Gurbrinder Grewal

Milpitas, California, United States

adi69a@r.postjobfree.com 408-***-****

linkedin.com/in/gurbrinder

Summary

Leading a team of system test leads for Apple Mac products from concept review through ramp, and serve as technical lead for factory resolving complex issues during bring-up and NPI process. I have 6 years of consumer electronics manufacturing test and 7 years of firmware development experience. I bring a proven track record of leading mission critical initiatives with end to end ownership, strong analytical and technical competence and the ability to successfully collaborate across teams.

Experience

Engineering Manager - System Design

Apple

Jun 2015 - Present (5 years 8 months +)

1. Leading a team of system test design leads (Macs and Displays), managing large scope consumer electronics projects from initial builds through ramp, and serve as technical program managers resolving complex issues during bring-up and life of the project. 2. Engage hardware test engineers, and drive to milestones and deadlines, the timely development and implementation of comprehensive test plans, test procedures and reports to meet set schedules. 3. Engage with software teams to stabilize the SW test bundles and effectively deploy software in the factory.

4. Use technical expertise to define test coverage across SMT and FATP, and collaborate with EE, SW, and PD teams to reduce test times and increase yields by implementing corrective actions 5. Work closely with CMs in Asia and implement process control in the factory without compromising the integrity of the tests or quality of the products

6. Participate in product roadmap planning discussions with senior executives to assess risks related to technology and schedule. Also involved in budget forecast with focus on reducing overall NPI cost of the program.

7. Responsible for timely updates to management, the current status and health of the project and make proposals where necessary to alleviate risks.

Staff Applications/Firmware engineer

Atmel Corporation

Sep 2011 - Jun 2015 (3 years 10 months)

• Participating in new product definition, spec reviews and managing local NPI applications team to support new microcontroller products

• Writing optimized embedded firmware, libraries and drivers for AVR, AVR32 and ARM based MCUs

(Cortex M0+, M3 and M4)

• Responsible for board bring up, hardware debugging, schematic review

• Completed multiple firmware reference designs written in both C and/or assembly to generate lowest power and low footprint firmware.

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• Extensive work on Sensors, UART, RS232, SPI, NAND flash, I2C communication interfaces (drivers), smart meters (board bring up/drivers), battery management system, MR16 LED drivers and boot loaders.

• Working knowledge of RTOS (FreeRTOS) and digital circuits.

• Proficient is debugging hardware and software using debuggers and equipment like oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers etc.

Firmware Engineer

Anritsu

Sep 2008 - Sep 2011 (3 years 1 month)

Job description includes:

Responsibility of entire USB/RS232/Ethernet Microwave/RF power sensor product family. Development of embedded software for the sensors as well as the windows based GUI applications to communicate with the sensors.

Development of power measurement algorithms, calculations, memory maps in both OS and non OS based embedded systems.

Application of programming skills in C (embedded), C #(GUI) and VB (GUI). Programming, customer interaction, documentation, application development, preparation of programming manuals and test procedures.

Development of new products based on USB, RS232, SPI and Ethernet with ARM and PIC platforms Testing of RF test and measurement instruments using lab equipment and firmware software debugging using tools like JTAG

Software Engineer

Siemens Technology India

Jul 2005 - Aug 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Worked as a firmware engineer in the Embedded/ wireless department as a developer (C language) and hardware debugger.

Primary responsibilities included developing applications for SIEMENS smart phones, testing and debugging.

Worked on two major mobile phone projects, based on GBS RTOS (SIEMENS proprietary RTOS) platform and C language.

Education

San Jose State University

MSEE, VLSI

2006 - 2008

Punjab Engineering College

BE, Electrical Engineering

2001 - 2005

Skills

Test Design • Computer Architecture • Debugging • Testing • ARM • Microcontrollers • Sensors • Software Development • Peripherals • Digital Designs Gurbrinder Grewal - page 2

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