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Vasudev Bharadwaj

Senior Manager and Technical Lead
Bangalore

Summary

Over 20 years of experience at Bosch Group in various locations and business units. Automotive powertrain engineering and engine control unit system engineering and software development across customers globally. Strong project management skills aligned with PMP standards. Certified SAFe Agile and SCRUM Master with expertise in AGILE development including roll-out on customer projects. Excellent communication and team leadership skills. Seeking opportunities for learning, collaboration, and contributing value to an organization.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Project Manager and Team Leader

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited
Bangalore
03.2020 - Current
  • Responsible for JLR [UK based Global OEM's] Engine Customer Platform System Engineering and Software Development end to end - Software development constitutes 60% of the overall account revenue
  • Responsible for entire powertrain including gasoline, hybrids and diesel customer projects numbering over 20 including variants - projects varying from 3 cylinder to 8-cylinder application
  • Established SCRUM teams from scratch for AGILE roll out on customer projects - involved moving from traditional waterfall development model to AGILE way of working. Very high collaboration across internal and external stakeholders and mindset change from doing AGILE to being AGILE
  • AGILE way of working successfully executed across all projects and stabilized for the last 3.5 years - software delivered successfully across projects every sprint spanning 4 weeks time and all AGILE ceremonies adhered to
  • Responsible for team of over 40 associates across 8 different product areas spread across 3 geographical locations within the country. Continuous skilling, high employee engagement levels ensured attrition was at low single digits for the last 3 years consecutively
  • Managed acquisition of New customer Eu7 centric projects
  • Established New Working Model with the customer - from cost based to head count based approach in a short span of 2 quarters. This involved bringing fungibility across team members so that they can be moved around product teams in order to manage work loads
  • Strong Collaboration focus within organization and with OEM. Responsible for detailed feedback / survey and improvement measures across stakeholders at Bosch and Customer location on annual basis
  • Technical Project Management with focus on Customer Requirement Engineering, Planning, Development and Implementation. Ability to re-use past experience on engines, vehicles on to application software development by bringing clarity on customer needs
  • Drove department initiatives - Digital body language, panel member for recruitment and on boarding new recruits
  • Vast Experience in problem solving - 8D's successfully concluded including detailed and structured problem solving
  • 2 leadership coaching and development trainings completed - WeVartan and Leadership Gym
  • Part of Talent pool for career progression and development
  • Prestigious Getting Things Done [GTD] training completed under a certified Instructor
  • Leadership course completed on managing the new norm
  • Best team award at the section level

Manager

Bosch Ltd, Engineering Application
Bangalore
08.2017 - 02.2020
  • Team Leader responsible for Indian OEM’s based in west and north of the country (Tata Motors Limited, Force Motors Limited, Greaves Cotton Limited, Maruti Suzuki India Limited and Honda Motors)
  • Lead a team involving task allocation, annual target setting and training needs
  • Sub project manager for hydraulic system topics (system development, efforts and work package planning, management reviews)
  • Supporting Bharat Stage 6 (BS6) emission series project for passenger cars and low priced vehicle segment as well as new project acquisition topics (system definition)
  • Regular visits to customer locations to support calibration and testing as well as customer reviews
  • LEAN champion for the group supporting efficiency improvement topics

Senior Application Engineer

Robert Bosch Ltd UK
Coventry
03.2013 - 07.2017
  • Supported Customer Jaguar Land Rover primarily on their 4-cylinder 2.0L AJ20-D4 project
  • Handled Calibration dataset management for 2.0L, 3.0L and 4.4L Diesel engine projects covering worldwide emission markets (EUx, BRIC, NAS etc) using both customer as well as Bosch internal tools (CRETA, vCDM)
  • Over 100 project variants covered across model years
  • Key customer interface (Calibration Pilot) in the local Bosch office (BWTC)
  • Regular visits to customer locations (Gaydon, Whitley etc) having access to test facilities
  • Responsible (label owner) for vehicle calibration function (Idle governor) and supported in customer test trip
  • Supported as a resident for 6 months on site at Customer location (Gaydon)
  • Organized customer meetings (BAR/C-panel), provided updates to management and tracked work package progress via internal reviews and coordinated with different departments (BEG, EJL, ENS etc.)
  • Supported customer ECU (MED17, EDC17) software industrialization in co-ordination with Bosch plant as well as the customer
  • Preparation of commercial quotation for ECU software industrialization and engineering services
  • Co-ordination with Bosch plant for timely delivery of ECU’s to customer plant location

Deputy Manager

Bosch Ltd,
Bangalore
08.2004 - 02.2012
  • High levels of involvement across all Indian OEM’s series project covering passenger car segment with BS4 emission norms
  • Contributed to new project acquisition and planning for Indian OEM’s
  • Contributed to first Eu5 and L6 customer projects involving new calibration functions
  • Involved training and knowhow development of colleagues via visit from international experts
  • Calibration sub-project manager for customers Mahindra and Mahindra and Force Motors Limited including complete work package planning as well as dataset management
  • Supported Field and quality related issues post series production (GMIL and TML)
  • Regular visits to customer locations to support engine and vehicle calibration, management reviews and discussions, test trip participation
  • Responsible for overall engine and vehicle calibration fulfillment and timely completion of work packages to support customer SOP as well as SAP planning
  • Organized customer meetings (B-panel), provided updates to management and tracked work package progress via internal reviews
  • Lead a team involving task allocation and inputs for target setting and performance
  • Lead internal development projects on BS4 emission fulfillment with mechanical FIE system
  • Supported internal development project on fuel consumption comparison between 2 customer vehicle variants (Suzuki) with the same powertrain
  • Participated in events like AutoExpo, Tech Day celebrations at various OEM’s and AIMA

Calibration Engineer

Robert Bosch GmbH
Stuttgart
08.2008 - 12.2008
  • Underwent short duration on the job training on SCR Control in DS/EVA3 department
  • Project exposure was to Mahindra US Tier 2 Bin 5 project
  • Good overview on SCR systems

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore
07.2000 - 07.2004

Skills

Project planning

Client relationship management

Training and mentoring

Agile methodology

Project management

Problem-solving

Teamwork and collaboration

Organizational skills

Decision-making

Team leadership

Critical thinking

Accomplishments

- Certificate of Recognition for completing Solve for BGSW - organization problem solving project

- Best team award at the section level

- SAFe 6.0 Certification and Certified Scrum Master

- Getting Things Done [GTD]

- WeVartan leadership course within business unit

- Leadership Gym - within organization

- Software Quality Award for JLR BEV project

Timeline

Senior Project Manager and Team Leader

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited
03.2020 - Current

Manager

Bosch Ltd, Engineering Application
08.2017 - 02.2020

Senior Application Engineer

Robert Bosch Ltd UK
03.2013 - 07.2017

Calibration Engineer

Robert Bosch GmbH
08.2008 - 12.2008

Deputy Manager

Bosch Ltd,
08.2004 - 02.2012

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University
07.2000 - 07.2004

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