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Manish Mehta
www.linkedin.com/in/mehtamanish Experienced Product Management Professional | Strategic Planning
(LinkedIn) | Change Management | MBA
Austin, Texas
Top Skills
Change Management Summary
Management Consulting
Management professional with a broad experience in product
Supply Chain Management
strategy creation, roadmap execution and integrating market
requirements with product development. Results-driven leader
Languages
recognized for leading by influence, strategic thinking, problem
English (Native or Bilingual)
solving, and people development. Adept at mobilizing global cross-
Hindi (Native or Bilingual)
functional teams and negotiating decision-making in complex
Gujarati (Native or Bilingual)
situations.

Honors-Awards
Specialties: Corporate & Product Strategy, New market analysis,
Dean's Leadership & Service Award
Project Management, Lean and Six Sigma Black Belt coaching and
implementation in Supply Chain, Product Development, Logistics &
Information Technology

Experience
Apple
5 years 7 months

Sr. Manager, iPad Supply Demand Management & Americas Central

Planning
October 2017 - Present 

Product Manager, iPad & Americas Central Planning

April 2017 - October 2017 (7 months)

Product Manager, iPad Supply & Demand Management

November 2015 - April 2017 (1 year 6 months)

Manager, Americas Central Planning

January 2015 - November 2015 (11 months)

Product Manager, iPhone Supply & Demand Management

April 2014 - January 2015 (10 months)

Manager, Americas Reseller Operations

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April 2013 - March 2014 (1 year)

AMD
Senior Manager
August 2005 - April 2013 (7 years 9 months)
Global

• Leading Product Life Cycle initiative, projected to reduce inventory by 15%

and increase revenue by 2%
• Driving creation of 5 year supply chain and manufacturing strategy for AMD,
est. cost reduction of $10MM annually

AMD
Manager 2
October 2009 - September 2011 (2 years)
Global

• Led lean initiative of 0-13 week/current quarter demand/supply forecasting,

planning and execution processes resulting in consolidation of Sales
Operations and Supply Chain
• Directed an effort to help ‘AMD Foundation’, created its vision, mission
& 5 year objectives resulting in a better board realignment and increased
employee engagement
• Promoted after only 17 months as a result of contributions to Global
Operations organization in transformation efforts and lean implementation
• Led lean IT engagement for 700 people organization; coached 3 lean
workshops, yielding cost savings of $200K per annum

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

McCombs MBA+ Project
May 2011 - July 2011 (3 months)
• Create back-testing engine with flexible portfolio re-balancing to back-test
investment strategies over the last 10 years

Focus Strategies
McCombs MBA+ Project
May 2010 - August 2010 (4 months)
• Researched valuations for global mobile payment industry acquisitions to
derive financial ratios for target companies, using CAPIQ
• Developed sales pitch covering industry analysis, M&A valuations for past
deals and buy/sell side evaluation

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AMD
McCombs MBA+ Project
February 2010 - May 2010 (4 months)
• Developed Go To Market strategy using common platform with potential of
$10M cost avoidance
• Presented the strategy to Chief Operating Council for integration into product
support road-map

Ten Thousand Villages of Austin

Board Member - Corporate Governance
April 2009 - December 2009 (9 months)
Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profit organization, part of the Mennonite
Central Committee's outreach program, targeting the Fair Trade marketing
and sale in North America of quality craft work from poor and underemployed
artisans throughout the world.

AMD
4 years 3 months

Manager 1
March 2008 - October 2009 (1 year 8 months)
• Developed Demand-Supply integration model for IT Operations, improving
customer response time by 15%
• Reduced inventory through lean implementation, resulting in $32.7M balance
sheet savings for 2008

Sr. Product Development Engineer

June 2006 - March 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Global

• Established local lean office for each site and trained 12 value stream
managers in Germany, Singapore, China and Malaysia, creating sustained
continuous improvement efforts at these sites
• Implemented Just-In-Time system between Singapore and Malaysia
manufacturing plants, resulting in $350K of recurring annualized savings and
$130K one-time cost avoidance

Engineer
August 2005 - June 2006 (11 months)
• Executed workload management system for lab capacity planning resulting in
utilization increase by 23%

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• Redesigned microprocessors’ shipping process for U.S. customers resulting

in $152K in annual savings
• Executing work load management for capacity planning on different test labs
to perform scheduling of testing labs resulting in utilization increase by 23%
• Working with strategic and regular customers to develop schedules for
release programs and interlock requirements.
• Managed Supply Chain for all microprocessors samples sent to the strategic
partners & other customers.
• Developed a DBMS to support tracking and execution of projects, avoid
information duplication.

TATA Motors
Technical Manager 1 & Project Lead
July 2002 - July 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Pune, India

Reported to senior manager, dotted line to Deputy General Manager of

Manufacturing. Accountable for implementing lean and six sigma across
passenger car manufacturing plants. Responsible for capacity expansion and
implementing Kaizen process through product development. Organization
reported into Deputy General Manager of Technical and Productivity Services.

• Reduced WIP by 6% through line-balancing car engine manufacturing plant

with capacity of 500 engines/day using lean process improvement methods
• Trained by ex-Toyota consultants in lean, Toyota Production Methods and
implementing Toyota culture in manufacturing environment
• Budgeted and program-managed $175M capex for capacity expansion
project
• Negotiated technical and commercial terms for assembly plant facilities worth
$4M, achieving 9% cost savings
• Designing and execution of the ‘Orientation Program’ for newly recruited
graduate engineers.
• Spearheaded the cross-functional team to reduce no. of defects per car,
reduced from 13/car to 5/car for assembly.
• Managed 3rd Party Logistics and suppliers for new products and value
engineering on the trim assembly line.
• Implemented Lean Manufacturing principles, reduced Takt time from 203
seconds to 93 seconds.
• Promoted with in 1st year based on performance to handle key projects and
strategic initiatives.

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• Trained 30 workmen for ISO 14001 and TS 16949 implementation and

preparation.

I was working in the Passenger Car Business Unit. My work profile covered
process planning and facility development in Trim and Final Assembly line. I
worked on implementing lean principles and JIT systems on assembly line.

I got promoted to lead the integration of the expansion project for PCBU
division. I worked as a liaison between R & D and Technical Services for all the
design and manufacturing requirements of the proposed plan. The work also
included budgeting and supplier negotiations for equipments.

Godrej
Engineering Co-op
July 2001 - December 2001 (6 months)
Mumbai, India

• Designed and implemented new assembly shop layout using cellular

manufacturing, increased production by 23 %.
• Developed procedures for operators and maintenance men to implement
TPM in machine shop.
• Worked with Design and Quality to develop new product conforming to ‘DFM’
principles.
• Conducted method study on manufacturing processes for optimization of
resources.

Siemens
Engineering Co-op
December 1998 - May 1999 (6 months)
Mumbai, India

• Worked in Kaizen quality improvements for testing & assembly, reduced

defects per month by 20% using DMAIC (6 Sigma) principles.
• Conducted ‘MOST’ method studies and worked on supplier’s quality
improvement for zero defect implementation.
• Improved quality in Testing & Assembly of O.V.C.B. (Out door Vacuum
Circuit Breaker) by 8% using Lean process improvements.
• Redesigned Production Planning resulting in record production units without
excess capital expenditures

Larsen & Toubro Ltd

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Engineering Co-op
June 1997 - November 1997 (6 months)
Mumbai, India

• Designed jigs and fixtures for press tooling and riveting operations to improve
productivity in machine shop.
• Implemented SAP Production Scheduling module for medium size pressure
vessels and heat exchangers.
• Improved welding processes and reduced the welding time by 16% per
welding run.
• Worked on the Statistical Process Quality control for super-finishing
processes like Grinding.
• Modify press die to suit the new changes in design.
• Received hands-on training on Gas cutting, welding, Grinding.

Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford Advanced Program Management 

The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of

Business
MBA 

Purdue University
MS, Industrial Engineering

University of Mumbai
BE, Production Engineering

University of Mumbai
Diploma, Mechanical Engineering

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