Chithra Annegowda

Phone: (M) 312-***-**** Email: acg2w9@r.postjobfree.com

**** ********** ******, #**, ********, Illinois 61109

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging role in Embedded Software Development to contribute towards organizational success and

grow to a Senior Management level

SYNOPSIS

Passionate, smart and result oriented professional with 10 years of experience in IT industry as Embedded Software

Engineer; Extended expertise in Software Development, Verification & Validation, Simulation,, Embedded

Systems, Programming, Debugging, and Analysis; Deep understanding of technology with focus on delivering

business solutions; Persuasive communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with the ability to

relate to people at any level of business and management; Adroit at analyzing the organization requirements; Highly

ethical, trustworthy and discreet;

Skilled Technical lead and Embedded software architect with proven ability to lead and motivate teams to

maximize productivity

Exceptional communication, analytical and inter personal and problem solving skills

Thorough knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle

Dedicated and highly ambitious to achieve personal as well as the organizational goals

Ability to promote cooperation between stakeholders of the project

Good presentation skills with experience in presenting technical data to Boeing technical team and FAA

Working at customer location for more than 6 years

Experience in project management, estimation and handling teams of size 25

CORE COMPETENCIES

Excellent Programming Skills- C,C++ Debuggers and Emulators

Embedded Systems Verification and Validation

Microcontrollers Good with Communication Protocols

DSP Multicultural team co-ordination

CARRER HIGHLIGHTS

Rated “OUTSTANDING”(3 successive years) for contributions in the Project(HCL Technologies)

Received appreciations from customers and senior managers for developing a table driven software

architecture which can be used across multiple motor controller applications.

Won several laurels and appreciations from superiors for smart work and efforts shown on Software

Development

Received appreciation from hardware and system senior management for troubleshooting capabilities

Received accolades from clients/team lead for my best performance in process improvement

EDUCATION

Bachelor in Engineering with specialization in Computer Science from Viveshwaraiah Technological

University in 2004 with distinction.

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Languages: C, C++, Java

IDE: Code Composer Studio, Eclipse

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Linux, LynxOS

Tools: Rational Rose, Telelogic Rhapsody, Synergy, DOORs, Microsoft visio, CVS, Code composer

studio, TTTech tools, Vitra Pathfinder

Protocols/Standards: Time Triggered Protocol (TTP/C), Common Area Network (CAN), 1 Wire DMM, DO-178B

CAN 2.0A, CAN 2.0B

Embedded Design: Embedded C

HARDWARE

DSP Programming

Automated Test Equipment (ATE)

Emulators, Debuggers

WORK HISTORY

United Technologies Aerospace Systems through HCL America Inc. (Jan’10 to Present)

Project Title: Common Motor Start Controller for Boeing 787 -10 (Jan’13 to Present)

Role: Software Architect and Technical Lead

Team Size: 11

Common motor starter controller program is to develop firmware for the 32-bit Freescale MPC5554 microprocessor

used for protection, control logic, contactor control, BITE, and communications in the 787 Power Generation System.

Key Deliverables:

Change Report implementation for new and enhanced requirements of Boeing 787-10 variant on Boeing 787-9

flight code

o Analysis of the change requests from customer specification with hardware and system tech leads

o Troubleshoot and Debugging of field return units

o Defining new software requirements and enhancing the existing software requirements

o Design development without affecting the core architecture

o Enhancements to the client proprietary software library

o Implementation of the changes using ANSCI C

Verification and validation of the changes

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Development testing and hardware software integration test

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Providing software support to system and hardware tests

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Software Integration Test Environment development in Java

o Developed APIs in Java to perform simulated functionalities of all the external interfaces of the

controller

o Develop test scripts using the Java APIs to perform requirement based testing of the software

requirements

o Provide technical training and guidance to the team – onsite and offshore

o Work allocation and project management

o Configuration management

Project Title: Strategic Motor Controller for Boeing 787 (Jan’10 to Dec’12)

Role: Software Architect and Technical Lead

Team Size: 16

Strategic motor controller program was to develop a strategic motor controller application that can be used across

various avionics motor controller applications with minimal changes.

Key Deliverables:

project planning documents (RTCA DO178B Plans)

System requirement and hardware requirement analysis and review

Software requirement definition from higher level system requirements

Software architecture to meet the purpose of easy reusability across motor controller applications

Presenting Preliminary Design and Critical Design requirements to Boeing technical team

Software implementation using ANSCI C

Boot code development

TI DSP 28335 peripheral configuration

Prototype development for hardware and system proof of concept

Software integration tests

Hardware and Software Integration Test Procedure Development and Execution

System Integration tests

Field failure analysis and troubleshooting

Configuration management

Change management - Software Representative for Change Report Board

Reviews of life cycle data against DO 178B guidelines

Participation in Boeing technical reviews, FAA software development audits and Quality Analyst audits and

SOI audits

Creation and modifications of customer software standard procedures

Configuration management and build creations

United Technologies Aerospace Systems through HCL America Inc. and HCL Technologies Limited

Project Title: Fan Motor Controller for Boeing 787 (Jan’07 to Dec’09)

Role: Lead Engineer

Team Size: 25

Fan motor controller provides sufficient air output for cooling electronics and maintaining cabin pressure. The

application software embedded in the Fan Motor Controller, monitors and controls discrete and analog signals and

drives the fan motor from the speed received through the CAN bus from the host computer.

Key Deliverables:

project planning documents (RTCA DO178B Plans)

System requirement and hardware requirement analysis and review

Software requirement definition from higher level system requirements

Software architecture, high level design and low level design and documentation

Presenting Preliminary Design and Critical Design requirements to Boeing technical team

Software implementation using ANSCI C

TI DSP 2812 peripheral configuration

Offshore and Onsite co-ordination

o Providing technical clarifications to the offshore team

o Identifying and Defining work packages

Preparation of Estimation and Schedule.

Work allocation and tracking

Interaction with Boeing – Technical and Status calls

Weekly status reporting to Boeing

Participation in Boeing reviews, HS SQA audits and SOI audits

Creation and modifications of Software standard documents

Configuration management and build creations

HCL Technologies Limited, India

Project Title: ODACS TTP/C Comms Tool development (May’05 to Jan’07)

Role: Software Developer

Team Size: 8

TTP/C Comms Tool provides simulated TTP communication to the Unit Under Test (UUT) in a “fly-the-box” scenario

to permit development testing. The TTP/C Comms Tool will transmit TTP/C data to the UUT from the simulation

process and will receive TTP/C data transmitted by the UUT. The received traffic will be passed back to the simulation

process.

Key Deliverables:

Preliminary and detailed design

Implementation of TTP/C Comms tool in C++ using design patterns

Creating the configuration files from the TTech proprietary TTP tools

Training new team members

Customer interaction

Configuration managment

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 16th June, 1982

Languages: English, Hindi, Kannada

Work Status: H1B Visa

References: Available on Request

(Chithra Annegowda)

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