PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Currently Pursuing Master in Project Management (March 2016-Till Date)

7.5 years of experience in Hardware Board Design and a Project Management professional.

Extensive working experience in Healthcare (ECG and Allura FC Design), Industrial Automation and consumer electronics (Tablet Reference Board ) domain.

In-depth knowledge of phases of Hardware Development Life Cycle (HDLC) including business requirement gathering, system development, testing, implementation and post implementation support.

Worked on Numerous Value engineering projects to reduce the cost and worked from concept to manufacturing deployment.

Highly experienced in collaboration with cross teams such as mechanical, CAD, Firmware and software development teams

Proficient in Microsoft MS Project, MS Visio

Excellent execution and documentation skills. Good experience in responding to RFI/RFP and identifying risks for the program execution

Coordinate between development team and the testing team to resolve any conflicts/defects in meeting the customer’s requirement.

Created Hardware Requirement document and Hardware Design Test Plan and executing Test Cases

Trained Six Sigma green belt with extensive knowledge of FMEA and Pugh Matrix.

Motivate team player with excellent business, analytical, communication, presentation, and management, technical and written skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies

Waterfall and Agile

Tools

Six Sigma : FMEA, Pugh Matrix

Project Management

MS Project, MS Visio

Hardware

DDR 3 memory, LCD interface, ARM 7 microcontroller, power supply

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Infosys Technologies Aug 2013 – Dec2014

Client: Boston Scientific

Role: Hardware Lead/PM

Project: ECG Board Development

Projects Description: Development of full ECG product, starting from the requirement phase till the manufacturing roll out.

Sr. Hardware Lead/Tech PM

Co-ordinated and Managed the entire Hardware Design Team and supported on hardware design concepts, analog, digital design and functional issues.

Lead the project from concept to manufacturing deployment which involved interaction with customers and documented the Hardware Requirement Specifications till the manufacturing roll out.

Have coordinated and interacted with external vendors for PCB & Proto Development to get the best price quote with minimum lag time

Have coordinated and interacted with manufacturing vendor in China, component suppliers across globe for pricing and reliability data

Prepared project plans with detailed WBS to track program dependencies, critical path and delivered multiple projects on time and budget with quality.

Have coordinated the project review meetings/quality discussions. Conducted weekly meetings to track project risks, issues and dependencies across teams. Provided alternate options to mitigate risks.

Tools and Technologies used: MS Project, Orcad for Schematic development, FMEA

Infosys Technologies Jan 2012 – July 2013

Client: Intel

Role: Hardware Test Lead/PM

Project: Intel Tablet Development

Projects: Providing the test support to the Intel Development team

Test Lead /Test Project Manager

Managed the test team of Infosys with additional technical responsibility of Test Support for LCD Interface, USB interface and Bluetooth interfaces.

Managed multiple team which comprised of mechanical, hardware, firmware and software team.

Managed Project Planning, Schedule/Effort Tracking, Delivery Management, Quality and Risk management.

Played major role in board bring up testing, signal validation and bringing up the functionality and validation on all IO port pins.

Managed the component procurement and interacted with different vendors to get the minimum price of component and minimum lag time.

Prepared the Test cases and test environment to validate some functionality.

Simultaneously worked on RFP for value engineering for other Intel products

Tools and Technologies used: MS Project 2013, Cadence (tool for PCB Development), FMEA

Philips Healthcare May 2010 – April 2011

Role: Hardware Test Lead/PM

Project: Allura FC

Projects: It is a low end Cathlab used for doing Angiography in hospitals.

Sr. Hardware Lead/Tech PM

Managed testing for entire product right from project definition, planning, execution, risk management, risk mitigation, issues, work estimates, task breakdown, scheduling and resource allocation monitoring and controlling.

Interacted with the customers (which were well known doctors) to understand the requirement and the issues they are facing in the existing product.

Documenting the customer requirement and discuss with the development team for its feasibility and the impact of it.

Applied project management knowledge and expertise to project performance and risk

Tools and Technologies used: MS Project, FMEA, Visio.

Honeywell Automation India Limited July 2006 – April 2010

Role: Hardware Design Engineer

Project: Link Controller

Project Description: Link Controller Is a Gas and Fire Detection system involving the ARM 7 series microcontroller with redundant architecture & SIL certification

Hardware Design Engineer

Analyzed and translated Customer requirements to Hardware technical requirements.

Designed and Interfaced the High speed DDR2 memory with controllers on the board.

Prepared the initial draft of UI parameters after taking the customers input and supported the UI Look and feel development

Design (hardware) of the modules involved in project communicating on protocols like I2C, SPI, and RS232.

Design (hardware) of the modules involving ADC, DAC and Power supply design using regulators.

Component selection of parts like cables, Connectors, LCD panels, microcontroller.

Prepared the schematic, BOM development and PCB layout using OrCAD and Mentor Graphics

Prepared the design, requirement and test documents for various modules involved in the project.

Tools and Technologies used: Mentor Graphics, FMEA, Pugh Matrix

Honeywell Automation India Limited July 2006 – April 2010

Role: Hardware Design Engineer

Project: T775 Temperature controller

Project Description: T775, remote sensing controllers. This newly designed controller has fourteen variants. It has been completed successfully by applying Six Sigma Methods like T-Map, QFD, Pugh Matrix and FMEA

Did all hardware and firmware test independently.

Supported the hardware design for various modules and prepared the BOM.

Prepared the hardware and firmware test plan and managed the entire testing.

Implemented Six Sigma methodologies in this project for which I was certified as a Green Belt professional.

Completed the EMI and EMC testing

Awarded with Best project award among the top 10 projects of Honeywell.

Special appreciation award from the customer for delivering the design data before time...

Tools and Technologies used: Mentor Graphics, FMEA, Pugh Matrix.

Academic Qualifications:

Master’s in Project Management, Harrisburg University, Pennsylvania, USA (March 2016-Till Date)

Executive MBA in HR and Marketing from IIT PAWAI, Mumbai, India

Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication, Cummins College, Pune,India

Certifications:

Six Sigma Green Belt.

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