This document provides a summary of a product engineer with over 8 years of experience in automotive seating and interior components design. Key responsibilities include mechanical design, project management, tolerance analysis, and supporting products from concept to mass production. Strengths include CAD skills in CATIA V5 and experience in various technical areas such as sheet metal processing, tolerance stackup analysis, and regulatory compliance.

1. PRODUCT ENGINEER / PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
INTHIYAZ BASHA SYEDMEER
inthiyaz.sm@gmail.com
Mob: +49 174 379 4104
Kölnerstrasse- 52,
Leverkusen, 51379
Germany
Summary:
An automotive professional with more than 8 years of experience in diversified portfolios; prime
focus on Design and Development, project administration. Proven track record of tactfully handling
& managing various seat programs as well interior plastic components design.
 Mechanical Engineer with good experience in Complete Product development cycle from
concept to mass production emphasizing on design development of automotive Seat system
and interior components
 In depth knowledge of complete seat, structure, sheet metal and plastic components design
& development. Supported, involved & owned design & development activities from
Quotation phase (1) to till launch phase (5), after launch & production support
 Project management experience; include acting as Engineering interface to internal SDT
(simultaneous development) team (Proto, quality, Manufacturing, testing & costing) and
external Customer & supplier. Which involves Co-ordinate and execute the various tasks as
per the defined project timeline.
 Profound knowledge of CAD software CATIA V5 and PLM software VPM, Teamcenter.
 Experience in conducting component GD&T, assembly stack evaluation, DFMEA, problem
report creation and documentation (like A3, A4& 8d). supporting and tracking change
management
 Good understanding of the cost and scheduling constraints. Proactive and practical/analytical
approach to problem solving. Ability to work individually and in a team environment
Skills:
Technical competence: Sheet metal processing, GD&T, Tolerance stack up investigations GAP
analysis, knowledge of various material properties used in Automotive Metals.
Legal Regulations: ECE & FMVSS and Various Product worthiness tests.
Soft Skills: MS-Office, Vis -View, Issue report creation, Pugh Analysis, Design for Cost Analysis,
Performing capability study of quality measurement data-analysis (MINITAB), FMEA

2. Professional experience
Product Engineer at Johnson Controls Burscheid, Germany Nov 2012 – Till Date
Products handled: Automotive Seating Structures
Current program: FORD C519 Front seat (Phase2-5)
Programs undertaken:
FORD V408 SWB, LWB, TAXI & CC Rear seat structures (Phase2-5)
All Ford B-car & C- car FS & RS production support (Phase-6)
Responsibilities undertaken:
 Responsible for engineering deliverables; including Packaging, layout investigation, product
design, drawings as per customer specification, design objectives / program timing.
 Responsible for complete seat structure design in Cad (CATIA V5) including mechanism
kinematics studies, clearance and manufacturability.
 Create drawings and apply GD&T, Critical and Significant Characteristics. Conduct component
tolerance studies and assembly stack evaluations. Generate BOM's, maintain open issues lists,
and typical engineering documents
 Ensure that prototype samples meet appearance and functional performance standards and
ensure completion of appropriate product validation testing.
 Evaluate physical performance with FEA analysis and interpret results. Perform engineering
calculations for mass, strength and performance.
 Perform pugh analysis, root cause analysis, design guidelines, best practices, past program
lessons learned, competitive product benchmarking information.
 Prepare and support DFMEA's, Safety and other Sign Offs
 Customer Handling for Engineering Deliverables. Engineering interface for the Program SDT and
supplier
Key accomplishments:
 Significantly contributed to closure of PPSC
 Provided excellent support during lunch of V408 SWB & LWB
Senior Design Engineer at Tata Johnson Controls, Pune, India Jul 2010 – Nov 2012
(On deputation from SYNTEL INC Jul 2010-Nov 2011)
Products handled: Automotive Seating Structures
Programs Supported
Program –Renault_X87,X52,X98 and FIAT L0 (Phase 2 to Phase 5)
 Structure design & development, Packaging study with assembly and manufacturing feasibility
studies.
 Part and assembly drawing creation with GD&T, Various benchmark studies in proposal phase
for best in class product. VPM Support, Tolerance stack up analysis Epic activity – ECR & WIP
creation.

3.  Packaging study, Kinematic creation, Design proposals, Functional drawings creation &
updation, V-Bom preparation, Design proposals, Design study for costing Layout drawings
creation JIT Assembly drawings creation.
 Production release support (Design and development), Part level drawing and assembly drawing
creation with GD&T.
CAD Engineer at AUFEER DESIGN PVT LTD, Hyderabad, INDIA April 2007 – Nov 2009
Products handled: Automotive Interiors
Maruti YE3 orvm, Tata Nano irvm
 Designed the Mirror housing, base cover, with A-Surface being the input data, developed the B-
Side surface, keeping in view the manufacturing feasibility.
 Developed the baking plate, control tower, actuators by taking physical models as reference
 Drawings are generated for the same as per standards.
 input data A-surface is also modified according to tolling direction
Hyundai YN - Door Trims
 Designed the Speaker Grille part, with A-Surface being the input data, developed the B-Side
surface, keeping in view the manufacturing feasibility
 Creation of B-Side attachment features for the part
 Remodeling of Trim Lower Part which involves correction of the input surface data and
modifications of B-Side attachment features
Skoda - B6 Seat Trim
 Remodeling of seat trim parts using the A-surface data received as input.
 Fixation(s) are designed based on the surrounding data received
Suzuki - Armrest
 Correction of input surfaces and solid modeling of the part with all the B-Side attachment features.
Modification of all die locks and parting lines are modified to open the part in the tooling direction
Scholastic Details
Bachelor of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. India. Aug 2001-May2005
Specialization: Mechanical Engineering
Software Knowledge
CATIA V5, TeamCenter PLM, VPM, CDB, EPIC, MS Office
Language fluency
English :(Fluent);
German: Completed certified course B1;
Hindi (Fluent)