Management Project

RAVINDRA GARG [PMP, CSM, CSPO]

Project and Program Management

Email: ****.********@*****.***

Mobile: +91-988*******

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Ravindra is PMP certified dynamic, result-oriented, and workaholic professional. He is seeking position as Sr.Project,

/Program Manager or equally challenging role, where over 10.4 years of experience in technical project/program management, in developing and delivering complex systems would help. He holds Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science. He would like to apply his knowledge gained, while working across multiple domains in both Product based and Service oriented organizations across the globe. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification from Project Management Institute – PMI, USA.

• Certified Scrum Master® (CSM) Certification from Scrum Alliance.

• Certified Scrum Product® Owner (CSPO) Certification from Scrum Alliance.

• Green Belt Certified in SIX-SIGMA.

• German A2 Level language proficiency Certified.

• DO-178B Certification from Honeywell.

• Exposure to CMMI, ASPICE and GENIVI alliance

• MS Project 2007 and 2010 Trained professional

• Trained in CAR, DAR, FMEA and 8D quality tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

Proven track record of global Program and Project management in highly-complex, technically-challenging Projects.

• International / Onsite Experience in USA and Hildesheim, Germany in Automotive and Embedded domains

• Experience in Automotive Domain(In-Vehicle Infotainment, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance), HMI, Connectivity, Telematics, Instrument Cluster, Vehicle Networking and Cloud Solutions

• Experience of leading & managing Global, geographically distributed Software/Product teams and supplier management across U.S, Germany, Japan & China on various software projects.

• Exceptional hands-on techno-management skills combined with ability to see holistic picture with architecture, Prototyping, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, outsourcing and support.

• Experience in third Party and Contract management

• Cross Collaboration and coordination between Development, Testing, Integration and Quality teams across various departments

• Responsible for RFI, RFQ and Statement of work (SOW) Preparation for the supplier. Solid understanding of product and software development life cycle processes (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, TDD etc.).

• Skilled in handling multiple tasks and projects simultaneously across the geographies and have a solid understanding of product life cycle processes.

• Strong estimation skills – Function Points, Story Points and Adjusted Testable Requirement

• Management of Fixed-priced and Time &Money projects.

• Schedule Management using Critical Path Method (CPM) and PERT techniques

• Excellent communication ( written and verbal) and stakeholder management and change management Experience in Business Development, Pre-Sales, End-to-End Release/Delivery Management, Escalation, Budget, Quality and Risk Management.

• Exposure to SEI CMMI Level 5 and Automotive SPICE principles, practices, and procedures. WORK EXPERIENCE

• Currently working as Sr. Project / Program Manager in ROBERT BOSCH ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS SOLUTIONS in Car Multimedia and Automotive Infotainment and Navigations Systems, developing the latest Next Gen 3D NDS based maps and Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) systems. Handling 4 globally distributed teams with total headcount of 28 members.

• Previously worked as Program Manager in HEWLETT PACKARD R&D, Bangalore, in the LaserJet Enterprise Solutions (LES) Program of Imaging and Printing Group (IPG – R&D) Research and Development.

• Previously worked as Technical Lead in the Universal Printer Driver (UPD) Team and Oz Firmware Team, in Imaging and Printing Group, Research and Development (IPG-R&D), Hewlett Packard R&D

• Previously employed as a Senior Systems/Software Engineer in HONEYWELL, Bangalore since April 2007 till Jul 2010 in Embedded Systems – (NG-FMS) Next-Gen Flight Management Boeing 747-8 and Gulfstream G650 aircrafts and FMS of Airbus A380 and A350

• Worked in organizations:

HCL Technologies ltd., Bangalore as Member of Technical Staff, in embedded systems and Application programming from March 2006 to April 2007.

First American Corporation, Bangalore as Software Engineer in Banking, Financial Services software from Jun 2005 to Mar 2006.

DOMAINS WORKED

Automotive: A-IVI Systems, Navigation Maps, ADAS (Lane Departure Warning and Lane Guidance System), HMI, Car multimedia and Infotainment Systems, Telematics, IoT (Connected cars) Avionics : Next Gen Flight Management System (Boeing 747-8, Gulfstream G650) and FMS-IO (A380 and B787) Printer : Printer Firmware and Universal Printer Drivers, E-Print TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management tools : MS Project, Advanced Excel, XPlanner, JIRA, SharePoint, Visio, Outlook, Access, Webster, Sharepont, Quality Center, WebEx, VersionOne

• Languages : C, C++, Ada, JAVA, Perl

• Operating Systems : LynxOS, UNIX, LINUX DEOS, VxWorks RTOS, Win-CE, Windows, Nucleus

• Targets : Windriver SBC, Boeing Laboratory Targets, ARM, iMX6 Solo and Dual Cores

• Databases : SQL, DBMS

• Version Managers : IBM ClearCase, GIT, CVS, PVCS (Dimensions), SVN and ACM

• Requirement Management tools : IBM Clearquest, DOORS, Teamcenter (TcSE).

• Web Technologies : HTML, JSP, Servlets, XML, Perl Scripting

• Tools : Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, GPS, CANalyzer, CANOE, Wireshark, Jenkins

• Graphics APIs : OpenSceneGraph and OpenGL

• Testing Tools : VectorCast, RTRT.

• Communication Protocols : CAN Bus, MOST, Flexray, ARINC-429, AFDX, MIL-STD- 1553, EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Computer Science from VTU with 76%, passed out in July 2005. (Among the TOPPERs in Computer Science Department)

PROJECTS WORKED IN ROBERT BOSCH ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS SOLUTIONS: Department : Car Multimedia, Navigation and Infotainment Systems Project #1 : Next Gen NDS based 3D Maps

Location : Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim, Hildesheim Germany & Bangalore Désignation : Sr. Project Manager and Program Manager Domain : Automotive Embedded software and Product development. Technologies : Advanced C++, Design Patterns, OpenSceneGraph(OSG), QT, UML Team Size : 25 (No of projects supported: 5)

Customers : Nissan, General Motors(MY14, 15,16,17), Suzuki, Ford, Audi and JAC. Project Description:

Next Gen NDS based 3D Maps project deals with developing the Map renderer, which is based on sophisticated OpenScene Graph framework. The project caters to multiple customers and involves porting on multiple platforms across iOS, Android and Linux platforms. The Navigation Data Standard (NDS) is a physical storage format for readily compiled navigation maps is being used aiming at interoperability between navigation platforms. My Responsibilities:

Manage Project roadmaps, dashboards, quality metrics, process layouts, and product release plans for cross functional engineering engagements dispersed geographically across Germany, USA, Japan and China.

• Manage all phases of project to success, including initiation, planning, definition, design, development, testing and deployment cycles for all the service releases & hot fixes

• Technical Project Management - Participate in Architectural decisioning, feature planning and estimation. Cross functional scheduling, planning, coordination, communication, risk management, delivery tracking, and overall driving of all milestones across development, testing and system integration teams

• Involve in Contract negotiation with Supplier.

• Ensure understanding and mitigation of risks to project timing, product cost, quality and reliability.

• People Management – Resource allocation, employee development and task estimation and assignment using Critical Path scheduling. Teams spread across India, Germany, China and Japan.

• Act as the primary interface(SPOC) between the Global Support Delivery teams and the sustaining Engineering, Product Management, Alliances for escalated issues

• Procurement Management : Invoicing, Procurement Request (PR) and Performa Invoice processing to procure software and Hardware for the project

• Identification of internal and external Stakeholders and updating the Stakeholder register.

• Identification of Scope, collection of Requirement and Clarification with Customer and internal Stakeholders.

• Review of Project Plan, System Configuration management Plan.

• Preparation and tracking of Feature List, SCD (System concept design).

• Lead the system review for the field issues with QMM, Design review with Development team and get the solution.

• Establishes the Communication plan for the project.

• Identification of Risk, Preparation and tracking of Risk management Plan.

• Lead weekly reviews of projects with the Customer Team, and define actions were required to meet project goals.

• Setup the Project Change Control Board for the change management and lead the Board Project handling for Different Geographical location.

• Responsible for Delivery Management for the complete program, which includes System Test, Pre-Production, Production, End Customer.

• Prepared the Basketing Strategy for the Error Ticket based on Severity, Impact and Frequency.

• Communicate directly with customers to align timing plans, share cost time and risk information, and escalate critical issues.

• Lead the various task force e.g. Navigation Performance for field issue analysis and Fix.

• Exposure to co-locate global team at RBEI for Critical Blocker resolution.

• Co-ordination with Sub Projects, status reporting from Subproject Manager and planning milestone with concern Team.

• Involved in the Quality Gates and Project Status Reporting for quality approval for the product milestones.

• Report the status of projects to the customer and internal organization, escalating issues through Launch Readiness Review.

• Drive Engineering and manufacturing activities through launch, with special focus on critical path tasks.

• Ensure communication with plants and other functions, through presentations of projects at key milestones.

• Coordinate cross functional initiatives, escalations, proactively identifying dependencies, removing roadblocks and driving issues to resolution

Project #2 : ADAS - Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Lane & Junction Guidance Location : Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany & Bangalore Désignation : Project Manager & Supplier management Domain : Automotive Embedded software and Product development. Team Size : 10

Customers : General Motors, Audi, BMW

Responsibilities:

People Management – Resource allocation, employee development and task estimation and assignment using Critical Path scheduling

Manage Project roadmaps, dashboards, quality metrics, process layouts, and product release plans for cross functional engineering engagements dispersed geographically across Germany, USA, Japan and China.

• Manage all phases of project to success, including initiation, planning, definition, design, development, testing and deployment cycles for all the service releases & hot fixes Cross functional scheduling, planning, coordination, communication, risk management, delivery tracking, and Overall driving of all milestones across development, testing and system integration teams Supplier / Outsourcing management: Responsible for outsourcing work, tracking, contract preparation and cost efficiency

• Identification of Scope, collection of Requirement and Clarification with Customer and internal Stakeholders.

• Review of Project Plan, System Configuration management Plan.

• Lead the system review for the field issues with QMM, Design review with Development team and get the solution.

• Establishes the Communication plan for the project.

• Identification of Risk, Preparation and tracking of Risk management Plan.

• Report the status of projects to the customer and internal organization, escalating issues through Launch Readiness Review.

• Organize cross-functional reviews of product designs and drawings to ensure design for manufacture, quality and reliability.

• Drive Engineering and manufacturing activities through launch, with special focus on critical path tasks. Project #3 : Connected functions (Smart Phone integration – mySPIN – iPhone and Android) Location : Robert Bosch GmbH, Hildesheim, Germany & Bangalore Désignation : Project Manager

Domain : Automotive Embedded software and Product development. Team Size : 10

Responsibilities:

People Management – Resource allocation, employee development and task estimation and assignment using Critical Path scheduling

Manage Project roadmaps, dashboards, quality metrics, process layouts, and product release plans for cross functional engineering engagements dispersed geographically across Germany, USA, Japan and China.

• Manage all phases of project to success, including initiation, planning, definition, design, development, testing and deployment cycles for all the service releases & hot fixes Cross functional scheduling, planning, coordination, communication, risk management, delivery tracking, and Overall driving of all milestones.

• Identification of Scope, collection of Requirement and Clarification with Customer and internal Stakeholders.

• Review of Project Plan, System Configuration management Plan.

• Preparation and tracking of Feature List, SCD (System concept design).

• Lead the system review for the field issues with QMM, Design review with Development team and get the solution.

• Establishes the Communication plan for the project.

• Identification of Risk, Preparation and tracking of Risk management Plan.

• Report the status of projects to the customer and internal organization, escalating issues through Launch Readiness Review.

• Organize cross-functional reviews of product designs and drawings to ensure design for manufacture, quality and reliability.

• Drive Engineering and manufacturing activities through launch, with special focus on critical path tasks. PROJECTS WORKED IN HEWLETT PACKARD (R&D):

Project #1 : LaserJet Enterprise Solutions (HP LaserJet Printers) [Boise, USA and Bangalore] Désignation : Program/Project Manager

Duration : 2.5 Years

Project Mgt Tools : MS Project 2010-13, Excel, Sharepoint, MS OneNote Responsibilities:

Manage Program roadmaps, dashboards, quality metrics, process layouts, and product release plans for cross functional engineering engagements dispersed geographically across USA, Japan and Europe (EMEA) Cross functional scheduling, planning, coordination, communication, risk management, delivery tracking, and overall driving of all milestones for Enterprise LaserJet Multifunction printer firmware releases. Manage clear and compelling product requirements for new initiatives, including business justification, technical feasibility and operational impact.

• Manage all phases of program to success, including initiation, planning, definition, design, development, testing and deployment cycles for all the service releases & hot fixes

• Coordinate cross functional initiatives, escalations, proactively identifying dependencies, removing roadblocks and driving issues to resolution

• Act as the primary interface between the Global Support Delivery teams and the sustaining Engineering, Product Management, Alliances for escalated issues.

• Striking the right balance between Business Needs, Technology and User Experience and juggle with them to get maximum profit and Return on Investment (ROI).

• Work effectively with Global technical program management organization to propose, manage and document creative solutions to improving LES Multifunction Printers and customer satisfaction. Key Accomplishments:

Successfully delivered the Firmware and Enterprise Solutions for LaserJet Multifunction printers worth over $400 Million in global market.

Refined internal release process and implemented the process improvement changes. Improved Prioritization Framework process by implementation of Tagging and new criteria’s.

• Enhanced the quality metrics and criteria, and just improving overall customer satisfaction.

• Collaborated across R&D labs within HP-IPG to bring down turn-around time of customer escalation from 100+days to 20 days.

• Lead and directed warranty initiatives to reduce warranty cost of LaserJet printers, which resulted in 2.5x reduction in warranty costs

• Single Codebase, Automation of Test infrastructure, continuous integration and streamlined process are building block of future smart model and integrating in program, helped to drive cost drivers down by 60%. Project #2 : Universal Printer Driver Team (HP LaserJet and InkJet Printers) Bangalore/Boise, USA. Designation : Project Manger and Technical Marketing Lead Dec 2010 – Jul 2011 Environment : Visual Studio .NET

Languages : C and C++, PCL5, PCL6 and PS, Java

Tools : SVN, WinDBG, WHQL Tool (Microsoft Certification Tool) Responsibilities:

Provide product management, change management, update technical product trainings, White Papers, ongoing communication with marketing, presales, SRTs, and cross functional teams. Exhibited strong leadership and technical skills to build teams and kept them focused and motivated in alignment with shifting project priorities

Mentored, motivate and supervise team members, to take accountability for their assigned work and help them move up in career path

Worked cross functionally with sales, marketing, Engineering/R&D, services teams to coordinate product rollout, Delta release, escalation management, testing, and training initiatives Lead engineering projects of Laser Jet products teams, including project status reports, managing the team and resolving day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC. Identify and communicate project scope, resources, risks, quality and ensure program milestones and objectives are met within quality, cost and schedule for the multi-function Printers. Project #3 : HP R&D, OZ-CPE Firmware (HP LaserJet Multifunction Printers) Bangalore/Boise, USA. Designation : Senior Systems Engineer Jul 2010 – Dec 2010 Environment : C and C++, Lynx, PCL5, PCL6 and PS, ECOM, Java. Tools : Clear Case, GIT, ClearQuest, VNC, FileZila Description:

Developed and revised program and system design procedures, tests procedures, and quality standards for critical business oriented features for Multi-Function and Single Function Printers Work involved analysis and debugging code to fix crashes, defects, memory leaks and hang issues by analyzing Crash dumps, stack traces, memory leak analysis and debugging. Developing new features as per customer requirement / market demand / technological updates as well as fixing defects.

Responsibilities:

• Analysing customer requirements

• Developing Low level requirements (Design Document) from the Software requirements and System Requirements.

• Developing Code (Configuration management activities: rebase, base line traceability, code delivery Process etc.)

• Debugging the code both in Windows environment as well as Target machine

• Module and system testing of the developed feature / defect fixed. PROJECTS HANDLED IN HONEYWELL

Project #1 : NG-FMS (Next generation flight management system) Bangalore/Phoenix, USA. Client : Airbus, Boeing and Gulfstream

Designation : Senior Developer

Duration : 2 years

Languages : C and C++

Operating System : Vx Works RTOS.

CM Tools : ClearCase, ClearQuest and Teamcenter (TcSE) Environment : Visual Studio .NET 2005 environment

Description : NG-FMS (Next Generation Flight Management System) of The Flight Management Systems (FMS) Center of Excellence (COE) comprises of the FMS Application and the FMS Platform product lines catering to the sectors such as Business and General Aviation with the reputed customer list including Boeing, Airbus, and Gulfstream. In FMS, HTS team is involved in the joint product engineering for the A380, B747-8, B787 Dreamliner, Gulfstream 650 aircrafts. The team's varied competencies include FMS product knowledge, embedded software, DO178B, and Project Management. The team is involved right from the prototyping phase, high level requirements, modeling in UML using IBM's RSD and development using Eclipse CDT. At HTS the 20 member team receives guidance from the Architecture team at Phoenix (USA) and at HTS.

My Role: Worked as Senior Engineer in the Sensor Proxy Management (SPM) Package which deals with Input Output Management. SPM abstracts all the sensor data and provides it to other subsystems. This handles all the variation as per different aircrafts so other higher level subsystems remain unchanged. This NG concept divides the whole system into layers based on functionalities. Each layer is then divided into subsystems and then subsystems into components. Responsibilities:

• Analyzing customer requirements

• Developing Low level requirements (Design Document) from the Software requirements and System Requirements.

• Developing Code (Configuration management activities: rebase, base line traceability, code delivery Process etc.)

• Debugging the code both in Windows environment as well as Target machine

• Unit testing and Integration testing both in Windows simulation as well as Actual Target machine in laboratory

• Review of the Artifacts and Configuration (SWRS, SWDD and Code). Project #2 : Boeing 787 Flight Management System.

Client : BOEING

Désignation : Developer

Duration : 1 year

Languages : C, C++ and ADA

CM Tools : CVS, PVCS, and ACM

Requirement Tools : DOORS and Teamcenter

Tools : GPS, VxWorks RTOS environment, Boeing Host Based Simulation System (HSS) Responsibilities:

• Developing Low level requirements (Design Document) from the Software requirements and System Requirements.

• Developing Code (Configuration management activities: rebase, base line traceability, code delivery Process etc.)

• Debugging the code

• Unit testing both in Windows simulation as well as Actual Target machine in laboratory

• Review of the Artifacts (SWRS, SWDD and Code).

Project #3 : Airbus A380 and A350 Flight Management IO System. Client : AIRBUS, France

Désignation : Senior Developer

Duration : 1.5 years

Environment : C, C++ and ADA

CM Tools : CVS, PVCS, and ACM

Tools : DOORS, ITEG IDE in Windows (Honeywell Proprietary IDE.) Host Based Simulation System (HSS) (Honeywell Proprietary Simulation tool.) Description : Airbus Flight Management System comprises of various subsystem. My team was involved specially with the Input Output Management of the aircraft signals. The IO management system abstracts other FAREAs from the underlying hardware and provides them interfaces to receive and send data to Sensors as well as other FAREAs. The team is involved right from the prototyping phase, high level requirements, modeling in UML using Rhapsody. At HTS the 16 member team receives guidance from the Architecture team at Phoenix (USA) and at HTS. My Role : Worked as Senior Engineer to design and develop FMS IO Engine using Smiths Library, VxWorks using I-DFSS (Honeywell Development Process).

Responsibilities:

• Developing Low level requirements (Design Document) from the Software requirements and System Requirements.

• Developing Code (Configuration management activities: rebase, base line traceability, code delivery Process etc.)

• Debugging the code

• Unit testing both in Windows simulation as well as Actual Target machine in laboratory

• Review of the Artifacts (SWRS, SWDD and Code).

PROJECTS HANDLED IN HCL:

Project # 1 : Boeing 787 HYDIF

Duration : 1 Year

Client : Parker Aerospace (Kalamazoo, Michigan City) Environment : Visual Studio .NET 2005, HYDIFMON, VXWORKS Tornado AE653, GNU C Compiler, DOORS. Language : C, C++

Hardware : SBC (Single Board Computers) IBM PPC 750GX processor Responsibilities:

1. Performed Design and Coding.

2. Software Development

3. Test File and Test Procedure designing

4. Execution of code on Target system.

Personal Strengths:

Analytical: Problem Solving, Project Coordination, Leadership Development, Critical Problem Analysis/Resolution, Event Planning and Management, Creative Talent, Team Building and Motivation, Decision Making, Result Oriented. Excellent Communication Skills: Excellent communicator both verbal and written. Coordination skills across cross functional teams spread across different geographies. Very good negotiation skills and good command over communication with stakeholders, Presentation Skills REWARDS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Received Recognition for filling 8 Invention Disclosures under Intellectual Property of Hewlett Packard. Awarded as an HP IPG Ambassador (member of HP elite Leadership Group). Sought and provided information to help IPG research and development group to determine its position in the marketplace with the competitors. Made recommendations on VP's Blog concerning IPG business policy, resource allocation, and strategic planning activities to improve bottom-line financial performance. Received Excellent Leadership award from Robert Bosch GmbH Senior Management for extraordinary performance.

Received 3 'PARTNER/CUSTOMER AWARD’ for excellent performance in Honeywell, Bangalore. Received 2 ‘TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD’ for outstanding team work in solving resets and problems at Honeywell.

Received 4 ‘SPOT AWARD’ for contribution in FMS COE in Honeywell. Received “BRAVO AWARD” for excellent performance in resolving SCRs in quick turnaround time. Among the first three college toppers in the Computer Science Department Proactive member of the Food Committee and caters for employees request and concerns related to food quality and vendors.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Married

Passport : L8710575

Visa : US B1 Visa Validity from Nov 2010 to Nov 2020 (10 Years Validity with Multiple Visits) Europe Schengen VISA with multiple entries

Relocation : Yes (Willing to relocate) and Travel

References

As required from Robert Bosch GmbH, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, HCL and Educational institutes.

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