# Chaitanya Kadakia > Product Design | Sr Technical Program Manager at Amazon Lab126 Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chaitanyakadakia -Product Design Technical Program Manager with background in mechanical engineering -Possess over 7 years of mechanical product design and program management experience -Strong proponent for using sustainable materials in product design -Possess concept development, risk mitigation, predictive analysis and design validation experience -Experience working with a cross functional team to meet DFM, DFX, product function and quality needs -Mentored and trained employees on product development cycle / phases -Experience in tolerance analysis, GDT, FEAs, DFMEAs, Test Workflow Development & Root Cause Analysis (8Ds) -Graduated with a Master's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. ## Work Experience ### Sr Product Design Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2023 – Present - Kindle Scribe (2024) ### Product Design Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Lab126 Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States - Kindle 6" (2022) - Echo Show 8 (3rd Gen, 2023) ### Project Engineer @ Molex Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States • Lead and mentor engineers on sealed connector projects • Present project delays and barriers to project management via PowerPoint in product phase review meetings • Communicate design risks and mitigation plans through DFMEAs to internal and external customers • Develop alternative design strategy / DOE to protect against test failures and minimize impact on project timing • Develop best practices and implement systemic actions stemming from 8Ds to prevent future failures ### Design Engineer II @ Molex Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States • Train employees on tolerance analysis and finite element analysis • Share knowledge with design teams and participate in product failure root cause analysis as terminal cavity SME • Implement GD&T best practice and create 2D drawing standards by gathering lessons learnt across multifunctional teams • Create DVPR test workflow per customer SOR and communicate testing procedure and requirement to reliability test lab • Identify test failure through root cause analysis and 8D method • Implement design changes and use rapid prototyping to create SLA prototype parts for EV testing • Obtain test data and post process results on Minitab to identify product function capability to meet requirement ### Design Engineer I @ Molex Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Rochester Hills, MI • Create 2D drawings, BOMs and 3D concepts of parts and assembly components in Unigraphics NX • Work with revision control documents and use Engineering Change process to release documents to production • Create DFMEAs and identify high risk items and mitigation plans based on RPN scores • Analyze design to assess structural failure risk employing FEAs on Abaqus and Hyperview • Optimize design based on FEAs to meet product function requirement • Perform statistical tolerance analysis and optimize design to meet assembly requirements ### Peer Career Coach @ Arizona State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Tempe, Arizona ### Event Assistant @ Arizona State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Memorial Union, Tempe Campus ### Grader @ Arizona State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Tempe, AZ Grader for MAE 214, Computer Aided Engineering, the post involving checking and grading of students' assignments on SolidWorks. ### Intern @ Crompton Greaves Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 •Analyzed and obtained the viscosity and the voltage for creating spark through a dielectric liquid material used in transformer coil winding for insulation purpose. •Measured the thickness of the cold rolled sheet metals, used in the making of the transformer core, as part of benchmarking in the quality assurance process. •Created a report on the entire manufacturing assembly process of the transformer. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE),Mumbai Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckadakia15 --- Source: https://flows.cv/chaitanyakadakia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chaitanyakadakia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07