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Hyderabad, Telangana, India

India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for managing avionics projects from Kick off to series production. Create and monitor project schedule as per applicable methodology Agile or waterfall. Monitor and manage project budget, deliverables, risks and metrics (CPI & SPI) for the programs. Managing resources and their deployment for the project. Managing proposal preparation against B2S & B2B and submission to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services. Ensuring goals are met in areas including product specifications, customer satisfaction, safety and quality. Monitoring program status accurately throughout its life cycle and reporting the same to senior management. Sharing weekly status reports to Senior Management and Customer. Preparing presentation for customers for milestone reviews. Conducted and formalized acceptance of the products with Aviation Authorities and Customers for series production release. Analyzing program risks, working on product marketing strategy with the marketing team, proposing new business initiatives. Perform product design reviews, conduct change control meetings, tracking and maintaining engineering prototypes. Coordinating with cross functional teams, chair and facilitate project meetings, allocate resource and tasks, distribute minutes to all project team members. Interacting with regulatory bodies and marketing team for product certification. Planned and managed multiple stages of product development from kick off to End of life.

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Worked as a program coordinator closely with operations, delivery, sales and design team to ensure proper monitoring of KPIs, risks and identify business process improvement opportunities by performing regular audits from from Project Creation to Project Closure. Prepared supply chain metrics and dashboards e.g. Inventory reports, critical path analysis against the high lead components. Monitored Project timeline, risk, commercial costing and resources. Managed of quality standards, Reviewed design data and witness tests, generated review and audited reports for regulatory authorities. Six Sigma Practitioner, driving 6S and RPA across the organization, coordinated with cross functional team and participated in external audits like AS9100, ISO 9000:2015. Performed project data reviews and participated in Stages of Involvement (SOI) audits. Improved process efficiency and minimize variation, conceptualize, design and deliver trainings to the team. Reported the project health to senior management (Overall status, progress, Risk analysis, management reports, and resource reports). Established QMS. Formulated SOPs, templates and checklists. Performed gap analysis and RCA. Identified corrective and preventive action, prepared lesson learnt with delivery teams and suggested improvements to the delivery teams in reference to industry standard best practices.  Monitored project KPIs, assisted in project planning, risk assessment and tracking, requirement gathering and safety assessment. Mentored and guided delivery teams to manage quality, improve process efficiency and minimize variation, conceptualize, design and deliver trainings to the team. Proactively monitored internal and external data sources to identify, investigate and action potentially critical projects. Reported the project health to senior management. Performed CSAT Analysis on the feedback received and enabled teams to score better CSAT.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked closely with system engineers and test engineers to make sure that the design, implementation, verification and testing of each avionics product is in line with the requirements and in compliance with FAA, EASA and DGCA Standards & Guidelines. Developed hardware products, Automatic Test Equipment and harness for series production. Designed and tested products to meet DFM, DFA and DFT criterion. Performed safety assessment and implemented mitigations to reduce the failure rate. Formulated new templates and process flow diagrams. Performed Root Cause Analysis, CAPA and lesson learnt. Interacted with customer HQAs and DERs, and supporting airborne electronic hardware design and development. Assisted in component selection, vendor identification and procurement. Worked on requirement gathering, upward & downward traceability and verification. Performed projects in compliance with organization’s quality to fulfil design assurance objectives under defined change control process.

Bangalore

Worked as a Hardware Engineer to meet project timelines and deliverable. Experienced in board design, schematic capture, hardware functional testing and qualification testing. Involved in DO-254 product life cycle.• Prepared project management plan and assisted in monitoring project KPIs.• Formulated new templates and process flow diagrams. Performed Root Cause Analysis.• Participated in external audits such as AS9100D.• Assisted in supply chain management, vendor identification and procurement.• Worked on proposals, budget estimation and procurement.• Performed projects in compliance with organization’s quality to fulfil design assurance objectives under defined change control process.• Obsolescence Management and Component Engineering (component selection), vendor identification and interaction.• Worked on designing embedded system, hands on experience with Altium Designer. Validated the hardware design through design performance analysis (Stress, De-rating, Power Analysis, MTBF, FMEA, Simulation).• Supported the development of PXIe based automated test equipment, developed test requirements, written test procedure(s) and, designed test fixtures and cable harness.• Performed Environmental Qualification Tests as per DO-160G standard.• Trained project teams on hardware design and analysis.• Exposure to Avionics standards (DO-254/ED-80, DO-160G, DO-178C, SAE ARP 4754, SAE ARP 4761, CAST 33).

Anand, Gujarat, India

• Trained in Ladder diagram for programmable control systems.• Implemented Project ‘Automated Packaging and Delivery System’ using SIMATIC S7 Programmable Logic Controller and published dissertation.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Extensive inplant training and detailed briefing in the Manufacturing Areas with particular exposure to the departments of PCB Sub Assembly, Semiconductors & Photovoltaics, SCADA, HMI and Quality Services.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics Engineering, 7.63 (Cgpa)

Activities and Societies: IEEE member, Training and Placement Coordinator and college fest publicity team member

Hsc, Science, 92.6%

Activities and Societies: Physical Education

Ssc, 84%