Gopal Racherla, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad Area, India

*Member of Program Management Senior Leadership in Qualcomm India*Lead Program Manager for Modem and Wireless Connectivity Group for Various Snapdragon MSM, MDM and IOT Chipsets.*Lead Program Manager for Value Tier/High Tier Modem and Wireless Connectivity for 5G chipsets*Lead a group of Program Managers and Program Analysts.

Greater San Diego Area

• RF Subsystem Program Management for LTE/UMTS/1xDO/GERAN Multi-Mode Chipsets (MDM9600/MSM8960/MDM9x15). The MDM9600 is the market-leading integrated multi-mode modem chipset with support for LTE, Multi Carrier.
• Presentations to Senior Executives, Peers, Technical teams on the Status and Health of various Chip-set Programs
• Craft, manage and Execute to the Plan of Record (POR). The POR includes features, RF band support for various technologies across various product lines (PLs)
• Manage design & development of new hardware and software products
• Responsible to coordinate delivery of such products/services to the customer according to agreed to specifications, budget and schedule.
• Be the main interface with internal company departments, (contracts, legal, design and product engineering, manufacturing, technical publications, product support, etc.), to be aware of each departments work.

Greater San Diego Area

• ASIC Manager of Wireless products: Responsible for the entire ASIC life cycle from requirements to tested, packaged chips. responsibilities include coordinating with the design houses, foundries, bumping and testing.
• Project management including developing and executing project plan (schedule, resource plan, cost/spend plan, subcontractor management, capital expenditure).
• Subcontracts Program Manager: Responsible for all the subcontract work for a DoD sponsored project to implement a low power, scalable UWB based sensor network that uses UWB for Radar and communication. Responsibilities.
• UWB MAC Technical Lead: Detailed design of a scalable, TDMA based MAC for UWB based wireless sensor network that uses directional antennas.
• Digital Baseband Lead: Led the team as the system architect for the digital baseband chip special focus on protocol and power management issues.

Greater San Diego Area

• Research, development of Pulse Link’s UWB technology including protocols, network topologies, algorithms and software prototyping.
• Design and Development of the UWB MAC algorithms.
• Contribute in the overall system design.
• Development of centralized/decentralized network architecture for digital video networks for HDTV using UWB.
• Design and Development of Diagnostic software and User Interfaces.
• Design of Pervasive Computing Framework using Jini and UWB including Protocol Stack Definition, Protocols and implementation.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Iospan was a pioneer in using Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology for Fixed Wireless Broadband Access (precursor to WiMAX).Responsible for specification and validation of network protocols, QoS and.
• Participate in overall system design and integration activities.
• Development of detailed protocol specifications and interfacing with software development engineers responsible for implementation.
• Design and implementation of Voice-over IP and Voice over ATM architecture.
• Design and implementation of Dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) framework in the Airburst network.
• Design and implementation of network management system components including SNMP MIBs and SNMP agents. Developed board level access functions for SNMP.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for developing commercial prototypes of wireless networks, application on handheld devices, intrusion detection, natural language grammars, video surveillance, object oriented agents, information retrieval..
• Intelligent Overlay Routing on the Internet: Performed Requirement analysis, design and implementation intelligent overlay routing on the internet for Digital Island Inc.
• Handheld Devices: Developing commercial wireless networking solutions for command and control on the Palm III/V using KJava and Java Micro Edition.
• Intrusion Detection: Commercialization Lead in development of a scalable distributed host-based and network-based intrusion detection system.
• Developed an image processing and pattern recognition system for people and object tracking.
• Developed and built natural language grammars for information retrieval. Implemented WAP solutions for a natural language search system.

Norman, Oklahoma

Image Processing Algorithms for Automatic Processing and Classification of Artifacts and Cracks on Roads/Highways for various US State Departments of Transportation (DoT)

Mumbai Area, India

Display Software for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

Mumbai Area, India

• Worked in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering on developing performance evaluation simulator for a transputer based Multicomputer system for the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Bombay, India.

Ph.D. & M.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: PhD Dissertation: Routing and Rerouting in Wireless Networks MS Thesis: Parallel and Concurrent Algorithms for.

Certificate In, Software Engineering Management

Activities and Societies: Focus on Software Requirements, Software Estimation, Software Business Development, Design and Implementation.

B.Engg, Comp. Engg.

Activities and Societies: At Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute (VJTI). Among the top 5 rankers in the Entire University.

B. Engg, Computer Engineering

Hsc (Xii Grade), Science

Aisse (X Grade)