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• Developed and managed BIOS UEFI firmware, using C, Visual Studio, Git, Gerrit, and Python. Collaborated with verification and validation team during various SW phases.
• Developed new BIOS RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) features on Intel processors.
• Created key FW libraries to improve SMI performance and used by validation team on various platforms.
• Root caused, fixed and tested complex firmware issues to ensure quality releases.
• Experienced in pre and post silicon firmware development cycle to meet crucial milestones.
• Educated validation teams on new features and explained requirements to create test cases.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Created measurable and testable BIOS requirements on multiple and PCIe/ATCA blades.
• Developed and managed x86 UEFI based firmware, using Visual Studio, ClearCase, and ClearQuest.
• Followed software development processes for all firmware from the requirements phase to the final release of the hardware.
• Became single point of contact for BIOS development among different teams (hardware, software, production, test, sites).
• Worked closely with verification and validation team to find bugs and created test cases to validate various BIOS related issues.
• Used RQM, RTC and RRC (IBM Rational Tools) for source and documentation management. Created test plan/test case to verify requirements and traceability.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Developed and maintained PigeonPoint based PICMG ATCA shelf manager firmware, using PPC604 based Linux.
• Followed the software design process for shelf manager firmware depending on different system type.
• Provided test tools and software for DVT/EDVT qualification.
• Worked closely with verification and hardware team to find bugs and created test cases to validate various shelf manager related issues.

Munich, Bavaria

• Developed and maintained PigeonPoint based PICMG IPMI firmware, using H8S based firmware.
• Maintained Phoenix legacy BIOS firmware in Assembly language for Intel x86 CPUs.
• Researched and introduced first UEFI AMI based firmware to the company.
• Used Rational CleareCase and ClearQest for source code and incident management / used Rational DOORS for requirement management.

Munich, Bavaria

• Developed and maintained PowerPC PowerBoot firmware for CompactPCI boards.
• Developed and maintained SPARC OpenBoot firmware for VME boards.
• Designed and developed VxWorks BSP firmware for PowerPC based customer platforms.
• Used RCS/CVS source code management.