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title: "Vairavanathan Karthikeyan - Project Manager in Chennai | Tal"
description: "Meet Vairavanathan Karthikeyan, Technical Project Manager | Lean Six Sigma | Operational Excellence | Continuous Improvement | Tech Influencer | Agile Coach | AI Enthusiast | Roboticist | Subject Matter Expert | Project LifeCycle | Ex-ISRO/Nokia/BYD based in Chennai. AI stack includes anthropic api..."
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# Vairavanathan Karthikeyan on Tal

## Headline

Technical Project Manager \| Lean Six Sigma \| Operational Excellence \| Continuous Improvement \| Tech Influencer \| Agile Coach \| AI Enthusiast \| Roboticist \| Subject Matter Expert \| Project LifeCycle \| Ex\-ISRO/Nokia/BYD

## About

To be a Passionate in the state of art Electronic Products in a company to apply my technical and analytical skills, Creativity, Innovation, Passion, Initiative values with genuine enthusiasm and have a successful career\. I am a Senior Test Specialist having 15\+ years of Insight in leadership and functional experience in Operations, Product and Process engineering, Project management in various roles and multiple Industries such as Aerospace, Renewable energy & Telecom domain with driving Operational excellence through Lean Practice, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement in Industry standard methodologies\.

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

anthropic apis

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claude

cursor

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claudecode

## Work experience

Project Manager at Apple, Sep 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, Hybrid, Collaborate & Influence Cross functional teams including engineering, operations and business functions to meet business goals\. Excellence in Project Management and People Management\. Expertise in Crafting tester Certification requirements including Calibration, Correlation, Capability, Repeatability and Reproducibility, Design of experiments and Failure analysis

Technical Project Manager at BYD Electronic \(International\) Company Limited, May 2022 \- Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Tamil Nadu, India

Senior Test Lead at Foxconn, Jun 2017 \- May 2022 · 5 yrs, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Working as a Senior Test lead in Product Testing Operations for Nokia & Mi Android devices for our valuable customer HMD global & Xiaomi to improve the end user experience through effective test management and process improvements of managing device testing team’s Deep concepts in Machine Learning, Problem Solving, Root Cause Analysis with rapid action plan in manufacture line with proven results, Lead the test team from NPI in multiple brand Product Portfolio with smooth ramp\-up till EOL As an Senior Test lead to ensure test case execution process is managed well with ability to mentor & coach the team, and optimizations in the processes followed and bring about Improvement in Quality & Productivity, Managing Process Improvements and work allocation, Manage Shop floor operations, create MIS reports, CFT Meeting discussion, review with line tech owners/core team performance on regular intervals to met productivity and quality deliverables\.

Assistant Project Manager at Intex Technologies \(India\) Ltd\., May 2016 \- Jun 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Noida Area, India, Worked as an Assistant Manager Project Management as Continuous Improvement Specialist in areas like factory automation, New Innovation & Initiatives across all cross functional open areas\.

Assistant Test Manager at Dixon Technologies India Limited, Jan 2015 \- May 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos, Noida Area, India, Worked as an Assistant Manager Operations in Industrial Packaging, Application Support, MES System Deployment and NPI for our valuable customer’s like TCL, Panasonic, Gionee, CoolPad, and Konka & Karbonn\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, National Institute of Business Management

Bachelore of Computer Application, Computer Science, Tamilnadu University

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