Ajay Kumar

Director of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India30 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in high-tech industry.
Expertise in wireless technologies and product management.
Proven track record in team leadership and project delivery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Wireless Technology expert with extensive experience in product and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProject ManagementCustomer Support ManagementProduct DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentTeam LeadershipR&d Engineering

Other Skills

Product/Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipWirelessTeam ManagementWLANCustomer EngineeringAutomationWi-Fi TechnologyTelecom Embedded SoftwareLogic SynthesisSwitching SoftwareSimulation ProgramsEmbedded SoftwareSoCMobile Devices

About

• Rich management and design & development experience of ~18 years in high-tech industry (especially in Mobile & Wireless domain) having capacity to adopt new concepts. • Keen to take challenging assignment and to continue growing in business leadership roles with due responsibilities. • Energetic and self-motivated team player/builder. At ease in high stress, fast-paced environments with emerging and multiple responsibilities. • Ensure that high quality products are delivered to customers. • Focus on automation to reduce cost and execution time, in turn squeeze time to market. Specialties: • Product/Project Management • Working with cross functional teams from across the globe • Customer Engineering/Support Management across the globe • Thrive in both independent and collaborative work environments • Expertise: 802.11a/bg/n/ac, MuMIMO, HW/SW partitioning and co-design, • Building teams from scratch and nurturing the talent.

Experience

30 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

12 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Mediatek

2 roles

Director

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Present · 11 yrs · Noida Area, India

Working with an outstanding team creating amazing products!!!

Product/Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct ManagementProject Management

Deputy Director

Jul 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida Area, India

Leading the wireless team for Mediatek in Noida

WirelessTeam ManagementProject ManagementProduct Management

St-ericsson

2 roles

Senior Project Manager

Apr 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

 Customer Delivery & Support activities of WLAN, BT & FM products for Connectivity BU.
 Wi-Fi chipset CW1xxx SW development.
 Aligned with marketing team’s focus based on the customer requirements and helped acquire new customers for the organization
 Led cross functional teams and task forces to achieve implementation of specific features for demo/delivery to customers in a very short span of time.

WLANCustomer EngineeringProject ManagementCustomer Support Management

Project Manager

Nov 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

+ Working for wi-fi chipset development
+ Development of simulated test tool,
+ Development of automation tool,
+ WLAN-BT Coexistence
+ Power Measurement,
+ Wi-Fi Certification,
+ WLAN Validation
Responsible for all above for R&D platform as well as for customer platforms.

WLANAutomationProject ManagementProduct Development

Stmicroelectronics

3 roles

Project Manager

Jan 2006 – Oct 2009 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Working for wi-fi chipset development and 802.11 technology

Wi-Fi TechnologyProject ManagementProduct Development

Project Manager

Promoted

Oct 2003 – Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos

 As Project Leader, led the development of telecom embedded software for broadband residential gateway for the ADSL chipset, while managing the team activities of 08 members.
 Supported the European and Chinese field application teams for customer support and coordinated client visits to resolve the issue.
 Led the improvement of project execution through effective resource planning, allocation and monitoring.
 Optimized the overall code for effective usage of available memory.

Telecom Embedded SoftwareTeam ManagementProject ManagementProduct Development

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2000 – Sep 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos

 As a module leader, led the team to diagnose problems, deciding the control flows, design and development of Logic Synthesis Tool, while applying various phases of product lifecycle management during the development process.
 Helped establishing the flow, while also bringing new processes in place
 Promoted to Senior Software Engineer on the back of excellent performance.

Logic SynthesisSoftware DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Uptron india limited

R&D Engineer

Aug 1995 – Mar 2000 · 4 yrs 7 mos

 Contributed in the development of Switching Software for a 64 Port PCM Exchange, designed around Mitel's digital switch MT8981.
 Simulation programs for MT8981 using Intel’s 8051 series micro-controller.
 Developed Soft-Console for Uptron's indigenously developed Small Exchange MX416DX
 Helped in developing an on-screen graphical presentation for Geo-physical Digital Data-Logger using C / C++.

Switching SoftwareSimulation ProgramsSoftware DevelopmentR&D Engineering