Project Manager Senior System

Pushpinder Sawanni

Santa Clara, CA *****

********@*****.***

TEL: 408-***-****©

U.S citizen

PROFILE

Seasoned Professional with over 25 years of experience in development of Cellular, Wireless, POS Terminals, Tele-presence, Physical Security(IOT), Home connectivity IOT products with strong expertise in Engineering /Program Management, Manufacturing, and HW Validation. Hands on experience in leading –edge technologies with the ability to identify complex issues, develop solutions and build consensus to ensure success.

Possess strong leadership and organized skills with a focus on creating strategic alliances between cross functional engineering groups, ODM and marketing teams to bring cutting edge, high quality technology products to the market with a budget, and committed schedules.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Complete Product development of leading edge Technologies.

Extensive experience with Asian ODM/JDM/OEM, Mass production (Flextronics, Foxcon, Goertek, Inventec, IEC, WNC, Skylight, Vivotek….) Product Reliability Testing and Quality standards.

Experience with World Wide Regulatory and Compliance standards.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Happiest baby INC. (Aug. 2018- Present)

Position: Program Director, NPI products

Responsible for Design, Validation of the next generation product. Also responsible for Manufacturing, Worldwide Compliance, HW/SW QA.

SNOO, World's Safest Infant Bed, Announces SIDS Prevention Breakthrough

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snoo-worlds-safest-infant-bed-130000197.html

August Home. (A subsidiary of Assa Abloy) (Oct 2014-July 2018)

Position: Director, HW Program (All August Home Products)

August is reinventing the way we experience technology in the home. The August Smart Lock is a safe, simple, and more social way for managing home access.

Responsible for developing and manufacturing 4 generations of Lock.

Responsible for developing the 3 generations of August Smart Door Bell and the August Key Pad- all solutions to smart connectivity.

Working with all ODMs on site for extended Periods helping them in various stages of development, manufacturing and testing.

Responsible for writing detailed manufacturing test plans, reliability test plans, all worldwide certifications, and compliance testing and approvals.

Cisco Systems Inc. (July2010-Sept. 2014)

Position: Manager- Engineering (Manufacturing and design validation)

Member of IOT Application Business Unit. Managed Cisco’s Connected Safety and Security video endpoint product family of cameras, encoders. Development of over 16 cameras in 2 years with ODM as per customer requirement.

Responsible for the HW Program for Consumer Tele-presence Products and Managing the ODM in Taiwan and Shanghai on site for extended periods during Development and Manufacturing stages of the project.

Responsible for HW validation/Testing, HQA and Manufacturing.

Responsible for all worldwide Regulatory and Compliance approvals for the Cisco Consumer Tele-presence products (Korea, US, Mexico, Europe, China, Canada, Singapore...).

Barnes & Noble (April 2009-July2010)

Position: Manager -Compliance, Device Test, HW validation and Manufacturing

Responsible for writing Comprehensive Reliability Test Plan for e-Readers for all products based on 3G and WiFi technologies and Managing

e-Readers HW validation/Testing, Reliability Testing and Manufacturing with an Asian ODM (Foxconn and IEC)

Responsible for all Regulatory and Compliance approvals namely UL, CE, IEEE1625, FCC including SAR, IC, PTCRB and AT&T certification.

Managing Sustaining Engineering efforts for Barnes and Noble e-Reader product portfolio.

IXI Mobile Inc. (August 2006-March 2009)

Position: Senior Project/ Product Development Manager

Responsible for Managing, working on-site with the Asian subcontractor R&D, Manufacturing and DQE for the IXI product portfolio.

Responsible for defining Product Spec. and Complete HW Product development, Manufacturing and Certifications of CDMA 2000EVDO clam shell Cell phone.

Responsible for Complete HW Product development, Manufacturing and Certifications for CDMA(CTIA) and GSM/GPRS phone for Vodafone.

Worked closely with Carriers, namely Verizon, Cricket and Vodafone to meet their technical and field requirements.

Verifone Inc (January 2004-August 2006)

Position: Project Manager (Wireless POS Products)

Recruited and led a team of talented engineers including, EE, Mechanical and Product Test.

Working with ODM subcontractor in Asia for all phases of development, Reliability testing and Manufacturing and managing all phases of HW development for schedule and cost.

Responsible for technology selection, integration as well as all Regulatory and Compliance standards.

Supporting all aspects of Product acceptance, carrier testing, and addressing and managing all resulting technical issues internally and with ODM subcontractor.

Micro linear (March2002- Nov.2003)

Position: Senior Manager, Applications/Technical Marketing

Responsible for product definition, Strategic Marketing alliances, and defining customers for 802.11 (a) technology.

Responsible for complete solutions (HW&SW) to the second and third tier customers for the ISM band chipsets for data and voice applications mainly DCT, Game controllers, Wireless headsets.

Strategic marketing support and technical complete solution strategy to the company. Helping sales team to find the right market and customers.

Cygnus Therapeutics Systems(Feb. 2001- Mar. 2002)

Position: Director, Wireless Systems

Responsible for Wireless solution to non-invasive method for measuring Glucose level.

TALITY DESIGN SERVICES, San Jose, California (1998-Dec.2000)

Position: Project /Program Manager (Wireless and Multimedia Division)

Responsible for feasibility and technical validation of customer ideas.

Identifying customers, Managing projects, and Implementing them under budget and on schedule.

Responsibilities included product development, HW validation and certifications.

Projects included GPS receiver for network assisted technology, integration of cellular and paging technologies with PDA, GPS and Medical devices.

NORTH AMERICA PHILIPS ELECTRONICS

Position: Manager, Lucent/PCC, Fremont, California (1994-1998)

Recruited and led a team of talented 12 engineers (HW, ME and Test) in France and U.S to work on developing the first generation TDMA cellular phone based on IS-136 protocol.

Responsible for manufacturing and Testing of the product in LeMan, France.

Initiated budget plans, create road maps, met international customers and defined specification for the product.

Work with the other engineering teams and outside subcontractors to define the architectures, Product specification and also the semiconductor groups to define the next generation chipsets for the dual mode triple band technologies.

Also worked as Project Leader and RF designer for the initial design of an AMPS/CDPD module for Bell South for their Telemetry applications

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR, Santa Clara, California (1992-1994)

Position: Senior Staff Engineer

Designed a RF module to provide a point to point wireless data link solution for PCs based on FSK modulation..

Set up manufacturing and test development in Hong Kong to offset the development cost for the RF module

Responsible for defining the architecture and characterization of components for the WLAN 1 Mbps PCMCIA card.

Performed strategic planning and business development planning of wireless local area networking products.

NORTEL NETWORKS/ NOVATEL COMMUNICATION, Canada (1987-1992)

Position: Project Leader/ Senior System Designer

Designed the frequency synthesizer receiver module for EAMPS and ETACS.

Defined the architecture and evaluated the concept of single IF digital receiver for TDMA Base Station transceiver.

Coordinated and worked with all other engineering departments and in the manufacturing plant to solve the design and engineering related problems at module and product level in order to meet and exceed all engineering, quality and cost reduction plans.

Help set up dedicated Manufacturing lines for the production and automated testing of Base Station Transceivers.

Responsible for driving all Regulatory and Compliance requirement approvals for the Base Station for AMPS and ETACS for the RF frame and the CE frame.

EDUCATION

1986 M.SC /Postgraduate Diploma in Microwave &RF Engineering

Portsmouth University, England

1984 Degree with Honors in Electronic Engineering

The City University, London, England

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