Pvt.Ltd, Cochin
01.2016 - 05.2017
- Design of structural, Elliptical pressure vessel and aerospace component using the built drawing provided by the client.
- CFD Validation with ANSYS products - 2d/3d Flow simulations with Fluent.
- Making necessary calculations that support CFD simulation process.
- Maintain Communication with the team so as to modify and deliver the product as per needs of customer.
Education
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Bangalore Technological Institute
Bangalore, India01.2015
Skills
Computer: SolidWorks, SolidWorks Visualize, AutoCAD, CATIA, Hyper works, ADSTEFAN
Accomplishments
- Was part of the team to develop the new casting technology ‘Kosei Max Cooling’ helping in reducing the cycle time by 40 seconds.
- Carried out validation for the parts produced in new casting technology and developed a new S-N curve based on correlation study.
- Carried out correlation activities of actual test results versus the CAE results.
Timeline
Wheel & Mold Design Engineer
Kosei global centre of excellence, Thailand
02.2022 - Current
Wheel Design Engineer
Kosei International Trade & Investment Co.Ltd, Hong Kong
10.2019 - 02.2022
Engineer
Minda Aluminium Co.Pvt.Ltd, Chennai
12.2017 - 10.2019
Associate
Larsen & Toubro Technological Service, Bangalore
05.2017 - 12.2017
Junior Design Engineer (CAD/CFD)
Airframe Aero Designs Pvt.Ltd, Cochin
01.2016 - 05.2017
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Bangalore Technological Institute