Shankar Gopalakrishna

- A result oriented professional with 17+ years of experience in New Product Development, Design Engineering, working on full life cycle projects in electromechanical products. - Experience in individually handling new mechanical design & development projects from Ideation/concept till production transfer. Skill Set :- - Good Exposure on Product Design Life Cycle of electro mechanical systems from Concept to Production. - Expertise using Plastics, Sheet-metal, Die-casting & Machined parts for product design & development. - ECAD / MCAD Interface for integration of electronics into mechanical design. - Supporting Quality Control & Release activities (Part approvals, Supplier Interactions, First Article Inspection, PPAP, PTAP, ECO – ECR etc...) - Exposure to Standards Like NEBS, ETSI, IEC and ISO. - Exposure to GD&T & Tolerance Stacks. - Exposure to solving EMI/EMC failures at enclosure level, exposure to different materials & methods available to make enclosures EMI/EMC compatible. - Exposure to designing PCBA assembly into enclosure & sealing / coating them to meet IP65 environments. - Plastic, Sheet-metal & die-cast tooling reviews / approvals for final production tools. - Performed DFMEA, Root Cause analysis and all other problem solving techniques. - Artwork design using Corel draw for plastic, sheet metal parts printing and for packaging. - Protoyping and verifications as a pilot run. - Stress analysis on designed components using Pro/Mechanical & Solidworks simulation. - Coordinating the entire development activities viz. Requirement analysis, planning, finalizing specifications and prototype development. - Troubleshooting all technical problems; conducting various tests & inspections to ensure that products developed are in compliance with pre-set quality specifications.