Abi Gabriel, PMP Mobile: 91-984**-*****

e-mail: ac2b9w@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abi-gabriel-76172548/ Bangalore, India 1

Project Management Professional with core expertise in leading Design, Development & Manufacturing of Embedded Electronic Products. Successfully led to commercial Production of multiple, concurrent Automotive Projects of various OEM’s like Renault, General Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors since 5+ years. Managed cross-functional Teams of 50+ across multiple projects of $18M Revenue. Overall 21+ years of experience in Embedded Product Development across 4 diverse Industries:

AUTOMOTIVE (7+ years): Radio, Instrument Clusters, Body Control Module, Rear View Camera, Driver Information System

HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL (7 years): Infusion Pump, Oxygen Concentrator, Wireless(ZigBee), Tele Health & Rehab Powered Wheelchair

VIDEO PRODUCTION (3 years): Video Production Switcher

AEROSPACE/DEFENCE (4 years): Engine & Electrical Monitoring Systems, Braking System, Nose Wheel Steering & Hydraulic Systems Core Competencies in:

Product Development Process Timeline Management Change Management Issues & Risk Management

Cross-Functional Team Leadership Cost Monitoring & Control People Management Procurement Management

Software Development Lifecycle Technical Management Quality Management Waterfall, PMBOK, Agile KEY ACHIEVEMENTS)

Led full Product Development from Concept Design to Production of Renault-KWID-Low Cost Radio project within 18 months (50% of standard product development time) - streamlined workflow in midst of Technical challenges of designing Low Cost product and ensuring compliance of stringent Validation specs, negotiated Timeline with Customer primarily focusing on critical Process compliance and safeguarding Vehicle key-milestones & deliveries.

Coordinated Design, Development, Validation & Production of Mahindra-W207-Body Control Module within Engineering budget of

$150K, completed Approval for Production 4 weeks ahead of Schedule and achieved Zero Quality defects since Production.

Supervised Design, Development & Production of General Motors – CN00-Diesel-Instrument Cluster within Engineering budget of $350K.

Collaborated working of multi-site Teams spanning across India, China, Singapore and US – Daily/Weekly tracking and Stakeholder report out guaranteed 100% Process adherence - led to Zero Non-Compliance during BSI’s ISO/TS 16949 External Audits since 3+ years.

Managed Product Requirements based on Customer interactions and directs Cross-Functional Product Development Team – led to successful production of DIS Sleek project with Zero Quality defects.

Conceived and deployed robust inter-site Working Model and Processes Guidelines between Team India and US for Delphi-Medical programs – led to 80% increase in 25 member Team’s effectiveness during initial span of 3 months.

Conceptualized and established Feature Owner roles in IVY program that has instilled 100% project ownership, effective Peer Reviews, reduced Software defects by 95% and ensured Quality delivery – led to successful 510 (k)- FDA approval for IVY.

Incorporated Cross-Module Software Development & Testing strategy for VitalSigns - enhanced multiple module ownership, peer-review effectiveness and minimized Developer dependencies to 10%.

Designed and implemented Project Postmortem for all Medical programs that address What Went Well and What Went Wrong aspects of entire project life cycle - these reviews with Project Team in-turn generated Ideas that led to Continuous Improvements.

Institutionalized Knowledge Sharing among Team - all the new technologies/problems is captured in a single SharePoint repository that enabled seamless sharing of Team’s Knowledge and Lessons Learned. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

DELPHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, BANGALORE July 2003 to Till Date Project Manager (May 2012 to Till Date) Industry: AUTOMOTIVE

Led 4 diverse Customers & multiple Products development- Renault: Radio, Mahindra: Body Control Module, Rear View Camera, GM & Tata Motors: Instrument Clusters that generates more than $18M in Sales Revenue

Customer Facing, Technical & People Management of multidiscipline/cross-functional Engineering Teams of 50+ comprising: System, Software, Electrical (PCB), Mechanical (Product), Manufacturing, Test and Validation (EMI/EMC, ENV tests) across multiple Projects

New Product Development and Launch Process/Lifecycle from Concept Design to Manufacturing and Volume Production of Renault: Radio, GM: Instrument Clusters and Mahindra: Rear View Camera based on Delphi PDP process– Plan, Design & Development, Validation & Production Phases, with Gate Reviews

Monitoring & Control of multiple Project Engineering Budgets of $1.2M and Manufacturing & Vendor Tooling Budgets of $750K

Achieved Cost Savings of 7% through Brainstorming of Ideas that focuses on: Zero impact in Performance, no/minimal Design change through Bill Of Material (BOM) optimization and Manufacturing Process optimization or Cycle-Time reduction

Developed Project Schedule, weekly progress reviews & update: shortfalls or course corrections throughout Project Lifecycle to ensure that Cost & Time constraints are met and to ensure Problem Resolution

Led & Managed Customer communication, product Approvals for Production and negotiated Costs jointly with Sales

Proactively assess Project Risks and develop effective mitigation plan and escalate to Leadership appropriately

Coordinated Design & Development activities: Product Tooling, Parts Procurement, Manufacturing & Production builds, Product Validation- EMI/EMC & Environmental Tests at China division, and also achieved product specific Regulatory certifications for Commercial Production.

Prepare and maintain Project Scorecard and share Project Metrics variance to key stakeholders and Senior Leadership bi-weekly

Enabled Team in Root Cause Analysis of Issues that surfaced during Development stage and ensured proper Corrective Measures is done. Advanced Specialist (May 2010 to April 2012) Industry: AUTOMOTIVE

Systems/Product Technical Management of Driver Information System (DIS) from Mahindra & Mahindra

Led cross functional Team of 20+ comprising Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Test, and Validation

Defined Product Requirements for overall Product based on Customer & Team interactions and directed workflow to Cross Functional Team.

Conducted Design Reviews at various Project Gate review milestones has led to Zero Quality defects during Production.

Supervision of Product System Checkout, performed Vehicle Validation and Trials jointly with Customer. Abi Gabriel, PMP Mobile: 91-984**-*****

e-mail: ac2b9w@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abi-gabriel-76172548/ Bangalore, India 2

Engineering Manager (July 2007 to April 2010) Industry: HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Project, People & Technical Manager (Engineering Manager – Software & Systems) for Delphi Medical Systems

Managed Delphi Medical (India) division - 25 people, 4 Productlines (Infusion, Respiratory, Tele-Health & Mobility: Embedded & PC App.)

Led 4 Software Projects: Infusion Pump-IVY, Oxygen Concentrator-Matchbox, Wireless(ZigBee)-Cricket, Tele-Health-VitalSigns

Plan & Drives engineering deliverables on-time by proactively assessing and mitigating risks.

Manage Engineering Budget of $500K, Embedded & Application based Software Resources for each Productline.

Hire, review/assess performance, build and motivate Team in achieving Productline Objectives.

Recognize & Reward Team for excellent contributions.

Drive deep-dive Technical reviews of Key Features of critical programs like IVY.

Promote Continuous Improvements of Product Quality, Design, Development, Testing and Review process. Group Leader (July 2005 to June 2007) Industry: HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Project Lead for Huron, Rehab Powered Wheelchair- 16 people, 8 Controllers (based on Infineon & PIC micros) and PC based Application

Gather, analyze and document Software requirements

Software Architecture, design and development

Review of software estimates and work-products, ensure compliance to Delphi-D Software Process (complying MISRA coding guidelines)

Estimate and create/track Project Schedules

Technical mentoring and guidance to Team, do Technical reviews on both internal and external work-products Technical Leader (July 2003 to June 2005) Industry: HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Team Lead for QMAC and ECM modules of Huron, Powered Wheelchair – 5 people, 2 Controllers (based on Infineon micro, proprietary OS)

Gather, analyze and document requirements in Product Definition Document.

Module Architecture, Design & Development, Unit & Integration Testing, and coordinate Daily/Weekly interactions with Team US. CELSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES, BANGALORE June 2000 to June 2003 Software Specialist, Senior Software Engineer Industry: VIDEO PRODUCTION

Module Lead of Machine Control in Kalypso-Video Production Switcher - 3 people, 3 Controllers (based on Phar Lap RTOS) and PC Application

Requirements Gathering, Analyze and documentation

Module Architecture, Design, Development and Testing of Kalypso: Main Frame, Main & Aux Panel Controllers.

Tracking and creating of Project Schedules for each of the Modules and participate in Daily/weekly interactions with Team US HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS LIMITED, BANGALORE August 1996 to May 2000 Asst. Aero. Engineer, Project Engineer Industry: AEROSPACE / AVIONICS SYSTEMS/DEFENCE Software Design, Development and Testing of Real-Time Embedded (pSOS RTOS, MC68020 based) airborne Avionics Systems of LCA aircraft:

Anti-Skid Braking systems

Nose Wheel Steering

Hydraulic and Under-Carriage Monitoring

Engine and Electrical Monitoring Systems

SOCIAL INSTITUTE, COCHIN August 1995 to August 1996 Senior Faculty

Trained computer fundamentals and C language to graduate students for O and A level programs PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

B.E. in Computer Engineering from R.V.S. College of Engg & Technology, Dindigul, Madurai Kamaraj University, on Jul '95 with 67.46%.

Applied Program for Project Management a certification program from PM Power Consulting on Mar’15.

Project Management Professional from Project Management Institute (PMI), PMP Number# 2021352 on Apr’17. TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Project Methodologies: PMI’s PMBOK based Delphi-PDP, Critical Path Method, Iterative & Waterfall Model, WBS

Project Management Tools & Skills: MS Project – Gantt Chart, WBS, MS SharePoint, PPAP and APQP

Software Tools: MS Visio 2000, UML-OOD Rational Rose 2000e, Telelogic’s DOORs, CM & Change Synergy, Rational ClearCase

OS/RTOS: Proprietary Schedulers, Phar Lap ETS ver 10.0, pSOS ver 1.2, DOS, UNIX, Windows

Languages: C++, C & Assembly

Microcontrollers: NEC V850FE3N, Freescale MC9S12XEP100, MC13213, Infineon XC161CJ, Microchip PIC18F4431, PIC18F258

Microprocessors: Motorola MC68020, AMD K6-III

KEY AWARDS

Director’s Club Award for leading development and production of GM-CN100-Program.

Excellence Award for accomplishing 510 (k) - FDA submission of Project IVY.

Team Award for Innovation - Mega Trend report.

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