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6/2013 - Present

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Technical Product Manager - DMTS

Working as Product manager from a technical front for delivery of future Consumer premise equipments of verizon

Oversee every aspect of the Product delivery, the role involved1) Working with Director of Business team to crystallize the business case and product requirement2) Work with internal teams to draft the technical requirements3) Work with Director -Product development for vendor selection. From a technical front influence the stake holders on making the right vendor selection4) Work with Director-Business, Program management, Sourcing and also VP of technology in features delivery, price negotiation, define milestones and also close the contracts with vendors.5) Post vendor selection, fully manage end to end delivery of the product. Achievements1) Closed contracts worth 10M in last one year2) Managed delivery of Phase 1, Phase 2 of a CPE product(confidential)

5/2007 - 6/2013

Industry: Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg

Principal Engineer

Moved to Broadcom from Beceem as part of acquisition. Engineering owner for CPE/Linux wimax products for Beceem's customers.

• Deliver IMS solution on Broadcom 4G, including Voice and SMS • Architect the support for IMS with Broadcom 3G/4G chipset and software architecture.• Study the 3gpp spec for IMS and its dependencies, correlate with the Broadcom customer requirements and provide with design and implementation details to the development team.• Architect the SMS over IMS solution for Broadcomo Understand existing SMS solution in Broadcom and provide design and implementation details to support SMS over IMS• Study and understand the Android, Android implementation on Broadcom 3G solution, extend the voice architecture to support voice over IMS.• vendor selection for Broadcom IMS solution.• Co-Ordinate the efforts between Vendor engineering and internal engineering for integration, IOT and deployment • Handle all the process, releases, merges, branching, versioning and build system for TDLTE• Study, understand and debug issues relating to PDCP, TCM and Common driver modules on the LTE stack. • Optimized the MBMS stack on Arm, boosting the throughput from 2Mbps to 128Mbps.• Board Bring up with new SOC, BSP debugging, linux boot up optimizations, Stack performance optimizations.• Android framework customizations, Development of Various android apps for demonstration of Broadcom SOC capabilities. • Device interfaces to android, 3G dongle, RIL, GPIO, Accelerometer.At Beceem :Primary point of contact for all CPE product lines for Beceem. This includes wimax modems, both indoor & outdoor etc. ResponsibilitiesManage all the customer programs for CPE devices for Beceem chipset. Work with Business owners & product managers, to track customer product milestones, customer issues, engineering issues to meet customers requirements, technical directions on both ends for customers aswell as engineering team, including both Hardware and software teams, FAE's.Coaching and mentoring junior team, FAE, customer techical engineers.Job involves lot of team building, convincing and managing engineers and their managers. Apart from management responsibilities, I have issues that I assign to myself to resolve for quick resolution to customers. Achievements1) Key person to lead the customer product from intiation to production for one of major customer. Appreciation received from both internal and external stake holders.

3/2006 - 5/2007

Industry: Computer Software

Onsite consultant

§ Co-ordinate between onsite product team and offshore team .§ Resolve technical issues. Prepare and co-ordinate with test teams to get the product out of system test.§ Work with protocol, dsp, and offshore team to fix performance problems. § Board bring up for Linux 2.6.10 based IpPhone. Performance analysis and improvement. Integrate voice application and features for the final product. Tool chain used is Montavista Professional 4.0.§ Work with customer product team(ip phone) for new features

7/2004 - 2/2006

Industry: Computer Software

Lead Engineer

Project : Porting Linux alongwith telephony drivers on Titan Based IPP phoneEnvironment : C, Linux, Clearcase, vision ICE, BDI2000Hardware : TNETV1050, MIPS Architecture based processorRole : Lead EngineerTitan (TNETV1050) consisting of MIPS 4kC processor and a C55x DSP is a communication processor for VOIP applications from Texas instruments, providing almost all peripheral set for providing complete voip applicationsRoles and Responsiblities1) Understand the Titan architecture for IP phone, existing code base for IP phone of customer (based on vxworks). 2) Get the base code up and running on linux on the SDB(software development board)3) Port the user interface unit from vxworks to linux4) Provide guidance to team members for devlopment of Graphical LCD driver, USB memory stick support5) Was entirely responsible for customer issues handling, status report, requirement analysis, risk analysis and mitigation plans and project co-ordination.

4/2004 - 7/2004

Lead Engineer

Project : Porting Linux alongwith telephony drivers on Titan Based Residential Gateway Environment : C, Linux, Clearcase, vision ICE, BDI2000Hardware : TNETV1050, MIPS Architecture based processorRole : Lead EngineerTitan (TNETV1050) consisting of MIPS 4kC processor and a C55x DSP is a communication processor for VOIP applications from Texas instruments, providing almost all peripheral set for providing complete voip applicationsRoles and Responsiblities1) Understand the Titan architecture, existing code base of customer (based on vxworks)2) Get the base code up and running on linux on the SDB(software development board)3) Port the DSP's micro part of code to linux4) Port the telephony daughter card (SLIC/SLAC si3210 based board) drivers on linux.5) Provide support for External phy. mainly to support MDIX based on Kendin phy.5) Was entirely responsible for customer issues handling, status report, requirement analysis and project co-ordination.

10/2003 - 4/2004

Lead Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities1) Understand various client requirements, study the technical details. Provide the technical feasiblity for the project. Some of the projects handled are i) Porting the RT linux based Sound driver. ii) Linux Latency measurement, and technical study for VideoIP phone project, Set top box Project iii) Training and Bug fixing for EJTAG debugger on Linux2) Recruitment of Junior professionals, Resume shortlisting, interviewing3) Conduct training and guiding on Linux platform

6/2002 - 10/2003

Module Leader

Project: Voice Internetworking Services Module (VISM).Client: Cisco Systems Inc. USA.Organization: Wipro Technologies Limited, BangaloreEnvironment: C, solaris, expect, TCL.Role: Module Leader.Voice Interworking Services Module (VISM) is an I/O module of the MGX8800 series multi-service switches. VISM provides high-density voice solution for the Service Provider market segment.The project involves automation for regression tests for all the features and functionalities of VXSM and maintenance of certain software modules.Roles and Responsibilities* Understanding vism architecture, MGCP protocol, ATM.* Test bed setup. Installation and configuration of various test equipment, Cisco MGX 8850, 8250 voice gateway.* Understand CAsim( call agent simulator, Cisco proprietary) and interfacing with the test setup.* Automation of the Basic voip calls, Load balancing, hardware health monitoring testplan* Bug fixing and maintence of TSI(Time slot interchange) Device driver and QE48/Humvee driver modification.* Project management work like identification of training needs, client interaction, assisting the project manager in team ramp up(interview for new team members), presenting status reports to clients, conducting weekly telecons.

1/2002 - 6/2002

Senior Software Engnieer

Project: Integrated Routing and Intelligent Switching.Client: IRIS Technologies Inc. Organization: Satyam Computers Services Limited, Bangalore.Duration: Jan-2002 - June 2002.Environment: C on Linux. Role: Team Member.The IRIS (Integrated Routing and Intelligent Switching) is a new architecture especially developed for telecommunication applications. It is designed to deliver terabits of throughput in a single chassis. The work involves porting the protocol stack from Zebra to Linux, testing it on target hardware. Also it is required to develop kernel modules to support flash, reserve RAM for IRIS kernel, modify the normal Linux kernel interface with network cards, add system calls for supporting SNMP requests for hardware details.Roles and Responsibilities:* Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.* Finalized the Linux configuration that can be used to support flash.* Preparing the makefile for entire project, including support for installing the entire software on any Linux kernel.* Modify the syslog support in Linux support to provide SNMP support for logged messages* Design, code and test virtual network interface, which is be the only network interface in the system to communicate with the target hardware and hence the external world.* Design and modify the Linux kernel to provide exclusive RAM areas for exchange of data between hardware and software.* Testing of RIP and OSPF protocols from zebra. The code modified to fix the bugs in the software* Testing - unit testing, integration testing, system testing (on target hardware) acceptance testing and support.* Writing TCL scripts for performance and load testing.* Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.

12/2000 - 12/2001

Senior Software Engineer

Project: Route Management.Client: Huawei Technologies Company Limited, China.Environment: C on VRP (Virtual Operating System, proprietary of Huawei). Role: Team Member.Versatile Routing Platform (VRP) is a data communication product for routers, LAN switches and ATM switches. RM is a part of VRP, which provides services to Routing protocol applications like unicast and multicast protocols, and to the console management plane (CMP) to configure administrative commands. The main functionality of RM is to update forwarding information base (FIB) used to forward unicast destined packets and to update multicast forwarding information base (MFIB) used to forward multicast destined packets. RM contains various modules like unicast route management (URM), multicast routing management (MRM), routing policy management (RPM), interface management (IM), route change operation management (RCOM) and route management operating system (RMOS). Routing Policy Management (RPM) module is responsible for maintaining the policies configured by the administrator, and provides check function to validate it, before updating the routing information in the routing table and before advertising the routes from the routing table to the neighboring routers.RMOS provides functionality's similar to an OS such as timers, job scheduling, tasks and backup of data from master board to slave board within RM and various routing protocols, which take the services of RM.Roles and Responsibilities:* Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.* Finalized the RPM commands that is used by administrator configure filter and policies for the router. * Design and Development of Routing policy management module.* Design and Development of Route Management Operating System.* Coding using C language and used the library provided by the VRP (i.e. Virtual Operating System).* Testing - unit testing, integration testing, system testing (on the target VxWorks), acceptance testing and support.* Test framework design using TCL/Tk, expect.* Writing TCL scripts for performance and load testing.* Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.

7/2000 - 12/2000

Senior Software Engineer

Project: OSPF Version 2 protocol.Client: Internal project (Protocol Stack development project).Environment: C on Linux.Role: Team Member.This is an internal project of Satyam. Involved development of OSPF protocol as per the specification given for the protocol in RFC (Request For Comments) 2328. The protocol was developed as a part of the, project for development of entire protocol stack independent of OS.Roles and Responsibilities:* Understand the specification of OSPF provided in RFC 2328.* Design, code and test the protocol on Linux OS.* Unit testing and integration testing.* Provide all the documentation as per SEI CMM Level 5, V model of software development.

5/2000 - 7/2000

Senior Software Engineer

Project: Code Analysis.Client: TRW Automotive Ltd.Environment: MISRA C.Role: Team Member.This was a consultancy project for TRW. Work mainly involved understanding the MISRA (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association) coding guidelines, understand the code supplied by TRW, look for violation of coding guidelines and correct it. So as to compile it error free and warning free in a MISRA compiler.Roles and Responsibilities:* Understand the MISRA rules for C coding.* Understand the code supplied by TRW.* Correct the errors and warning when compiling in MISRA compiler.

2/2000 - 5/2000

Engineer (R & D)

Project: DNC2 Communication. Client: Gun & shell factory Cossipur.Environment: C on DOS.Role: Single-handed project.Fanuc DNC is a technology to control the CNC machine with Fanuc CNC system through remote desktop PC's.The project involved development of a DOS application to communicate with a Fanuc DNC version 2. The communication is done using the serial port of computer and RS-232C port of the CNC machine. The protocol for communication is Fanuc DNC protocol. Roles and Responsibilities:* Understanding serial port interface on DOS* Understand the Fanuc DNC protocol.* Design the backend and front-end software, code, test and installation.* Documentation and training to the customer.

7/1999 - 1/2000

Engineer (R & D)

Project: PC based CNC system.Client: DSIR (Dept. of Scientific Research) Delhi.Environment: C on RT-Kernel (RTOS).Role: Team Member.CNC system is a complex technology and involves software running over custom designed motherboards.This project Involved development of a CNC system on a normal PC platform. The entire project can be divided into a front end and backend system. The front end implements all the user interactions, parsing user programs and inputs, and the hardware is Pentium processor on normal PC motherboard. The backend consists of servo system for actual movement of various axes, and hardware is a custom built board with DSP processor (TMS320C5) from Texas Instruments.Roles and Responsibilities:* Prepare a specification for user inputs, programs, and screen layouts.* Write the lex specification and grammar for yacc for parsing the user program* Interface the various modules of the project. * Port it to RTKernel.* Assembly code for DPRAM initialization, Drive enable function, implementing timer for 1ms on the backend system.* Design code and testing of linear interpolation function. * Documentation and porting to hardware.

4/1999 - 7/1999

Engineer (R & D)

Project: CNCtalkClient: Internal requirement.Environment: C on DOS.Role: Single-handed project.This project was developed for communication between a CNC machine and a computer. The communication is established using the RS-232 port of CNC and COMM ports of the computer. Roles and Responsibilities:* Prepare a specification screen layouts.* Design, code, test and installation.* Documentation and training to the users.

2/1999 - 4/1999

Engineer (R & D)

Project: Stepper motor control.Client: Internal requirement.Environment: VC++ on Windows95, Assembly.Role: Team member.This project consists of design and development of add-on card for ISA bus, consisting of 8 inputs and 12 outputs. The card is used for interfacing a stepper motor to a desktop PC running trainer CNC program. The card communicates to a custom-built driver card, which actually drives the stepper motor.Roles and Responsibilities:* Understand ISA specification.* Prepare layout of the card and frontend user interface.* Design, code, test and installation.* Documentation and training to the users.

EDUCATION:

9/1998

Professional

Completed Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and electronics with aggregate percentage of 72%

5/1994

High School or equivalent

Completed 12th with aggregate percentage of 76.4%

Master's Degree

Currently Pursuing Master of Business administration course from XIME bangalore, It is a evening course and currently 2yr is going on.1st yr GPA is 5.9/8

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