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Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Coach | Trainer | ConsultantCompany profile: With consultancy, coaching, operational support and training, Hood stands for the successful development and operation of complex products, services and systems. Hood creates sustainable benefits through expertise and experience from over 20 years in customer projects. Hood is very successful with state-of-the-art systems and requirements engineering in the automotive, transportation, medical technology, pharmaceutical and retail sectors.● Drive product innovation for clients in industries such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, transport,and consumer electronics, utilizing a variety of advanced techniques to enhance product performanceand market competitiveness● Develop and optimize system architecture and engineering for client projects, ensuring robust designand implementation that meet industry standards and improve project delivery timelines and quality● Oversee comprehensive requirements management for clients, ensuring clear communication betweenstakeholders and technical teams to meet project goals and client expectations

Germany

Company profile: Miele is recognised as the world's leading supplier of premium domestic appliances for the kitchen. laundry care and floor care as well as eances for use in commercial and medical facilities. For more than 125 years, Miele has been fulfilling the highest customer demands and is now represented in around 100 countries through its own sales companies or importers. The commitment and creativity of over 23,300 employees are a decisive factor in the company's success.● Definition, implementation of processes and training of project teams in the areas of product development, project management processes and best practices● Technical support and close collaboration with internal and external start-ups (e. g. Agrilution, Otto Wilde) in the development and evaluation of innovative products and business models● Management of special projects to improve product innovation, value and competitiveness on the market ● Responsibility for the development of Al-supported camera electronics for plant phenotyping at Agrilution ● Technology scouting, conducting technical feasibility studies and competitive analyses● Conception and implementation of an innovation management process● Introduction of system engineering ● Representation of the New Growth Factroy business unit in the innovation cluster for sensor technology, thermal management and technology foresight (scouting trend analyses)

Munich Area, Germany

Company Profile: With more than 25 years of experience in the fields of fail-safe electronics and software, high-speed connectivity, human-machine interfaces, IoT and M2M devices and lifecycle services, b1 Engineering Solutions is an innovative development partner for the big players in the areas such as medical technology, high-tech industrial applications, automotive, FPGA design, embedded electronics, and software.Activities:● Supported project acquisition phase by understanding and analyzing requirements as well as gathered background information for a novel medical technology area of Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography.● Made market research for Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) according to requirements for the concept phase of a potential customer project. Established a support channel with a potential supplier for ADC.● Familiarized with the architecture of the device, performed system integration tests and debugged the issues with cooperation of a local team at Munich, Germany and a remote team at Toronto, Canada for an ongoing perfusion system heart-lung machine medical project.● Tested control units, touch screen, and safety supervisor unit on system-level and individually using CAN explorer against the customer requirements for the perfusion system project.● Analyzed performance-related issues for the cockpit touch screen with touch event analysis, as well as, supported a remote test set up with touch event simulation using Python and Linux for the touch screen in the perfusion system project.

Munich Area, Germany

● Responsible for all the phases of electronics development that include scoping and project planning, assessing feasibility, identifying and de-risking technical elements, developing and validating product specifications, determining system architecture. ● Identify issues, new scope, errors or unplanned tasks in a course or project execution to incorporate updates to the project plan or modify requirements or deliverables to meet schedule and budget constraints.● Coordination and interaction of electronics-related activities internally and with external partners.● Reduced the cost of electronics system by 36.8% to achieve overall machine production cost reduction of 25%.

Munich Area, Germany

Company Profile: Agrilution is a vertical farming start-up that has developed a smart home appliance ‘Plantcube’ in which salads, herbs, and microgreens can be grown in the kitchen regardless of the weather.Activities:● Designed and developed the electronics system of Plantcube from start to end.● Schematic design, component selection, and BOM management.● PCB layout, generating manufacturing files, supporting contract manufacturer.● Testing and design validation.● Obtaining CE, UL, and other product compliance certifications.● Coordination and interaction of electronics-related activities internally and with external partners.● Developed a cost-efficient UHF RFID system for seed mat detection and logistics in collaboration with the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), Germany.● Filed a patent for the device for growing plants and watering device of the device for growing plants.● Supporting all phases of product development that include scoping and project planning, assessing feasibility, identifying and de-risking technical elements, developing and validating product specifications, determining system architecture.● Identify issues, new scope, errors or unplanned tasks in a course or project execution to incorporate updates to the project plan or modify requirements or deliverables to meet schedule and budget constraints.

Pune Area, India

Served in a mentoring and supervisory capacity for small groups of students and individuals with an emphasis on providing instruction on technical subjects in a non-technical and relatable manner.● Taught to engineering, college and school students in private and home tuitions. ● Helped an electronics engineering student to pass a subject, which was his third attempt.● Helped an engineering student to improve grades in GRE.● Helped engineering students to clear job aptitude tests.● Helped a school student to score more than expected scores in mathematics and science.

Pune Area, India

Company Profile: Company manufactures PLC-SCADA-HMI based and micro-controller based automated wave soldering machines, reflow ovens, stencil printers, and solder paste mixers.Departments worked in: ● R&D ● Production ● QualityActivities:● Designed and developed electronic circuits, PCBs and wiring diagrams.● Programmed microcontroller-based versions in C language and PLC-SCADA-HMI based versions in Ladder Logic as per customer’s requirements.● Simulated subsystems, controllers, and drivers with MatLab, Simulink, LabVIEW and Multisim.● Acquired CE certificate for the PLC-based semiautomatic stencil printer ‘SAP’.● Converted micro-controller based embedded version of PCB soldering reflow oven ‘Gallant’ into PLC and HMI based completely automated version.● Part of the team which developed the PLC-based automated stencil printer for LED ‘SAP 1200 LED’ which was still a new technology in India then.● Developed test instruments for temperature PID, motor driver, VFD, motor, heater, microcontroller board, thermocouple and sensors for the in-house use in the company.● Managed and led a team of five electrical technicians.

Project Leadership Certificate Program, Project Leadership

6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) 60 Professional Development Hours 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) toward PMI recertification.

Project Management Certificate Program, Project Management

5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) 50 Professional Development Hours 50 Project Development Units (PDUs) toward PMI recertification ●.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 1.2 - Very Good

● Major: Analytical Instruments, Measurement and Sensor Technology ● Master thesis topic: “Integrated RFID Remote Sensing System.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Foreign semester as a part of master's program at Cobrug University

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Telecommunication, First Class

Activities and Societies: ▪ Core Committee member of IETE (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers) Students' Forum.

Diploma, German Language And Literature

High School Diploma, Computer Science, First Class