Rakesh D Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Define specifications and drive external vendors from RF components to test equipment providers.• Procure required equipment and tools while maintaining CapEx and OpEx budgets by evaluating solutions of multiple vendors and obtaining equipment that can be reused.• Present new features specifications along with test coverage internally and to external customers. • Work with multiple cross-functional teams to mitigate any issues that arise during the deployment of solution and bring the project to a successful completion in a timely manner.• Design test stations for coverage of all Physical layer performance metrics (Regulatory, Emissions, Current consumption, Throughput, RvR, RF performance, Blocker, ACI, SAR validation) using the minimal number of reusable parts.• Perform bench tests during bring up and automate tests using Python, C++.• Design the DVT test bed framework, define test automation needs and create test cases to cover all conditions along with setting tighter limits considering chip specification, customer requirement and IEEE limits.

Atsugi-Shi, Kanagawa, Jp

• Business development, program management, and customer interface for cellular and wireless connectivity R&D, DVT, and manufacturing test applications using a common wireless test platform - MT8870A.• Performed competitive analysis of products and studied market research publications to come up with products that differentiated from competitor’s offerings.• Presented solutions offered by Anritsu in meetings with audience ranging from highly technical and non-technical professionals to C-level executives.• Fed back the customer requirements to engineering team on regular basis and drove the product roadmap to align with customer needs and be first to release new test features to the market, which allowed us in gaining significant market share.• Worked cross-functionally with various internal teams to come up with better and efficient RF factory test solutions for wireless customers in a highly visible position at corporate level.• Understood the requirements of customer and recommended the best suitable test equipment for their R&D and manufacturing test needs of various wireless devices that include mobile phones, tablets, STB’s, Access Points, Routers, IoT devices.• NPI of test features and wireless technologies on one box tester to US customers and worked with them in automating their factory testing.• Took complete ownership and managed global deployments of multiple projects for various wireless consumer devices working with cross-functional internal teams and CM’s in Asia.• Created training material and conducted training for factory test engineers.• Automated RF manufacturing tests and optimized test times that led to 20% savings in CapEx and OpEx of customer production costs.• Worked with customers and came up with RF test solutions for connectivity (WLAN), Bluetooth, Cellular (CDMA, GSM, LTE) R&D, DVT and manufacturing testing.• Anritsu Equipment : MT8870A, MT8820C, MS2830A, MS2692A, MT8860C, MT8852B

Chandler, Arizona, Us

· Designed, developed and delivered DSP software for software-defined automatic radio test system that was used for test and diagnostic functions of software-defined tactical radios.• Performed system design, integration, unit test, and verification of communications systems.• Worked on Vocoder implementation with proprietary encryption and decryption schemes.• Worked on implementation of various digital audio measurements metrics (SINAD, SNR, BER) for a PTT radio.• Worked on three product life cycles in a cross-functional organization from initiation to completion of test and measurement equipment for defense and wireless mobile with multiple multi-core processors.• Worked on US DoD Marine Corps GRMATS (Ground Radio Maintenance Automatic Test Systems) for Software Defined Radio (SDR) project from proposal phase all the way to approval.• Interacted with external customers, internal sales, and marketing personnel to obtain new product requirements and feature requests.• Analyzed requirements, planned, and led the product development by creating the work items for the tasks to be performed with time and resources required.• Modeled end-to-end transmitter and receiver chains using MATLAB Simulink and internal modeling tool which was designed and implemented under my leadership.• Planned and developed physical layer firmware to meet the requirements in C/C++ on a multi-core PowerPC running Embedded Linux RTOS for real time signal processing.• Worked on implementation of physical layer on DSP for various LMR standards.• Aeroflex Equipment: IFR 3920, Aeroflex 7200, Aeroflex 3550, Aeroflex 2975.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems And Services, Project Management, Product Management

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering (Rf, Signal Processing, Computer Networking, And Software Engineering)

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering