Sonnia Ramakrishnan
Center of Excellence Manager
Thiruvanmiyur
Summary
Senior Manager with 20 years of rich and diversified experience in technology, leadership, building high-performing, agile, scalable, future-ready organizations. Adept at managing multimillion-dollar budgets, leading cross-functional, multi-site teams, and delivering exceptional value to a global and multicultural customer base.
Specialization:
Driving Digital Transformation | Cloud & AI Solution | Large-scale application migrations | Building Future-Ready Teams & Organizations
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Center of Excellence Manager
European MNC
08.2017 - Current
- Have performed 3 Key roles (R&D IS Lead, Site Information systems Manager, Center of Excellence Manager)
- Currently working in Senior leadership role as a Center of Excellence Manager at a European MNC, Chennai
- Responsible for CI/CD, DevOps, FinOps,Automations, AI solutions, ALM/PLM, SRE operations and application support of the global R&D Site with 12000+ user base
- Present KPI and reporting to the R&D Business Directors and management team.
- Hiring, Billing and talent development
- Budget and cost optimization
- Contracts and vendor management
- Responsible for managing the Digital transformation Competency Center at Chennai consisting of Development, Infrastructure and tech support teams.
Technical Lead
Visteon Technical Services Centre India Ltd
05.2012 - 03.2017
- Requirement capturing and Design Document
- Responsible for SW application feature development and delivery of Bluetooth features.
- Coding and peer review of Bluetooth Module using C.
- Debugging and defect fixing.
- Static Analysis – Coverity warning fixing.
- Manage a team of 6 contractors providing and splitting up tasks and tracking their deliverables.
- Bluetooth PTS testing for certification of product.
- Conduct daily SCRUM and represent weekly program meetings on a 2 week sprint cycle.
- Represent customer issues, escalations and bug tracking meetings.
Senior Software Engineer
Cambridge Silicon Radio (now Qualcomm)
03.2009 - 04.2012
- Owned the build, integration module, Installer module.
- Owned the configuration management system for the team in Perforce, labeling and software release.
- Handled the weekly builds and test builds and responsible for the release of the product.
- Modification of makefiles and batch files to achieve full automation.
- Consolidating kernel and user mode binaries for various build configurations (Debug/Release builds, 32-bit/64-bit, Win7/Vista/XP).
- Creation and configuration of the Installer using Flexnet/FlexLM Installshield 2009/2011, packaging and generation of final “setup.exe” for installing the product.
- Creating customized installations, writing install scripts, creating changing dialog boxes, upgradation packages (major and minor), silent mode installations, product version control, license expiry and localization support.
- Integration of product help.
- Digital test signing – Creating test certificates to sign drivers and setup.
- Creation of build and release checklist.
- Troubleshooting and fixing installation/uninstallation/upgrade issues raised both internally and by customers.
- Owned the product localization module.
- Modification of makefiles and resources file and creation of localized binaries (.mui files).
- Creation of Multi Language supported Installer “setup.exe”.
- Functional and Sanity testing all Bluetooth features like pairing, connection, inquiry, multiple profiles like HF, A2DP, AVRCP..
Software Engineer
Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2009
- Responsible for rebase from Linux code base, features analysis, design & development of software and test code, execution of the test plan, Interaction with architecture, design and development teams in feature reviews, test plan review and debugging.
- Creating requirements, design and unit test plan documents.
- Performed functionality and system testing for DSP crash application.
- Fixing CRs/Bugs (Change Request) reported by the test house both internal and external.
- Focusing on further optimization and improvement of the component.
- Responsible for integration of individual Change Requests (CRs) submitted by developers into the Clear Case on a daily basis.
- Execution of various unit and system test cases in order to maintain stability of the component subsystem.
- Maintenance and labeling of mainlines/baselines for development.
Software Engineer
Sasken Communication Technologies India Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 06.2006
- Responsible for feature analysis, design & development the test plan, execution of the test plan for I2C driver for Camera.
- Performed unit testing and manual testing of the application on the target board.
- Execution of Symbian E32 and F32 test cases.
- Manual testing and setting the local build ready on the target board to be used by team engineers.
- Execution of the test plan post integration.
Education
B.E - ECE
GCT, Coimbatore – Bharathiyar University
STD XII - MPCB
Boiler Plant Girls Higher Sec School – TN State Board
STD X - MPCB
RSK Higher Sec School – CBSE
Skills
Technologies/Domain: Telecom, Bluetooth, Automotive software, HPC, Devops, Cloud, Finops, AWS, CI/CD,Jenkins,Docker, Data Analytics
undefinedAccomplishments
- Rare combination experience in Software Development, Infrastructure Management and Digital transformation.
- Achieved multiple accolades for excellent leadership and team building.
- Secured best performance for resource and cost optimization.
Timeline
Center of Excellence Manager
European MNC
08.2017 - Current
Technical Lead
Visteon Technical Services Centre India Ltd
05.2012 - 03.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Cambridge Silicon Radio (now Qualcomm)
03.2009 - 04.2012
Software Engineer
Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2009
Software Engineer
Sasken Communication Technologies India Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 06.2006
B.E - ECE
GCT, Coimbatore – Bharathiyar University
STD XII - MPCB
Boiler Plant Girls Higher Sec School – TN State Board
STD X - MPCB
RSK Higher Sec School – CBSE
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