U B Pampapathi

• Coaching, Mentoring & Leading the teams responsible for ensuring engineering product compliance by implementing applicable legal technical regulatory requirements for Vitesco products. Following are the the functional areas covered: Cybersecurity & Privacy, Vulnerability incident management, Functional Safety, HV Safety, Open Source, OBD/Emissions, Sustainability and Material Compliance, Homologation & type approval.
• Created & implemented footprint for India from scratch for product compliance in alignment with global TCM org & local business needs
• Interface from India for roll-out of technical compliance process/methods/tools, clearing incidents/concerns from OEM’s for local business
• Successfully deployed Process/Methods/Tools for Open -Source Software License Compliance
• Responsible for overall budget & resource management for the department
• Lead efficiency measures, continuous improvement measures, new ideas, customer focused practices.

Leading the teams responsible for development of BSW applications for European and Asian OEMs involving international and multi culture cooperation.

Involved in fostering efficiency and driving Base SW applications teams responsible for:

• 3rd party COMSTACK configuration and integration in TRESOS/GENy, Network Management, Presentation Layer mapping, Signal diagnosis, MCAL IO configuration, MEMSTACK configuration, Project specific requirements for signature, Update of BSW drivers, DCM, MCRP
• Requirement Engineering, Verification, Validation, Quality Assurance, Ensuring ASPICE BP’s for the work products, FT, FSW activities.

People Management:

• Selection and coaching / mentoring team leaders / developers, Ensure successful onboarding and quick ramp-up of the resources.
• Define performance objectives of the team members and responsible for their career development.
• Identify critical competency needs/gaps and bridge the needs through int./ext. trainings / live project hands on with support from expert location.
• Ø Ensure good cooperation and collaboration with stakeholders (in./ext. customers)

Process Management:

• Drive process output to committed results (Productivity, Timeliness, Quality, Software maturity, Customer satisfaction)
• Engage team in continuous improvement programs / Efficiency topics / LLBP / PA effectiveness.

Program Management:

• Deliver best-in-class project results to internal and external customers in order to delight them and continuous customer engagement.
• Develop highly creative and independent project managers who strive for excellence and can be successful.
• Foster a culture of promoting excellent results, high re-use of good solutions, learning from and helping each other.
• Make people go the ""extra mile"" to keep their commitments or solve a hard customer problem.
• Bring-in agile culture in teams, Task planning, Milestone planning, JIRA Issues tracking, Systematic tracking of IMS open items, anticipate risks in advance and manage them effectively.

Strategy:

• Contribution towards BU ES strategy for planned ASPICE assessment for Mahindra G20 Project w.r.to Gap analysis, Coaching team with respect to base practices and process outcomes. Project was assessed for target CL2 and outcome was CL1.94.
• Driving paper presentations related to comstack optimization, Test Automation from BLR teams during INGEST 2020.

• Defining the roadmap for FRP implementation for function development teams and regular tracking of the progress with the multipliers
• Coaching and training the department Rollout responsible (Multipliers) for FRP using IPE-Flow, deploying FRP method and resolving any blockers.
• Interface with the tools team to enhance tool for any specific use cases based on feedback from users.
• Coaching agile practices in Resource planning
• Establishing FRP method for special use cases within the projects
• Establish and synchronize with multiplier network for best practices sharing and enhance the method for special use cases

• ASPICE Process and Methods consultancy support for development projects
• Gap Analysis: ASPICE Process Conformance check against the defined base practices for Engineering, Support and Quality process areas, Tracking and closure of gaps
• Definition and Evaluation of KPIs for ASPICE Assessment in collaboration with KMC
• Regular tracking of SuperOPLs from Gap analysis via Burn down charts and Department wise Reporting of ASPICE Assessment Preparedness to Steering committee
• Active participation in Pre and final ASPICE assessment for Customer projects for various OEMs
• ASPICE Reverse Engineering Planning, Work Package Prioritization, Effort & Budget Tracking, Regular tracking of planned work packages
• Support for ASPICE Rollout across all Projects catered to various OEMs.

Technical lead For Base Software modules consisting of the topics: Voltage regulator drivers, Power stage drivers, Memory Layout, System control, Diagnostics, Reset, BootBlk, EEPROM & Communication Protocols & Involved in following activities

• Interface to customer in Germany for gathering requirements in Base SW
• Milestone Delivery planning, Package Road map preparation
• Budget proposal, resource planning, QG planning, Performing PDC
• Deriving Project metrics based on Department Goals and tracking and monitoring Project metrics through PDCA
• Goal setting for the reporting team members and conducting final performance review and development plan for the TMs
• Definition and Implementation of Kanban for the Project to bring efficiency at work
• Task scheduling and tracking using MS office
• Timely analysis and evaluation of project risks, risk mitigation and contingency plan

Base SW project lead responsibilities:

• Platform Package responsible for the component DEDia (Device Encapsulation Diagnostics), road map planning, Gathering, and implementing diagnostic requirements from various OEMs, Customer Query handling
• Worked on Gasoline specific device encapsulation diagnostics for powerstage and H-bridge functionality

Responsibilities as PQA:

• Trend analysis for both internal & delivered defects and identifying common root cause for the defects, Conducting & moderating Root cause analysis (CAR) for reported defects & accordingly defining corrective and preventive actions & tracking defined measures through PDCA & Sharing LLBP’s across projects
• Support for Project Plan review & Milestone review, assist in defining Q- metrics, Tracking and closure of 8D’s Conducting Work Product Audit, Configuration Audit and Learning Audit Regular reporting to Management w.r.to health of the Project Quality Planning and performing Pre-delivery Checks and QGs Moderated Quality Awareness campaign in the projects to un-earth defects

SpJM for Ford Fiesta programs in Customer Engineering Projects responsible for:

• Ensuring the aspects “on time”, “on spec/quality” and “on budget” Planning and monitoring of the Project specific ECU Resource consumption and tracking, Performing runtime measurement
• Direct interface with customer for requirement clarification, Release plan, SW Freeze, ensuring hex neutrality, Creation of Program stand
• Performing PDC and delivery of the SW for further system tests and calibration
• Planning and tracking QA measures in the project Hex dump analysis for field issues reported
• Co-ordination with function team for the SW implementation of the requirements from customer Analysis w.r.to applicability of the reported Platform issues for customer project under responsibility

Software developer in Customer Engineering Projects for Daimler, JLR and Ford responsible for:

• Development of application software which includes customer specific software along with Bosch standard software
• Involved in Analysis, design, coding, Preparation of Unit & Integration test strategy, Unit and Integration testing (in Open Loop Labcar) of Software requirements from end customer for Engine Control Unit of passenger cars
• Ensuring traceability of the requirements between various phases of RDCT
• Expertise on the development environment w.r.to Software Build process, Loaders, Linkers, Compiling process and makefiles
• Support for peer reviews of the work product
• Support for independent testing of the modules developed by other developers
• Integration of functions developed from function team and resolving interface issues in clarification with function team and preparing SW for delivery tests.