Customer Service Engineer

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SENIOR SYSTEM DESIGN VERIFICATION & AUTOMATION ENGINEER

An innovative system verification and automation engineer provides leadership in developing and enhancing technology

products to improve performance and reliability as well as enables achievement of business goals. Contributes to the full

product development lifecycle, from testing to product launch. Excels in identifying areas of concern and formulating

strategies to overcome quality and production issues. Provides excellent customer service and optimizes top/bottom-lines.

SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Developed a novel VB based RF test framework that incorporated a novel RF attenuator and related tests that

would capture cellular protocol stack (l1/l2) deficiencies in fast signal drop conditions .

• Created, supported, and executed test plans for full stack software for new features like DualSim on

trimode devices; led 24/7 automated test processes based on both UNIX and Windows platforms and a version

control tool Perforce, for continuous build and testing of software releases.

• Served as lead integrator for a software module to upgrade the firmware on a mobile device over-the-air;

led integration of flash drivers, boot loader, and related interfaces with cell phone OS and tool chain support and

obtained a patent on improvements to traditional algorithms.

• Authored several articles in peer-reviewed international publications related to computer engineering.

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

BROADCOM 2007-2014

SENIOR STAFF SYSTEM DESIGN ENGINEER

• Proved to be a vital member of the system verification team; overseeing debugging and testing of new generations

of mobile devices based on GSM, GPRS, EGPRS, 3G, LTE technologies.

• Served as a software release lead for modem software to internal development and test teams and oversaw

conformance testing of mobile platforms using in-house testing equipment.

• Designed VB based frameworks for automated execution of in-house test case and supported/executed an over-

the-air field test framework and process that helped immensely in reducing field and customer issues; increased

reliability and allowed teams to integrate new processes as an essential part of their regression test frameworks.

• As a software configuration management lead for modem development team, created process guidelines for code

management and efficiently maintained several code baselines pertaining to different products and clients.

SPIRENT COMMUNICATIONS 2006-2007

MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF

• Served on a team that developed and maintained a VB based control framework for automated cell phone test

systems, comprising of base-station emulators (Agilent 8960), channel emulation systems (Spirent 5500), spectrum

analyzers (Agilent 4401), CDMA/EVDO emulators (Spirent 3460/3452).

• Added new features to the framework and fixed several customer reported issues; also helped identify the root

cause for an RF issue which had previously gone unresolved.

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MOTOROLA 2004-2006

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Contributed to project executions and led team members in C programming and debugging work while providing

expertise on microprocessor architecture and assembly level programming.

• Awarded for project completions in record time and led team in filing patent for innovative technology.

NEC LABS 2000-2003

VISITING RESEARCHER/INTERN

• Prepared and published several articles in various IEEE publications over a three-year period.

• Developed an exploration framework for networks-on-chips which involved integration of a multiprocessor

instruction level simulator and cycle-level network simulator.

• Designed and developed a novel low power instruction cache architecture for embedded processors.

• Created an instruction-level power estimation framework for micro-processors.

• Contributed to the creation of a Verilog simulation framework for MicroSparcIIep from Sun Microsystems using

ModelSim, and development of a power model using PowerTheater from Sequence Design Inc.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

MS, Computer Science & Engineering – UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

BTech, Electronics & Communication Engineering – INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Fluent in English, Telugu, & Hindi

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C, assembly. Knowledgeable in Java, C++, VB, VC++, .NET.

Scripting Languages: Tcl/Tk, Perl, DOS, UNIX Shell Scripting, XML

Hardware Languages: VHDL, Verilog, SystemC

Debuggers: Using JTAG with Trace32 (Lauterbach), Codewarrior

CAD Tools: ModelSim, Synopsys design compiler, LeonardoSpectrum, Power Theater

Version Control: SourceSafe, Clearcase, Perforce, Git

Other: Crystal Reports, MS Access, Matlab

PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

Dynamically moving multi technology updateable zones, R. Adat Rao, P. Kalla. USPTO App. #: 200********

P. Kalla, X. Sharon Hu, J. Henkel, “Distance-based Recent Use (DRU): An Enhancement to Instruction Cache

Replacement Policies for Transition Energy Reduction”, TVLSI 06

P. Kalla, X. Sharon Hu, J. Henkel, “A Flexible Framework for Communication Evaluation in SoC Design,” ASPDAC,

2005

P. Kalla, X. Sharon Hu, J. Henkel, ``LRU-SEQ: A Novel Replacement Policy for Transition Energy Reduction in

Instruction Caches'', ICCAD, 2003

P. Kalla, J. Henkel and X. Sharon Hu, ``SEA: Fast Power Estimation for Micro-Architectures'', ASPDAC, 2003

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