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Pune, India

- Strategies definition in alignment with the Global Leadership and Management on integrating the comfort solutions to Seating.- Product strategies and roadmap identification in collaboration with Global Engineering.- Design "Mission and Purpose Statement" for India center and buy-in from both global leadership and India center team.- Organizational development and culture building to establish India center as Centralized end to end Product Development entity. Concepts to requirements analysis to design, development and product validation.- Standardization of electronics hardware, generic software architecture based on AUTOSAR, create standard function blocks to optimize the project specific efforts.- Setup an independent electronics component and PCBA engineering, CAE simulation, design and product validation teams.- Team building, identification of leadership potential, technical skill building through internal and external trainings, and develop organization for future.- Development and retention of talent, close collaboration with HR and L&OD team, control the people turn over rate to single digit.- Planning and ownership of budget, monitoring and control, close collaboration with Finance Controller.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Built technology center in India to establish engineering activities for Interior Comfort Systems• Strategic partnership with engineering service company to build operate and transfer (BOT) for quick setup of engineering operations • Transfer the knowhow and takeover the projects responsibility from external suppliers and internal teams in Europe and North America• Establish new legal entity, transfer employees, and setup competent organization• Setup office and lab infrastructure to build self-reliant technology center and deliver to end customers• Budget planning, monitoring and control for complete center, and optimize R&D cost• Engineering footprint expansion to foster innovation, product development and deliver more customer projects• Work in close collaboration with other R&D locations• Drive and establish common electronic and software product development toolchain across R&D locations• Drive the centralized product development with synergy effects for all markets in terms of architecture, quality and time to market• Standardized product development based on modular Software & Hardware architecture for electronics and mechatronics products• Development of electronics and software for all customer projects of Interior Comfort Systems across North America, Europe and Asia• Establish centralized CAE simulation activities to cater the simulation needs of Interior Comfort Systems globally• Build new product development team for "Seat Ventilation Products" to strengthen our product portfolio and increase the market share• Actively contributes to new business wins through RFQ response, technology / product solution, efforts and cost estimation• Build high performance leadership team to deliver quality products and prepare for growth opportunities and challenges in future

Pune Area, India

- Pioneer member of Technology Center India to initiate and develop collaboration with international R&D teams in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, USA, etc.- Built high performance R&D team of 200 engineers to develop Electronics & Software products for Brake control, Door control, HVAC, Train Control and Management System, Auxiliary power converter, etc. for Railway- Develop a solution-oriented engineering team and central function teams like HR, FICO, Quality, Purchase, etc. to support the business execution.- Responsible for strategy and vision development for the center, preparation of road map and drive continuous improvement to achieve the defined milestones.- Worked closely with global leadership in Germany and USA to derive Electronics & Product development strategy for global brake electronics and system engineering groups.- Planned and managed budget of business unit to ensure cost effectiveness and drive actively to enhance value of business deliverables.- Established electronics and software product development processes to align with global R&D engineering processes and compliance to ISO/TS standard.- Identified the technology synergies across global R&D teams to contribute in engineering efficiency improvement.- Managed performance appraisals, identified growth / development opportunities for budding leaders and technology experts, worked closely with local HR and leadership to implement development plans.- Reported business unit health to board members through business reviews on monthly basis.- Software architecture for electronic platform, develop software and hardware assets which in turn builds generic electronics platform.- Development of generic brake functions, application engineering and engineering tools (PC software). - Build product development and test infrastructure to comply safety standards.- Built TCI as best cost and low-cost R&D location to optimize the overall R&D budget of an organization.

Pune Area, India

- Established high performance R&D team to execute Electronics & Software Product development for brake control, door control, train control and management system, etc.- Electronics hardware prototype development and compliance testing to standard EN50155.- Established the only development team in TCI for Condition based monitoring (predictive maintenance) of Rail vehicle and Driver advisory system.- Deputed engineers to Germany, USA and other R&D locations to build product knowhow and system understanding, which in turn results into establishing independent product development team in TCI.- Identified the training needs to upgrade technical skills and create leadership at every level.- Built global electronics service team to offer PCB engineering, electronics simulation, obsolescence management, MTBF and pre-compliance testing.- Identified and developed leadership at every level to prepare for next level of responsibilities like product ownership and resolution of customer reported problems.

Mumbai

- Lead a team of 15 engineers which also includes technical architects to design and develop next generation System redundancy module based on ARM processor technology.- Lead a team of 20 engineers to design, develop and deliver 120 prototypes of Backplane Traffic Analyzer Module (FPGA based) to one of the Industrial Automation Giant in USA.- Maintenance and feature enhancement of DeviceNet and ControlNet communication modules from Industrial automation domain.- Recruitment and building of team of required skills set to execute the product development within estimated cost and schedule with expected quality.- Manage communication with customer and higher management to provide regular status and discuss the risks, issues in time.- Project management - Majorly includes Risk management, People development, monitoring and control.- Deputed to Knorr-Bremse Munich for two years (April-2011 to Feb-2013) as Account Manager to take care of business development and project / tasks delivery management.

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Pune

- Design and development of Launcher control system for different missile programs.- Design and development of platform levelling system to establish levelled platform for trailer or rail, before initiating launcher articulation operation.- Integration of launcher and platform levelling control system with launcher system at sites and conduct acceptance tests and flight trials.- Lead a team of engineers / technicians to integrate the control system onto launcher including cable harnessing.- Conduct user training for officers from Indian Army.

Master Of Technology (M.Tech.), Control & Instrumentation

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Distinction

Diploma In Electrical Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering