Kiran Karale

About Kiran Karale

Working Experience: CAE Durability Domain with 25 year experience and overall 27 years experience Education Qualification : M.Tech. Mechanical Engg (Machine Design) from IIT, Madras Major Responsibilities: Leader with a 27+ years of experience in CAE Delivery including, cross-functional program management, human capital management, operations leadership, P&L management and ability to perform strategic roles within the company across different functions. Proven ability in growing engineering team, managing teams, client relationship management, key internal stakeholder management to align Global requirements with a passion for increasing employee engagement through people development and empowerment. Technical expertise in Product Design and Development for Products Durability. Career Summary: • Reviewing and delivering CAE durability analysis for Commercial Vehicle, Bus and Defense platform from UV, SCV, ILCV, M & HCVcategories. • New technology platforms – bifuel, hybrid, EV, H2 ICE. • Platform conversion/migration from conventional to CNG md Electric Vehicles. • Estimate, plan and execute the Durability CAE simulations in-line with vehicle development program for various design stages- from Concept level till Production release. • Played instrumental role in BS6, increased axle load, RDE drives. • Handled aspects like optimization, correlation and cost/weight reduction program. • Closely interacting with different design CoC’s, vehicle integration, testing team during product development and supporting for field failures. • Participated in cross functional team to deliver expected management targets. • Participating in management drives – Technical and non-technical – Demonstrating new technology, POC, generating SOPs, Productivity, VAVE, cost reduction, IPR, reviewing goal settings, organizational strategy to meet customer requirement, Revenue, Quality. • Supporting department level IT activities with the help of System Admin. • Conducting appraisals and goal setting for team size of 54 Team Members.

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Tata Technologies

   Jul 2016 — Present

Education

• Maharashtra Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

  1992 — 1996

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  M. Tech, Mechanical Engineering - Machine Design

  1998 — 2000

• Modern High School Pune

  Secondary School Certificate (10th Grade), General & Technical Studies

  1986 — 1990

• Abasaheb Garware College

  Higher Secondary School Certificate (12th Grade), General Science

  1990 — 1992