Windriver Workbench 40
Bimal Vinod
Senior Manager (Avionics)
BENGALURU
Summary
A self motivated,12+ years competent Avionics professional experienced in safety & mission critical real time embedded systems , software engineering , systems engineering , System Integration and Verification & Validation. Webpage : https://bimalvinod.github.io/005/
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager (Avionics)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
07.2020 - Current
- Software team lead for the UML based design and development of safety critical software of a Flight Control Computer, for an Optionally Piloted UAV
- Responsible for project planning, resource management, task allocation to team members / mentoring, liasoning with certification agencies for software flight clearance.
- Hands on experience in Avionics Systems Integration, verification and validation in Real Time Simulator(RTS) and Hardware-In-Loop Simulator (HILS)
- Major contributor in formulating the Avionics System Architecture for an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) and in finalizing the software system architecture for the Flight Control Computer (FCC) of a UCAV
- Actively participated in Aircraft / System level Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR) and Critical Design Reviews (CDR)
- Member Secretary of AI task team formed for the development of AI based Technology Development Projects.
Manager (Software Architect)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
BENGALURU
07.2017 - 06.2020
- Experience in system engineering activities for a Flight Control Computer (FCC) of a UAV
- Experience in software design and development using Unified Modelling Language(UML)
- Hands-on experience in software requirement capturing, high level designing, low level designing and code generation using IBM Rational Rhapsody
- Hands-on experience in Real time Embedded Application software development (C/C++) in
- VxWorks-653 RTOS environment as per DO-178C, Hand on experience in communication protocols such as UDP, Arinc-429, MIL-STD-1553 and
- Hardware-Software Integration on a PowerPC based Single Board Computer (SBC).
- Experience in designer level static testing & Requirement based testing using LDRA
- Experience in configuration management and parallel development using IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) tool.
Deputy Manager (Design)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
BENGALURU
01.2014 - 06.2017
- Designed and developed ML based algorithm (in MATLAB) for Hand Gesture recognition using Dynamic Vision sensors (Paper link : https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04667)
- Simulation of various avionics systems required for the software evaluation of Digital Flight Control Computer of a fighter aircraft
- Design and development of Multiple Remote Terminal (Multi-RT) simulation software using C++
- Hands on experience with MIL-STD 1553, RS422 ,DAQ ,Discrete I/O cards etc.
- Designed and simulated a rectangular patch antenna at GPS frequency using an antenna development software
- Involved in a technology development project for Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Ingestion monitoring and prediction
- Major contributor in capturing requirements and formulating the architecture of Next Generation (NG) cockpit suitable for a fighter aircraft
- Member of the committee which formulated the technical specifications of the EMI/EMC chamber with the required instrumentation for LRU level testing as per MIL-STD 461 E/F.
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer
Aircraft Research and Design Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
BENGALURU
12.2011 - 12.2013
- Team lead for assembling ,testing and clearance of an aircraft LRU(Line Replaceable Unit)
- Experienced in Flight Test Instrumentation and monitoring :- Instrumentation of various aircraft systems based on each groups requirements
- Aircraft level hands-on experience of Instrumentation (conceptualization of Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring System ( IVHM ) ) Experience in carrying out the DAILY INSPECTION checks of a trainer aircraft and rectifying the problems if any.
Avionics System Engineer
Strategic Electronics Research, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Hyderabad
12.2008 - 11.2011
- Major contributor in the hardware design, development and testing of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) card for a short range FMCW radar unit.
- Experience in System Integration of Digital and RF portion of the Radar and testing it on the real platform(missile).Involved in the complete Hardware Development.
- Life Cycle right from the schematic design/drawing of the DSP card to the Integration and testing of the full radar unit , ATP(acceptance Test Procedure) clearance , QT(Quality Testing) clearance and the delivery of the units to the end customer
- Got hands on experience in various platforms like MATLAB Simulink , Xilinx ISE and System Generator during design and implementation of several signal Processing blocks (including the Matched Filter of the radar) in Virtex-4 FPGA, The hardware language used was VHDL.
- Towards management side, gained wide experience in dealing with vendors for the procurement of various components required for the development and fabrication of DSP card.
System Engineer
GDA Technologies (An L&T company)
Kochi
08.2007 - 12.2008
- Hands on experience in hardware board bring up, generation of system/hardware specifications as per the customer requirements, customization of the bootloader (U-boot).
Education
Master's degree - Communication and signal processing
Indian Institute of Technology
01.2015 - 01.2017
No Degree - Aerospace Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
04.2009 - 04.2009
B-tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Model engineering college
01.2003 - 01.2007
Skills
System integration
Software Development
Problem-Solving
Requirements management
Verification
System Validation
Certification
AI for everyone (Coursera)
Software
LDRA (Software Test Tool)
IBM Rational Rhapsody
IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM)
IBM Rational Doors
Microsoft Visual Studio
Timeline
Project Management Certification (HAL)
10-2022
Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)-Coursera
08-2022
Aircraft Systems Certification (HAL)
04-2022
AI for everyone (Coursera)
01-2022
Senior Manager (Avionics)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
07.2020 - Current
Manager (Software Architect)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
07.2017 - 06.2020
Master's degree - Communication and signal processing
Indian Institute of Technology
01.2015 - 01.2017
Deputy Manager (Design)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
01.2014 - 06.2017
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer
Aircraft Research and Design Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
12.2011 - 12.2013
No Degree - Aerospace Engineering
Madras Institute of Technology
04.2009 - 04.2009
Avionics System Engineer
Strategic Electronics Research, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
12.2008 - 11.2011
System Engineer
GDA Technologies (An L&T company)
08.2007 - 12.2008
B-tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Model engineering college
01.2003 - 01.2007