# Sid Kishore

> Manager - Battery manufacturing operations at Apple

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sidkishore

✎ Seasoned manufacturing operations leader with experience building teams in process development as well as quality control across multiple geographical regions (Asia and US)

✎ Lead teams that have delivered on a variety of fronts, Eg: 
- enabling breakthrough designs through disruptive process development, 
- new supplier technical bring up for cost disruption, 
- manufacturing carbon footprint reduction through process disruption and yield improvement, 
- ML signal search for predicting field quality with manufacturing parameters etc.

✎ Skilled in 
- managing multiple diverse sets of projects, 
- dealing with escalations, 
- sifting through multiple streams of information in order to identify priorities, 
- balancing short-term urgent needs with long-term strategic initiatives, 
- pivoting to the needs of the organization, 
- developing and nurturing talent

## Work Experience
### Battery manufacturing quality manager @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Battery manufacturing quality for Watch, Vision products and Accessories

### Manufacturing Design Manager - enclosure tooling @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, CA
Leading the global metal tooling team (US and China) for Mac, Audio, iPad and Accessories lines of business

### Senior Tooling Engineer - mechanical enclosures and module components @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Cupertino, CA

### Tooling Engineer - mechanical enclosures @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai, China
-	Design, develop and implement metal tooling technologies for the components that go into different Apple products
-	Supervise tooling and process development at suppliers spread across US, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan
-	Manage the entire cycle - from prototyping stage to ramp up and mass production

### Graduate Research Associate at Center for Precision Forming @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Advisor: Prof. (Emeritus) Taylan Altan
-	Prediction of fracture in hot forging. (for Forging Industry Association, FIA)
-	Springback prediction in high speed forming. (for TE Connectivity)
-	Evaluating improvements in blanking, piercing and flanging operations of Advanced High strength steels (AHSS). (for Chrysler and other consortium members)

### Intern @ Center for Fuel Cell Technology, ARCI
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Intern @ Aeronautical Development Agency
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Intern @ SKF Group
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University

### Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sid-kishore-53226048

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Last updated: 2026-04-13