1. Building a high performing Software R&D team 20+ members from scratch to deliver Smart Bed/Surfaces software, Digital Connectivity solutions, Cyber security to support Global Baxter Patient support system product development. 2. Design and implementation of Lab and Infrastructure for team - Product Lab space, Customer network infra, Storage and virtual machine infra, Cyber Security Lab.3. End to end procurement of multiple devices to setup testing infra with automation in… Show more 1. Building a high performing Software R&D team 20+ members from scratch to deliver Smart Bed/Surfaces software, Digital Connectivity solutions, Cyber security to support Global Baxter Patient support system product development. 2. Design and implementation of Lab and Infrastructure for team - Product Lab space, Customer network infra, Storage and virtual machine infra, Cyber Security Lab.3. End to end procurement of multiple devices to setup testing infra with automation in India4. Responsible to build roadmap of digital connectivity solutions.5. Vendor management - Local and Global resource need.6. Setting up reliability and performance lab infrastructure. Building a team to deliver high quality software with Automation and devops. 7. Building a team to deliver healthcare software keeping FDA regulations, 510K approval in mind.8. Setting up a cyber security lab to support global Beds, surface and patient lift products contributing to Threat modeling, Security Risk Assessment and Penetration Testing.Skills : - People Management, Hiring, Healthcare software crafting, FDA certifications, Program execution, End to end product software delivery, Site preparation and setup, Site Operations, Software architecture, Direct customer experience. Show less

Worked as a SW Leader for Xray and Mammography product workflow & AI solutions at Imaging- GE Healthcare.Key Technical & Project execution skills acquired while with GE Healthcare :- Leading 50+ ( 25 FTE and 35 Contractor ) engineers & contractors ( $ 1.7 M budget ) across Bangalore and Trivandrum. As global manager for Xray and Women’s health Workflow (Ux, Image management, System Controls, OS interfaces, Communication) across multiple poles, owned architecture across product… Show more Worked as a SW Leader for Xray and Mammography product workflow & AI solutions at Imaging- GE Healthcare.Key Technical & Project execution skills acquired while with GE Healthcare :- Leading 50+ ( 25 FTE and 35 Contractor ) engineers & contractors ( $ 1.7 M budget ) across Bangalore and Trivandrum. As global manager for Xray and Women’s health Workflow (Ux, Image management, System Controls, OS interfaces, Communication) across multiple poles, owned architecture across product lines, drove delivery of next generation workflow & digital systems platform for 3 segments of products ( Fixed RAD Xray, Mobile Xray, Mammography ). - Mentoring & growing the team comprising of architects, developers, integrators & testers by defining the organization structure, augmenting key roles, defining goals & priorities to ensure smooth & timely delivery of SW with quality.- Drove innovation, competitive benchmarking and creating product, platform and technology roadmaps. - Improve development efficiency by integrating latest DevOps tools, Program execution efficiency by integrating agile methodologies. - Maintained highly motivated and engaged team, keeping voluntary attrition levels at very low levels. Drove process compliance to ensure zero major non-conformance being reported in the FDA, IEC audits.- Maintained the entire Xray and Women’s health infrastructure and lab including 7 scanners , 30+ servers and 15 target simulators spread over 3500sqft of lab space. Planned and drove the entire budget for SW team including salary, hiring, procurement, training and reimbursements of all nature effectively.- Delivered 72% automation of software test plan working with a vendor in delivery based model ( $400K) , it reduced 100+ hours of software verification effort. Drove product SW roadmap globally working with Product CTO and GM making sure maximum reach to customer need + deliver features benchmarking to competitor features availability. Show less

As an engineering manager, led acquisition team for Women’s health and Xray products which includes User interface, Image installation, AI Image chain and Service software. Developed & delivered 3 AI algorithm workflow for Xray . Experienced in working for 510K preparation for getting AI algorithm and workflow FDA clearance. Worked with multiple stake holders including Clinical specialist, Marketing, sales to deliver best in class workflow solutions for Xray. Maintained the entire… Show more As an engineering manager, led acquisition team for Women’s health and Xray products which includes User interface, Image installation, AI Image chain and Service software. Developed & delivered 3 AI algorithm workflow for Xray . Experienced in working for 510K preparation for getting AI algorithm and workflow FDA clearance. Worked with multiple stake holders including Clinical specialist, Marketing, sales to deliver best in class workflow solutions for Xray. Maintained the entire XR infrastructure and lab including 3 Xray systems and 2 WH systems and 30+ servers.Planned and drove the entire budget for Xray & Womens health SW team including salary, hiring, procurement, training and reimbursements of all nature effectively. Drove the team of SQT (Software Quality team) who helped in testing of multiple NPIs of Xray and Womens health releases involving in multiple phases of the project. Facilitated different types of testing including black box, iterative, summative, usability, stress, simultaneity, exploratory and regression testing. Show less

 Scrum of Scrum & Global teams Managed 33 global team members deliverables part of 7 subsystem teams in 3 global locations(Bangalore, Waukesha and Buc). Prepare an integration plan with all subsystems input (mostly done with a PI planning for 3 days atBangalore) and present to leadership team. This includes FDA submission, getting approval fromFDA, RSNA preparation, RSNA feedback from global customer, Software readiness, Translationvendor input for Software, Data… Show more  Scrum of Scrum & Global teams Managed 33 global team members deliverables part of 7 subsystem teams in 3 global locations(Bangalore, Waukesha and Buc). Prepare an integration plan with all subsystems input (mostly done with a PI planning for 3 days atBangalore) and present to leadership team. This includes FDA submission, getting approval fromFDA, RSNA preparation, RSNA feedback from global customer, Software readiness, Translationvendor input for Software, Data Science team readiness on algorithm, Sample Image readiness fortraining, Algorithm output validation, Workflow evaluation at hospital, Feedback cycle fromcustomer(Hospital), design transfer to manufacturing, Reliability of the systems, Installation of Pilotproduct, Identify hospitals for pilot installation, logistical and Field Engineer availability of install,clinical speciality readiness for technicians training at hospital, Prepare for field complaint etc.Every line item in this phase is taken care in Rally with exact owner, dependency, risk identifiedwith proper actions and with a backup plan. Next big task was to monitor and control above integration plan and make sure SAY/DO ratio isachieved. Monitoring and control were done with a daily stand up by the Scrum Masters for allsubsystem teams and then a weekly Scrum over Scrum meeting with all stakeholders (Engineering,Product management, clinical application specialists, QA, Regulatory, Supply chain, commercial,marketing, external suppliers and manufacturing).  Led complete SW evaluation at customer site (Max hospital, Delhi) for 3 months and incorporatedall customer feedback to final product.  Led 510K submission for this new algorithm to FDA with all questions answered by the team alongwith SW modification incorporated as per FDA approval process. Successfully completed the CE mark qualifications and approval for Europe and Asian market. Show less

Involved in hiring process to include another 7 people to the team for this new project. SW design strategy keeping in mind quick to market and utilization of GE healthcare platform SW. Advocate strategies and roadmap for senior management Manage obsolescence of system and software. As this was an old product obsolescencemanagement was key. Qualify external vendors for resource management as 9 of the team members was from externalconsultancy. Integration of new… Show more Involved in hiring process to include another 7 people to the team for this new project. SW design strategy keeping in mind quick to market and utilization of GE healthcare platform SW. Advocate strategies and roadmap for senior management Manage obsolescence of system and software. As this was an old product obsolescencemanagement was key. Qualify external vendors for resource management as 9 of the team members was from externalconsultancy. Integration of new hardware and software platform towards this new generation system hadmultiple issues with final workflow. All key workflow issues were address with a new PatientDatabase Management module within software architecture. There was a long journey to understand all existing service feedback for this product along withnew proposal for serviceability with new GE healthcare remote service architecture. All workflowissues were managed with this new platform and with existing service complaints. One more key highlight on improving inter process communication with introduction of DDS-RTIframework for this first time in this product line. Reliability numbers for the workflows werepretty good with this platform improvement. Led a team of 9 members remotely to deliver SW automation testing helping verification to closeovernight. Show less

Description of the Project:Ultrasound to cure tumor with an MRI exam is the goal of this project. This project is anenhancement to existing MRI SW to support scans with an outside instruction to the device. Anultrasound device connected to the MRI system are to use scan a patient using an MRI system andspecific area of the patient will be cured using the ultrasound attached. Demand for the SW team was tobuild a platform to support any 3rd party ultrasound product from any… Show more Description of the Project:Ultrasound to cure tumor with an MRI exam is the goal of this project. This project is anenhancement to existing MRI SW to support scans with an outside instruction to the device. Anultrasound device connected to the MRI system are to use scan a patient using an MRI system andspecific area of the patient will be cured using the ultrasound attached. Demand for the SW team was tobuild a platform to support any 3rd party ultrasound product from any vendor.R & R: Analysis of the complete 3rd party requirement. Place a process to get it executed and make sureall requirements are taken care. Plan for the Proof of concept, demonstrate the feasibility to leadership in both the organization. Plan for technical design review and close on design items and interface closure with 3rd partyteam. Formed a team for this project. Total team member is 6 with one senior architect. Led complete PI planning along with 3rd party vendor GE healthcare sprint planning was done by me, identified daily operating mechanism tocommunicate with 3rd party team and started this project execution. Was involved on Daily stand up, Risk retirement, Design closure as part of the SCRUM team. Activities involves Sprint retro, Sprint DEMO and Sprint status to demonstrate to leadership on every sprint. Show less

Description of the Project:Digital XRAY platform for Inter process communication, Device communication, Reliability DataAnalysis, Engineering tools, Event sequence framework and service framework.R & R: Senior developer (C++\Core Java\Python\Shell scripting\Linux) Led technical integration of Detector management and sharing. Helped team in design and development of Generator control and positioner control. Worked with Architects and functional managers to deliver… Show more Description of the Project:Digital XRAY platform for Inter process communication, Device communication, Reliability DataAnalysis, Engineering tools, Event sequence framework and service framework.R & R: Senior developer (C++\Core Java\Python\Shell scripting\Linux) Led technical integration of Detector management and sharing. Helped team in design and development of Generator control and positioner control. Worked with Architects and functional managers to deliver to the spec Show less