<aside> 🎨 Hello! I'm Rajkumar Kalivaradhan, an Automotive Product Design and Development Engineer With over 18 years of experience, including 2.75 years onsite (Daimler Trucks North America Inc., via H1B Visa), I specialize in vehicle integration, product design and development, assembly fixture design, and project management

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🌈 Professional Summary

With over 18 years of experience, including 2.75 years onsite (Daimler Trucks North America Inc., via H1B Visa), I specialize in vehicle integration, product design and development, assembly fixture design, and project management.

• Skilled in vehicle integration, automotive product design and development, benchmarking, and reverse engineering using NX, CATIA V5, and SolidWorks
• Served as Technical Lead on a garden tractor development program, focusing on performance calculations, lever and pedal design, skid-mounted fuel tank assembly design, and hydraulic systems packaging and routing.
• Proficient in designing chassis assemblies, auxiliary gearbox assemblies, superstructures, fuel tank assemblies, load bodies, spare wheel carriers, hydraulic and pneumatic routings, and sheet metal parts.
• Extensive experience in designing and developing inspection and assembly fixtures, materials storage racks, transporting dollies, and kitting carts using SolidWorks and NX.
• Expertise in gearbox casing design through reverse engineering.
• Strong knowledge of material selection and surface coatings.
• Familiar with technical standards and GD&T.
• Proficient in DFMEA, DVVP, ESK, P-diagram, boundary diagram, and PLM processes.
• Skilled in creating plant layouts for truck manufacturing facilities in 2D and 3D using AutoCAD and SolidWorks 2018.

💼 Work Experience

Nira Strategic Solutions – Principal Design Consultant: Jan 2022 – Present

Managing and operating my engineering consultancy business, providing end-to-end product design services, DFMEA, Interface matrixes & developing Maintenance Requirement Analysis, Service Schedules and Technical Maintenance Plans (TMP) for clients.

Sr.Lead Engineer – Hinduja Tech Limited: Sep 2018 – Dec 2021

Vehicle Integration engineer for commercial and electrical vehicles, Product Design and Development, Autonomous Vehicle, E Mobility, Design Calculations for Levers and Pedals, Performance calculation for farm tractors and Benchmarking