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Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore

• Accomplished leader with over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology sector, spanning diverse areas such as Software and Hardware development, Engineering Program Management, Quality Assurance, Business Operations, and Data Analytics.• Successfully managed a global R&D budget of approximately $100 million, directing budget allocations to R&D products and various organizations within the R&D domain.• Took ownership of the Workforce Planning Tool (WPT), overseeing the cost management of R&D staff, including employees and contractors totaling over 1000 staff. Defined and managed Product Contribution Analytics, Annual Run Rate costs, In-Year Costs, and ensured the profitability of products.• Developed and implemented dashboards for streamlined tracking of budget versus expenditure for the overall R&D, providing detailed insights at the product and organizational levels.• Conducted periodic tracking of budget and headcount, empowering the leadership team to make informed decisions within budget constraints and facilitating strategic investment and divestment choices.• Fostered collaboration with HR and Finance departments, integrating data from both to create executive summaries on product-level profitability, enhancing decision-making processes.

Bangalore, India

Engineering Operations Management, Financial Control, Budget management, Revenue, costs and profitability management, Hire Vs Outsource management, Support Business leader in running engineering Operations.

Bangalore

•Led a globally distributed team of 200 test engineers spanning India, China, and Europe, overseeing the Product Testing and Qualification of Set-Top Box deliveries. This involved working with Cisco (formerly NDS) software stack and encryption/decryption technologies.• Served as the Gate Keeper of Product Quality, holding the final approving authority for approximately 120 projects across 30+ customer accounts. Actively participated in Go-NoGo meetings and escalated to management when Quality Criteria were not met.• Spearheaded the Test Automation initiative for Digital Set-Top Boxes, continuously optimizing test efforts to enhance efficiency.• Defined unified Test Cases to ensure consistency and common testing approaches across projects, implementing methodologies like Model-Based Testing throughout the department.• Successfully mapped requirements to test cases, ensuring a comprehensive testing strategy aligned with project goals and customer expectations.• Managed Test Management processes, deploying test metrics and measuring Defect Removal Efficiency for the quality control team.• Oversaw Staffing/Resource Pipeline Management, Compensation & Benefits, and People Engagement initiatives to maintain a motivated and skilled workforce.• Efficiently managed subcontractors for in-sourced test resources, ensuring seamless collaboration and optimal performance.

Head of Quality Organisation for two business lines (TV and Set top box)Configuration Management, Build & Release team management

• Head of Reference Design Program Management Office (PMO) – Bangalore (local Line Manager function)• Program Management of Freescale’s mobile platform system integration & Verification project(s); Member of platform core team• Program management of Software Tools development and delivery (Flashing, Data logging & analysis, feature configuration, Phone I/O etc.)• Develop platform level integration & delivery plans aligning the plans from various component project managers and track execution (multi-site platform development having teams distributed across USA, France, India)• Define and deploy process for platform software integration, acceptance and delivery• Definition & deployment of quantitative project management practices & Agile methodologies for SW tools team (defect inflow analysis & estimation, defect velocity metric, CR effort, SCRUM etc.)• Mentoring & Coaching the team of project leads/development leads on project management concepts• Team ramp up and execution of System Integration projects with multi-site co-ordination• Project Accounting co-ordination for entire software component Project Management Office• Co-ordination of resourcing needs for software component Project Management Office

• Joined Philips Semiconductors Bangalore (which later became NXP semiconductors), India at inception. • Consumer electronics product software development - teletext, EPG, set top box platform, digital still camera platform, Digital TV platform etc. Onsite assignments executed in Europe and USA. Multi-site project execution leading from Bangalore, initially in a technical capacity and growing into Project management/Program management roles. • Established a complete digital TV platform integration team of 65 people from scratch.

Bangalore

• HW Design : Design and development of micro controller based subscriber line interface card for electronic telephone exchange• Design and development of diagnostic software ( `C’ & limited assembly programming ) for 32 bit Motorola processor based digital boards used in electronic telephone exchange.

B. Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

University III Rank holder in engineering.

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