SRIKANTH.Y.Singanamala

+1.408.368.2837

www.linkedin.com/pub/srikanth-y-s/1/956/333/

SUMMARY

Experienced program & product manager with technical expertise in Communications field and proven track

record in successfully leading cross-functional teams, executing and managing multiple concurrent projects

spanning the globe. Proven ability in establishing great customer and partner relations with experience in

initiating projects right from planning stage to demos to commercial engagements in very fast paced startup

environment. Good in planning, negotiation with stakeholders to meet program milestones and organization

goals. Excellent communication skills: interacting with product/design teams, program sponsors and C-level

execs.

Passionate about technologies like Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE) – successfully managed to gain a

deep understanding to ally knowledge and expertise to my passion. Presently, I’ve shifted attention to Hadoop

- newbie until recently, not so much anymore.

Skills

Agile Program & Project Management, Partner & Customer Engagement, Software Integration & Release

Management, Managing and Coordinating with Design, R&D & QE cross-functional teams spanning across the

globe.

Experience

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Kineto Wireless Inc.(now Taqua LLC), Milpitas, CA, USA.

Technical Program Manager

2008 to till-date

: 2010-till date

• Managing the program on demo devices (Nexus-ADP1/2 & Nexus-Galaxy S4G): Coordinating

with customer’s product & design teams; internal design, R&D and testing teams.

• Led many successful demos to customers and C-level staff which led to get the commercial

deals with Sprint and T-Mobile USA

• Managing partners for the embedded Client software development and integration on OEM’s

smartphones (all high-end): Samsung, LGE & HTC.

• Providing product support & direction to OEM’s R&D teams, Kineto and Network Operator teams

for product/service/feature enhancement.

• Responsible for planning and releasing the deliverables to Customers (Sprint & T-Mobile USA)

on time. Managing the bug triage meetings with Sprint (Product/Project/IOT-LAB

management), OEMs (Samsung, LGE & HTC) & Network Teams (Ericsson, Alcatel, etc.) w.r.t

planning, execution of software releases for major/minor MRs.

• Internally driving issues to resolution by talking to developers/engineers/QE teams (within

Kineto) to meet as per milestones

• Brainstormed couple of tools: auto-logging tool and QE automation tool which saved time and

effort amongst teams. Lead the design, planning of these tools

• Lead offshore Program managers to execute the programs as per Customer schedules.

Senior Software Engineer/Project Lead

• Supported and lead demo with various other Partners and Customers for service trials on other

products: downloadable Client (OTT) apps.

: 2008-2010

• As Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead, I was involved in Validation & Verificaiton

activities for the Protocol Stack of the multi-mode(GSM/UMTS) UE.

• Lead Layer-2/3 Signalling Conformance activities for GSM / UMTS / UMA (GAN) Protocol Stack

from UE perspective.

• Validation was performed on different Platforms (Chipset vendors) for different customers

(OEM’s: HTC, Samsung, LG).

• Running Manual and Automated Test cases using different Network Simulators like: Agilent8960,

R&S-CRTUG/W for Layer-2, Layer-3 Signalling Conformance Activities.

• Worked with different Chipset vendor’s like- Qualcomm, TI, Infineon, NXP.

• Participated in IOT’s with major Network Operators like: T-Mobile(USA), Orange(Europe).

• Worked on Mobile OS’s like: MS-Windows Mobile-6 & Linux-OS.

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3.

Freescale Semiconductor, Bangalore, India.

Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India.

2006 to 2008

2005 to 2006

Senior Software Engineer – Consultant

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2005-2008

• Validation activities for the multi-mode UE & was responsible for Layer-2/3 Signalling Conformance

activities for GSM / UMTS Protocol Stack from UE perspective.

• Responsible for (U) SIM / SATK validation activities.

• Validation was performed for different Platforms of Freescale’s chipsets (MXC-300), Texas

Instruments

• Running Manual and Automated Test cases using different Network Simulators like: AniteSAT/USAT,

Agilent, R&S-CRTUG/W for Layer-2, Layer-3 Signalling Conformance Activities. And

Micropross-STAR simulator for Validation of (U)SIM/SATK modules of dual mode GSM/UMTS UE as

per Release-5 3GPP specifications.

• Was responsible for Bug fixing, Testing of RR/GRR and other L3 modules of the GSM / GPRS

protocol stack.

• Developed Conformance Test cases on basis of 3GPP/ETSI release-5 Specifications. Functional Test

scripts were developed to increase code coverage.

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Played a vital in the Project - MemOpt, which has been a major Milestone for LoCosto in winning a

Tier-1 Customer.

• Was successful in Automating the (U) SIM / SATK Test Cases for the first time for Freescale using

Micropross-STAR (U) SIM simulator.

• Played a vital role for validating the Protocol stack on multiple OS like: Symbian-OS-3.2, MSWinCE-5

& LynxOS.

4. Alcatel (now, Alcatel-Lucent), Bangalore, India.

modules of the GSM / GPRS / EDGE protocol stack.

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Simultaneously worked in Development / Testing of B9 BSC-Product, Maintenance / Testing of B7 and

B8 BSC-products from design, development & testing to maintenance phases of the projects

• The different feature enhancements that I was involved as part of development, maintenance and

testing activities are: Voice Group Call Services (VGCS), Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) and 2G to 3G

HandOver (2G-3G-HO).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Wireless Technologies

Protocols

Operating Systems

Hardware Platforms

Languages

Tools

EDUCATION

GSM, CDMA, UMTS, GAN, IMS, LTE, SIP, VoIP

RR, GRR, RRC, DL, RLC, MAC, 3GPP & 3GPP2

Android, iOS, Solaris, UNIX, WINDOWS-XP/Win7, Fedora, Ubuntu

Intel-processors for BSC & ARM-processors for UE

C, C++, Java, Intel 80x86

GCC, DDD, Clearcase, Clearquest, JIRA, TeamTrack, Eclipse, xCode

1999-2003

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from VTU, Karnataka, India

Work visa status

References will be provided upon request.

H1b, I-140 approved

2003 to 2005

• Software Engineer was involved in development, maintenance and Testing activities of Base Station

Controller (BSC) product. Was responsible for Bug fixing, Unit Testing of RR module and other Layer-3

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