Project Management Design

Balwantrai (Bal) Mistry

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PROFILE

An experienced Project management and mechanical engineer with leadership &

technical abilities that enable me to facilitate and champion

products/Technology and to manage or be part of a team to manage/develop

cost effective, well engineered products or services. I have managed both

direct and sub-contract staff and have used project management techniques

in dealing with various complex projects.

STRENGTHS

. Organized, efficient, always ready for a challenge

. Product development with an understanding of manufacturability

. System Architecture and design

. Program/Project and People management

. Work well independently and as a member of a team

. Enthusiastic, creative, willing to assume responsibility

. Outstanding communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills

. Participated in product branding, marketing, including participation

at tradeshows

. Product costing and configuration

. Managed several sub-contract staff in various capacity (Technical &

Administrative)

. Ability to prioritize, delegate, motivate and manage all aspects of a

complex project

MISCELLANEOUS

. Canadian citizen

. Enhanced Reliability status and Secret clearance in progress

. No travel restrictions

. Actively involved in community activities, serving in leadership

positions

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Avaya, Belleville, Canada Dec. 2011 - To-Date

System/ Physical Mechanical Design

. Program/Project Management

. Interact with Engineering, Purchasing, and Manufacturing and

outside suppliers as required

. Work with outsourcing manufacturing (Far East)

. Designed (H/W design, CAD Layout, Mechanical design)

various telephone hardware (digital and IP)

. Provided design guidance to Outsourced design team

. Provided viable CR (Cost Reduction) on existing products

Huawei Technologies Canada Co. Ltd. Ottawa, Canada June 2009 -

Nov.2010

System/ Physical H/W Architecture & Design

. Designed telecom/Data product Architecture definition

Optical, Data/Router product and Wireless products that met both North

American and European Standards

. Form a design team for Next Generation Telecom/Data product

in Santa Clara, USA

. Telecom/Data and Enterprise/Consumer System/Product design

(H/W design, CAD Layout, Mechanical design)

. Provided design guidance to design team in China

. Provided viable CR (Cost Reduction) on existing products

Flextronics Canada Design Services Inc. Ottawa, Canada November 2004 -

Jan 2009

System Physical H/W Architecture & Design, Manager

. Program/Project Management

. Work with manufacturing (Far East)

. Designed telecom/Data and Enterprise/Consumer System/Product

design (H/W design, S/W design, System testing, CAD Layout, Mechanical

design, Production test development)

. Technical liaison to BLM for customer presentation, cost/price

target and System configuration

. Provided design services to internal infrastructure

(Flextronics sites internationally) and other Flextronics business

groups

. Interface with manufacturing for CR (Cost Reduction) activity

. People management.

NORTEL Networks, Ottawa, Canada August 1982 - October 2004

System/ Physical H/W Architecture & Design Manager -Optical Metro Group

Product development: OME-6500

. Program/Project Management

. Architecture prime Physical and System partitioning,

interconnect (including backplane), power, grounding and alarm system.

. Interconnect/ASIC packaging/PCB technology/systems alarms/

Network topology

. Technical liaison to marketing for product introduction and

trade show presentation

. Technical liaison to PLM for customer presentation, cost/price

target and configuration

. Documentation group for technical documentation and

installation practices

. Managing mechanical design group (internal mechanical and

thermal designers and external contractors (including Product

Integrity, interconnect, power and grounding, industrial design,

mechanical manufacturing documentation).

. Interface with manufacturing for proto to GA product

introduction

. Regulatory (Safety, FCC compliance) NEBS (Bellcore) and

European telco standards.

Manager, Physical H/W Architecture & Design

Product Development: Optera Packet Core (Terabit Router)

. Program/Project Management

. Architecture prime Physical and System partitioning,

interconnect (including backplane), power, grounding and alarm system.

. Interconnect/ASIC packaging/PCB technology/systems alarms/

Network topology

. Technical liaison to marketing for product introduction and

trade show presentation

. Technical liaison to PLM for customer presentation, cost/price

target and configuration

. Documentation group for technical documentation and

installation practices

. Managing Physical design group, external contractors (including

Product Integrity, interconnect, power and grounding, industrial

design, mechanical design and documentation).

. Interface with manufacturing for proto to GA product

introduction

. Regulatory (Safety, FCC compliance) NEBS (Bellcore) and

European telco standards.

List of other products developed within Nortel

Mendocino, Computing platform for Telecom market.

Cornerstone Multi-Line Voice port for outdoor cable to voice line interface

unit

Broad Band Modem for cable to Ethernet interface to computer

NAV system (Voice recognition system hardware platform) for various voice

recognition Telco applications

Access Node system

Fiber World products

Fiber Optical mux system (FD565, FD135, CE6 ect.).

EDUCATION & TRAINING

ONC Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering - Tameside College of Technology,

Ashton-U-Lyne, U.K

Various courses related to power engineering and project management.

COMPUTING SKILLS

CAD/FEM Pro-Engineer, SDRC I-DEAS,

Application Software Windows, MS Word, Excel, MS Project,

Frame maker

References available on Request

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