This profile summary highlights the individual's experience in program management, new product development, quality management, and vendor management. Over 9 years of experience is outlined, including current roles as Program Manager at Ashok Leyland International Operations in the UAE and previous roles in program management, new product development, and design engineering at Mahindra & Mahindra and TVS Motor Company in India. Relevant technical skills, academic qualifications, and personal details are also provided.

1. Profile Summary
Creating constancy of purpose for Quality Assurance that forges a
transcendingorganizational identity as beingone that predictably achieves
quality aims atproducing an output with zero defects; proven capability in
determining the potential for producing a defect and makes process
adjustments in time to prevent making potential defects
Product Development:
o Expertise in drivingvision and building product roadmap to address
evolving customer / market needs & in architecting solutions using
ground-up development
o Proficient in understanding customer requirements & converting
the requirements into technical profiles of products; perform
competition benchmarks of features/ technology differentiated
products to gain market share
Program/ Delivery Management: Proven ability to establish robust
program management processes and ensure predictable execution and
risk management; capability to manage cross-functional teams to deliver
challenging program goals in cost, quality and schedule
EstablishingSupply Chain / Vendors: Proven success in vendor sourcing for
all type part and sub-systems, right from vendor development,
establishingprocess for successful evaluation of parts, product audit, & so
on
Motivating team to focus on timely delivery, efficient & effective
application solutionsand readiness for day-to-day business needs through
implementing time bound plans, & selecting appropriate support
resources
Core Competencies
New Product Design & Development
Projects Planning& Execution
Value Engineering
Quality Management
Product LifecycleManagement
Product Audit
Engineering Change Management
Risk Analysis& Risk Management
Stores Management
Team & Resource Management
Supplier Development
Career Timeline
TVS Motor Company, Hosur
as Designer & Project
Engineer
2008 – 2013 2013 – 2015
GIRISH KUMAR GUPTA
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Dedicated professional with nearly 9 years of diverse new
product development expertise (Program Management) & focus
on opportunities for improvement, thereby contributing to cost
reduction, increased productivity & waste reduction
girishiert@gmail.com
UAE: +971-562021786
India: +91-9566124255
2015 – Present
Mahindra & Mahindra
R&D – MRV, Chennai
as Program Manager
– NPI & NPD
Ashok Leyland
InternationalOperations,
UAE as Program Manager
– NPD & ECN Manager

2. ProfessionalExperience
Dec’ 15 – Present
Ashok Leyland International Operations, UAE-RAK as Program Manager – Tender Projects Manager, NPD & ECN Manager
Aug’ 13 – Nov’ 15
Mahindra & Mahindra R&D – Mahindra Research Valley- MRV Chennai as Program Manager – NPI & NPD
Aug’ 08 – Aug’ 13
TVS Motor Company Hosur as Trim Part Designer & Project Engineer
Growth Path:
Aug’ 08 – Jan’10 Designer & CAD Engineer
Jan’ 10 – Aug’ 13 Project Engineer 3W division
Key Result Areas:
Program Management
Directing & controlling new product development projects with key focus on QCD (Quality, Control & Delivery)
Coordinating for the entire product development cycle including requirement analysis, planning, monitoring, market
surveying, component development, prototype development, overall testing for components, and validation
Coordinating & Participating for Troubleshooting all technical problems; conducting various tests & inspections to
ensure that products developed are in compliance with pre-set quality specifications
Managing the design & development of products and technical standards, supporting proto manufacturing during
integration and testing; interacting with suppliers and delivering projects as per scheduled milestones
Ensuring design of components as per requirement & delivering of components FEA & Fluid Analysis
Conducting Brain Storming workshops/sessions for parts modularity, VAVE & new innovative ideas collection &
execution plan
Vendor Management
Developing vendor assessmentsystems, identifyingareas of quality failures and taking steps to rectify the system-wide
preventive & corrective actions to avoid the reoccurrences
Workingasa Supplier Interfacefor implementation of supplier related systems, audits, complaint management and so on
Process Enhancement
Developing new product / process concepts for product optimization, yield improvement & for frugal product
development & value engineering, constancy assessment for various industrial process
Ensuring implementation of various tools in design phase such as DFMEA, DFA, DFS, PPAP, & 7 QC Tools to deliver best
product with minimum variations in product quality
New Product Design & Development
Coordinating for tests, inspections & reviewing new product development procedures and drawings for compliance
with applicable specifications
Coordinating layouts,designs, drawings & documentation and analysis (VA/VE & Target Costing) to identify errors and
conduct relevant modifications in the same
Preparing test plans for product validation, drawings check, GD&T., & process audit
Conducting the design failure mode analysis , identifying failure area, taking counter-measures to avoid repetitive
Administering general activities including:
o Product cost target setting (PCM Team) and monitoring & tracking of the same
o Product DVVPs finalization & execution as per plan
o Market dynamics & risk analysis for new launching products
o Daily, weekly, monthly project health & EC update - MIS to senior management
o Benchmarking analysis & Inputs
o Coordination & implementation of ECRs, ECNs, ECOs, & EJOs
o Interfacing with ISMS & internal auditor
o In-house manufacturing part Planning & Raw Material availability Planning (Machine Shop)
Highlights:
In Ashok Leyland Program Management
o Successfully Proto & DVP bus builds with passing all DVPs
o Successfully delivered tender Projects (Till Date 7 main tenders) through ECR/ ECN rout
In Mahindra & Mahindra
o Successfully developed new mainstream project 2 nos.; Novo Launched with 9 variants & Yuvo Mass
productionized with 24 variants
o Engine ELS Project successfully completed & incorporated with Yuvo project of Turbo charges Removal
o Cost reduction project completed, Team achieved ever highest saving by VA/VE- Year 2014-2015

3. In TVS Motor R&D Department, designed:
o 5+ parts for three wheeler TVS King’s accessories polymer parts for Body departments (Export & Domestic
requirements)
o TVS KING Three wheeler - Successfully launched 7+ projects variants 2S & 4S –LPG, CNG, Petrol & 4S Diesel Three
Wheeler in 4 years
o More than 10 export countries variants & Refresh product programmed & successfully launched
Technical Skills Trainings
PERT / CPM
DFA
DFS
PPAP
7 QC Tools
HOQ / QFD
MS Project
SAP – PS
Team Center
SAP MM / PP Module
Pro-e wild fire-5 & Auto CAD
MS Office
MS Access (New)
ECRs Management System, ECOR, ECN & EJO
Academic Details
Mechanical Engineering – AMIE from Institution of Engineers of India, Kolkata in 2012 with 80%
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from IERT, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) in 2008 with 76.92%
12th from S.I.C. Suriyawan, Bhadohi (SRN), Uttar Pradesh in 2005 with 67.20%
10th from S.S.M. Inter-college Bheemsenpur, Bhadohi (SRN) Uttar Pradesh in 2003 with 66.50%
Extracurricular Activities
Associate Member – Indian Institution of Engineers- India (Membership No. A555469-2)
Merit of being a cricket player of district level
Participated in all the year cultural festivals (Dancer & Actor)
Member of Antar Rashtriya Gayatri Parivar, Haridwar
NCC ‘B ‘Certificate Holder
NSS Active Participant-IERT
Worked as a Coordinator of major events college level (Event Management)
Active in Social acts like school teaching on holidays, Blood donation, Tree planting etc.
PersonalDetails
Date of Birth: 1st February 1989
LanguagesKnown: English,Hindi,& Tamil (Learner)
Present Address:P.O.Box 31376,PlotNo.N-176,Al Ghail Industrial Area,RAK - Manama Highway,RasAl Khaimah,UAE
Permanent Address:SuriyawanBy PassChowk,GyanpurRoad,Post:Suriyawan 221404,Bhadohi (SRN),U,P, INDIA