Leadership

• Three decades on experience in Electronics Product Design, Engineering and EMS Industry

• Managed Medical and Avionics product development and manufacture

• Managed in Technology Transfer and NPI process

• Set up the EMC/EMI and Environmental Lab for HCL Technologies

• Selected as one of the 100 influential people in the EMS industry in the world by Venture Outsource.com for the year 2012

• Set up the green field India Design Center for Sanmina Inc. (USA) from scratch in 9 months focusing on product design and engineering in Chennai, India. This Center supported global client requirements. During tenure as head, coached and mentored several engineers & managers on technical, managerial and design for manufacturing aspects. This center also achieved AS9100- Rev C certification,

• Created Product Life Cycle centric service called SToPSS (Sanmina Total Product Support Service) covering post sale support and product withdrawal phases (to meet new Green Standards like WEEE, REACH etc.)

• Built and managed large (600+) business unit for Product Engineering in HCL Technologies Limited. Created the new EMS vertical for supporting Global EMS vendors.

• Created and established three new services;

• Product Engineering Line of service called C2M (Concept to Manufacturing)

• Total Product Lifecycle Sustenance service called ToPS (Total Product Support)

• Value Engineering Service called VAVE (Value Analysis and Value Engineering)

• Responsible for Setting up Automotive, Telecom & Networking Product Engineering Services for HCL Technologies.

• Pioneered the Campus Adoption Program (CAP) for HCL Technologies Limited for the fresh graduate recruitment resulting in quicker deployment and better quality of delivery

• Achieved India’s first ISO 13485 for Medical Design & Development facility of HCL Technologies Limited.

• Responsible for analyst briefing and webinars for Product Engineering Services in HCL Technologies Limited.

Technical

• Embedded Systems Architecture Design (HW & SW)

• Product Engineering (Thermal, Compliance & Mechanical design)

• New Product Development and Product Life Cycle management processes

• Design of fault tolerant architecture for mission critical applications.

• Establishing up facilities for design, manufacturing, testing and certification labs.

• Formulation of techn