Experience

Magna International

• Canada
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Engineering, Automated Driving

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Veoneer

• Sweden
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director Engineering

  • May 2019 - Mar 2022

  Responsible for managing the engineering teams and delivery for the Veoneer’s India technology center for Vision Active Safety. Defined key performance indicators for the performance of the India Technology Center. • Achieved an 85% and 90% utilization for engineers and data annotators respectively • Achieved quality and delivery index of 4.5 out of 5 Financial and operational metrics reporting of the India Technology Center. Headcount forecast, variance reporting on a monthly basis, India business related engineering cost management • Forecast accuracy of 95% over the last year • Overall 33% contribution margin for the India business sales Annual performance reviews including annual increment determination. Talent review of the engineering organization with the managing director and HR leadership • 2020 Talent Review, identified two new areas of growth(data factory and Advanced Engineering) and picked individuals with the right set of attributes from the organization for leading these departments Organization transformation leader for creating an agile workforce by people rationalization and partnering • Created partner/supplier measurement KPI’s for CXO level reviews Show less



Valluri Technology Accelerators

• Bangalore

• Sr Manager Technology

  • Apr 2018 - May 2019

  Valluri Technology Accelerators is a smart city technology company providing solutions for urban rejuvenation. Led collaborative efforts with VTA’s partners in identifying prediction and forecasting model’s for air pollution. Technical Architect for feature implementation, visualization and correlating pollution data with health data. Deployed AI and ML algorithms to forecast health outcomes based on air pollution information. Architected and led the development of a web-based decision support software application (Urban Techtonix) • Air Quality visualization • Model/forecast of air quality • Sensor Integration • Health correlation analytics • Integrated traffic information Show less



Technology and Education (Consultant)

• Bengaluru Area, India

• Senior Management

  • Dec 2016 - Mar 2018



Ingersoll Rand

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Of Innovation

  • Jan 2014 - Nov 2016

  Institutionalized the process for taking innovative ideas to commercialization. Underwent a rigorous training on the innovation process and led projects to identify unmet customer needs, segment markets, identify market opportunity, estimate economic value, identify product differentiation, market and technology uncertainties and risk mitigation. Managed a portfolio of projects including• Autonomous low speed shuttle service in a campus environment. Created a hypothesis and passed a commercialization review with the senior leadership team. Interacted with Academia including Clemson University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and IIIT Delhi to develop a concept.• A financial process innovation for the Trane residential business for energy efficiency guarantee. This project was aimed at customers having old inefficient units and customers planning replacements of their AC units.• Radiant Cooling Air Conditioning Systems. Worked closely with the Center for Built Environment, UC Berkeley to understand the comfort and energy benefits of radiant systems to formulate a hypothesis and test it to move the project into an investment stage Show less

• Director, Emerging Markets Controls and Software

  • May 2011 - Jan 2014

  - Responsible for building engineering and technology capability in the area of HVAC and security embedded systems. Hired and managed a team of more than 100 engineers and a partner Mindteck (an outsourcing company) for about 15 engineers.- Responsible for developing new products for the India Market. o Developed the embedded hardware, software and controls development for the Trane Air Conditioning products and Home Automation. Architected the system, identified sensors, designed hardware and embedded software and qualified the system- Responsible for managing the development of new services for the India market o Built a partnership with IBM to develop an IoT solution for remote monitoring of equipment and assets in buildings (HVAC, Lighting Elevators etc.) using BACnet. Architected, developed and qualified the system. Developed AI and ML based service and performance algorithms.- Created and nurtured an electrical engineering group to build End of Line tester.- Built and maintained a robust partner/supplier ecosystem Show less

• Program Manager, Technology Business Development

  • Nov 2009 - May 2011

  Program Managed the strategy prepartion for Ingersoll Rand Electronics and Controls products over a long range period of 2012 to 2016.

• Portfolio and Quality Manager - Software

  • Nov 2008 - Oct 2009

  Responsible for Quality and Business Development for Electronics and Software projects. Have successfully handled multiple projects and a team size of 25.

• Sr Project Leader

  • Nov 2005 - Oct 2008

  Handled multiple projects from a delivery perspective. Built a team of 25 high performing engineers.



Caterpillar Inc.

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Engineer

  • 2001 - 2004

  Worked on creating re-usable software libraries for embedded systems. The embedded systems included a configurable quarter VGA graphical display product which served as a visualization device and a gateway for Caterpillar Engines and Machines. Created these libraries using C, C++ on Linux operating system. Designed few communication protocols during this stint. Worked on creating re-usable software libraries for embedded systems. The embedded systems included a configurable quarter VGA graphical display product which served as a visualization device and a gateway for Caterpillar Engines and Machines. Created these libraries using C, C++ on Linux operating system. Designed few communication protocols during this stint.



HCLTech

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• MTS

  • 1998 - 1999

  Worked on navigation and guidance display systems and communication protocols. Worked for Siemens VDO Worked on navigation and guidance display systems and communication protocols. Worked for Siemens VDO



Aeronautical Development Agency

• India
• Defense & Space
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Trainee

  • Jun 1996 - May 1998

  Created ARINC Monitor a program used to monitor the ARINC 429 bus and create visualizations of the data stream Created ARINC Monitor a program used to monitor the ARINC 429 bus and create visualizations of the data stream