Siddharth Veeraghanta

About Siddharth Veeraghanta

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Significantly Enhanced Risk Management: Successfully led PFMEA and hazard analysis for complex electromechanical medical devices, driving robust risk mitigation throughout product development lifecycles.Improved Supplier Quality Alignment: Developed and implemented Quality Plans and standardized PFMEA scale transitions, ensuring seamless integration of supplier QMS with company standards.Established Rigorous Quality Controls: Defined and documented Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) characteristics, ensuring stringent supplier control and product quality.Streamlined Design Transfers: Facilitated successful design transfers to manufacturing by generating MVPs, Control Plans, and leading critical design transfer activities.Optimized Manufacturing Processes: Applied advanced quality methodologies (DFSS, DRM, DFMA, COS) and statistical analysis (DOE, regression) to optimize process design and development, resulting in measurable improvements.Ensured Product Safety and Reliability: Developed and executed comprehensive risk management plans, led change control evaluations, and collaborated on verification/validation strategies, ensuring adherence to global standards and regulationsExperience in developing Design control, Manufacturing, Process control, Validations & Verification, and Risk controls for medical devices in compliance with ISO standards.Successfully lead NPI projects: Lead manufacturing new product introduction (NPI) projects to design process parametersManufacturing Engineer in Medical Device Industry, Lead Value Stream Operations, Risk Assessment, Trouble shooting, Root cause Analysis, Problem-solving, Verification and Validation of Equipment\'s, CAPA, Non-Conformance Reports, Product/material Disposition.Experience in Design Controls, Design History File (DHF), Risk Management, CAD tools and FEA for medical devices in accordance with the ISO 13485, 21 CFR 820, ISO 14971:2007/®2010 and IEC 62366-1:2015 standards.

Experience

1. Senior Design Quality Engineer

   MiniMed

   Jul 2022 — Present · Los Angeles County, CA, US

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2010 — 2014

• Sacred Heart High School

  High School, High School

  2001 — 2008

• Indiana University Indianapolis

  Master’s Degree, Solid Mechanics - Mechanical Engineering

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Autocad
• Lean Manufacturing
• Ansys
• Fluid Mechanics
• Iso 14971
• Manufacturing
• Autodesk Inventor
• C
• Microsoft Office
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Ptc Creo
• Html
• Engineering
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)
• Modeling
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Six Sigma
• C++
• Mechanical Engineering
• Catia
• Management
• Nx Unigraphics
• Product Development
• Siemens Nx
• Fmea
• Minitab
• 8d Problem Solving
• Microsoft Word
• Workbench
• Ppap
• Iec 62366
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Iso 13485
• Risk Management
• Finite Element Analysis
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Apqp
• Solidworks