Siddhant Shah: Project Engineer - Hardware Development in Peoria, IL

• Responsible for managing hardware and software validation projects across drivetrain (transmission and motors). • Identify avenue of performance/life improvements and present business case to stakeholders. • Design performance, endurance, HALT and thermal validation plans for lab and field. • Use data metrics to drive decisions, design recommendations and strategic actions. • Increased life of planetary transmission by ~50% through development of life limiter rotating seals. • Changed material supplier and validated performance to cut electric motor production cost by 8%.

• Highly accelerated Life testing cycle development for Switched Reluctance Motors (400kW/700V) • Conducted performance and thermal testing on Electric motors and generators for large mining trucks, wheel loaders and track type tractors. Conduct electric validation and troubleshooting using bench test equipment. • Responsibilities: Test planning, DUT inspection, DUT instrumentation, Data acquisition setup, test execution, root cause analysis, data analysis, and report writing. • Collaborated with product, design, manufacturing and software teams to develop state of the art products. • Completed every project with a minimum 20% cost savings and 15% time savings.