Engineer Management

Result oriented and energetic hardware engineering professional offering 8

years of experience in high speed electronic circuit board and system

development of networking and server products with experience in project

coordination and management for the last 3 years. Using the passion for

technology, I possess the ability to successfully lead, coordinate and

execute wide range of project management duties designed to navigate full

product development life cycle using phase gate process from concept to

production for programs with multiple projects. Proficient in multi-tasking

in fast-paced, technically innovative environments demanding strong

critical thinking, adaptability, interpersonal and organizational skills .

Core Competencies Include

Hardware Circuit Validation Board-System Development and Sustaining * Cross

functional team, project coordination *

System Costing * Risk Management * Scheduling with Gantt charts and

critical path analysis * System Build plan and BOMs * Defects Issues

management * Change Management * Technical Documentation * Review

Meetings * Quality Management * Process Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cymer Inc., San Diego, CA

June 2010 - Sep 2010

Business Process Management Intern

Lead the effort of improving the baseline module lifetime creation process

and accessibility in the Product Management Group. Responsibilities include

prioritization of projects, setting goals, creating project plan with

schedule, coordinating implementation of the project with cross functional

teams using phase gate process and creating improved process.

Accomplishments:

. Managed implementation of review update process and webpage to organize,

refresh and access latest baseline module lifetimes of all systems within

schedule.

. Leveraged Agile database configuration control tool training for change

management and BOM in creating and updating the latest part numbers in

module lifetime webpage.

Dell R&D, Bangalore, India

2006 - 2008

Systems Engineering Advisor

Lead Systems Engineering Advisor for Dell servers. Completed system

design, development and integration of motherboard, memories, mechanical

parts, hard drives, heat sinks, fans, cables, external vendor cards,

firmware and OS. Completed debugging and system level unit verification for

4 servers steering the program into production in 9-month time frame using

product development phase gate process. Coordinated, facilitated and

tracked activities within all cross functional teams, conducted design

review and status meetings, monitored, designated action items, system

issues to owners with timelines using the defects issue management and

actively participated in root cause analysis. Provided the project status

reporting inputs to management for earned value analysis.

Selected Accomplishments:

. Initiated and led the interface to support program management to release

programs with multiple projects within time and budget. Consolidated the

engineering functional plans, identified prioritized risks, aided program

management developing and analyzing schedule estimates, resource

requirements, creating server build installation plan tools, assisted to

create-release system configurations and BOMs using Agile configuration

tool.

. Managed and owned system costing for all the servers and provided support

to the finance accounting team.

. Led team to achieve quality improvement in the fans across all the active

Dell servers and desktops. Leveraged negotiation, communication and

resource allocation skills to guide design teams across all the servers

and desktops. Received the Dell BPI award of the year due to this

initiative.

. Mentored and led staff towards best practices in system engineering and

project management processes.

Ample Communications, Bangalore, India & Fremont, CA, USA

2005 - 2006

Member Technical Staff

Lead Design engineer for 2 projects including Design Validation Boards for

high speed 10G and 1Gigabit MAC ASICs. Designed and tested multi layer

circuit boards along with assisting and coordinating cross functional teams

including ASIC engineers. Created and released BOM. Owned the change

management for subsequent BOM releases. Assisted in studying marketing

requirement, feasibility, creating product specification inputs and created

other technical project documentation. Provided customer technical support.

Identified and prioritized risks and presented project status summaries to

management for their review.

Selected Accomplishments:

. Led team for expansion of the business operations and worked jointly with

executive management to address issues, create and analyze schedules.

Conducted cost benefit analysis to help in decision making for lab

resource requirements.

. Coordinated and led development activities for design validation board

for industry's first dual port 10G MAC using development process

guidelines in a 6-month time frame.

Force Computers (Later Motorola ECCG), Bangalore, India

2001- 2005

Senior Design Engineer

Primary circuit design engineer for CPCI-910. Promoted to lead design

engineer for development and implementation of program including CPCI-920

and CPCI-922. Designed, debugged and tested multi layer circuit boards

while coordinating with cross functional teams of firmware, CAD, signal

integrity, test, supply procurement, thermal, mechanical, test,

manufacturing, technical writing, quality and application software to meet

program objectives. Developed and managed CPLD codes. Conducted

preliminary EMI/EMC tests. Conducted the feasibility study using marketing

requirement document. Created and reviewed board design specification,

power supply specification, technical documentation and user manuals.

Assisted in ISO9000 audits. Created and release BOM. Owned the change

management for the subsequent BOM releases.

Selected Accomplishments:

. Managed and lead simultaneous projects from conception through completion

to include full project lifecycle while adhering to strict deadlines. Led

team of 3 members successfully and coordinated development of first

networking boards using product development phase gate process in 9-month

time frame at Force Computers.

. Initiated and coordinated the development of IPMI interface at the India

design center and led its implementation across all future projects.

Created process manual and tool for product identification creation to be

used across all projects.

NCRA-TIFR, Pune, India

2000- 2001

Trainee Engineer

Researched and studied the usage of test equipments at the TIFR's National

Centre of Radio Astrophysics.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Engineering Management, Specialization in Project

Management (2010)

GPA 3.97/4.0, National University, San Diego, CA

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering (2000), University of Pune, India

SKILLS

Technologies: PCI-X, PCIe, Compact PCI, PMC, I2C, Ethernet TCP/IP, XAUI,

XFI, IPMI, FBDIMM, DDR-II, QDR SRAM, SPI, SFP

Programming skills: HDL, Verilog, C (basic)

Tools: Epd Viewlogic DxDesigner, Mentor Graphics Design Architect,

Board Station, Cadence Allegro, Altera MaxplusII, Adobe

Acrobat, Windows, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Agile,

Mantis

Debugging tools: Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, PCI analyzer, BDI

2000, frequency generator, voltmeter, multimeter, JTAG

debugger

VOLUNTEERING AND ASSOCIATIONS

Project Management Institute, January 2010 - present

AWARDS

** Leadership Scholarship at National University, 2009 **

** Dell Business Process Improvement Quality Control Award, 2007**

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