BIO - DATA

Name / : / S.D. Janakiram, Lastly-Advisor- Lean, HAL
(Date of birth 10th Jan 1947. Retired in Jan 2007.)
Qualification / : / B.E. (Mechanical) - 1968
Post Graduate Diploma in Finance’93 & HRM’96
Work Experience / : / Joined HAL on 4th January 1969 as Management Trainee and underwent 1½ years training. (hal-india.com)
One year training at BAE in QA and member of detail project team for planning & executing Jaguar production. Chief of Quality in Aircraft Division for five years. Complex level Quality coordination and Institutionalized Quality Circles in HAL divisions at Bangalore.
Assumed charge as DGM (Quality) at Helicopter Design Bureau and LCA (Design Complex) and served 10 years. Leader of Indian National team for QA of Composite Wing manufacturing of LCA. ISO 9000 certified auditor, then.
5½ years as Principal of HAL Corporate training center viz., HAL Management Academy. And qualified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming by NFNLP (USA). Pioneered NLP training in HAL.
Was General Manager (P&A) of HAL, Corporate for one year.
From February 2004 as General Manager (Lean) at HAL Corporate Office. Trained in Gemba Kaizen at USA & Israel. Responsible for company wide implementation of Lean mfg. tools and methodologies, and assisted Director- HR and Lean consultants. Expertise in 5S, Value stream mapping, PDM, Lean tools and conducting week long Kaizen improvement events.
Designed & imparted Lean training for executives and employees.
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  1. Involved and Life member of a dozen professional bodies for more than three decades in various capacities.

Others particulars / : / Paper presented on Non Destructive Elevation of Self at 15th World Conference of NDT at ROME, ITALY Oct, 2000
Paper presented on HRD BEAMS( People are 5 dimensional beings-Body, Emotion, Mind, Intellect and Soul/Spirit) at Asian HRD Conf. Bangalore Oct,2002
Trained in Transcendental Meditation, Pranic Healing, Magnified Healing, Bio – Energy and Spiritual Healing(Melchizedek method-IV)
Post superannuation Devoting time for voluntary work for Indian Society of Training and Development, IRHM (Inter Religious Harmony Movement), Business Excellence Assessments for Confederation of Indian Industry – Institute of Quality, Meditation and Study Circle, Jayanagar and School of Ancient Wisdom (