Pratik Gawande
Manager - Quality & Process Excellence @Wipro
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WORK HISTORY
Manager - Quality & Process Excellence @Wipro
Navi Mumbai, IN
Current Role Highlights Team Leadership: Leading a team of #7 Black Belts to fulfill business needs effectively. Consulting Excellence: Directing consulting assignments, delivering substantial business value through quality initiatives. Process Excellence: Spearheading process improvement projects in a dynamic environment, fostering efficiency. Benchmarking & Best Practices: Driving benchmarking efforts and deploying best practices across accounts. Gap Identification: Identifying process gaps and opportunities for enhancement, enhancing operational efficiency. Customer Satisfaction: Proactively identifying and addressing potential customer dissatisfaction drivers to mitigate CSAT risks.🤝 Collaborative Improvement: Collaborating with customers and operations leadership to identify and implement improvement opportunities. Profitability Projects: Leading projects aimed at enhancing and sustaining process profitability. Governance & Quality Assurance: Ensuring governance for Quality/Process Excellence initiatives in large engagements. Process Improvement Culture: Fostering a culture of continuous improvement utilizing Six Sigma, Lean, and Kaizen methodologies. Standardization & Compliance: Driving standardization practices and ensuring strict compliance with internal and client-defined processes. Metrics Management: Ensuring all process metrics are being achieved, maintaining operational excellence.
EDUCATION
Welingkar Institute of Management
PGDM
Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
ABOUT PRATIK GAWANDE
An assiduous, aspiring & dynamic Senior Management Professional, offering over 9 years of versed & augmented experience in Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Process Excellence, Value Engineering, Project Management, Quality Management and People Management Strong sense of Confidence with significant achievements across versatile domainsWHERE CAN I ADD VALUE• Skilful in directing continuous improvement projects viz Lean and Six Sigma projects with a focus on production and business process improvement• Robust experience in utilizing industry best practices, techniques, and standards throughout entire project execution and measuring project performance to identify areas for improvement• Strong knowledge on the fundamentals of operational excellence-from key concepts and tools to methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC), Kaizen, and value stream management (VSM), and implementation of best practicesKEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Successfully improved OEE by 6% by aligning team towards DWM, autonomous maintenance, Kaizen & 5S• Significantly spearheaded 7QC projects in different areas across the factory to ensure process control• Successful in reduction of DPU on condensing unit assembly line by 70% using Lean Six Sigma• Accomplished cost saving of 10 lakhs/annum by leading 5S projects across the plant• Won Platinum award in Kaizen competition conducted by CII in Jan 2022 under the category \'Pokayoke in quality\'• Recognized with the award of ‘Best Green Product’ in Petrochemicals category at FICCI Chemicals & Petrochemicals Awards 2019• Won 1st runner up award in National DigiTech Circle competition conducted by CII in Sep 2022About MeI am a multi-faceted professional who can strategize, improvise, and enhance effectiveness in versatile domainsDo reach me out at: p••••••••@gmail.com
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