Profile

PERSONAL PROFILE:

Name                                                        :              Pradeep C Pangi                                         

Phone Number                             :              +91 98805 – 06980

Total Years of Experience              :              13 Years

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

 

·         Strong Leadership skills

·         Strong hold of 3GPP/ETSI Specifications: 23.060,23.401, 24.301, 24..008, 23.122,23.272 ETSI- 102.221, 102.223, 31.102

·         Worked on Wireless Technologies: LTE, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM

·         Development, Testing and Maintenance of modules in Protocol Stack for LTE, UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE

·         Working Experience on different modules of protocol stack - ACI (AT Command Interface), (E)NAS (EMM/ESM/MM/GMM/SM/USIM/USAT/SIM/SAT), Application Controller Interface L23_ACI, CPHS (Rel-4)

·         Feature Design and Implementation on IMS Emergency call, VoLTE and CSFB

·         Familiar on GSM GPRS protocol stack modules SNDCP, LLC.

·         Strong hold and working experience on (U)SIM and (U)SAT

·         Very good knowledge of testing tools like Anite, Orga, CMU and Agilent for testing the Protocol Stack.

·         Sound knowledge of Manual and Automated Pre-conformance Testing

·         Conformance for Handset with SIM (ORGA), GSM , GPRS  Technology

·         Good theoretical knowledge on PLMN Network Architecture like(eNodeb, MME, S-GW, P-GW, SGSN, GGSN, MSC/VLR)

·         Involved in testing like unit/integration, Inter-op (IOT), Filed Testing (FT) testing.

·         A good initiator and a team player, mentoring skills, hardworking, Good Problem solving and analytical skills, planning and prioritizing tasks leading to successful delivery of features.

·         Onsite Assignments: Travelled to Berlin, Paris, Dublin, Nuremberg, Dallas, Beijing & Shanghai for Development and IOT’s.    

 

Awards & Recognition:

1-      Start performer of the Quarter Award in Intel for delivering DSDS Project - 2011

2-      Sport Award for Handling LTE project.- 2012

3-      Awarded from Customer (Nokia) for excellent program execution and handling customer issues and showing the positive confidence to the customer – 2009-2010

4-      “Got Best Performer of the Quarter” award for delivering quality product – 2001 -2002

5-      ‘Team of the Quarter’ Award for the Jan-Mar 07

6-      ‘Spot Award’ 2009

 

 

 

 

 

SKILLS:

 

Leadership Skills                                : PMP and Project Management Skills             

Wireless Technologies                          : GSM / GPRS / EDGE / UMTS

Operating Systems                         : Linux, Solaris, Windows

Languages                         : C, SDL

Debugging Tools                          : Code Composer Studio(JTAG), TRACE32(Lauterbach), VC++

Configuration management              : ClearCase

Testing Platform                            : Anite Agilent SAT(A), Anite Racal SAT(R), R&S, SIM

  Simulator-IT3, Agilent -8960, Capitsu, Fast Trace

Defect Tracking Tool                            : ClearQuest and Conqweb

Simulators/Analyzers              : PCO (Texas Instruments), MA-Mobile Analyser Infineon

Technologies), STT (Intel)

 

 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Course	Year	Institution	Board/ University	Percentage of marks
BE	2000	B.E.C. Bagalkot	Karnataka University	76

 

 

	EXPERIENCE:
Sr No	Company	Duration
1	Intel	Feb 7th 2011 Till Date
2	ST Ericsson India Pvt Ltd.	Nov 16th 2009 – Feb 4th 2011
3	SASKEN Communication Technologies Ltd.	April -2001 to Nov 13th Nov 2009

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS:

 

DoB                                                        :              21^st July 1978                                         

Place                                                        :              Bangalore - India

Passport                                          :              Available

Hobbies                                          :              Listening to Music and Photography

 

 

 

 

PROJECTS & PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

 

Project 1

Product Development and maintenance of Rel-9 & Rel-10 LTE (EPS-NAS) Triple Mode Protocol Stack

Duration              : Aug 2012 to Till Date

Team Size              : 8

Employer               : Intel

Client                            : Samsung

 

Description:

The project involves handling customer issues, providing the metrics, understanding Requirements, Analysis, bug fixing and Estimation, design/implementation of Release 9 and 10 3GPP Features and Generic Updates.

 

Role: Technical Lead

 

Responsibilities:

·         Requirement Analysis, Design and Development of NAS & ENAS Modules (EMM and ESM)

·         Bug fixing and maintenance of  NAS & ENAS components (EMM and ESM)

·         Guiding the team for defect solving on ENAS component (EMM and ESM)

Work Done:

• Design and Implementation of IMS Emergency call and VoLTE & CSFB.
• Design and Implementation of 3GPP Release-10 Generic Updates
• MTC feature Design discussions
• Defect analysis and Bug fixing in ENAS Component
• Inter component discussions with different components leads - NAS, EAS.   

 

Project 2

Product Development and maintenance of DSDS Dual Mode Protocol Stack

Duration              : Feb 2011 to July 2012

Team Size              : 6

Employer              : Intel

Client                            : Nokia, LG

 

Description:

The project involved handling customer issues, meeting with customer to understand the product lifecycle, providing the metrics, understanding Requirement, Analysis and Estimation, design/implementation and bug fixing.

 

Role: Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

·         Understanding the requirements and providing the estimations for NAS(MM/GMM/SM) Modules

·         Analysis, design and development of  NAS component

 

Work Done:

·         Design, development of customer specific features. Defect analysis and Bug fixing

Project 3

Product Development and maintenance of S60-TDSCDMA Protocol Stack

 

Duration              : Nov 2009 to Feb 2011

Team Size              : 28

Employer                : St-Erricsson

Client                            : Nokia

 

Description:

The project involved project management activities, resource handling, handling customer issues, meeting with customer to understand the product lifecycle, travel issues, providing the metrics, understanding Requirement, Analysis and Estimation, design and guiding the team.

 

Role: Technical Project Lead

 

Responsibilities:

·         Understanding the requirements and providing the estimations for UICC, SM, GMM

·         Design and development of  USIM/SIM, SAT features

·         Design, estimation and guiding the team for defect solving on NAS modules  UICC, SM, GMM

·         Complete project management

 

Work Done:

 

• Developed UICC Server from the scratch for the S60 platform
• Defect Solving in USIM/SIM/SAT
• Defect analysis and fixing on SM, GMM and MM

 

Project 4

Development and maintenance of Dual Mode Protocol Stack

 

Duration              : Feb2009 to Nov 2009

Team Size              : 20

Employer              : Sasken

Client                            : Infineon

 

Description:

The project involves, understanding Requirement/defects, Analysis and Estimation, design, development, and maintenance of the entire Dual Mode protocol stack for a Mobile Handset.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Understanding the requirements and providing the estimations

·         Design and development of  USIM/SIM, SAT features

 

Work Done:

• Developed FCP (File Control Parameters) decoding functionality for SIM and USIM according to the Specification’s 3GPP 11.11(2G) and ETSI 102.221, ISO/IEC 7816-9 (3G)
• Defect analysis and bug fixing in USIM/SIM/SAT

 

 

 

 

Project 5

Development and maintenance of Low-cost/ULC Dual Mode Protocol Stack for S (S30 and S40) series Products for Nokia

 

Duration              : May’2005 to Feb 2009

Team Size              : 15

Employer              : Sasken

Client                            : Texas Instrument, India

 

Description:

The project involves, understanding Requirement/defects, Analysis and Estimation, design, development, and maintenance of the entire Dual Mode protocol stack for a Mobile Handset. Involved system testing of the Mobile Handset via ANITE, AGILENT, RACAL, SIM SIMULATOR IT3, Field Testing and IOT’s.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Understanding the requirements and providing the estimations

·         Design and development of several AT commands as per 3GPP

·         Design and development of  MM, SM, CC, SMS, SIM and SAT features

·         Development and maintenance of Phonebook feature

·         Defect solving (Maintenance) in ACI, SM, MM, GMM, CC, SMS, SIM, SAT modules of Protocol Stack

·         Defect solving with respect to crash

·         Support of USIM and USAT related features.

·         Execution of GSM/GPRS/EDGE Technology, Conformance Test Cases using R&S (CRTU-G), ANITE, AGILENT, RACAL

·         Execution of SIM and SAT Test cases using, SIM SIMULATOR IT3(ORGA)

·         IOT and FT support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project 8

EDGE (EGPRS) protocol stack development and GSM/GPRS stack enhancement from to 3GPP Rel99- Texas Instruments Inc (Onsite Berlin Germany)

Duration              : July 2003 – Mar 2005

Team Size              : 20

Employer              : Sasken

Client                            : Texas Instruments

 

Description:

The aim of the project was to develop EGPRS MS Release 99/Rel 4. It included enhancement of GPRS/GSM protocol stack from 3GPP specification Rel97 to Rel99. The project activities in a nutshell: Requirement analysis, estimating, HLD development, code development, unit testing, testing with Anite, Rohde and Schwarz, ORGA SIM simulator, Robustness testing, IOTs, Field Tests, Solving customer issues.

The project started in May 2003 with a core team of 5 people. I was part of the project from this time. In May 2003 the team travelled to Berlin for requirement analysis and meeting the customer. A month was spent in requirement analysis, providing estimates and developing HLDs.

From July 18, 2003 to April 1, 2005 I was in the customer site at Berlin. First 8 months was spent mainly in development activities. Testing with live networks, IOTs etc started after this.  I was involved in IOT session i.e. travelling to IOT labs and performing the testing.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

·         Responsibilities include producing document that describes detail of the changes requirement to make EGPRS 3GPP Rel99 compatible protocol stack

·         Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing most of the R99 feature (SM, GMM, ACI, SIM/SAT)

·         Bug Fixing

·         Testing (Anite, Robustness Testing, R&S, Field Testing and IOT’s)

 

Project 9

Sasken GPRS/UMTS Stack.

 

Duration              : April 2001 to May 2003

Team Size              : 20

Employer               : Sasken

Client                            : Sasken

 

Description:

The aim of the project is to develop the GSM/GPRS Protocol Stack from the Scratch. Development and maintenance activities in Sasken GPRS/UMTS protocol stack. Worked on ACI (GPRS and UMTS) and SMS.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Participated in all the phases of software development life cycle (study of standards, requirement gathering, design, implementation, unit testing and module testing), for development of AT Command Interpreter module (ATCI). This module is part of L4 component of Sasken’s GSM/GPRS/3G wireless protocol stack solutions. Implementation of this module requires familiarity with almost all the signalling functions within a mobile device.

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