Global Tech & Program Leadership Specialist

RAHUL S. KARKHANIS MS(Electrical), BE(Electronics & Telecom), Six Sigma Green Belt, Dipl (Project Mgmt) Current Address: 1 Victoria St S, Kitchener, ON N2G0B5, Canada Contact: +1-647-***-**** E-mail: *****.*********@******.***.*** Work Authorization: Canadian Citizen Website: https://www.ask-ra.com/ Profile Summary

Broad range of expertise in technical, commercial and management profiles across aerospace/defense, automotive, telecom, banking, publishing, education, training and research sectors. Background includes:

• Strategy making, Project Planning, Feasibility study, Cost analysis, Risk analysis, Scheduling, Resource management, team building

• Drive project and product development in Design-Build-Test, Integration, Operations & Maintenance, Implementation / Commissioning & Execution, Evaluation

• Systems Engineering and Project Management

• Relationship building and Management with internal and external stakeholders

• Highly engaged with customers during the sales cycle at various stages from presales, demoes, proof of concepts, deployment, closing, post sales for creating new and continued business development

• Regulatory and Compliance lead for licensing, permits and operations

• Experienced transformation through company takeovers several times to deal with unknowns, migrations and process changes along with cultural shifts

• Hold credential of assisting in proposal writing for projects such as DARPA’s UAV for transmitter location, NASA deep space communication, feasibility study of Anti GPS jammer

• Involved in providing comprehensive strategy to automotive organizations like Fiat, Skoda and Chevrolet in India. Strategies included product design, market insights and sentiments, sales and marketing, after sales service and dealership issues

Professional Work Experience:

RAETISYNANT SYNERGISTICS INC., Canada https://raetisyant.com Founder, CEO, Technical & Management Consultant Feb’24 – Present

• Direct, drive and deliver projects, programs and business strategies along with leadership and mentorship for continual sustainable growth

• Provide systems engineering, project management, regulatory and certification affairs, management strategies, wireless engineering and test planning support to clients

• Current engagement in Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), counter UAS, new product strategies and roadmap development, competitor and market analysis, technological forecast, external customer interactions for sales, programs for clients including presales, proof of concepts and support for demoes

• Hold credential to directly influence revenue and growth with strategic impactful decisive actions. Ex: $2M Proof of Concept Low Rate Initial Production(LRIP) delivered for larger volume order MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC, Vaughan ON Canada

Technical Project Manager Oct’23 – Feb’24

• Drive development of internal projects on the hardware and software side including software sprints and releases

• Manage project resourcing, risk, schedule, costs, provide estimates to scope, negotiate scope

• Strategize with product development and management to drive business decisions

• Assisted with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) migration schedule, next generation product planning TELEDYNE FLIR LLC, Waterloo ON Canada

Wireless & Systems Engineer, Interim Project Manager Feb’19 – Oct’23

• Strategize to support sustaining products, propose and plan future developments and roadmaps, assist in business case preparation for internal stakeholders

• Involved in external customers and stakeholder communications, collaborations for presales, demoes, relationship building, on-field resolution support

• Co-ordinate & translate, negotiate requirements between product/sales to engineering, foresee and mitigate risks RAHUL S. KARKHANIS MS(Electrical), BE(Electronics & Telecom), Six Sigma Green Belt, Dipl (Project Mgmt) Current Address: 1 Victoria St S, Kitchener, ON N2G0B5, Canada Contact: +1-647-***-**** E-mail: *****.*********@******.***.*** Work Authorization: Canadian Citizen Website: https://www.ask-ra.com/

• Prepare and drive schedule, cost, scope, risk, technical development as part of project management and systems engineering

• Oversee product certification for global markets (FCC, CE, ACMA, MIC, MIL-STD-461 etc), level 1 Global Trade & Export Compliance (GTC)

• Central point of contact in the company to facilitate, communicate, develop policies, processes and strategies with various internal teams & departments, vendors to oversee systems development, New Product Introduction (NPI)

• Manage team sizes for a specific project upto 10-12 personnel with projects budgeted around $1-3 Million

• Achievements: Delivered high value projects to enable revenue, a go-to person for critical deliverables BELL CANADA, Toronto ON Canada

Manager – Network Provisioning (On Contract) Mar’18 – Sept’18

• Facilitate between Technology Development, Research and deployment teams to standardize New Products, Technologies and tools

• Initiate and own change management processes for strategy and technology end to end until they are standardized

• Provide high level plans to present a business case to executives while taking into consideration all impact across the organization

• Identify issues with current processes or initiate new processes, realign organizational structures, onboard new tools in line with future market needs

• Achievement: Pilot site deployment of 5G NRE, work instructions on upgrading data center capacities, all within a short span of time getting past previous blockades INFORMATION SCIENCES INSTITUTE – SPACE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER, USA Consulting Systems Engineer (As per need basis, based out of Canada) Aug’11 – Apr’19

• Analyze and provide solution to requirements over technology, processes and application

• Formulate strategies, direct operations, make decisions on processing test results or iterate on them to optimize

• Co-ordinate global assets for post launch mission operations

• Design and Develop test standards, lay down instructions and baseline for achieving specific goals

• Act as a problem solver and solutions provider to diagnose, isolate and fix issues

• Provide remote support to engineers and oversee progress Lead Systems Engineer, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA Feb’10 – Aug’11

• Performed link budget analysis, designed, implemented and commissioned satellite – Earth link

• Planned, analyzed, conducted feasibility reviews, estimated costs, scheduled and budgeted

• Managed design-build-test cycles for prototype development and systems integration

• Identified risks, balanced trade-offs, made contingency plans, managed resources

• Ensured compliance to regulatory authority standards (FCC)

• Sought new projects, met and communicated with collaborators, stakeholders, assisted in proposals

• Led cross-functional teams, delivered presentations for Preliminary and Critical Design reviews (PDR/CDR), documented test, procedures and results

Systems Test Engineer Jul’09 – Feb’10

• Characterized Antenna performance for gain, swr, matching, radiation pattern by testing in anechoic chamber with network analyzer

• Tested the performance of individual components before and after systems integration in labs and on field

• Negative testing for quality of mechanical and electrical performance against vibration, temperature, durability RAHUL S. KARKHANIS MS(Electrical), BE(Electronics & Telecom), Six Sigma Green Belt, Dipl (Project Mgmt) Current Address: 1 Victoria St S, Kitchener, ON N2G0B5, Canada Contact: +1-647-***-**** E-mail: *****.*********@******.***.*** Work Authorization: Canadian Citizen Website: https://www.ask-ra.com/

• Adhered to standards with respect to weight, dimensions, regulatory body and mission criticality Achievement: 2 successful satellite launches and operations. Delivered fully compliant working space systems from prototype to final flight in under 3 months. Antenna design considered trade secret Other Consulting Positions between Aug’11 – Dec’13 UNIVERSITY OF VIGO, SPAIN Apr’12 – Dec’13

Systems Engineer (Temp Consultant based in Mumbai)

• Planned and designed to optimize and improvise a satellite swarm constellation for humanitarian and scientific causes – Project Endorsed by UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and European Space Agency (ESA) Achievement: All suggestions considered. Humsat-D satellite launched in Nov’13, successful operations FASTECH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDIA PVT. LTD., MUMBAI, INDIA Nov’11 – Apr’12 Senior Engineer – Technical Sales

• Delivered sales presentation of telecom products for 2G – GSM / 3G – UMTS/ 4G – LTE / IMS from RAN to back-end

• Performed requirement analysis, acted as a solutions architect and a Single Point of Contact (SPoC), carried out Proof of Concepts (PoC) to provide compatible products to the customer

• Conducted Market analysis and competition study to create roadmaps and add to product portfolio

• Followed current trends, progress in technology to stay informed and abreast with the latest in the market

• Delivered internal training presentation to sales and marketing teams Part-Time positions during Master’s studies

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, USA Mar’09 – Oct’09 Finance Research Project Assistant

• Developed techniques to optimize run time and performance for faster simulations and saving resources on High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) using linux batch files

• Achievement: First at USC to perform a large scale parallel matlab operation on USC HPCC. Documentation served as a guideline to various other research groups to use parallel Matlab on USC HPCC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, USA Teaching Assistant – Wireless Communications technology Aug’08 – Dec’08 Guest Lecturer – Wireless Communications technology Aug’09 – Dec’09, Aug’10 – Dec’10

• Accountable to handle Student Project Management for wireless projects

• Projects Undertaken - Automated highway systems, Unmanned UAV communication via satellite, Internet in commercial airlines, NASA DSN missions, Wireless LAN over high frequencies (28 GHz).

• Achievement: Invited as a Guest Lecturer to conduct project guidance sessions in subsequent years EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering May 2009 University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications, August 2007 University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

CERTIFICATIONS

• Six Sigma Green Belt from TÜV SÜD, March 2015

• Diploma in Project Management from ALISON, June 2014 RAHUL S. KARKHANIS MS(Electrical), BE(Electronics & Telecom), Six Sigma Green Belt, Dipl (Project Mgmt) Current Address: 1 Victoria St S, Kitchener, ON N2G0B5, Canada Contact: +1-647-***-**** E-mail: *****.*********@******.***.*** Work Authorization: Canadian Citizen Website: https://www.ask-ra.com/ SOFTWARES/OS

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project)

• Familiar with PowerBi, Atlassian Confluence/Jira, Arena, Smartsheets, Google Suite Publication

• USC's Approach to Satellite-Based, Hands-On, Training: The Engineering Teaching Hospital AIAA-2011-7226 AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference and Exposition, Long Beach, California, Sep. 27-29, 2011 Add-ons

• Worked successfully in a global setting having lived in 6 countries, spanning 4 continents and collaborated with even more

• Ability to quickly pick-up knowledge on block level technical systems, industrial norms, policies/codes

• Have a complete understanding of communicating at different levels of a multi-disciplinary organization

• Always thorough – cover all angles by taking all input points into consideration

• Insightful, result-oriented, open – broad minded, fair and just, approachable – easy going and easy to get along, adaptable, flexible and liberal in variety of work environments

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