Arpan Gandhi

About Arpan Gandhi

Accomplished Quality, Component Engineering, SQE, and Supply Chain professional with ~14…

Experience

1. Sr Component Engineer, Global Hw Quality & Reliability

   Google

   May 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   CE Lead for early engagement, BOM Risk Analysis upto manufacturer part level to research & mitigate the supply risk in parts collaborating with xFN teams globally to drive the mitigation actions in high-risk components Identify & qualify for various commodity PCBA parts & ensure impact on multi-sourcing for supply continuity in Cloud Data Center / Server products. Lead a project to manage CM partner, offload context CE tasks, review & approve the tasks. Collaborate with different teams to resolve their challenges. Monitor & review their metrics and derive the improvement actions. Review Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s), Manufacturing Change Orders (MCO’s) and Deviations to ensure qualified components list is updated accordingly. Track component lifecycles and qualifications. Proactively identify and drive solutions to resolve End-of-life (EOL) and obsolete situations and minimize impacts. Understand component technology and trends, data sheets, application notes and recommend it to design engg, team. Owns program communication across multiple teams and senior management, status, decisions, risks, removing blockers, and escalations. Manage escalations, project timelines and high visibility projects requiring expedite. Transform and drive scalable process improvements, initiatives, and other related activities in collaboration. Partnered with multiple teams internally as well as with CMs/ODMs for BOM risk management (Supply Risk, Quality Risk and Technology Risk), Component lifecycle, Multi-sourcing, Component Qualification, to ensure risk mitigation and meet project timelines.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

  Post Graduate

  2021 — 2022

• Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)

  Science - Mathematics

  2001 — 2008

• Poornima College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Kaizen
• Process Quality Improvement
• C
• Problem Analysis
• Testing
• Root Cause Analysis
• Root Cause Problem Solving
• Passive Components
• Green Belt
• Component Testing
• Electronics
• Fmea
• Six Sigma
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Components
• Shainin Doe
• Energy Management
• Supplier Evaluation
• Problem Solving
• Principal Component Analysis
• Quality Process Development
• Transformer
• Ipc
• Supplier Quality
• Dmaic
• Semiconductors
• Component Engineering
• Failure Analysis
• 8d Problem Solving
• Asq Member