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Successful, self-motivated engineering professional with extensive experience working within teams, supervising technical personnel, and exceeding technical design and development goals and objectives. Extensive Hands-on experience in the area of Electronics, Computer Engineering and Embedded Systems Hardware and Software for applications in Data-communication and Process Automation industries. Areas of expertise include extensive industry knowledge, practical experience in the developing, maintaining, and improving engineering processes, and excellent interpersonal communication.

• As a member of team designing the Next-generation chipsets for multi-port Central Office modem, designed and developed 3 different software Development Platforms. They are based on ADSP-2191 and ADSP-21535 Blackfin DSPs in multi-processor architecture. The on-going project is a PowerPC MPC8260 based platform to be used as Management Entity controller for all Evaluation boards and Reference designs.
• Worked with Altera s FPGAs ACEX 1K and APEX II , designed board level interfaces: Top-down digital system design, simulation and verification using Quartus II tool Verilog .
• Designed Reference/Demo board of Integrated Voice and Data multiport CO modem, using current ADSL chipsets and telephony chipset.
• Responsible for designing HW systems, schematic entry ViewDraw , Board design for signal integrity of High Speed Bus, debug and test.

• System Design: Worked with the customer to finalize the interfaces, specifications and project schedule of material handling Robot. Configured PC/104 boards to meet system requirements of new product. The axis control is achieved through motors controlled by four DSPs TMS320C40 .
• Embedded real time software development: Developed and debugged supervisory software for 80386 system, running under VxWorks RTOS for robot trajectory planning and execution, model torque computation, wafer mapping and motor phase angle estimation.

• Lead a team of 4 design engineers. Initiated discussions with the customer to finalize the specifications and schedule of a microcontroller based Versatile Process Unit supporting HART protocol for network and Web-enabled , which mediated different functions required for the HVAC applications. Designed the system hardware and software architecture , schematics and boards. Worked on integration, debugging and demonstration.

• I was a senior technical person of this company, which had many standard products and also specialized in custom-designed projects in computerized Process Automation. Holding various positions, I executed over 20 projects.
• Project management and Customer liaison: Lead the teams of 4-6 design engineers for custom-built projects.
• Designed the systems HW and SW architectures of 14 custom designed projects. Worked on designing of standardized PCBs, debug and testing. Also developed 10 critical firmware modules, in Assembly and C.
• List of major projects: Data Acquisition & Analysis System, Group Alarm Display, Computerized Pump Test System, ATE to test Motor Starters and ATE to test Contactors, Smart Transmitter, Data Acquisition & Analysis System for Dehydration Process, ATE for Testing Assembled PCBs: Total 8 Projects , 24 Zone PID Controller with Datalogging and PC interface, Four Zone PID Controller.

This is an American Joint Venture Company manufacturing Microprocessor based Automation Products and Accessories. Joined this startup company from its inception with the complete responsibility of running it s entire technical operations. Worked on various Projects and managed groups of Engineers. Covered liaison with US Collaborators on all the technical matters, re-engineering of the products, R & D of new products, Analog/Digital circuits & boards, Assembly/C Programming.

Worked on Motorola 68B09 based instruments for Analysis of molten Cast Iron and precise measurement of Temperature of molten Steel, C.I. Aluminum in furnace/ladles for Steel Plants and Foundries. PID Controllers, Scanners and 68HC05 based special type of Indicators.

Worked out specifications, System Design, Commissioning, Customer support, technical documentation of various turn-key Instrumentation Projects using Sensors/Actuators, Dataloggers, PID Controllers and PCs. System Design of Software packages in C for database generation and Analysis of Process Parameters Trending, Histograms, Alarm Analysis using these instruments in Network.

• Started career with Digital Systems Division of Space Agency and designed Digital data-communication systems for Space Satellites and custom ATEs. Responsible for the design, manufacture, testing and operations of Telemetry and Telecommand Systems PCM Communication and ATEs.
• On-board Command Control Unit to switch on/off the Cameras to get maximum data coverage of low orbit Bhaskara I and II Remote Sensing Satellites.

• Hardware Proficiency: Digital, Analog and Mixed Signal systems design, ADC/DACs, Communication and other Peripheral Devices, High Speed bus interface, Schematic Design and Capture, Board Design using latest CAD tools includingLayout/Artwork/Fab/Assembly ,Testing, Debugging and documentation. Experience on Real Time Operating Systems and Software/ Firmware Design.

• Microprocessors/Microcontrollers/DSP: 8/16/32 bit processors system design. Hands on experience with Analog Devices DSPs, Intel/ Motorola Microprocessor/ Microcontrollers. Worked with following processors: ADSP-2191, ADSP-2192, ADSP-21535 Blackfin , MPC8260 PowerPC , 16C74, 8085, 8086, x86, Z80, 68B09, 68K, 68HC05, 68HC705KJ1, 68HC08, 68HC11/16, 8051/52, 80C535/537, 89C51, 80C320, 80386 & many others.

• FPGA/CPLD: Altera s ACEX 1K and APEX 20K families Interfaces and programming , Lattice PLDs and PALs.

• Development Tools: Innoveda s ViewDraw Schematic capture/ analysis Assemblers, C Cross-Compilers, Simulators, In-circuit Emulators, Logic Analyzers, Various PC based designing /debugging tools, Digital/ Storage Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers and many Test and Measurement Instruments, MS-Access, MS-Project, PVCS

• Languages: Assembly, C, C++, Verilog/ VHDL.

• Operating Systems/RTOS: MS-DOS, Win 95/98/NT, VxWorks, pSOS, OS-9

• System Design: Digital Data Communication, xDSL, PHY interfaces of USB, Ethernet, UART, IEEE-488, RS-232/422, RS-485, MULTIBUS, VMEbus, PCI and similar serial as well parallel ports/ buses for data exchange and their drivers. Process Automation applications include FIELDBUS Systems Industrial Networking

• Monitoring and Controlling Field Instruments having connectivity to PCs over standard Networking Protocols and Data Acquisition Systems and SCADA. Knowledgeable on different Industry Standards and QA procedures.

• Good Knowledge on: Telecom and Internet Technology, ADSL/xDSL, ATM and IP Networks, IEEE/ITU Standards and OSI Models And many Industry Standards in my area.

• Leadership and customer support: Assessment and execution capability to work independently on a project from scratch to finish by using proper techniques and tools. Coordinating with the team members effectively and guiding the junior members, Documentation, Technical writing Data sheets, Application Notes, Manuals, Design Reports etc. , pre-sale and post-sale Customer support/ demos/ training.

Four-year Bachelor of Engineering Degree with Honors in Electronics and Telecommunications from University of Pune, India.

16 Design Ideas and 10 articles in technical journals. Participated in several technology conferences and shows, representing my company.

Senior Embedded/Hardware Engineer or Manager Design/Application
Permanent position/ long contract preferred : H1B visa transfer required

REFERENCES: Available on request.