SUDHAKAR PAMMI
SR. PROFESSIONAL – HW PROJECT / PROGRAM Management 22+ yrs. of proven expertise in Product Development, R & D, Project Management
HYDERABAD
Summary
SR. PROFESSIONAL - HW PROJECT / PROGRAM Management 22+ yrs. of proven expertise in Product Development, R & D, Project Management
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SR STAFF ENG PROJECT MANAGER
QUALCOMM
9 2019 - Current
- Leading a team of 70 enthusiastic engineers to drive engineering details and business aspects when making engineering & sourcing operational decisions
- Led and successfully completed 2 significant first of its kind 5G projects- towards establishing 40GHz mmW anechoic chamber in India besides deploying Resident professional AMC with Keysight 5G UXMs to reduce TAT to 5 days to improve the equipment repair time worth each ~$500K
- Inventory & process control of QIPL Partnering with global procurement, finance, logistics, engineering, Program Management, Eng Ops, chipset PMs and PAs, and other stake holders to accurately acquire to ensure on time traceability of items /assets
- Project estimation, planning, schedule, resource management and prioritization for all the lab projects that covers RF Screen rooms, mmW anechoic chambers, specialized labs (to simulate Audio/Multimedia/Customized labs)
- Key component suggestions that are needed for the design to test SOC and to maintain the component database in Agile
- Owning and driving new initiatives from development through implementation
- Establish routine update & communication process: update status, schedule trends vs
- Baseline, risk management, mitigation and recovery actions
- Develop program indicators to push information to internal teams and management
- Improving process and tools methodologies
- Strong clasp of controlling & running budgets, resource management and forecasting
- Ability to understand business implications of complex risks
- Track, collate, and publish large amounts of data in a concise, accurate, and intuitive format
- Publish to all the tech teams and to Eng ops, IT, Sourcing, Logistics & Facilities
- Man management for the career guidance and performance annual reviews, goals settings and tracking the accomplishment & hiring
- Covering all the bring up planning & support for the new SOD
- Has expanded the team from 15 members to 55 members within span of 2 years.
ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY SR. PROJECT LEAD
HONEYWELL
02.2015 - 08.2019
- Been part of multiple design releases covering Cockpit Display products, SKY TRACKER, DIGITAL RADIO & WEATHER RADAR programs scaling from NPI, Refresh/Obsolescence redesigns
- Task including the scope identification, SOW, end to end cost, Governance board review, CBT, Kickoff, schedule, quality, alternate part identification, SCM association with blue & red label build, complete qualification, Milestone fidelity, Preliminary & Critical Design review, Phase exit towards the component engineering point of view
- Lead the transition project from EMS tool to another Contract Manufacturer by paving a road map and mitigating the road block by coordinating with all the stake holders like Project Engineers, Component Engineer & Sourcing
- Been instrumental in getting Obsolescence projects to AERO HW COE which was a game changer for the Indian operation for AERO business
- Led a team of 8 individuals & few contract employees to sustain the Legacy product lines by covering 10 different Design locations and 5 Contract Manufacturers with round the clock support
- As Project lead: improving team's performance with associating to soft & technical trainings, Onsite & SCM visits, Annual operating review, Performance development cycle - BEL curve, funding activities, Charge code association, Technical Career Path.
PROGRAM LEAD
GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS
06.2010 - 01.2015
- Delivering annual cost out (Deflation, VCP) Projects to meet the business goals on the on-going products
- Interacting with cross functional teams comprising of 7 Business units globally to identify low cost drop in alternate components & board solutions, verifying the design suitability, studying project feasibility, co-coordinating with factory on testing's, part approvals, new part switch over, update finance
- Monitoring Component life cycle, relaying it to design teams on Part discontinuation, Suggesting alternates, studying the project scope, if no alternates suggesting the required LTB to made
- Identifying the products that are to be made compatible to EU-RoHS regulations based on the current SAP drive
- Researching the components that needs change
- Reviewing the DP milestones.
LEAD ENGINEER
GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS
01.2006 - 01.2010
- NPI Support by creating the Component profiles and maintaining the life cycle, corroborate with design entity for test plan creation, SI and simulations when required
- Continuous interacting with Vendors to streamline the manufacturing requirements
- Product level Reliability estimation using RELEX MIL-HDBK tool
- Continuous interacting with Producibility, CAD team towards package creation
- Major contributions include successfully executing $313K deflation project by suggesting Unigen as a 32GB mSATA drive and provided full support to US team with required spec requirements
- Handled 5 cost-out projects by rigorously following with the global stake holders with leading 2 test engineers resulted in $250K savings in the year 2008-10
- Successfully implemented project management methodologies, tools and best practices and delivered projects meeting high quality standards and customer expectations
- Provided excellent support on MTBF Data for ~100 Products by understanding & adapting new Relex Reliability tool to meet business priorities towards customer requests
- Recommended interposer option to the design team for the older NEC V25 processor parts to sustain legacy design product.
RESEARCH ASSOCIAT
C-DOT
01.1999 - 01.2006
- Vendor Development Activities: Component selection and standardization, part no issue, samples arranging, component testing and qualification, Vendors approval, documentation specifications, Data base of Component Ordering information
- Design Support: Providing technical input to the designers in selection of all ANALOG and DIGITAL IC'S and Oscillators
- Arrange samples for testing in the design / placing trial orders in case of high price items
- Arranging technical Presentation to create awareness of the latest technology trends and testing tools available in the market
- Major contributions include developing M/s KHEL, M/S USHA Semiconductor & M/S Naina Semiconductors as alternate sources for the single source obsolete IR part 62CNQ030 diode used in EPU Involved in the Environmental testing of TEMEX make RMO type 10.24MHz Rubidium Oscillator conducted at ITI, as per QM 333 for the TEC approval
- Modified the PCB design for the TEMEX-RMO-10.24MHz Oscillator and sent the same to the vendor
- Downloaded about 4300 data sheets of Active semiconductors like Logic devices, Memories, Transistors, Diodes and Oscillator parts and the same are uploaded to the VDG web site.
Education
M.Tech - Embedded Systems
BITS
Executive MBA - Project Management
URAL federal university
Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Communication Engineering (AMIETE)
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) - New Delhi, India
Diploma - Electronics and Communication
Andhra University
Advanced PG Certification in 5G With AI & Cloud - 5G & AI
Indian Institute of Science
BANGALORE 04.2001 -
Skills
LTE
5GNR REL 15, 16
16 Standards & applications
Agile
SAP
Agile SCRUM Master
Siemens Team centre
ROHS
MDDS
ECCN
IC
BGA
MEMORY
MTBF
RELEX
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Relex-Reliability tool
Mentor graphics
Minitab
Certification
PMP, 3347099
Accomplishments
- Successfully Program Managed a large team of globally dispersed HW/FW/SW/ME Design and Test engineers to deliver the multimillion GE4GE project with challenge of meeting accelerated timelines.
- Received Impact award from VP for successfully fostering testsetup team in a short time to meet WFH needs for the tech departments.
- Leading multidisciplinary global medium & large scale Redesign programs - Avg span of (1-3 years), team members (40-65) ; OPEX ($1MM - $15MM) CAPEX ( $80MM)
- Got Recognition from ISC V.P AERO SPACE for successfully driving the team to on time delivering the DU1310 product for Boeing and enabling $29MM in Q4'2018.
- Got Recognised with Outstanding Achiever award for managing the Obsolescence team in reducing the LTB value significantly and for improving the Cycle time to 50%
- Received Silver Award for identifying and successfully coordinating w/ Religh Design team & Manufacturer resulted in $313K saving opportunity. Further, captured my achievement in wall of fame for the year 2013-14.
- Recognized with Bronze Award for successfully completing $150K connectors DMP project by rigorously following up with design, testing, Jabil manufacturing teams.
- Got a recognition with Silver award in the first of year of joining in Honeywell, for the successful leading of the EMS transition and for closing 2 of the obsolescence project in a quick time with zero defects.
- Received Global Applause award for Identifying 64 PIN FLASH SST part as alternate and for achieving $65K deflation savings. Demonstrated exceptional performance and earned the 'Long Service Award' for extending long period of service to the company.
- Received Global Applause award for Identifying 64 PIN FLASH SST part as alternate and for achieving $65K deflation savings.
Timeline
ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY SR. PROJECT LEAD
HONEYWELL
02.2015 - 08.2019
PROGRAM LEAD
GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS
06.2010 - 01.2015
LEAD ENGINEER
GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS
01.2006 - 01.2010
Advanced PG Certification in 5G With AI & Cloud - 5G & AI
Indian Institute of Science
04.2001 -
RESEARCH ASSOCIAT
C-DOT
01.1999 - 01.2006
SR STAFF ENG PROJECT MANAGER
QUALCOMM
9 2019 - Current
M.Tech - Embedded Systems
BITS
Executive MBA - Project Management
URAL federal university
Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Communication Engineering (AMIETE)
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) - New Delhi, India
Diploma - Electronics and Communication
Andhra University
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