Venkatesh Damodaram

Background

About Venkatesh Damodaram

Engineering Department Head with over 20 years of manufacturing engineering and management experiences, who can lead teams to launch new programs and projects. With prior experiences dealing with customers in technical discussions and strategic business negotiations, I bring to the table exceptional leadership qualities with strong business acumen that help design and execute solutions that create customer value, which have a direct impact on the bottom line. Skills: • 20+ years professional experiences in Engineering. • Program Management: 20+ years experiences. • People Management: 15+ years experiences. • Strategic business negotiations. • Global teams engagements. • Cross-functional team leadership. • Pricing negotiations. • 10 or more Exempt; 100+ non-exempt managed. • Outsourcing, and procurement: dealing with global suppliers. • Plant re-location, significant upgrades, and re-tooling. • Large Capex program launches:~$50M+. • Wide range of machining experiences: turning, milling (HMC & VMC), various grinding (profile, surface, in-feed, thru' feed, double-disk), honing, micro-polishing, deburring (various), etc. • AutoCAD, Solidworks. • Fixture, tooling and gage design. • 6Sigma, TPS, & lean experiences. • TPM, TBWS, & 5S experiences. • SPC, APQP, FMEA, ISO/TS/IATF experiences. • Automotive, power generation and aerospace industries. • Laser metal deposition technology. • MS Office proficient: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.