SUDHAKAR PAMMI

Shantiniketan Apts, Panathur Road, Kadubesanahalli, Bangalore, 500103, India

Contact: +91 9963232227 ; E-mail : [email protected]
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SR. PROFESSIONAL – HW PROJECT / PROGRAM Management

16 yrs. of proven expertise in Product Development, R & D, Project Management

SYNOPSIS
• MBA Certified with experience in HW Project/Program Management
• 6-Sigma certified, Lean & Agile Trained; versed in ISO systems, working knowledge of PMP process,
Certified in Project Leadership Foundation Curriculum in Honeywell
• Electronic & Telecom Engineer with 16+ years with Productive Global experience, working in Project
Management from past 7 years
• Strong competency experience across Program /Project Management (NPI), Manufacturing,
semiconductor Vendors & Test houses.
• Highly effective in managing geographically dispersed large teams handling multiple projects
• Key competencies in HW Product Development with knowledge of FW & SW lifecycle.
• Deft in steering R&D activities and leading new product development initiatives.
• Demonstrated professional excellence in project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and execution of
projects to customer satisfaction.
• Excellent man-management, time management, and leadership skills.
• Experience gained in handling projects in Aerospace, Defense, Space, Telecom and Industrial
Automation domains.
• Currently Pursuing at Honeywell as Project lead (NPI/Obsolescence) , was associate with GE
Program lead for VE/OBSO engineering.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

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.

Successfully led Obsolescence & Value Engineering Management

Leading multidisciplinary global medium & large scale Redesign programs – Avg span of (1-3 years),
team members (5-15) ; CAPEX ($1MM - $5MM)

Got Recognition from ISC V.P AERO SPACE with GOLD AWARD for successfully driving the team to
on time delivering the DU1310 product Boeing and enabling $29MM for the Q4’2019.

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.

Completed global level trainings like, Building Essential Leadership, Hiring Skills, Team Development,
Influencing, Coaching, Presentation,
Presentation Time Management, Assertiveness,, Effective Communication Skills

Completed & got certified for the Honeywell project leadership skills containing Integrated Product
Delivery and Support (IPDS) Process Overview ; Leading a High-Performance
High Performance Team ; PMP: 06- 06
Initiation Basics, Developing a Project Charter and Project Management Plan ; PMP: 13-Estimating
13 &
Budgeting Project Costs ; Creating a Design for Cost Culture - Integrating DTC, DFM, Complexity, &
Performance ; PMP: 07-Collecting
Collecting Requirements and Defining Scope ; AG-5321
AG 5321 Risk
Ri Management ;
Updated Baseline Change Management (BCM) Training ; Intro & Implementation to EVMS (Earned
Value Management System)

Professional Experience


HONEYWELL, Bangalore

ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT LEAD | FEB 2015 to PRESENT

• 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, sscchedule, quality, alternate part identification, SCM association
with blue & red label build, complete qualification, Milestone fidelity, Preliminary &
Critical Design review, Phase exit towards the component engineeerring 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 is a

game changer for the Indian operation for AERO business.

• Leading a team of 5 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.

GE Intelligent Platforms ▪ Hyderabad

Program Lead | 2010 June - 2015 Jan

• Delivering annual cost out (Deflation, VCP) Projects to meet the business goals on the
on-going products.
o 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.
• Obsolescence Management
o 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.
• Product level RoHS conversion
o Identifying the products that are to be made compatible to EU-RoHS regulations
based on the current SAP drive
o Researching the components that needs change
o Reviewing the DP milestones


GE Intelligent Platforms ▪ Hyderabad

LEAD Engineer| 2006-2010

• 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 CONTRIBUTION:

• Successfully executed $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.
• Received recognisation on quickly addressing status on effected ADI parts
resulted in completion of $100K cost avoidance.
• Instrumental in migration of different plant designs by suggesting equivalent local
part nos helped in inventory savings.
 
C-DOT ▪ Bangalore

Research Associat|1999-2006

• Vendor Development Activities:

o Component selection and standardization, part no issue, samples

arranging, component testing and qualification, Vendors approval,
documentation
specifications, Data base of Component Ordering information.
o Approval letters, Development of additional sources, Countering/Supporting
of obsolete components, Field failure analysis, Component and System
reliability.
o Motivating vendors by providing information about quantity & quality.

• Design Support:

o 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.
o Arranging technical Presentation to create awareness of the latest
technology trends and testing tools available in the market.

MAJOR CONTRIBUTION:

• Developed 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.
• Identified M/S Raltron as the SMD oscillator and recommended the same for
approval.


BSC-RBM-PATI ▪ GURGAON

Plant Engineer| 1998-1999

• Coordinated with Malasyian team for the installation and erection of PLC
controlled Asphalt mix plant- towards the DELHI-JAIPUR NH8 high way project.

• Mentored Plant operators for the smooth operations and rectified several
maintenance issues.
 Education & Academic Performance
Executive MBA in Project Management from URAL federal university

Pursuing PMP certification.

Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (AMIETE) Awarded by Institution of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) – New Delhi, India. Percentage of marks attained is 61%.

Completed Diploma in Electronics and Communication from Andhra University with 76% .

SSC – 76%. In 1993.

Technical Skills

 Knowledge of using Agile and SAP for production issues, Agile SCRUM Master,
Siemens Team center
 Component Searching tools like PARTMINER, ICMASTER, DIGCHIP, Promoier, IHS,
Arrow & Avnet etc.,
 Key Skills,: ROHS, MDDS, ECCN, ,IC, BGA, MEMORY, MTBF, RELEX, PROJECT M
 Tools – Relex-Reliability tool, Mentor graphics, Minitab.