Nithin Kantharaj

Nithin Kantharaj's Key Takeaways from His Experience at UT Southwestern

Having the experience of working with various leading companies in his past, Nithin Kantharaj is a polished product development and project management professional. Before he started his professional life by working for Zimmer Biomet, he gained experience by working for a few firms as an intern. UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas is one of these companies. Here, Nithin worked on a project related to self-management for diabetes using quality improvement. Some of the key takeaways from the internship experience at UT Southwestern include:

- Developing Fishbone, Pareto, weighted criteria matrix, driver diagram, process mapping, Decision matrix,
- Collecting the related data and performing PDSA to continuously improve the quality of self-management.
- Performing FMEA analysis on brainstormed ideas and valuable inputs from patients, doctors and nurses and literature review.
- Shadowing the patients to find the root cause of not being self-efficacious.
- Documenting the progress and submitting the project for further improvement to the committee.
- Identifying key stakeholders, developing a project charter, Brainstorming barriers and Gantt chart to track progress.

Nithin Kantharaj is presently working for a leading medical technology company in Flanders, New Jersey. He is working here as the Product Engineer-2/ Project Engineer. Nithin's areas of expertise include:

- Design and simulation tools like SIMU, AutoCAD, ANSYS, Unigraphics NX, and Catia
- Statistical tools like MS Office (Excel, Access, Project, Outlook, Vision), MINITAB, SAS, and R-Studio
- Programming languages like SQL and VBA in Excel
- Software like JD Edwards, InfoPV, Enovia, CMS, SAP, and Teamcenter
- Lean Manufacturing, SPC, TQM, Time and Motion Study, Value Stream Mapping, Six Sigma(DMAIC), KANBAN, ISO, PFMEA, DFMEA, KAIZEN, GD&T, Root cause analysis, Corrective and preventive action(CAPA), JIT, 5S, IQ, PQ, and QP

Nithin Kantharaj completed his MS in Industrial Engineering and his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas and the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore respectively. When away from work Nithin enjoys playing video games, sports, and travelling.