Rajneesh Raveendran

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

24 years of hardware project execution experience.
Expert in product compliance across multiple industries.
Strong leadership in engineering and technical management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering manager in the semiconductor and data storage industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentEngineering ManagementProduct ComplianceEmi/emc ComplianceEngineering SupportTechnical ManagementTechnical ConsultingTraining Development

Other Skills

Silicon bring-up boardsProduct cardsPlatform for Data Center GPUsODM/CM interactionCustomer engagementLab managementPeople managementProduct Safety ComplianceProduct Environmental ComplianceRegulatory ComplianceTeam LeadershipEMI/EMC Design ReviewPre-compliance TestingFinal Compliance TestingEMC Lab Management

About

About 24 years of Hardware Professional Experience in Projects Execution & Delivery in various roles. Worked in Product Development (from Specifications), Product Value Enhancement, Product Engineering Support & Product Regulatory Compliance in various roles. Managerial skills - Excellent team building & team leadership capabilities; Innate ability to cut across organizational silos at all levels; Gift to bring about consensus under ambiguous, demanding & conflicting scenarios; Flair for bringing teams onboard with diverse cultural characteristics and work towards common shared goal. Engineering skills - Product electrical design and test experience; Product sustenance & field support, Product value addition & re engineering; Product compliance (EMI/EMC, Safety, Environmental) experience in various domains like commercial, industrial, military, aerospace & automotive domains

Experience

25 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Apple

Safety & Compliance Engineering Manager

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Intel corporation

Engineering Manager

Jun 2019 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Responsible Engineering Manager for requirement gathering, design/tape-out, fab/assembly, power-on/validation and sustenance of Silicon bring-up boards, Product cards & Platform for two of Intel's Data Center GPUs.
Responsibilities also include ODM/CM interaction, internal & external customer engagement, lab & test infrastructure management and people management (including contingent worker management)

Silicon bring-up boardsProduct cardsPlatform for Data Center GPUsODM/CM interactionCustomer engagementLab management+3

Seagate technology

2 roles

Engineering Manager - Product Compliance

Promoted

Sep 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Built & groomed the complete compliance team responsible for Product Safety & Product Environmental compliance.
Led the regulatory compliance for the Seagate storage enclosures including products from acquired companies - Xyratex (UK) & Dot Hill (US)
Chairperson of Seagate's Global Market Access council for more than 1 year

Product Safety ComplianceProduct Environmental ComplianceRegulatory ComplianceTeam LeadershipProduct ComplianceEngineering Management

Staff Engineer

Oct 2015 – Aug 2016 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

EMI/EMC engineer responsible for design review, pre-compliance testing & final compliance testing/reporting of the Seagate storage enclosures

EMI/EMC Design ReviewPre-compliance TestingFinal Compliance TestingEMI/EMC ComplianceEngineering Support

Wipro

3 roles

EMI/EMC Technical Manager

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

The role involved managing the day-to-day technical operations of the Electromagnetic Compliance (EMC) lab (ISO 17025 accredited) which operates in two shifts six days in a week. The role involved meeting customers, discussing on their EMC testing requirements, analyzing the feasibility of executing the EMC tests, handling customer quotes, monitoring test execution, providing EMC consultancy to solve EMI problems, evaluating new test equipment requirements, discussion with equipment vendors & suppliers, managing the accredited calibration of the test equipment in the lab and complete people management & learning development of a team comprising of 20 engineers. I had also represented the organization in external forums with technical presentation on EMI/EMC topics

EMC Lab ManagementCustomer EngagementEMC ConsultancyTest Equipment ManagementEMI/EMC ComplianceTechnical Management

Technical Consultant for the Board/System Design Business Unit

Jul 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

The responsibilities were to analyze the technical training needs on a quarterly basis and then formulating, designing & delivering the technical training for the engineers. The training were designed targeting the engineers with an experience of 0 to 5 years and were focused in the area of Board/System Design. The training delivered were focused on concept building, effective CAD tool usage & effective test equipment usage.

Technical TrainingBoard/System DesignTechnical ConsultingTraining Development

Project / Lead Engineer

Dec 2002 – Jun 2008 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Led a reengineering program for Global Analog Line Card
Design a Switch Fabric Card for a Terabit Enterprise Router
Product sustenance support on Electronic PABX
Design, board bring-up & characterization of a processor card based on the Intel Xeon Processor & its Chipsets

Reengineering ProgramsProduct Sustenance SupportDesign and CharacterizationProduct DevelopmentEngineering Management