RauhonAhmed Shaik

Having led Engineering for two years, the next step was taking ownership of Manufacturing as well — unifying two functions that had operated in tension, and building the platform from which the VP role was launched.

• Delivered a 50% improvement in manufacturing KPIs through a full overhaul of production processes and documentation.
• Unified Engineering and Manufacturing under a single leadership structure for the first time — one accountable chain from design to delivery.
• Built a proprietary COGS calculation tool enabling real-time product pricing, reducing procurement over-spend and improving competitiveness on bids.
• Developed a forecasting-driven minimum-stock system that eliminated supply-chain disruptions across active orders.
• Introduced standardized ECO processes, reducing design-revision errors and keeping production documentation current.
• Managed simultaneous product programs, balancing R&D priorities against production capacity and delivery commitments.
• Acted as the technical bridge between Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturing — translating commercial needs into executable plans.
• Implemented weekly KPI dashboards for output, efficiency, and quality, giving leadership early warning before failures reached customers.

Promoted after demonstrating the ability to manage not just projects, but people and strategy. The role where individual technical mastery became organizational leadership.

• Led an 8-product innovation pipeline producing patent-pending technologies — including an IP67-rated portable command kit now deployed by NYPD, CAL FIRE, T-Mobile, and AT&T.
• Owned the full product lifecycle: requirements, concept, DFM, prototyping, DVT, PVT, regulatory compliance, and commercialization — on budget and on schedule.
• Applied deep DFM expertise across injection molding, sheet metal, die casting, vacuum forming, enclosures, and foam packaging.
• Built and scaled the engineering team from the ground up — defining roles, hiring, setting goals, and mentoring for growth.
• Established stage-gate development processes, reducing late-stage design changes and costly tooling rework.
• Managed the engineering budget across new development, sustaining engineering, and customization programs.
• Integrated third-party hardware and software into Parsec ecosystems, expanding solution value and bundling opportunities.
• Developed technical documentation, integration guides, and certification packages for enterprise and government procurement.

After two years as the company's primary design engineer, scope expanded from individual contribution to organizational impact — building systems other people could operate and improve.

• Achieved a 10× increase in production throughput by designing a new floor plan for a 33,000 sq ft facility and selecting/installing all new production equipment.
• Reduced component manufacturing costs by up to 40% across 40 assemblies by redesigning 15 critical components without compromising performance.
• Launched 20 new products — 10 now in mass production — directing the full engineering pipeline from concept to release.
• Designed assembly work instructions, process control documents, and quality checkpoints for all lines, cutting training time and rework.
• Led evaluation and qualification of new processes and materials, expanding in-house capability and reducing contractor dependency.
• Introduced mandatory design-review gates before tooling, catching flaws early and eliminating late-stage corrections.
• Mentored a growing engineering team, coordinating targeted training in DFM, CAD, and manufacturing methods.
• Coordinated cross-functionally with Procurement, Operations, and Sales to align launches with supply readiness.

First role at Parsec — a small company needing engineers who could do everything. An engineering foundation built not on textbook theory, but on hands-on production reality.

• Designed 200+ individual parts and launched 50+ products for large-scale manufacturing, including portable network devices for high-speed connectivity.
• Increased production capacity 10× by engineering custom jigs, fixtures, and test rigs and authoring standardized assembly work instructions.
• Established the company's engineering design library in SOLIDWORKS PDM — version-controlled, centralized, and reuse-friendly.
• Conducted hands-on design validation: drop testing, thermal cycling, and IP-rating verification before production.
• Collaborated with vendors and contract manufacturers on tooling strategies, balancing investment against volume and unit cost.
• Developed BOMs, tolerance specs, and supplier qualification requirements, reducing sourcing ambiguity and inspection failures.
• Prototyped via 3D printing and in-house machining, compressing design-to-prototype cycles from weeks to days.
• Performed FEA and structural analysis (SOLIDWORKS Simulation, ABAQUS) to catch failure modes before hard tooling.

Material research in composites and structures at UTA's Institute for Predictive Performance Methodologies — the R&D foundation beneath the manufacturing career that followed.

• Designed, manufactured, and characterized structural capacitors for automotive applications.
• Characterized composite materials using impedance spectroscopy, broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BbDS), and MTS servo-hydraulic testing.
• Designed and built test rigs and devices, directly supporting two published journal papers.
• Supervised junior interns on Wabash compression molding, VARTM, BbDS, and profilometry.
• Built bills of materials and documented design concepts, drawings, and test results per R&D protocol.
• Published 4 journal articles and completed a graduate thesis on multi-functional materials.

Led engineering research across sustainable fuels and mobility — including the biodiesel pilot plant later granted a national patent.

• Researched, designed, and developed a novel pilot plant for biodiesel from waste cooking oil — later granted Government of India Patent No. 372202.
• Converted a batch process into a continuous-flow pilot plant, cutting production time ~50% and cost ~40%.
• Characterized fuel properties (viscosity, density, flash/fire point, octane) and identified optimal biodiesel–diesel blend ratios on a 4-cylinder engine.
• Led four college-sponsored R&D projects — including a solar-powered rickshaw and an assistive electric cart — delivered on schedule.
• Published 2 journal articles and presented 9 conference papers; completed an undergraduate thesis.
• Organized National Science Day 2017 (100+ guests) and multiple research conferences.