Basharat Shah

With over 20 years of experience in product development, I bring extensive knowledge and expertise as a seasoned technical program manager. Throughout my career, I have successfully overseen complex programs and led large teams for major semiconductor OEMs, consistently delivering exceptional customer value. My strengths lie in program execution, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and team leadership across diverse geographies. As the overall leader of the project team, ensure timely delivery of required deliverables, provide technical assistance, and foster skill development. Dedication is rooted in driving customer-centric operations by promoting transparency, integrity, and accountability throughout the organization.

Proven track record of delivering products for Tier-1 telecom OEM's, driving product vision, and life cycle management. Proficient in cost and budget management, as well as procurement management. Recognized for effectively leading project teams, providing technical expertise, and fostering individual growth. Excelled in fast-paced, dynamic environments, having managed complete E2E delivery for leading clients like Apple , Mediatek , Intel , NSN , Motorola , Samsung and PicoChip

Pre Sales & Seeding New Engagements:

• Led Pre-sales and business development for key semiconductor clients. Successfully seeded new customer engagement with Top Semiconductor OEM's (Apple and MediaTek). Negotiated and handled project commercial with customer and internal stakeholders. Currently handling execution and delivery of multiple client projects with team size of 100+ engineers and revenue of more than 10 million USD
• Enabled sales teams to increase win rate and faster transition of opportunities from qualification to conversion.

Client Retention & Sustained Business:

• Sustained revenue for Intel Modem program for 3 consecutive years. All project milestones were rated as above par by client team.

Talent Hunt:

• Led multiple talent hunts including campus drives, lateral hiring, and induction tracks. Expanded the Modem talent pool to cater the scarcity of this Niche skill set. Hiring conversions improved by 25% year on year. Mentored & coached new joiners to become productive and billable within 2-4 weeks time

Excellence in Execution:

• Successfully spearheaded Capgemini Firmware team in Apple iPhone-12/13 development project. This project had multiple internal, external and 3rd party stakeholders. I was key contributor and designated ship captain for CDMA layer 1 team.
• Consistently exceeded targeted customer project KPI's, which are strictly linked to project and revenue milestone

• Certified Connected Manager
• CertifiedEngagement Manager level-1
• Certification in Risk Management from University of California, Irvine
• Certification in Project Planning and Management from University of Virginia
• Agile Certified Leader- Foundation Level
• DevOps foundations: lean and agile
• Ansible Essential

At Capgemini :

• E2E Modem Development
• Client : Meditek, India
• Role : Senior Technical Program Manager
• Project Description : Modem Software development for for 3G/4G/5G Radio technologies. Maintenance and support for 3G/4G/5G for entire product line starting from requirement specification to bug fixing at module level and resolving field and system issues. Planning with multiple teams for integration and timely delivery.
• Responsibilities :
• Responsible for account management and complete E2E delivery including project planning, staffing, risk management, project cost management and internal/external stakeholder management
• Worked on customer RFP's, business sustenance and growth.

At Capgemini (Aricent):

• 3G/4G Modem Firmware Development
• Client : Intel Corporation, India
• Role : Technical Program Manager
• Project Description : New feature development, maintenance and support for 3G/4G Firmware for entire Intel product line.
• Responsibilities :
• Tracking project activities, risk planning/assessment and management & execution to achieve the milestones as per project plan and time schedules.
• Worked on customer RFP's, business sustenance and growth.
• Worked on development and maintenance of 3G top-level Firmware scheduler.

• Development for Multi-RAT Base Station
• Client : NSN
• Role : Senior Technical Lead
• Project Description : Feature development for 2G-3G multimode base station.
• Responsibilities :
• Planning all project activities, scoping, estimation, tracking, change, delivery, post implementation support
• Coordinating between multiple teams for integration and delivery

At L&T Infotech:

• Feature GSM BSS Development
• Client : Samsung, India & Korea
• Role : Technical Project Manager
• Project Description : Development of complete stack, call processing software, simulator development and Integration with third party software components for both BTS and BSC.
• Responsibilities :
• Worked in system architecting (functional split across NEs, H/W and S/W entities), interface design
• Prepared proposals for system improvement
• Finalized requirements and translated the same into LLD & DLD and Software
• Development plans for implementation
• Involved in L1- L2-L3 interface definition, modem integration and modem IOT
• Developed data plane module at BTS

• Physical layer Development for WiMAX Basestation
• Client : Motorola Inc., USA
• Role : Technical Lead
• Project Description : Various features and enhancements for a 4 sector WiMAX base station. The 4 sectored modem used TI 6488 for PHY processing and 8548 powerQUICC III for MAC processing. Led a 20 member team and worked closely with Customer engineers and architects to accomplish project task & milestones
• Responsibilities :
• Developed DAP DUO, OLCC, BIMO and proprietary PHY test tool

• Firmware Development for TVWS Basestation
• Client : Motorola Inc., USA
• Role : Technical Lead
• Project Description : TVWS-micro-AP is a low cost, low power, micro-cell product using the TV Whitespace spectrum (470-698 MHz) in United States and enables the support for the different TVWS Specific features like Cognitive Engine support, Dynamic Frequency Switching. MAC for the TVWS-BS runs on 8548 PowerPC processor and uses Pico-Chip's PC203 based PHY. TVWS- micro-AP is also 802.16e complaint for fixed, nomadic and mobile applications and supports MIMO A and B

• Implementation of AMC 2x3 Sub-channelization on Pico-Chip Platform
• Client : Pico-Chip, UK
• Role : Project Lead
• Project Description : AMC 2x3 is a mandatory feature for wave II certified WiMAX products. The project involved implementation of multi zones, zone-1 supporting PUSC and zone-2 AMC 2x3 type permutation.

• WiSim – WiMAX-LTE: Wireless Physical Layer Simulator for WiMAX and LTE
• Client : L&T, India
• Role : Project Lead
• Project Description : Development of Wireless Simulator from Scratch. This simultor can be used for link level simulations and for new feature development.

• Basharat Shah, Y.V.Rao, “Application of WiMAX in Military Specialized environments”, International conference on Battlefield management system, April 2008 New Delhi, India
• Basharat Amin Shah, Y.V.Rao, Sony Eldhose, Ruppy Vardarajan, “WiSim- A simulation Software Testbed for mobile WiMAX”, 8th Simulation, Modeling and Optimization (SMO-07) conference, Sep 2007 Beijing, China
• Basharat Amin Shah, Y.V Rao, “Design and performance evaluation of LDPC codes for Aeronautical applications”, AICT-IEEE, May 2007, Mauritius
• Basharat Amin Shah, Thanuj kumar, Y.V.Rao “ Throughput improvements for WiMAX system Using Cross layer Design Between MAC and PHY”, The First International Workshop on Cross Layer Design, Sept 2007, China
• Basharat Amin Shah, Vimila Devi, Y.V Rao, “Design Of WiMAX Node Architecture For End-To-End Quality Of Service” WPMC-07, Jaipur, India
• Basharat Amin Shah, D.Jayaram N. Sreenivasulu, “Simulation Study And Performance Evaluation of OFDM Transceiver Subsystems At High Doppler Shift For an Optimal BER” WPMC, Sept 2006, San Diego, USA
• Basharat Amin Shah, M.A.Masnadi Shirazi, A.R.Zolghadrasli, “An OFDM Simulator for Performance analysis of OFDM communication system and Intercarrier interference (ICI) reduction algorithms in OFDM Communication Systems” IST 2005, Conference Sponsored by IEEE, IEE, Iran
• Basharat Amin Shah, Arif. H. Baba, A.R.Zolghadrasli, “Performance Evaluation of Cellular CDMA System Using Smart Antenna with Adaptive Sectoring Method” 4th ACS/IEEE International conference on computer systems and applications, March 8-11, 2006, Sharjah, UAE
• Basharat Amin Shah, M.A.Masnadi Shirazi, A.R.Zolghadrasli, “Comparison of some methods including use of coding for reduction of ICI in OFDM channels” Iranian journal of science and technology, Vol. 4 No.2, July- December 2006