Isaac Duthie
Director - Engineering
Bangalore
Summary
Technology & Delivery excellence leader with broad experience in leading Multi-disciplinary. Engineering organization in Aerospace, Embedded, Safety critical systems. Excellence in building and managing geographically-distributed teams for Delivery, program Management , P&L, Employee/ Customer Satisfaction. Expert in growing organizations from single digit head count to few hundreds with startegic roadmap, delivery excellence and staff development.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Director - Engineering
Collins Aerospace
10.2009 - Current
- Responsible for global engineering centers in India, Poland and Puerto Rico to drive sustainable aviation initiatives and develop best cost products and solutions
- Lead Engineering, Program management, Supply chain, Quality, Employee Pipeline management & development
- Held increasing responsibilities from engineering manager to current role while growing with organization
- Delivered NPI & Technology Development programs through quantitative Project management and delivered quality products within the schedule/ cost drivers
- Developed product, Technology & Competency road maps & established growth and competitive positioning. Developed modular-reuse strategy to gain the NRE & Time to market advantage
- Developed strategies to increase business foot-print in India through Systematic identification of Technology/ Project areas & generated proposals and won projects. New areas include the MBSE, Data Analytics, Power Electronics, Connected eco-system
- Delivered products from requirements to certification & production ramp-up in the domains of Avionics, Sensors, Connected Aviation Solutions, Power & Control systems
- Created software productivity tools group and developed number of tools to support business
Solution Delivery Head
Wipro Technologies
02.1998 - 10.2009
- Responsible for P&L, Customer Satisfaction, Quality, Staff hiring and development. Driven Task forces for salvaging Red projects, operations improvements
- Noteworthy accomplishments include growing accounts from $ 1M to $ 10M in 2 years in Embedded systems
- Driven Operational excellence and metrics based management across team. Handled T&M, Turn-Key, SLA Based, Service based Project Models
- Handled pipeline management operations for Business Unit having 3000 people and improved OM
Senior SW Engineer/Technical Lead
Polaroid India Pvt. LTD
04.1997 - 02.1998
- Part of the initial 3 member seed team to start Polaroid Operations in India
- Handled Embedded development group and reported directly to Director at USA
- Developed USB Photo Printer, Color Shot and ramped up team to 35.
Project Lead
HCL HP R&D/ HCL Technologies
02.1996 - 04.1997
- Involved in design and development of Dual Pentium processor based mother board, BIOS porting and performance validation and release of server
- Handled team to verify MIPS processor instructions set as per timing cycle definition.
Deputy Manager (Designs)
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Avionics Design Bureau
08.1988 - 02.1996
- Designed & developed Displays, Navigation systems, processor cards for controller, DSP card for error correction, implemented Filter selection schemes for High power, Optical isolators for data-link
- Developed multiple products (Data Link, HF Antenna Tuner, Power Amplifier Sensors, Filter Selection schemes, GPS systems, FSK modems etc.) and qualified them for various environmental conditions and certified them for Aircraft flying.
- Developed embedded software for displays, antenna turning algorithms, 1553B controllers, and Navigation software for GPS, error control algorithms,
- correlators, DSP software for ASDP 2100, TMS 320X25, motor drive controllers, diagnostics software etc.
Education
M.Tech - Digital Systems & Computer Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad 01.1992 - 01.1994
B.Tech - Electronics Engineering
Madras Institute Of Technology, Anna University
Madras 01.1985 - 01.1988
B.Sc - Physics
Scott Christian College, Madurai Kamaraj University
Nagercoil 01.1982 - 01.1985
Skills
Sig Sigma Black BeltDomain: Avionics, Defense, Safety Critical Systems, Product Engineering, Embedded Systems, Telecom, Consumer Electronics
Verticals: Aerospace & Defense - 20 years, Embedded Systems - 25 years, Product Engineering - 25 years, Consumer Electronics - 2 Years, Telecom - 10 Years
Geos': USA, Poland, Puerto Rico, UK, France, Canada, Europe, India
Disciplines Managed: Electronics, Software, Systems, Mechanical, Analysis, Program Management, SCM, Quality, FPGA, Data Analytics,Test systems, Software applications, IT
Discipline: Indirect - HR, Finance, Quality, Supplier & Partner managementHardware: Avionics hardware, Displays, Controllers, Microprocessor based system Designs, Displays, 1553B interface, Sensors, Signal conditioning, USB, 1394, ATM, FR, Routers, DSLAM, FTTH, Multi-service Switches, Firmware Development, DO-254 & DO-160 certificationsSoftware: Safety Critical software development for Do-178, 1553B, ARINC, CAN, Data Link protocols, Error correction, GPS, Display systems software, Assembly language programming - 8751, 8086, 80186, DSP - ADSP 2100, TMS 320C25 Firmware development, Boot software, Diagnostics software, Vx-Works, Linux based & IDE based developmentTimeline
Director - Engineering
Collins Aerospace
10.2009 - Current
Solution Delivery Head
Wipro Technologies
02.1998 - 10.2009
Senior SW Engineer/Technical Lead
Polaroid India Pvt. LTD
04.1997 - 02.1998
Project Lead
HCL HP R&D/ HCL Technologies
02.1996 - 04.1997
M.Tech - Digital Systems & Computer Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.1992 - 01.1994
Deputy Manager (Designs)
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Avionics Design Bureau
08.1988 - 02.1996
B.Tech - Electronics Engineering
Madras Institute Of Technology, Anna University
01.1985 - 01.1988
B.Sc - Physics
Scott Christian College, Madurai Kamaraj University
01.1982 - 01.1985