I lead an engineering organization with over 150 engineers and 7 engineering managers reporting to me. My engineering organization develops and supports product development for Rockwell Automation's Industry 4.0/ IIoT Smart devices, Low Voltage Drives, Motion Control, Controllers, Software and Digital transformation tools.

• Lead initiatives for Industrial Automation and built a strong technical team comprising of cross-functional engineers and gained access to new client projects.• Have been instrumental in team’s adherence to Quality standards and practices. Institutionalized best practises in design to achieve consistency in deliverables.• Empowered high potential direct reports with stretch assignments• Worked with clients from multiple geographies - European, US and Indian clients.• Managed multiple projects simultaneously for various new product developments.• Developed and presented project cost estimates and plan to meet customer expectation for various NPD projects.• Maintained and presented Project dashboard to clients and senior management.

• Championed architecture and technology change for improved product performance and cost reduction.• Developed low level device driver and provided technical support to Software team in troubleshooting core issues.• Designed and developed Production test code and utilities for reducing production time and thus product cost.• Motivated the team to achieve increased productivity and sense of product ownership while working in and switching between multiple product developments.• Performed and lead team in hardware design and development including FPGA and CPLD programming (VHDL).• Field issue analysis and resolution – Helped cross-functional team in identifying cause by meticulous data analysis for issues reported during field trials.• Conducted technical training on Analog Devices Blackfin DSP for Industiral experts and within the organization.

• Performed Requirement gathering through competitive product analysis and client interactions.• Performed technical lead role while working on Individual responsibility area during Hardware/ Software Design and development.• Prepared and submitted Technical documentation for certification.• Coordinated and Interacted with third party team for developing PC application software to interface with our product. Performed acceptance testing and product demonstrations to potential clients.

• Performed Hardware and Firmware development activities for telecommunication devices (EPABX).• Was involved in the entire Product lifecycle support.• Championed new technology ventures.