Manager Engineer

Program Manager / TEST MANAGER

SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

10+ years experience at Cisco Systems, Inc. as Design Verification Test

Manager and Program Manager, leading 50+ projects from design concept to a

successful launch, ranging from Hardware & Software to Processes and Tools.

> Resolved many design issues, driving root cause analysis, which

resulted in significant decrease in development time, increased

quality for the access routers.

> Accelerated schedule 10-15% for hardware programs and 5-8% for

software programs by negotiating early software regression & hardware

- Electronic Design Verification testing.

> Improved test automation and increased test efficiency. Identified and

resolved risk management for testing

> Successfully tracking metrics and improvement plans for product

development phase and in production.

> Managed team of 15 engineers, instilled new energy and infrastructure

culture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cisco Systems, Inc.

CDO Hardware Ops Manager (2006 - 2009)

. Program Management of Cisco wide Unique Device Identifier (UDI)

initiative, achieving 90% adoption goal across all Cisco products.

. Improved existing bug tracking tool: CDETs (Cisco Defect Enhancement

Tracking) for ASICs developers, resulting in shortened development

process, standardizing bugs reporting and communication between ASICs

& platform developers

. Successfully negotiated, trained and transitioned Cisco's off shore

engineering teams of India and China to adopt Product development

methodology in it's entity

. Working cross functionally and collaboratively improved deployment of

automation tool program

Cisco Systems Inc.

Engineering Design verification Test Manager 1998 -

2006

. Supervised new product Design Verification (DVT) team of fourteen

engineers achieving design verification (DVT) of 100+ new products of

small and medium business routers. This had direct impact on improving

quality of the products

. Development of test cases for verification for regression tests,

including test strategies and test plans to measure performance

. Successfully drove failure analysis of discovered design bugs, and

resolved them, impacted in improving field failure rates.

. Worked with early field issues and improved the design verification

process.

. 30% improvement in development test cycle by creating efficient test

strategies for new products development and implementing more than one

design review

. Collaborated with all the verification teams within Cisco to share

best practices among the design verification community

. 60% improvements in second source testing and verification by changing

the process and training individuals.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Test Engineering Manager (PCBU) (1996 - 1998)

. 20% reduced test time by improving test bring up processes for routers

and switches

. Outsourced Cisco products, to India improving bottom line for Cisco

. Managed Contract Manufacturer (CM) and test house, created Statements

of Work and infrastructure for communication and workflow with CMs and

Cisco's engineering teams.

. Improved team's debugging skills by providing them training, tools and

process; this had direct impact on the productivity of the group.

. Balanced resource planning, documentation and defects tracking by

working closely with the design teams.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Staff Engineer (1992 - 1996)

. Carried out reliability demonstration tests of new products and laid

out processes to perform tests for design engineering.

. Authored and implemented test standards following the Mil-Handbook

guidelines for networking products.

. Lead internal ISO 9000 auditor for production and development

engineering groups.

. Designed and analyzed engineering experiments and evaluated

prototypes.

. Initiated customer surveys for new products and prepared survey

analysis for Management to improve plans for hardware design.

. Reviewed vendor qualifications and studied manufacturing component

failures in the field.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Manufacturing Engineer (SyQuest Inc.)

> Resolved manufacturing bugs for removable hard drives and increased

production rate by 10%.

Program Manager (Epson Technology, Inc.)

> Managed and coordinated Printer (6xxx & 7xxx series) program releases

between Japan and USA (Santa Clara).

Test & Quality Lead (Wyse Technology)

> Developed full range of test criteria for DEC terminals, implemented

industry standards of quality. Corrective actions implemented from the

failures identified in early stages of product development

> Setup a test lab at Taiwan site, documented test processes & trained

offshore people.

EDUCATION:

. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - University of Pune

(India)

. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering - University of Pune

(India)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

. PMP Certification - George Washington University (In progress)

. Certificate in Network Routing Technology & Management - UC Berkeley

. Training in Negotiation and Influencing, Leadership Development,

Managing Organizational Transition sponsored by Cisco

.

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