Prabhu B
Specialist - System Design
Chennai
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Specialist - System Design
ZF Commercial Vehicle Control System
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
08.2021 - Current
- system requirement gathering from teams like marketing, product innovation, cloud, verification & validation, operations and customer.
- Breakdown system requirements to Hardware design input and firmware development inputs.
- Work with cross functional teams to meet product regulatory compliance.
- Qualify active & passive components to meet standard, compliance, quality, packaging and BOM cost.
- Design schematics, layouts using tools like altium, Orcad, allegro and review internally and externally with manufacturers to understand design gaps.
- prototype manufacturing, board bring-up, generate test case for verification of hardware & firmware functionality.
- Managed SOP & EOL with respective stakeholders.
- Managed system regulatory qualification like AIS140,CE,Intrinsic Safety.
- Managed Hardware & firmware development activities in NXP, STM32MP1 processors & ATMEL,Microchip microcontrollers.
- Managed system integrations.
Sr.Hardware Application Engineer
Trimble Mobility Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
05.2020 - 07.2021
- Requirement gathering for OEM & aftermarket, gap analysis, risk assessment, solutioning and generating BOM, technical proposal based on existing hardware/third party product & Trimble cloud service modules
- Work with cross functional teams to meet product requirements
- Responsible for hardware design and development in-house / third party design house, hardware integration with backend and field performance validations to meet requirements
- Work on product certification like AIS140,intrinsic safety and other lab validations to meet customer requirements
- Periodic monitoring of systems in place for different customers to understand ongoing and backlog issues to resolve
- Projects:
- Implementation of Driver Behaviour alerts and backend integration
- Intrinsic safety certification for existing hardware platform
- Driver safety Voice Announcement system design & development
- Driver dash cam solutioning & integration
- In-Vehicle navigation Display solutioning with third party design house
- Customer: Ashok Leyland, Lafarge Holcim, HPCL, BPCL
Lead Engineer - System Integeration R&D
Rane telematics4u Private Limited
Bangalore
03.2012 - 01.2018
- Concept and design, Component selection, draft schematics, design analysis, PCB Design, functional testing
- Verify and Validate design through Unit Testing, Design Integration Testing and support System Testing
- Ability to guide embedded firmware developers to develop codes for various controllers & various applications
- Review the Hardware development progress, release and issue tracking
- Work seamlessly with cross functional teams to meet product requirements
- Prepare written technical reports on failure investigations/ physics of failure and present individual results and project progress within business reviews, RCA meetings and other forums within Business
- Projects:
- ADAS integration for passenger car - Intel Mobileye
- Smart Car Controller - BLE Based
- Smart Bike Controller - BLE Based Customer: DHL India, Intel India & Revv Cars, OLA Cabs, Vedanta, Zoom Car, Indus GO
Team Lead - Engineering
Trinity Mobility Private Limited
Bangalore
03.2012 - 01.2018
- Hardware design, board bring up, testing and manufacturing for products like GNSS Device, Asset Tracking GNSS based, Vehicle Gateway, Wi-Fi Nodes for Sensor interface
- Actively take part in deriving product requirements from RFP & participating in POC, architectures, trade-off of design concepts, and configuration management during system development, integration of new systems
- Preparing technical specifications according to business needs; suggesting improvements to existing system designs developing hardware test documents that include test plans, test cases, test design specifications and test procedures
- Developing prototype of each block & test independently, formulating debugging steps; Firmware Bring up; aligning tested blocks at LAB as well as in field set-up
- System optimization in terms of processes, performance & cost
- Review & evaluate the technical aspects of the project to ensure that the systems processes are functioning properly
- Risk management, planning, control & assessment, decision
- Defining job role for the team, monitoring & motivating the team by organizing training workshops to enhance the team’s performance
- Multiple project handling, Team coordination, resource allocation, vendor management
- Component selection, drafting schematic, PCB designing & board bring up & participating in block level testing, generating the test plan & test results
- Actively concentrating in DFM & Failure analysis to reduce flaws in design and functionality
- Actively participating Power budging, component tolerance, endurance, safety, EMI/EMC on design phase
- Closely work with packaging vendors regarding mechanical design to ensure the look and feel of the product
- HW Designs based on Microcontrollers/processors used MSP430F series, intel Quark, ESP8266 Wi-Fi
- Projects: Version 5.0 trinitySKYTRACK end-end product development
- Asset Tracking GNSS Based end-end development
- Vehicle Gateway
- Wi-Fi Nodes
- Customer: Municipal Corporation, Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC), (BCP), Greater Mumbai Police (GMP), Kerala Police
Field Application Engineer
Digi Protek Consulting & Services Private Limited
Bangalore
02.2011 - 03.2012
- Provided pre-sales & after-sales support in acquiring the client by providing POC technical queries on time
- Provide design support like schematic and PCB layout reviews on each phase of the product design to make sure projects meet the timelines and queries answered within the turnaround time
- Engage with client project design phase and capture issues periodically and report to OEM R&D team
- Major OEM handled are ROHM Semiconductor, Seiko Semiconductor, LAPIS Semiconductor, I-wow Wireless.
- Partnered with development team on product development and application support plans.
- Resolved product design, acquisition and launch concerns to achieve customer's targeted business goals.
- Exhibited strong technical aptitude and application expertise resulting in optimized performance, continuous improvement recommendations and product innovation.
- Worked with customers for needs analysis and to determine vendor costs.
Jr. Product Development Engineer
Solvics Private Limited
Coimbatore
02.2006 - 09.2007
- Undertaking Engineering Changes involving PCB layout, updating schematics and appropriate documentation required by the change process
- Create Parts libraries and footprint libraries for Cadence OrCAD v9.0 capture and Layout Plus
- Generate Gerber files for PCB fabrication and Work with PCB fabricators to resolve DFM or other manufacturing related issues
- Selection of Active, Passive and electrical components for the product design
- Create PSPICE simulation for analogue circuits
- Create a test plan for prototype boards and raise red flags if any issues are observed on test
- Create and maintain technical documents like test cases, functionality, Bill of Material, PCB mounting procedures, complete documentations for the production department
- Periodic review with the production department to hear for any process issues
- Periodic review with customer support team to hear for field issues
- HW designs based on Atmel 8051, Analog Devices ADuC Series, Renesas R5F Series.
Education
Bachelor of Engineer - Electronics & Communication
Kodaikanal Institute of Technology
Kodaikanal 2007.08 - 2010.05
Diploma - Electronics & Communication
Christ The King Polytechnic College
Coimbatore 06.2002 - 05.2005
Skills
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Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 5 staff members.
- received recognition for the excellent contribution in the Product Engineering projects in Q1 2022. (Beyond Boundaries Award)
Timeline
Specialist - System Design
ZF Commercial Vehicle Control System
08.2021 - Current
Sr.Hardware Application Engineer
Trimble Mobility Solutions India Pvt Ltd
05.2020 - 07.2021
Team Lead - Engineering
Trinity Mobility Private Limited
03.2012 - 01.2018
Lead Engineer - System Integeration R&D
Rane telematics4u Private Limited
03.2012 - 01.2018
Field Application Engineer
Digi Protek Consulting & Services Private Limited
02.2011 - 03.2012
Bachelor of Engineer - Electronics & Communication
Kodaikanal Institute of Technology
2007.08 - 2010.05
Jr. Product Development Engineer
Solvics Private Limited
02.2006 - 09.2007
Diploma - Electronics & Communication
Christ The King Polytechnic College
06.2002 - 05.2005
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