Tanvi Designs
My Work
Experience
June - August 2018
SPLASH.ORG
Design Engineer Intern
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Developed a new plastic hand washing station and drinking water station that reduced manufacturing costs and increased production capacity by 100%.
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Improved user experience through usability tests based on HCD evaluation tools with children at the public schools in Kolkata (India), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Seattle.
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Acquired an effective manufacturing site by vetting plastic manufacturers and coordinating design requirements.
January - August 2017
TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES (TTI)
Concept Design Intern
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Designed a new home automation product series for a lucrative customer segment in consumer electronics for Home Depot.
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Prototyped, tested and fiinalized product features by coordinated requirements across multi-disciplinary teams.
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Developed new business opportunities through competitive product analysis, benchmarking and extensive user research for Ryobi, Rigid, Hart and Artic Cove products.
June - December 2016
BJORK STUDIO
Design Intern
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Designed bespoke hand made furniture by fulfilling client needs and vision through consultation meetings, iterative design process, followed by shop drawings for manufacture.
2015 - 2018
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Developed and graded quizzes and assignments, conducted tuition hours outside regular class hours, and guided students in their class projects for the Materials and Manufacturing class.
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Conducted a few lectures on Additive manufacturing every semester.
2013 - 2015
SUZUKI (India)
Automation Designer
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Owned 3 automation system products as the mechanical engineer for the Automation design lab.
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Designed the automation system by coordinating with suppliers, electrical engineers, finance, shop management, and fabricators. Further supervised installation of the automation systems.
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Developed the quality control system, Quality Gate across all 8 plants.
January - June 2013
DEFENSE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
Mechanical Design Intern
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Developed an actuator to drive the control surfaces for the unmanned air vehicle (UAV) Rustom 2 drone.
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Improved efficiency by reducing UAV weight by (10 x 8 no.) 80 gm.
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Decreased size of the actuator by 80%, improving space utilization.
Contact
Hi,
Hope you liked my work. If you would like to talk more please feel free to reach me through the contact form or email me at my email listed below.
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Tel: 1-470-263-3688