Date: Jan ** ****

From C J Anand

**** ********* **.,

Fremont, Ca 94539

To: HR / Engineering Heads

Velodyne Lidar

San Jose, CA

Sir/Madam,

Reg: Application for Staff Electrical Engineer position

I am very interested in acquiring the vocational position indicated above as advertised recently by your firm. In short, I have worked in related industry, have a wide range of experiences that gives me familiarity in applying technologies of different disciplines that are so important for bringing out sophisticated products in today’s marketplace. Additionally, the following are some of the skill sets I bring that are a good mix for the kind of products Velodyne makes:

Electrical, electronics, FPGA design from circuit principles and confirmation through simulation

Good at Solidworks for optical and electronic enclosures (automotive camera to be specific)

EMC and other certification process knowledge

Hands on board bring up and prototype qualification through BASH, Python scripting and C coding.

Good at BLDC motor, encoder, high current short pulse, power supply design principles & thermal considerations

Good communicator, even better listener and a great team player.

Have a wide spectrum of engineering knowledge and trends The rest of this application has

One page of highlights pertinent to your job specifications

The remaining 5 pages list in detail some career highlights for further assessment of my suitability for the tasks at hand.

I look forward to an early communication on the next steps, and as mentioned before, I am extremely interested in this position and am certain my services will exceed all expectations of all concerned. Thanking you, I remain,

Sincerely yours,

C J Anand

Responses pertinent to your Specific Job Description Architecture, circuit design, part selection, simulation and schematic capture for LiDAR sensors – extensive experience Hands-on layout and/or supervision of PCB designer for rigid and flexible circuit designs – designed more than 20 boards for automotive, video, in-vehicle networking and precision sensors for IIoT’s Active collaboration with FW team for board bring up – hands on experience bringing up boards with system qualifying BASH, Python scripting and C code.

Manage EE development schedule from EVT -> PVT – have good scheduling skills as individual and for a collective multi-disciplinary team

Generate designs robust in presence of ESD, EMI and challenging thermal environments – personally involved with certifying about 4 products for EMC / ESD etc.

Author clear design documentation and test procedures – extremely good at technical and training documentation Actively participate in design qualification with reliability and validation team – good team player Design for functional safety – good at following standards required by automotive and power electronics Minimum Education, Experience And Knowledge Requirements BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering – Master’s in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on instrumentation

Requires minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 6 years and a Master's degree or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience – a total of more than 30 years industrial, hands-on prototyping and project management experience

5+ years hands-on development of embedded systems including FPGA/SoC, DRAM, Flash, PMICs, high voltages, motor control and high-speed serial interfaces – extensive experience on these areas Substantial experience with mixed-signal circuit design utilizing discrete components and simulation – LT-Spice, QUCS, Verilog / VHDL experience

Experience with OrCAD schematic capture and Allegro PCB layout – Extremely good at OrCAD, some experience with Allegro – need to see what the latest tool facilities are – principles of design remain the same more or less. Experience carrying high volume consumer electronic designs from concept through mass production – Worked with CM’s and ODM’s. Brought two products to full scale manufacture in China. Ability to thrive within compressed development schedules prioritizing time to market and development of multiple SKUs in parallel – have the ability to effectively move between projects within a day when needed Experience bringing designs with challenging SI, PI, EMI and thermal constraints to market – Usually use vendors to make this kind of study with very stringent reviews from myself Excellent problem-solving skills – very good at math, good at learning and using new debugging tools, adept at using several sophisticated test equipment for electronics, optical and EMC Preferred Skills And Experience

Experience with Verilog design and simulation - yes Familiarity with optics technology – some knowledge, will catch up Experience operating within Agile and Waterfall development methodologies – little experience Experience with DFMEA and FMEDA and functional safety design processes - yes Date: Dec 19 2022

Informal resume - my reference of skill sets that I have accrued over my career: Name Cheyyur Jaya Anand

Pursuit preferences

1 Engineering product manager demanding use of technologies from firmware, software, hardware (electrical, mechanical, optical devices and sensors) with an emphasis on delivering scalable cloud and AI/ML based IIoT's

2 Project manager developing state of art products with multidisciplinary engineering demands to deliver high value or heavy engineering equipment

3 Team lead for development of precision instrumentation with a path to make them IIoT's. Present residence 2355 Carpenter Ct., Fremont, CA 94539 Contact email aduehy@r.postjobfree.com

Contact detail phone +1-510-***-****

Work permits

Citizen of USA

Citizen of Australia (which I believe permits me to work in several Commonwealth nations) Overseas Citizen of India

Preferred location of work

Can relocate to any locations in the above three regions Preferable - closer to home - the US / CA

Educational qualifications

Bachelor's (baccalaureate) in Electronic Engineering - 5 years Masters (Graduate degree) in Electrical sciences (Instrumentation) - 2 years Other qualifications

Certificate for teaching engineering trades

Other paid training pertinent to job requirements - notable among them - Solidworks Expert level skill sets

Product - function conceptualization

Study top level design and alignment to standards

Managing several disciplines with hands on involvement in h/w, f/w, mechanical Global Vendor and development team / project management Debugging and board bring up with development of scripts, C, Python Working with third party certifying labs and acquiring them Documentation for all levels of product development and user manuals Training personnel for design, version control, field installation of products and associated team- work

OS, programming languages and CAD tools proficiency Windows, Ubuntu, Visual C, Atmel IDE, MPLAB XIDE, GNU BASH and Python scripting

Cadence Orcad, Altium

Solidworks

Modelsim (VHDL simulations)

Vivado (VHDL, Verilog)

Test equipment proficiency

Scopes, logic analyzers, Serial data analyzers, JTAG debuggers MIPI / Ethernet analyzers

Video analyzers

EMC / EMI spectrum analyzers

Hi voltage test and calibration equipment

Overview career experience - total of 35+ years, (overlapping periods given below rounded off) Lidar product development 6 months Jun 2022 Dec 2022 Engineering design - IIoT - power and energy management 1 year 2021 2022 Jun Technical sales 1 year 2019 2021

Engineering design - automotive electronics 22 years 1996 2019 Engineering design - heavy equipment 4 years 1992 1996 Freelance consultant and part time teaching 2 years 1990 1992

- concurrent to the duration above

Engineering consulting 3 years 1988 1990

Engineering technical sales 7 years 1979 1988

- concurrent to the duration mentioned below

Power industry 9 years 1979 1988

Details of vocational experience

2022 Jun to Dec 2022: Quanergy Inc, Sunnyvale, CA

H/W, FPGA F/w lead

Main operations: Brought up a lidar product from first prototypes to pilot production. Operations included: FPGA – Xilinx Vivado, Verilog Full h/w design review leading to next revision

Confirmation of BLDC drive operations

Power supply and high current narrow pulse laser diode drivers Collaboration with all stake holders to bring out a point cloud. 2021 to May 2022: Tantiv4 Inc, Milpitas, CA, U SA Product designer and team lead

Full engineering operations - development of IIoT - for Energy and Power Usage Monitoring Engineering operations include

Concept, specifications, standards alignment, calibration and certification Full schematic development using Cadence tools

Vendor management for PCB, BOM buyer operations layout and assembly Lead an engineering team for board bring up, EMC/EMI certification and calibration for industrial requirements

Lead a software team for firmware development -

Main device - WROOM32 from Espressif, FreeRTOS, Espressif tool chain Secondary device - STM32 for expanded sensor connectivity - accelerometers, RS422 / 485, I2C and temperature sensors

Support for team involved with Cloud dash board development using Cloud services from AWS

React for Backend

Ingres and Mongo for databases

"Support AI/ML team with domain specific knowledge: Developed Python based simulation data for power parameters and harmonics based on equipment electrical conditions"

Presently moving into phone app development

Field operations: Installation of IIoT devices in several industries with a variety of operations Managing teams between the US and India

2019 - 2020 CTO Zettaone Technologies Inc, Fremont CA, USA (Branch office of Zettaone Technologies Pvt Ltd, India

Fully developed and completed an IoT product for hospitality industry Based on Zwave module

Firmware developed using Silicon Labs tools on Ubuntu OS machines Rev 1.0 was a daughter board on a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC Rev 2.0 was based on Compute module - hardware was made specific to the use of Zwave module and Broadcom's Raspberry Pi Compute module - Rev 4 Technical lead and project manager for h/w and f/w teams based in India Developed WHART based flow meter for industrial applications - Device used was an Atmel processor

Finished product was Steam Trap delivering alerts and reducing maintenance" Managed teams in India for hardware and for firmware from Canada Managed certification of the product through HART consortium - 'Fieldcomm' in Austin Texas

1996 - 2019 VP - Hardware

Excelfore Inc, Fremont, CA USA

Margi Systems Inc

In charge of full hardware development and scripting for board bring up etc. List of key products developed

TI Jacinto based, PCIe - HDBaseT bridge for in-vehicle networking STMicroelectronics Camera chip set - automotive camera - full h/w development including, mechanical enclosure design, optical alignment, fish/defish testing - CSI2 and MIPI based interfaces.

Other chips used were Broadcom's 100BaseT1 (BroadR-Reach) and PoE based Ethernet connectivity.

Microchip based media convertor from 100BaseT1 to PoE based Ethernet STMicroelectronics based automotive radio with GPS STMicroelectronics based GPS module with firmware and scripting for production tests Automotive head-unit testing fixtures

96Boards standards-based SBC development using STMicroelectronics DSP and its firmware development

Several other legacy based products - PCMCIA card, SDIO cards etc. Actel FPGA - schematic based designs

Xilinx - Modelsim - VHDL based designs for FPGAs, PowerPC (Virtex) and Microblaze Soft processor based devices. C Code developed for board bring up and basic interfaces. Was part of a team for MPEG decoder development

VHDL based code development for CPLD devices

1992-1996 Instrumentation and electronic controls Engineering Manager Favelle Favco, Sydney, Australia

Interfaces PLCs with engine / motor based industrial cranes Engineering design included controls, safety mechanisms and related instrumentation for industrial cranes, mobile cranes, shipping cranes and cranes for oil rigs etc.

Was also a part-time teacher in Technical and Further Education (TAFE) - a government run institution delivering competency-based education for several trades.

1988-1990 Engineering consultant for machine selection, production capacity, line balancing, time and motion study for labor requirement

Worked with Industrial and Business Consultants (IBCON) an European firm with a branch in India.

Projects worked with involve the following:

Study of capacity and process requirements of oil-fired tunnel kilns; feasibility studies eventually enabled investment for replacement with gas fired kilns (about US$4M) Market study for stainless steel rerolling equipment leading to investment in a Sendzimer mill

(costing about US$20M)

Machine tool selection, line balancing and methods improvement for a refrigerator and HVAC compressor manufacturing plant. Proposal to invest in 24-hour unmanned machining centers was delivered.

Time and motion study in a sugar mill and associated confectionary process plant

1979 - 1988 Head – India operations:

Mostly involved with heavy electrical and process control centers. Detailed design of power and motor control centers Detailed design of process controls using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) Value addition to these systems with inclusion of instrumentation designed using quadrature encoders, stepper motors and electronically compensated precision CTs. The control centers designed were installed and commissioned in several areas - some prominent ones are listed below

Thermal and atomic power plants

Container handling in port trusts

Building management with integration of PLCs and computer systems as "distributed BM" units Electrophoretic paint plant in an auto industry

Engine and transmission test rigs

Test rigs for high power potentiometer testing unit Several others

Vendor management

Worked with CMs, ODMs in China and India

Worked with CAD vendors through Upwork

Worked with US vendors for CAD, PCB fabrication, EMS assembly operations and ASIC development operations (LSI Logic)

Communication skills Excellent spoken and written English Focused on solving problems, facilitating management of multi-cultural teams even if language, cultural barriers, and remote locations make progress difficult Authored full documentation for most h/w developed with my teams Developed user manual for s/w APIs developed for the automotive camera Developed wireframes for web/GUI based Dashboard for power and energy management Fully engineered demonstrations units for in-vehicle networking products for three CES sessions in Las Vegas.

References available on request

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