Charles Bronson Selvaraj

• Business Development, Customer Engagement and Delivery Leadership in Engineering services in Automotive.
• Managing 3 customer accounts
• Handling a team of 30 onsite Engineers to support multiple programs from Concept design solutions to production release of the vehicle ensuring quality, cost & timing constraints.
• Ensuring Financial Targets.
• Collaborated with sales, delivery and service teams to manage seamless customer experiences.
• Met with clients to understand needs and develop proactive solutions.
• Consulted with teams on established best practices and process improvements.
• Helped with product rollouts as subject matter expert for all Projects.
• Assisted with negotiations and sales closings.
• Demonstrated products to show potential customers benefits and advantages and encourage purchases.
• Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships.
• Collaborated with upper management to implement continuous improvements and exceed team goals.
• Managed revenue models, process flows, operations support and customer engagement strategies.
• Built relationships with customers and community to establish long-term business growth.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
• Increased profit margins by effectively controlling budget and overhead and optimizing product turns.
• Maintained financial controls, planned business operations and control expenses while identifying and pursuing opportunities to grow business operations and boost profits.

Lotus:

• Lead, manage and coordinate all delivery aspects within the design process from PS through to Job 1.
• Developing Side Door & Tailgate mechanisms by coordinating with various suppliers and with internal customers.
• Ensure system and other interface compatibility issues are resolved according to cost and time targets.
• Preparing commodity plans. Identifying critical path to ensure readiness for program gateways.

X393:

• Lead, manage and coordinate all delivery aspects within the design process of Side Door BIW assembly from PS through to Job 1.
• Integration of Door Closure system with Body.
• Involved in the development of the system and how it interacts within the body architecture, working with AME, Purchase, Cost Engineering, Quality, Design, STA, Electrical, BIW, CAE, Optical Quality, Test Area, Manufacturing and others.
• Ensure system compatibility issues are resolved according to cost and time targets.
• Preparing commodity plans. Identifying critical path to ensure off tool parts for VB.

Design, Development & Integration of Dynamic Sealing system for London Taxi TX5:

• Design of Dynamic Seals for Front Door, Rear Door, Bonnet & Deck lid.
• Layout and Packaging reviews to satisfy the requirement of Interface, DFM, DFA and DFS for the complete system.
• Checking design compliance for all the applicable Homologation.
• Process solution and support to Manufacturing to achieve first time right build of Body.

Design, Development & Integration of Dynamic Sealing system for LCV- Van:

• Design of Dynamic seals for Sliding Door & Barn Doors.

Layout and Packaging of Mechanisms for Barn Door to satisfy the requirement of Interface, DFM, DFA and DFS for the complete system.

Design, Development & Integration of BIW system for Variants P405 & P409:

• Looking after Door BIW, Glass, Seals, Mechanisms & Bodyside Assy as Manager.

• Layout and Packaging reviews with Lead Engineers to satisfy the requirement of Interface, DFM, DFA and DFS for the complete body.

• To support and advise Lead Engineers in the delivery of programs and capture lessons learnt for future projects

• Running Working Level process chain meetings. Preparing project status report for Executive process chain reviews.

• Checking design compliance for all the applicable CMVR regulations.

• Process solution and support to CME to achieve first time right build of Body.

• Standaristaion of Parts & Assemblies for the entire Platform.

• BIW PIST Improvement to improve quality parameters.

• 1D PIST improvement to achieve Design Gaps & Flushness.

• Validation concern resolutions.

• IMCR activities.

• Ensure all the commodities meets to deliver programme milestones in a timely manner with a high quality of event.

• Ensure Cost & weight targets.

Design, Development & Integration of Mechanism, Glass & Seals System for Project S103

• Looking after for Mechanism, Glasses & Seals system.

• Concept Development & Packaging for Mechanism, Seals & Glasses.

• To support and advise Lead Engineers in the delivery of programs and capture lessons learnt for future projects

• ESI parts Identification for engineering support.

• Concept FMEA.

• Concept Design Reviews.

• EBOM release with the Classification of HIHR/MIMR/LILR parts.

Design, Development & Integration of Closure System for Project HT

• Design & Development of Sliding Door System:

• Design, Development & Validation of Sliding Door Mechanisms.

• Generation of Track& Design of middle Sliding Door Assembly for MPV-HT using DMU Kinematics.

• Development & Integration of Latch, Remote Assembly for Sliding Door Assembly – MPV HT.

• Outer and Inner Handle Design for Sliding Doors.

• Visited Taiwan for Design Finalization & Validation for Sliding Doors.

• Preliminary CAE analysis done on structural parts or panels for Rails, Carriages using GPS, GAS in Catia V5.

• Clash Analysis and Interface Mapping with DMU Space Analysis.

• Responsible for first cut Formability simulation of panels using CATForm .

• Preparing various Concept design layouts for Middle Sliding door & check its feasibility.

• Support in Vehicle builds from EP till SOP.

• Developed DVP for Sliding Door System as it is First Time Design in Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

• Development of Sliding Door Standards.

• Build Control Plan for Sliding Door System.

• Conversant in BOM creation and part release in T C Enterprise.

• Preparation of Interface Map for freezing the B-Diagram and P-Diagram for preliminary DFMEA.

• Preparation of data for preliminary BOM and costing discussion.

Design, Development & Integration of Closure System for LTV – Mahindra Maxximo (Light Transport Vehicle)

• Design of door panels

• Design & Development of Door panels like Outer panel, Inner Panel, Belt reinforcement,etc.,

• Improving the design to get better CAE results & smooth the progress of assembly as per the feedback given by Simulation Engineering.

• Integration & Development of Door Mechanisms.

• Design, Development & Integration of Door mechanisms such as Latch mechanism, Window regulator, Check arm, Door Hinges, Wiper Arm Assemblies, Door Handles.

• Extensive use of Kinematics for validating all mechanisms to conform its working in closure system.

• Giving the necessary design change feed back to the vendor as per issues observed in Virtual Validation - Kinematics & Vehicle built.

• Preparing SDS (System design specification) & other Design process documentations for Doors, seals & Glasses.

• SDS is the Design process documentation which includes Functions, interface maps, requirements & design verification method for that particular system

• Other Design process documentations are SOR, CIR, DVP, DFMEA etc.

• Preparing master sections for doors, Calculating Section modulus for the same & optimizing sections.

• Selection, positioning and packaging of Windshield Washer Nozzle on Wiper Arm Assembly for LTV.

• Coordinating for testing & Proto Built activities with Protoshop & Reliability testing Lab & resolved related concerns.

• Prepared Templates for Forward field of vision, Wiping layouts & Angle of Obtrusion's as per AIS standards for CMVR conformation for M1 category and N1 category.

• Conformance of External projections for BIW and Doors as per standards.

Design, Development & Integration of Closure System for MPV- Mahindra Maxximo Mini Van(Multi-Purpose Vehicle)

• Integration & Development of Door Mechanisms:

• Design, Development & Integration of Door mechanisms such as Latch mechanism, Check arm, Door Hinges, Door Handles & links.

• Extensive use of Kinematics for virtually validating all mechanisms to conform its working in closure system.

• Design of Butterfly window mechanism using Kinematics.

• Preparation of Styling Buck for MPV.

• Preparing interface maps, DVP for Closure system.

Support in Vehicle builds from EP till SOP.