Resume 14

Seeking a lead role in the area of embedded system development.

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In addition to Software and hardware development current responsibilities include:

• Lead a group of Software and Hardware Engineers and other resources including external 3rd party developers, contract manufacturers.
• Manage the development and life cycle of all products from prototype to production to delivery including cost/benefit analyses,Design, development, documentation, launch and maintenance of both new and existing products.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales
• Evaluate new technologies and make proactive recommendations to influence the company s strategic product direction.
• Setting engineering priorities and schedules.
• Recruiting and training a technical team.

Leading the team in design and development of World s first Energy meter that enables user to communicate with the meter using internet protocols and includes built in HTTP, FTP servers and email and DHCP clients. The board is designed around Netsilicon s NET+15 Chip with ARM7 32 bit RISC processor core. The processor communicates with the meter using ANSI C12.18 protocols over serial port and connects to LAN with 10/100T Ethernet.

The hardware development involved designing the board that can withstand temperature range of -40 to +85 C with low power consumption and fits in a space of 2 X 3". The Ethernet interface is designed to provide 2.4kV isolation, since this is the integral part of the meter.

Software development involved the development of embedded HTTP server, email client, DHCP client and FTP server applications, device drivers for Ethernet, FLASH,EEPROM etc., device initialization and POST routines and Socket communications using extensive multi-threaded programming in C on TreadX OS. Wed server involved the development of dynamic HTML pages with XML data islands, Forms to setup and reconfigure meter, email and FTP.Email application is designed to send periodic and alarm reports to the user. It is also designed to receive emails to modify the setup information or reply the email with meter data.

FTP is provided for the user to retrieve large amount of data such as load profile in a file format.

Lead the team in design and development of state-of-the-art revenue grade energy meter for remote utility electricity metering applications. It s a first of it s kind in providing 0.2 Class accuracy and open communication protocols and data tables ANSI C12.18, C12.19 and C12.21 . Meter features optical port and telephone modem as means of communication for data gathering.

Development of this meter eventually led to the acquisition of the company by AES Corporation, the world s largest independent power producer.

The project involved the design and development of hardware using NEC s 32 bit RISC Processor 70F3003A, Atmel s DSP and ADC and designing of various custom components including LCD display, On-board power supply with input range of 60 to 320 Volts, Current transformers with 0.1 accuracy and linearity over the range of 0.1 to 200 Amps. This product is designed to operate over the temperature range of -40 to +85oC and meets all the requirements of ANSI C12.20 standards.

The software development involved the extensive real-time programming in C and assembly for the implementation of proprietary OS involving development of real-time kernel and ISR s and device drivers for reprogramming of in-built FLASH, Optical port, EEPROM with SPI and Telephone modem etc. and API s and application development for the implementation of ANSI C12.19 tables for the data transport, ANSI C12.18 and C12.21 protocol stack and complex algorithms to measure energy quantities in four-quadrant, configurable Time of use tariff structures and calendars and load profile metering. Software development also involved the development meter configuration and programming software Meter Wizard in VB and VC++ to run on PC and communicate with meter using optical port or modem.

Project involved the development of Multi-Processor high speed and high accuracy power measuring system with on-board Telephone modem for Remote Automatic Meter Reading.

The hardware is designed around two Processors, one for measuring and processing of Active Power, Reactive Power, Frequency, Voltage and Active and Reactive energy information and the second Processor for storing and transmitting data to the Central System.

The software development involved the extensive real-time programming for measurement, error correction, display and communication.

Acyuta is a low cost, real time, multi-channel, multi-tasking meter reading system with on-board Telephone modem and Two Way Pager interface. This system facilitates the reading and transmission of load profile data from electric, gas and water meters. It can also be used to perform the remote load management functions.

The project involved the hardware and software development and implementation of the innovative REFLEX, 2 - WAY Pager technology.

Project involved the design and development of hardware and software and adoption and the Implementation of Power Line Communication technology to facilitate communication between the Data loggers and the Master.

DLCP is designed to count pulses from various electric, water and gas meters, transmit this Information to Master for storing and processing the data.

Hardware was design around DS2550 microprocessor and Intellon s Powerline Interface module.

Software involved implementation of EIA / IS-60 Standard protocols for CE - Bus power line communication. Real time Kernel development for the implementation of physical and application layers of data acquisition and communication.

This project involved the design and development of hardware and software for 16 - channel Analog and 8 - channel digital data acquisition system with on-board Telephone modem to communicate with the central data processing system.

Hardware development involved design and development around Dallas Semiconductor s DS2250 Processor, Analog data acquisition with high speed 16 bit A/D converter.

Software involved development of code for Processor management, data acquisition, data logging and communication with Telephone modem.

This project involved hardware and software development for an advanced multi-channel, Multi-axis COMPUTER NUMERIC CONTROLLER CNC system, built-in PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER PLC and colour CRT display for MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE, graphics for dynamic axis display and user program simulation. System consists of two CPU cards, designed around Motorola s MC68020 Microprocessor, communicating over a high speed serial link. The Master CPU board is responsible for MMI, PLC and Slave CPU Board for controlling axes movement. Support logic and colour palette is designed using the XILINX EPLD. Color Graphic Card is designed around Hitachi s 65484 Graphic Processor. Firmware development involved routines for CANNED CYCLES, MMI, real time process display,graphics simulation and PLC input/output control routines.

This project involved hardware design & development of a stand alone single axis motion controller with built in PLC for transfer line applications like textile printing, paper cutting and special purpose machines for the rubber tire industry.

Project involved design & development of hardware around the 8085 Processor and firmware development for axis position display resolution 1 micron . The feedback device is a linear optical encoder.

This project involved two phases of development. In the first phase a CPU card was designed around the 68000 Microprocessor to control the complete operations of a CNC controller including axes movement, PLC and MMI. In the second phase of development a remote intelligent keyboard interface was developed around the 8051 Microcontroller, which communicated with the main system over a RS232 link.

Project involved the hardware design & development of a special DRO for GROSSENBACHER of SWITZERLAND. As a part of the development program, training on maintenance and troubleshooting was imparted to engineers at M/S GROSSENBACHER.

Project involved technology absorbtion from ADOLPH NUMERIC CONTROLS U.K., hardware modification and manufacture of 5 axes CNC controller for the Indian market. The hardware modification included the redesign of the 68000 CPU, digital I/O, Analog output and feedback interface cards.

Project involved hardware and firmware design & development. The hardware was developed around the 8085 Processor. The resolution of the measuring instrument was 1 micron. The feedback device is a linear incremental encoder.

Project involved hardware design & development of a low cost CNC controller with LED display. The hardware is designed around 8085 Microprocessor.

Project involved hardware, firmware and software design & development of a recorder module to record the speed of trains. The hardware was designed around the 8085 Microprocessor. The feedback element is a proximity sensor. Extensive software was written for monitoring system to monitor and analyze recorded data at a loco shed.

Project involved hardware and firmware design & development for an 8051 Microcontroller based axle counter for monitoring the train movement.

Project involved hardware design & development of Automatic Thyristorised Battery Chargers of various ratings from 24 Volts/10 Amps to 110 Volts/25 Amps.

7/1986 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY India-AP-HYDERABAD
Bachelor s Degree
BS ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICTION ENGINEERING

• Project Management: Lead a team in design, development of products from concept to production. Activities include Customer Interface, Requirements Analysis and Specification, Software Design,Hardware Design, Packaging including Plastic Mold Design, Coding, Resource Estimation, Risk Management,Preparation of project proposals and Business plans, Delivery Schedules, Project Tracking and Subcontract Management.

  Lead a team in design and development of modular embedded software algorithms and verification.

• Design, development and implementation of real time embedded software for Industrial Controllers,Energy Meters and Internet Connected Devices.

• DSP/Microprocessor/ Micro-controller firmware/software development using Assembly and C language for 32/16/8 bit controllers. Digital and Analog hardware and device drivers.

• Implementation of Structured Design Analysis and Methodologies.

• Hardware Tools: JTAG, OCDemonWiggler, 68000,8085In-circuit emulators, NEC 850 Development tools Logic Analyzer and Oscilloscopes.

• Processors: ARM7, NET+15, NEC s 70F3003, 68020, 68000, 8051, 8085

• RTOS: NET+OS, ThreadX, VxWorks, DOS

• Software tools: Green Hill s Multi-2000, NEC s SM850, ID850, Development Tools and 68K C Cross compiler & assembler from IMS, USA. 8051 assembler & C compiler from AVOCET, USA

• Languages: C, C++, VC++ , VB, HTML, XML.

• Design Tools: ORCAD. SolidWorks, XILINX EPLD, FPGA design tools and ABEL HDL

• Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, POP3, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, PPP, ARP, ANSI C12.18/21, CE-BUS and REFLEX