Ekantharajan A C

•Drive the Quality Assurance and Agile transformation initiatives across Automotive Driver Information (DI) SW projects, ensuring compliance with ASPICE and IATF 16949 standards •Act as a subject matter expert for the usage of Agile tools (JIRA, R4J, X-Ray, Confluence and eazyBI), supporting project teams in optimizing their usage for efficient project tracking, planning, and documentation of requirements & test developments in line with Quality standards like IATF 16949 & ASPICE.

•Lead the Lean program customized for SW teams with an objective of enhancing the Efficiency & Leadership Transformation in SW R&D Projects •Conduct diagnosis activities consisting of process supervision, interviews with project stakeholders, VSM/VSD workshops and consolidate the findings •Enable the project teams to design the measures, relevant KPIs based on the diagnosis and facilitate to deploy them in the projects •Monitor the Maturity of the Lean practices and report them to the Leadership team

 Lead a team of around 50 Engineers and 3 project managers working on Diesel Engine Injection SW development  Has SW expertise in CRS fuel supply system, Pressure control & Injector diagnosis tests,  Efficiently acquired joint development opportunities in the new injector development  Played a stellar role in implementation of Agile methodologies like Kanban  Holds the distinction of being continuously rated high in customer satisfaction index

- Lead a team of around 20 Engineers working on Li-Ion Battery Management System(BMS) SW development supporting erstwhile SBLD and now BBSD. - Provided guidance to the team on BMS SW development with respect to Cell supervisory circuit, Thermal Management & safety management - Executed from offshore, various OEMs project on BMS SW development through SBLD.

- SW Project Management for a team of 30 engineers working on Hybrid Inverter Control (HIC) and Battery Management System (BMS) SW development - Successful execution of Validation of Hybrid Inverter Control (HIC) SW with Matlab Offline Testing based SW testing & Labdrive (a simulator of eDrive) testing as core activity and - Successfully made a turn-around in the Customer Satisfaction Index after taking up the Hybrid Inverter project - Successful support for Cobasys(now BBSN) on BMS testing.

- SW Project Management with a team of around 20-30 Engineers working on Diesel Engine Injections SW development - Attained Quality Award in 2010 - Zero-defect quality Improvement strategies in the team which were taken as best practices in the whole of the organization

• Supervised a team of around 20 Engineers working on Diesel Engine Management SW development, Verification & Validation • Functional Area : Diesel Injector SW development, Exhaust Gas Treatment (EGT) • Involved in planning and tracking progress and achieve results within the approved project schedules, estimated costs /efforts and quality plan • Served as EMS-Training Coordinator as a cross-functional activity • Essayed a key role in expanding the EGT team at offshore up to 4 team members

• Acquired skills in Testing at Vehicle, Testing at Engine test bench, new SW development environment • Carried out SW development for Pilot Injection Calibration for Diesel Injectors, tested in the vehicle • Showed distinctive ability by being appreciated for identifying potential defects in the EMS SW developed by customer before delivery • Efficiently convinced customer to transfer the EGT SW development to offshore for cost benefit

• Technical guidance to a team of 5 to 8 Embedded Software Engineers • Involved in architecting various functionalities required for the Engine Management system control units used in the commercial vehicles (light/ medium/ heavy duty truck) on various functional features like cruise control, various engine diagnostic tests, communication SW, Engine Noise reduction, remote control, etc. • Carried out black-box testing using the vehicle simulator & testing tools like INCA & debugger

 Played a stellar role in interfacing of analogue/stepper motors & telltales in the Instrument Cluster for B2XX Honda Project  Holds the distinction of monitoring GPS & acquired the co-ordinates information  Acknowledged for using configuration management tools like Clearcase

 Essayed a key role in IEEE floating point arithmetic SW in assembly language for 8 & 16 bit micro controllers  Showed distinctive ability in assembly language debugging using emulators & simulators  Demonstrated excellence in introducing & implementing VSS based software version management for assembly language software

Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning and Python