Aug 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Jun 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Sr. Manager @ BL Secure Transaction and Identification. Managing projects on embedded secure identification , mobile payments, IoT , MIFARE.

Nov 2015 – May 2016 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Infotainment Program manager at TCS responsible for planning and delivery of premium infotainment SW features for Jaguar Land Rover car lines.
• Key responsibilities and contributions:
• Self-Learning Car data sniffer (Fixed Price Project) : Collaborative and iterative requirements specification and sign off with customer .Proof of Concept delivery done.
• Planned and delivered one of critical feature (Dual View display) to provide independent infotainment view to the passenger (Zone 2) and driver (Zone 1)

May 2007 – Nov 2015 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Had the pleasure to be part of enriching journey of mergers, acquisitions and separations during these 8+ years . Started as Tech lead at NXP and went on to play various roles like Scrum Master, Agile deployment lead, project manager and program manager, program product owner at NXP, ST Ericsson & Ericsson.
• System SW Project Manager /Program Product Owner managing multiple system components like RTOS (OSE), platform Boot , BootROM , Storage , ARM Cores(A7, R4) , IPC(LLI, PCIe , USB2.0/HSIC,USB3.0/SSIC), RIL , AT , Modem-Host interfaces , power management , logging , tools etc.
• Key responsibilities and contributions:
• Managed budget > $6M and 10 cross-functional team with 40+ engineers
• Product/Feature & Story backlog ownership from Program perspective. Planning, design to execution & release executed using Scaled Agile and Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) principles
• Planned and secured timely reference platform bring up with platform boot enabled within 2 days of HW arrival, ARM A7 dual core boot was done first time.
• Scrum Master –Sweden(on LTA ) M74XX was ST Ericsson’s multimode modem with LTE, WCDMA, GSM and TD RAT support. I was responsible for modem CoreSW project catering to RTOS (OSE), power, boot, memory management, storage, logging etc. Took up the responsibility while been deputed at Lund, Sweden.
• Quickly ramped up in Core SW domain and lead highly skilled team of system experts and further strengthened the team
• Execution was the keyword with emphasis on securing timely and quality delivery to de-risk any further delay to Modem program schedule
• Instrumental in initiating and executing agile ways of working in the team, served as scrum master for two teams, adopted Kanban and Scrum-ban methodologies respectively to address varied organizational needs
• Project Manager - Modem Integration (ST Ericsson) Windows Phone 8, Android OS & Symbian OS

Aug 2004 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Worked on multiple projects with design and development of Media-Tek Framework, some of the key contributions were
• Jataayu’s WAP-MSS integration with Media-Tek framework ,OMA & Nokia OTA client provisioning for profile handler (WAP & MMS)
• Call Cost Application for an FWP handset,launched by Airtel
• Contributed significantly in a project to create low-memory GSM mobile phone designed for Low-end market.
• o This included feature reductions, UI level modifications, Code & Memory optimization, LCD compatibility related changes i.e. Mono mode & smaller size support (96x64)
• Integration of T9, Zi support (3rd Party Input Modules) & multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese and Thai languages.) Support in Mobile MMI

Nov 2003 – Jul 2004 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Design and implementation of CSTA (Computer Supported Telecommunication Application) Phase 2 and interface with CORAL PBAX. Developed ACSE (Association Control Service Element) and ROSE (Remote Operation Service Element) protocols, ASN.1 and BER impacts.
• Involved in Internal SMS C (Short Message Service Center) Implementation for EPBAX to enable SMS facility , designed and implemented application to interact between the main processor (MPC 860) and DSP using 89c51 micro controller consisting of interface between DSP-micro controller and MPC 860 –micro controller.
• Adapted Vxworks routines to the RTXC (RTOS) routines.