Manikandan M

20+ years of hands-on extensive experience in Aerospace & Automotive domain Project Planning incorporating resource, time & Skill level requirements. Stakeholder management, Team Management & Customer Management. Cadence meetings with Customer on Project KPI & Engagements. Relationship building & cross functional interactions with key Stakeholders. Project milestone control, Risk Management, Issue tracking. Selection, conceptualization & feasibility study of Idea, defining specification & preparation of relevant business plan (Customer Segments, Product Positioning, Development strategies, Competitor’s product Benchmarking, Pricing) Present Metrics to Management regarding project health, costs & efforts. Monitor the status of technical resources & tasks. Staffing & recruiting as per project requirement & ensuring team is trained & skilled in using common methodology, tools & processes. Expertise in implementing Product development lifecycle (V-cycle) complying with project timeline, budget & quality. Requirement gathering, Quote preparation, Effort estimation, RFQ, BOM cost estimation, BOM Scrubbing, Process compliance & maintaining quality of the deliverables. Embedded Product Hardware Design and Development Electronics Design, Analysis, PCB layout & routing, manufacturing & assembly, testing, verification & Integration support. Signal Integrity Analysis, Power Integrity Analysis. Support to Software development team for ex. Firmware team for Complex device drivers development & test software team for test software development. Exposure of Agile methodology for project management. My major work area includes handling design & development of Aerospace Interiors products such as Cargo control systems, Power drive units, Electronic Control Units, Instrument clusters/Sensors used in various vehicle platforms like passenger, commercial & off Highway.

• Date of Birth: 23-09-1981
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married
• ID Type: Passport
• ID Number: T3615470

1.Executive program in semiconductor manufacturing and Technology (pursuing)

2.Supply Chain Management professional certification (SCMPro)

3. Post graduate Diploma in IPR

• Provide leadership in directing the efforts of team in development & release of all engineering deliverables in compliance with the product development process & customer expectations.
• Foster an environment conducive to learning & development of skills to generate more opportunities for new assignments.
• Responsible for hiring, training & performance appraisals of direct reports.
• Responsible for quality delivery of the technology solution as per functional requirements & scheduled project timeline.
• Ensure that programs are properly resourced w.r.t staffing & skills.
• Ensure resources in the team deliver core & series development projects while meeting quality cost & time.
• Providing timely feedback to direct reports and responsible for appraising their annual performance
• Drive reuse of building block designs & product architectures in alignment with system architecture team.
• Requirement gathering & defining electrical architecture along with sensors and actuators specifications.
• Identify opportunities of design, feature & functionality.
• High speed Digital System Design & testing.
• Analog and Mixed Signal Design and Testing.
• Co-ordination & working with cross functional departments.
• Interacting with vendors for design feasibility, component development & technical consultation.
• Support root cause analysis of failures found during development process or in production.
• Ensuring Product meets agreed DVP (Design Verification & Validation Plan).
• Signal Integrity & Power Integrity Analysis.
• Support till integration & start of production.