Engineering Manager with 25+ years of deep expertise in Engineering Technical Management, System Architect, Design, Development, Quality Assurance for multiple complex Embedded Systems covering Hardware, BSP, Software & RTL- Proven track record in leading multiple engineering teams delivering high-complexity product designs and solutions for Telecom and Multimedia applications using Motorola/Freescale/Rockwell/TI/Socionext/Qualcomm/Intel processors & FPGAs- Contributed to all phases of product & technology development, viz., Product Development, Project & Budget Management, Field Trials & Product certification, ToT, Product Deployment, Customization, Commercialization & establishing the Customer & Business relationships, Organization & people development, Process evolution & continuous process improvements- Built a Central Technical Expertise team of Multimedia Systems at Ittiam, from scratch to 35+ engineers, addressing 8 Business verticals, with required technical expertise of Hardware, RTL, Software, BSP, DAL & Production Testing- Led the product teams for design, development and delivery of 100+ multimedia systems- Track record of making 1st time right designs with On-time delivery close to 100% of deliverable- Coordinated Volume Production and exported 15,000+ multimedia & industrial system boards to Global customers including Aerospace customers, with zero recall- Handled 50+ customer projects across US, Europe, India, Japan & Asia regions and achieved repeat design wins, with most of them- Groomed and trained 200+ engineers to the required technical competency levels- Maintained people retention rate of 90% to 95%- Expert in collaborating with all external vendors & partners worldwide, like Component Vendors, PCB CAD design house, EMS partners, Mechanical vendors & Certification labs, to fulfill the product design, development, certification, delivery needs and for complete Turnkey offerings- Worked at various technical lead roles, for designing and delivering C-DOT Digital Switching Systems to India and to 24 other Countries. These systems are working in field for the last 30+ years, serving more than 20+ Million people globally- 256p RAX is one of the very successful product under my direct supervision at C-DOT and in India, there are about 33,000 RAX systems installed, serving 5+ Million Rural people- Well versed with Quality Management System (QMS), ISO 9001 and AS9100C standards- Contributed to QMS, Quality Manuals & Product Realization Processes, based on ISO 9001 standards- IQST Leader & Published QMS for AS9100C standards
Listed skills include Leadership, Telecommunications Engineering, Quality Management, Embedded Software, and 39 others.