Jan 2016 – Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Aug 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Head of Modems Product Integration and Verification teams in Bangalore
• o Managing the System Test, Software build and release, automation tools team (~30 engineers) in Bangalore.
• o Leading innovation in test and integration, by developing several tools and enhanced debugging skills.
• Driven a culture of deep analysis of software defects and routed them to the right development and test environment teams
• o Architecting the continuous integration environment, as part of the global PIV leadership team, and driving the local implementation

Aug 2009 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Head of L23 protocol stack development team
• o Managing protocol stack program for LTE Modems from Bangalore, by the team of 50+ engineers and handling high expectation from several mobile customers like Blackberry, Samsung, Sharp and Panasonic.
• Complete ownership and competency transfer of L23 GSM and WCDMA from Lund, Sweden.
• o People management, strategic capacity planning and allocation of ~50 engineers, first line managers and project managers.
• Vendor management of ~20 member outsourcing team
• o Delivery management of complete embedded L23 software and AT commands for 2G and 3G Modems, to Samsung for Feature phones
• Merging of ex-NXP/ST Wireless protocol stack team into Modems and continue to support the Legacy programs, without issues.
• o Evaluating and selecting the right vendor for the R&D outsourcing activities, both for SOW and T&M mode, in terms of cost, competency and capability.

Oct 2007 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• R&D management of WQM (Wireless Quality of Service Manager) product line which had revenue of $2M in the year 2008.
• o Partnered with product managers, equipment providers and marketing for creating inputs to SOWs and RFP responses.
• o Developed and deployed several new customized solutions, from requirements to test, on VAS like MMS, Email, Browser, Pre paid and supplementary services at various customer sites.
• o Developed new java based user interfaces within WQM, so that the customer has a complete view of VAS performance, KPIs and faults within their system.
• o Cross functional team coordination, across multiple sites and regions, to deliver all the features/defect fixes to the customers, on schedule and with high quality.

Dec 2002 – Oct 2007 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Successfully created a Product engineering team that looked after the defect fixes across the product components, including performance and customer issues.
• Institutionalized the usage of ‘management through data’ by identifying several new metrics, automated ways to capture them and present them to the senior management, quality assurance teams and internal customers.
• o Led a Green Belt initiative, development of an automated tool, within the team that saved $120K dollars in the project spending.
• Driving the complete release management and deployment of static code analysis tools, like Klocworks and Coverity.
• Stakeholder management and reporting of the integration test results.
• Selected to participate in Motorola India initiative for improving build times and build servers efficiency. Presented a paper on key areas which can be improved, to achieve low build times.
• Presented several white papers and recommendations on identification of key areas which lead to phone hangs, battery life measurement and incorporated those in the product planning and execution.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Satellite communication:
• o Led the team for packet data testing of ICO, Inmarsat and Thuraya User Terminals.
• o Developed the team to carry out complete stack validation, based on modified 3GPP specifications, which included Layer2 and Layer 3 (RR, SNDCP and GMM) protocols.
• o Led the fax and data Customer acceptance testing for the handset, at the site of Thuraya in UAE.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• Customer acceptance testing of call processing, administration and maintenance (OSS) features of C-DoT MAX, Digital Switching System.
• Developed and tested the ISDN stack of the newly developed ISDN network of the C-DoT and was responsible for Layer 2 and Layer 3 verification. .