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PRAMOD ANANDA

Independent Consultant
Bengaluru

Summary

Looking forward for an opportunity to work in executive leadership roles where I can leverage my technical and non-technical ability in end-to-end product development and electronic manufacturing services. Looking forward to work in areas of technology development for Aerospace, Automotive and reference designs for SOCs from tier-one semiconductor companies. Career Highlights : Over 21 years experience. Highly proficient in managing teams, capable of managing HR, operations and technical teams. I have experience in end to end product development has extensive experience in board design, design, analysis and simulation of RF/mmWave boards, Antenna Design, SI/PI, Thermal, EMI/EMC Simulations, Bare-metal embedded software, RTOS based software, Linux device drivers and linux user space application development, web application and android application development. Expertise in managing Electronics Manufacturing and Testing Services Experience in people management and project management. Fair knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 organization process, ISO 13485 and TS16949, AS9100D for electronics manufacturing and product design & development Fair understanding of both electronic and mechanical design and analysis, capable of handling complex system design Developed Aerospace, Industrial, Telecom, Power and ADAS products for global customers Has experience in working on Engine Control for Gas Turbines Engines and APU subsystems, Telecom products, Circuit Breaker Accessories, smart home automation, Vehicle Tracking, industrial safety wearables, wireless power chargers, ADAS compute board, ADAS cameras, Indoor Horticulture and other Automotive Products like BLDC Motor control and Electric Vehicle battery fast chargers. Highly competent in team building, developing product roadmaps for companies and managing projects. Can handle both inhouse product development and client projects.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

01.2023 - Current
  • Currently consulting for a US based service company, a independent consultant for a US consulting firm they give me PCB design, embedded software and circuit design related jobs.

Assistant General Manager and Director

Krypton Solutions
Bangalore
06.2020 - 01.2023
  • Worked as a AGM/Director, My responsibility includes managing end to end product design, electronics manufacturing and testing services
  • Lead and Mentor a team of fifteen hardware and software and mechanical
  • Engineers
  • Developed many products for several applications, handled board designs with SI/PI and
  • RF/mmWAVE simulations and mechanical design
  • Handled PCB thermal Analysis
  • Has proven capability in building teams from ground up for complete system design
  • Highly competent in designing compute (x86 Architecture) and OS platforms
  • Also capable of developing Linux applications and device drivers
  • Was instrumental in development of IOT platforms which involves web (JAVA
  • Angular/Spring Boot) development (REST APIs) and integrating with compute platforms
  • Develop Systems with
  • Compute/OS/Application and control systems for commercial applications, smart manufacturing and Robotics
  • Project 1 : Characterization Board for TI
  • Interacted with customer for requirements gathering and implement the same in schematics and deliver the layout
  • This is a production support project wherein all the design specification was provided by the customer
  • My responsibility was to translate the design specifications to schematics and carryout the layout
  • Project 2 : 5G Radio receiver board for Intel
  • This project involved blending of Arria 10 FPGA development kit with the AD9371 transceiver development kit
  • Main goal of the project was to use Arria 10 FPGA and interface the same with six radio receivers (AD9371)
  • Successfully completed the schematics, Layout guidelines and layout review
  • Project 3 : Characterization board for alpha core Inc
  • This project involved design of test board for ADC chip, carried out circuit design, schematic entry and supervised layout design
  • Project 4 : Indoor Horticulture System – Smart Farming Equipment design and development
  • I have developed complete solution for indoor horticulture for high value plants
  • The project involves design and development of complete system which includes mechanical design, board design, web application, mobile application and local device software and HMI
  • The device works with sensors and several drivers, the overall solution is platform independent and is accessible over web and mobile interfaces apart from the device itself
  • I developed the complete architecture for this and worked on the development of compute board which has linux OS and interfaces to sensors and LED drivers
  • Developed the embedded software for sensors and drivers, developed local HMI GUI in Qt and linux application for the device
  • I have also led the team for successful implementation of Web application and mobile application
  • I have also led the mechanical design aspects for this project
  • Project 5 : Renesas Motor control board using RAJ306010 (BLDC Motor Controller)
  • Designed inverter circuit using Renesas Pre-Driver, carried out schematic Entry and Layout for the board
  • Project 6 : Electric Vehicle Fast Charger
  • Design and development of Rectifier and DC-DC converter for EV Charger
  • Project 7 : Configurable Power Load (CPL)
  • The project was implemented in quartus Prime Pro version 21 and the project involved development of linux test scripts for measuring the power drawn from different modules in the FPGA and the FPGA code inself to interface and process with intel servers
  • The external pheripherals uncluded the UFS interface and various ethernet ports and other communication protocols like RS232, USB
  • Various test scripts were also written in system Verilog to test the Verilog code.

Senior Manager

InSemi Technology services pvt ltd
Bangalore
01.2014 - 04.2020
  • Worked as senior manager with insemi Technology
  • My responsibility includes managing end to end product design
  • Developed many products for global customers
  • Developed products for industrial safety like smart gloves, smart belts, smart clips and products for ADAS and DMS applications
  • Project 1 : Compute Board for intel:
  • Overview : Compute board is used for ADAS and DMS applications, Design based on intel ATOM E3800 series processor, design includes MIPI and LVDS camera interfaces, communication interfaces such as WI-
  • FI/BT/Zigbee, GSM – 3G, Memory interfaces such as DDR3L, eMMC, SD card, ADC, Discrete inputs, Discrete outputs, GPIO expanders, CAN, USB, Audio Codecs, interfaces such as UART, SPI and I2C
  • Responsibilities: Design of architecture of the system and freezing requirements with the customer
  • Selection of right components, carried out overall design of power delivery system, design of CPU module and interfacing of all required peripherals with SOC, carried out complete circuit design, circuit analysis and power estimation for the board
  • Supervised the schematic entry and layout of 18 layer HDI PCB successfully co-ordinated with
  • EMS vendors for manufacturing the board
  • Brought up complete board, power supplies to CPU and all the required peripherals
  • Also worked on UEFI customization and brought up the system with Linux operating system
  • Project 2 : Camera Cards for intel :
  • Overview : Camera cards are based on omni Vision OV2311 and OV9716 image sensors, This is a serdes based design for LVDS communication with the compute board over coaxial cable
  • The camera card has image sensors with DVP outputs which are serialized using a serializer and the data is sent over the coaxial cable to the compute board
  • Responsibilities : Carried out complete circuit design, schematic entry and supervised the layout activity
  • Successfully generated the gerbers and co ordinated with EMS for PCB fabrication and assembly
  • Brought up the camera system with compute board
  • Project 3 : MIPI Add in card for intel :
  • Overview : Design and development of MIPI add in cards, project involves full hardware design, design of power supplies and routing MIPI lanes and control signals to the connector, this is a four layer board
  • Responsibilities: Carried out complete design of power supply and routing MIPI lanes and control signals from the backplane connector to the flex cable connector, carried out schematic entry and layout for the board
  • Also carried out the testing for the board
  • Project 4 : Manufacture of USB charger module, interposer module and debug boards
  • Overview : Project involved manufacture of customer provided design
  • Responsibilities : In this project the customer provided the complete schematics and layout, my responsibility included generation of gerbers and co ordination with the EMS for PCB Fabrication, PCB assembly and board bring up
  • Project 5 : Insemi Smart Home Automation
  • Overview : Insemi smart home automation is a IoT home automation product
  • The product could be installed in existing home switchboards and we can control the switches using an android application
  • Responsibilities : Design of complete architecture of the product, circuit design and development, layout design and development
  • Android application development
  • Project 6 : Design and development of industrial safety products
  • Designed and developed the architecture, circuit design, carried out schematic entry and Layout design for industrial safety products like smart belt, smart glove and smart clip for a US customer.

Independent consultant

04.2009 - 12.2013
  • Consulted on various embedded systems projects for a US firm for PCB design, circuit design and embedded software.

Manager

Macurex Sensors and Macer automotive systems
08.2011 - 01.2012
  • I worked as a Manager, my responsibility was to head R&D department
  • I was involved in Automotive product development and sustenance
  • I was involved in product development right from Advanced product quality planning (APQP) to Production part approval process (PPAP).

Senior Electronics Engineer

Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd
10.2008 - 04.2009
  • I was involved in design and development of circuit breaker accessories for low voltage power distribution, monitoring & control equipment
  • Project 1 : Micro BCM :
  • Overview : Micro BCM is a communication gateway between trip unit and other systems on distribution panel
  • Responsibilities:
  • I designed micro breaker communication module with small form factor for hot and quick plug
  • My responsibility included circuit design, circuit analysis, schematic entry and layout
  • Successfully manufactured the board and brought up the system.

Wipro Technologies
04.2006 - 10.2008
  • My responsibilities included, managing a team of six people, co-ordinate and guide mechanical, firmware, board designs and FPGA design
  • Project 1 : Sustenance of Meridian system for Nortel Networks :
  • Overview : Meridian1 is a telecom switch from Nortel Networks, Canada
  • The system has line cards, trunk cards, E1 and T1 communication system
  • Responsibilities : I was involved in sustenance of a telecom switch
  • Sustenance included recycles, last time buy's, obsolescence and change requests due to design issues at customer site
  • Recycles included redesign of telecom hardware & firmware for different applications
  • Recycles were being carried out for design issues at the field, obsolescence of parts and for cost reduction purpose
  • I have presented cost improvement ideas for digital trunking hardware
  • I redesigned digital trunks for cost improvement
  • My accomplishments include, better team management, mentoring to increase efficiency and productivity within the team for redesign and sustenance activities, Improved metric collection procedures and analytics for better work management.

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies Ltd
03.2003 - 04.2006
  • Project 1 : Design of ARINC429 PCI card :
  • Overview : ARINC 429 is a data communication bus in Avionic subsystems
  • The goal of this project was to develop a PCI based bus analyser which could be plugged into any PCI slot on desktop PCs
  • Responsibilities: Design of hardware architecture, selection of components, circuit design and CPLD design for the glue logic
  • I also carried out PCB layout design for this board
  • Brought up the board successfully
  • Project 2 : Data Memory Module for APU FADEC :
  • Overview : Data Memory Module (DMM) connects with APU Engine Control Unit over RS-485
  • The ECU sends
  • Engine parameters over RS-485 to DMM
  • The DMM stores all the engine parameters in its Non Volatile memory which could be later downloaded and analysed by connecting a laptop/PC to DMM over RS-232 to RS-485 converter
  • Responsibilities : Carried out architecture design, selected components, circuit design, schematic entry and layout for the four layer board
  • Brought up the system, I also design the firmware architecture for the system
  • Developed the complete software and tested with ECU
  • Project 3 : Engine Control Unit for Auxiliary Power Unit
  • Overview : ECU or FADEC is a full authority digital engine control unit, the various sensors mounted on the
  • Gas turbine engine is connected to the analog board which has suitable signal conditioning circuits
  • The signal conditioning outputs are connected to the micro processor ADC and the complete control system is implemented for the Engine
  • Responsibilities : I was involved in design of signal conditioning circuits for pressure transducer, LVDT, RTD and Thermocouple sensors, these instrumentation amplifiers or signal conditioning circuits are designed on the analog board and the signals are routed to microprocessor in the digital board over a backplane with a ARINC connector
  • I have contributed in circuit design of the signal conditioning circuits and design of digital board
  • The digital board uses MPC 555 and MPC 5554 32bit Microcontrollers.

08.2002 - 02.2003

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications

P.E.S College of engineering

MBA - undefined

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Amity University

MBA - Entrepreneurship and Leadership Management, Mathematics and Biology

S.B.R.R. Mahajana Pre- university College

Secondary School Leaving Certificate. S.S.L.C - undefined

St Thomas School

Skills

Team leadership expertise

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Accomplishments

  • GE Power Controls India Pvt Ltd
  • Graduate Trainee
  • As a trainee engineer I have designed and tested test equipment for moulded case circuit breaker
  • I have improved production process and carried out quality improvement for moulded case circuit breakers
  • Trainings:
  • I have undergone training in Agile processes and UML 2.0
  • I have undergone training on SCM practices, metrics and estimation techniques
  • Trained on DOOR's for requirement capture and Rhapsody in C for software design
  • I have good expertise in hardware design tools like Cadence PCB design studio, which includes Allegro and
  • Capture CIS
  • Trained in SI/PI, Thermal Analysis and EMI/EMC simulation using ANSYS tools
  • Trained on MATLAB, SIMULINK and Real Time Workshop
  • Tools and technologies:
  • I have very good expertise in C programming language for embedded software development
  • I have experience in JAVA, Angular JS, Spring Boot
  • I have fair knowledge of FPGA and CPLD development tools and hardware description language [V.H.D.L]
  • I have good expertise in use of emulators and debuggers for firmware development
  • I have been Trained in CADENCE Virtuoso for Schematic and Layout
  • I have excellent expertise in Six sigma, ISO and SEI CMM standards
  • I have experience working on VISION ICE and VISION CLICK, Diab C compiler for MPC 555, TI Code Composer
  • Studio Energia, Android Studio
  • Trained in ATTLASSIAN – JIRA and Bit bucket, has fair knowledge of GITHUB
  • I have expertise in architecting applications and IoT systems in Linux platform using C++ for system programming and designing the architecture using C++ and SO files and JAVA for REST APIs and Angular JS for front end and Spring boot for the server side back end development
  • Skill set summary:
  • Board Design : Circuit Design, Circuit Analysis and schematic entry, Expertise in signal conditioning circuits for RTD, Thermocouple, Pressure, LVDT, camera sensors
  • Design of power supplies like LDO, Buck, Boost and Buck Boost topologies
  • Design of microprocessor-based boards using Intel, NXP and TI SOCs and FPGAs
  • Design
  • BLDC motor controllers and EV chargers
  • PCB Design : Proven experience in high speed, multilayer HDI PCB designs, has knowledge of Cadence tools, OrCAD Capture and Allegro
  • Has nuances of Altium
  • FPGA/CPLD Design : Fair knowledge of FPGA and CPLD development cycle, proficient in VERILOG and
  • VHDL and system Verilog for verification and also UVM methodology
  • VLSI : Have got trained in VLSI front end design and also on Custom layout and cadence
  • Virtuso tool for custom layout has nuances of PD kits and PD aspects
  • Embedded Software : Excellent skills in developing embedded software using assembly language and C/C++
  • Experience in Bare metal firmware development
  • Experience in Diab C compiler, Energia, Code Composer
  • Studio, MPLAB X IDE, GNU GCC compilers, VISION ICE and TI Emulators
  • UEFI
  • Device Drivers and OS : I have expertise in bringing up complete system, develop device drivers has knowledge of OS concepts and Linux internals
  • Application development : Through understanding of web application development in Python and JAVA (Angular JS and Spring Boot.) also has good understanding of android application development
  • Learning MEAN and MERN stack and Flutter and python application development
  • Simulation and Analysis : ANSYS-SIWave, ANSYS-HFSS and ANSYS-ICEPAK
  • New Learnings :
  • I am in the process of doing my MBA in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Management and I am improving my Java and Python skills
  • I am Learning the MERN and the MEAN stack
  • Becoming proficient on Angular JS and the Spring boot also doing APP development projects on flutter
  • Have varied software development and hardware electronic product design and interest in compute systems, robotics and e-commerce applications
  • Learning full stack web development also becoming proficient on Solidworks for mechanical designs
  • New Skills in acquisition are AI and ML for application development and IOT
  • I have also developed complete IoT applications in Java and Android studio for indoor Horticulture along with electronic hardware, firmware and mechanical designs
  • I have full system design expertise
  • I can Architect and manage any product or system development and give solutions to projects
  • Looking for projects where I can leverage all these skills.

Timeline

01.2023 - Current

Assistant General Manager and Director

Krypton Solutions
06.2020 - 01.2023

Senior Manager

InSemi Technology services pvt ltd
01.2014 - 04.2020

Manager

Macurex Sensors and Macer automotive systems
08.2011 - 01.2012

Independent consultant

04.2009 - 12.2013

Senior Electronics Engineer

Schneider Electric India Pvt Ltd
10.2008 - 04.2009

Wipro Technologies
04.2006 - 10.2008

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies Ltd
03.2003 - 04.2006

08.2002 - 02.2003

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications

P.E.S College of engineering

MBA - undefined

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Amity University

MBA - Entrepreneurship and Leadership Management, Mathematics and Biology

S.B.R.R. Mahajana Pre- university College

Secondary School Leaving Certificate. S.S.L.C - undefined

St Thomas School
PRAMOD ANANDAIndependent Consultant