SUMMARY:

• Engineering manager with good experience in delivering end - to-end consumer electronics products with total 17 years of IT experience.
• Managing highly talented engineering team to deliver high end DVR software for TiVo US and international cable operators. 7 years of working experience in TiVo for several projects in Set-top box (STB) middleware and application development.
• Worked on multiple embedded software development projects with specialization in Set­top box, Network media player, Embedded Linux, Device drivers, TCP/IP stack, Board Support Package and Diagnostic firmware development.
• Experience in C and C++ language based embedded software design and development, POCs and architecture. Worked in firmware development for Network security processors, USB, PCI SoCs and development on FPGA. Have good working experience with a wide range of embedded systems tools and development platforms.
• Good working experience in CMMI Level 5 processes, Embedded Software Development Life Cycle - Estimation, Requirement Analysis, Project planning, monitoring and control, Software-Hardware co-design, Software Development, Debugging, Testing and productization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Delivery Manager

Confidential, San Jose

• Managing high end Set-Top box software development scrum teams for TiVo Inc.
• Working as delivery management for delivering new STB Zapper product by coordinating different cross-functional teams for one of the high profile international MSO client.
• Worked as engineering development manager for TiVo's latest UI which is expected to hit market in 2017.
• Hands on experience from understanding the product requirement to developing complex features for STB and working on supporting different MSO customer.
• Working as Scrum master for a highly motivated engineering team which works on feature development for a highly complex software architecture. Have gained good working experience in Agile methodology.

Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose

• Worked as onsite engineering manager in TiVo for Set-Top box software development and coordinated between onsite-offshore development teams
• Designed and implemented Hybrid QAM VOD and PPV features for STB software.
• Hands on working experience in middleware and application development for the STB.
• Have good working experience in Agile methodology and played different roles as Scrum Master/Product owner and team member.
• Worked as program manager for network media player product development.
• Owned the product development from pre-engagement (Proposal, Estimation) to market launch by multi-site, multi-vendor management including certification and productization. This project involved software development from 3 different teams, hardware team and OEM
• Responsible for consolidating the project plans, identifying dependencies/risks and communicating high level project status to higher management and stakeholders by adhering to CMMI processes
• Also managed team of up to 30 engineers for more than two years and delivered on time market launch ready software.

Asst. Consultant

Confidential

• Worked in innovation team which was responsible for creating new product ideas/design specification and acquiring new businesses in embedded space.
• Managed team of engineers for Renasas controllers driver development with project planning, execution and monitoring and owned the project deliveries.
• Led team of 8 engineers for developing firmware and middleware for Consumer electronics product by providing technical mentorship/design and code reviews. Also had a hands-on working experience in requirement analysis,design and coding.
• Experience in direct customer facing for design ownership and driver development for the GE product.

Senior Embedded software Engineer

Moschip Semiconductor Technology Limited, Hyderabad, India

• Responsible for developing diagnostic firmware and device driver development for USB and PCI on Linux and boot loader enhancement for ARM based SOCs.
• Worked in networking protocol stack development for ARM based network SoCs which runs on Linux OS.
• Gathered good experience in ARM processor tools and development environments and ARM Linux
• Closely working with hardware team in debugging and testing of SOC chips during SOC hardware development using FPGA boards
• Driving the team with good documentation for developing diagnostics program for SOC development

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

• Worked in industrial automation domain by designing and developing firmware using TI MSP microcontrollers.
• Worked with well defined processes and direct customer interaction for the regular weekly status updates on the project progress and responsible for the project development.
• Got introduced to CMMI-Level 5 processes and practiced process tenets by working as a process lead who is responsible for configuration management, process documentation and team audits for project deliverables.

Senior R&D Engineer

Confidential

• Designed and developed ADSP-21xx and 8051 based Ophthalmic Medical Equipments and worked in Image processing
• Experience in design of software and individual contributor for software development using C and assembly language
• Experience in software development tools like IDEs, In-circuit emulators, Oscilloscope etc

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Assembly language, C and C++

Domain and Technologies: Set-top box, Multimedia, Networking, JPEG, TCP/IP, Boot loaders and Linux device driver

Embedded Engineering Tools: Embedded IDE Cross compilers, In-Circuit Emulators, Logic Analyzers and Oscilloscopes

SDLC Tools: Perforce, Bugzilla, JIRA, Jama, Scrum works, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, CVS and Mantis

Microprocessors / Microcontrollers: 8 and 16 bit Micro controllers, ADSP and ARM926EJ-S Core