Shiv Shankar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India30 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in system architecture.
Expert in embedded systems and ultrasound technology.
Proven track record in leading successful product designs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare Systems Architect with extensive experience in embedded systems and ultrasound technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureEmbedded SystemsChipset DesignSilicon DebugEmbedded HardwareProduct Development

Other Skills

Ultrasound SystemsMentoringTechnology RoadmapCost ReductionSystem ModelingSimulationsPower Sequence VerificationUltrasound DesignCompliance EngineeringRedesignDigital Signal ProcessorsFPGADebuggingTestingEmbedded Software

About

System Architect with 20+ years of diversified global experience in product engineering, system design, hardware engineering and technology innovations. Specialties: -Define the system architecture of Healthcare equipment. -Define multi-generational technology road map -Hardware and Software product design and development. -FPGA design, simulation, synthesis and validation -Design and development of embedded hardware. -Certified six-sigma green belt. Goal - Direct my skills, knowledge and efforts towards growth of industries and benefit of customers. My objective is to lead and design the project/programs to its success. Specialties: Technical Skills: •Experience in complete embedded system HW architecture design. •Experience in embedded processor and DSP based digital and mixed signal embedded board design. •Experience in high-speed front end mixed signal hardware design for Ultrasound system. •Hands on experience of RTL and gate level coding in VHDL language, System C, AHDL, ABEL-HDL programming languages.

Experience

30 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

17 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Philips healthcare

System Architect

Sep 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

System Architect working for Philips Healthcare Ultrasound group.(May 2014 on wards)
Define/Design the architecture for the next generation ultrasound scanners ranging from Premium to Performance Value. The new architecture reduces the number of platforms (S/W, H/W, XDCR) and gain significant developer efficiency and life cycle cost reductions for the business.
Mentor/Coach the junior team members in NPI product design and development activity.
System Architect/Engineer for Philips Healthcare CT group.(Sep 2008 - May 2014)
Participate in Definition of the architecture for the next generation CT scanners and their system modelling and simulations.
Lead Architects core team and guide the team on new technologies and product domains
Plan for competency development in the group as per the technology roadmap of the BIU/Subsystem

System ArchitectureEmbedded SystemsUltrasound SystemsMentoringTechnology Roadmap

Nvidia

Sr System Engineer

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 · 11 mos

Worked on First silicon bring up of MCP77 & MCP79 chipsets in Bangalore. Closely worked with ASIC and BIOS teams in board and silicon debug and stabilizing the platform. Worked on Interface characterization across PVT conditions. [Clock, PCIE, FSB, Memory]. Worked on Chipset Power sequence verification and Chipset Power measurements & wide area testing.
Worked on MCP7A memory interface DDR2/DDR3 design IO delay registers to qualify the design across PVT corners.
Review customer schematics & layout designs for conformance to Nvidia mother board chipset design guidelines.
HW and board debug support for all teams – ASIC, Emulation, BIOS, HWQA and Architecture.
Set Wide area testing setup to validate Chipsets performance across PVT corners.

Silicon DebugChipset DesignPower Sequence Verification

Wipro ge medical systems

Sr Design Engineer

Jan 1996 – Sep 2007 · 11 yrs 8 mos

Major Projects-
Worked as Lead system designer for Design and development of Ultrasound backend sub module for Logiq A3.
Worked as lead designer for Logiq 100 Pro redesign for SRE compliance & EOL[Version 9].
Worked as lead designer for Design of Logiq 100 Pro (Tejas) portable ultrasound scanner.
Worked as lead designer for portable ultrasound scanner for veternary applications.
Worked as lead designer for Logiq100 Pro value engineering projects.
Owned the embedded hardware sub system design and development life cycle for new product introduction (NPI) and do the valuable cost productivity (VCP) on the existing system controllers for Healthcare products.

Ultrasound DesignEmbedded HardwareProduct Development