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Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, DE

• Currently working at Fresenius Medical Care, leading multiple large global cross-functional teams, comprising of product planning, R&D, regulatory, clinical, systems engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality.
• Architecture, implementation of software for the adaptive UF in-silico testing with 50K patients’ data
• Lead a Global CFT to drive project planning, scheduling and execution, risk management
• Develop and maintain project schedule, milestones using Microsoft project plan (mpp)
• Responsible for project budget planning and management
• Conduct weekly status meetings, generate status reports, track activities to closure

Palo Alto, California, US

• At GatorBio Inc. in Palo Alto, CA working as Head of Software Engineering (directly reporting to CTO). I am responsible for the architecture, design and development of the software system for their blood.
• Develop the software system architecture and finalize the technology components for the embedded and application software to enable rapid prototype development
• Design and implement the firmware that drives, and controls 3 stepper motors (used for the robot) to perform blood separation, and implements probe pick and place logic for chemical reactions needed for the assay
• Design and implement the windows PC application in Java using processing framework and in C#. The application enables the assay scientist to write repetitive assay reaction steps as script and execute the assay.
• Coordinate and interact on day-to-day basis with the mechanical, electrical teams and other functions to program manage the smooth integration of the functional prototype
• Verify the working system before handing it over to assay scientist for their experiments

Pleasanton, CA, US

• At CAIRE Diagnostics Inc. in Pleasanton, CA worked as Head of Software Engineering. In my role I reported to the VP of Engineering
• Led the development and integration of the software components involving device firmware and mobile applications for the NPI of their Fenom series products.
• Build the high-performance team of 5 engineers for the development of the device firmware and mobile application
• Responsible for hiring, mentoring, conflict resolution & performance evaluation of the team
• Identified and documented Application and firmware requirements,
• Designed the packet interface between the Application and firmware

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Wipro had deputed me as part of Global R&D team at Fresenius Medical Care, led monitor & CDX feature development for their 5008S Diamond hemo-dialysis machine.Responsibilities:
• Led implementation activities for monitor software, hardware, CDX keyboard mounting and hardware-software integration of monitor & CDX feature
• Prepared design and development plan for the monitor and CDX functionality
• Led activity of preparing CDX feature requirements specifications for System, Component and Software
• Led activity of gathering of system requirements for the CDX keyboard mounting on the hemo-dialysis machine, three possible mounting options were created and demonstrated
• Led the activity of keyboard mounting prototypes evaluation with the users and cross functional teams to gather data in terms of pros and cons to evaluate the options

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Wipro had deputed me at Medtronic Diabetes Care, led multiple data analytics projects.Responsibilities:
• Gathered and documented software requirements for the data analytics and the visualization of the outcomes on the websites used by customer representatives, helpline team, sales & marketing team and health care.
• Prepared design and development plans for Sugar.IQ-data lake and Engage programs. Also prepared required documentation for these projects through MDT's agile quality documentation & management system
• Managed data science team that built cognitive insights by analyzing data from patient’s insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring systems, all the data analytics algorithms were implemented in Java and Python.
• Managed data visualization team that implemented visualization of this data on websites using Bootstrap (HTML, CSS, and JS framework) for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• I was deputed by Wipro Ltd at FedEx Services for managing multiple mobility transformation projects using SAFe agile 4.0 framework. The total head count working for me on this program was 130+, the more than 10+ mobile.
• Build the high-performance team for software development and system validation
• Responsible for hiring, mentoring, conflict resolution & performance evaluation of the team
• Identifying nonperformance in the team and taking actions pro-actively
• Rewarding employees appropriately
• Timely sign-off of contractual documents, timely accurate invoice inputs, visa compliance

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• As lead system architect led Wipro’s assure health Cardiac Care solution for more than 2.5 years. A strong team of 2 architects, 2 project leads and 1 verification lead directly reported to me. Assure health Cardiac.
• Build the high-performance team for software & hardware development and system validation
• Responsible for hiring, mentoring, conflict resolution & performance evaluation of the team
• Gathering and documenting the solutions system requirements
• Preparing system and sub-system architecture and data flow architecture
• Planning and executing the end-to-end engineering activities for the solution’s development, verification

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• I was deputed by Wipro Ltd at Philips Healthcare, USA in a role as a Lead system Engineer. Philips wanted to remediate and enhance existing requirements of their CT system to be used for their next generation of CT.
• Understand the existing CT system and make sure that the features for which Wipro was responsible for are understood by the Wipro’s system engineering team
• Write system requirements for the features like, CT system user application GUI, Configuration module, Communications module, CT system remote software upgrade, CT system storage-packaging and shipment
• Provide technical leadership for Wipro’s system engineering team at onsite and offshore
• Review team’s deliverable to make sure that project’s quality objectives are met
• Participate in technical reviews to understand the feedback, educate the team of what improvements are needed and make sure that the subsequent deliverable has this feedback incorporated

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

I was deputed by Wipro Ltd at Draeger Medical. I was responsible for the 6 different projects running simultaneously for the customer; the projects were executed in agile; the peak team size of the program was 35 with 60%/40% offshore/onsite split.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Worked as software system architect to technically execute and deliver multiple projects of Wipro’s Bluetooth IP offerings, my responsibilities were:
• Transfer BT 1.2 IP knowledge from an onsite team to an offshore team
• Build the high-performance team for software & hardware development and BT system validation
• Responsible for hiring, mentoring, conflict resolution & performance evaluation of the team
• Setup BT lab for development and validation activities, Identify and procure needed equipment
• Define/architecture enhancement work to transition the BT 1.2 IP to BT 2.1, 3.0 and eventually 4.0

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Executed below projects and lead the IP team technically, the peak team size I handled was of 6 software and 5 hardware engineers
• Upgrade of Wavion's WS-410 AP product to support upgraded specifications of IEEEE 802.11i and 802.11e
• Architecture definition for changes needed to support UAPSD feature and IEEE 802.11s specifications in the Wavion’s WS-410 AP
• Bluetooth Hands Free Profile v1.5 development project
• BT modem HW model development project

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• I led IEEE 802.11i Security implementation project
• Defined the 802.11i SW architecture for the AP also identified the architectural changes in Basic 802.11 IP
• Did the SW and HW partitioning of different 802.11i features along with the MAC HW engineer.
• Designed and implemented Key Management Entity (KME) which handles the Key generation in 802.11i, changes in MAC Core and MLME (Existing MAC modules).
• Defined and designed interfaces of KME with other modules like 802.1x, SME etc.
• Worked with and guided the other engineer who was implementing 802.1x and RADIUS client required in AP to support the WLAN security.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Worked as a Sr. software engineer, for the Wipro's Bluetooth IP and Wireless LAN IPFor Wipro's Bluetooth IP, I did design, coding and testing of
• HCI API's and HCI-UART driver for the Bluetooth stack
• Hot sync application, File server application over L2CAP over Bluetooth
• Implementation of GAP and SDAP profiles
• File server application for picture transfer over Bluetooth
• Common client to work with 13 Bluetooth profiles Then I moved to the Wireless LAN IP team,

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• I worked on
• Design and development of the hardware and software for the product named Wobbulation Pattern generator. It is a programmable user interface to a variable speed drive.
• Customization of the Wobbulation pattern generator for one of our customers
• Design and development of the hardware and software for the product named LCD RTP. LCD RTP is a ratemeter, counter, totalizer and batcher
• Designed and developed drivers for the various PLC’s