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AJIT PAL SINGH

Foster City

Summary

Dynamic Sr. Technical Program Manager with extensive experience at Meta Platforms Inc., excelling in program management and strategy. Proven track record in delivering complex products at scale, leveraging strong organizational skills and expertise in cellular technologies. Adept at fostering collaboration and mentoring teams to achieve operational excellence and drive impactful results.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Meta Platforms Inc
Burlingame
06.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for all strategic and operational program management of key software components-Connectivity, BSP and Vendor Management for Meta AR(Augmented Reality) platform.
  • Provide leadership in identifying and fixing gaps in organizational structures, processes and tooling, with strong focus on laying a solid foundation for an early stage product and a new organization.
  • Provide guidance and leadership, for multiple strategic initiatives, to engineering and product management leaders for - setting vision and direction, streamlining processes, simplifying execution, managing key results, releasing on time, bringing tooling efficiency, resolving systemic problems, and identifying trends that help teams and organizations optimize.
  • Responsible for leading the efforts on articulation of technology, requirements, goals and milestones for several product teams.

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Apple Inc.
Cupertino
01.2018 - 06.2021
  • Responsible for all strategic and operational program management of Cellular Baseband software for 8 future and current product versions of - iPhone, iWatch and iPad.
  • Responsible for hands-on program management during Product Planning, MRD, PRD, Feature Planning, Execution-SW+HW, Vendor Management, Bug Convergence, Build and Integration, Risk Management, Change Management, Launch Readiness, Post Launch issue follow-up, Future upgrades planning and Delivery till EOL, an effort involving 50+ cross-functional+geo internal and external teams and an effort supporting 500+ telecom carriers worldwide.
  • Provide critical strategy and decision support to executive leadership through data gathering, information analyzing, presenting considerations and recommendations to relevant stakeholders and driving the bigger mission forward by translating executive decisions into results.
  • Champion and owner of several initiatives to set vision and direction to streamline processes, simplify execution, manage key results, release on time, bring tooling efficiency, resolve systemic problems, and identify trends helping teams and organizations build the next level of improvements and efficiency.

Carrier Project Manager

Intel Corp
Santa Clara
07.2015 - 01.2018
  • Responsible for Carrier Project Management of 2 Key US Carrier Partner-AT&T, T-Mobile for Intel Cellular BU encompassing relationship management, product roadmap discussion, driving feature sets, strengthening engagement opportunities, chipset and customer certification and for scheduling support during product rollout.
  • Responsible for coordinating next generation technology discussions-LTE, 5G, V2X with US Carrier partners AT&T, T-Mobile and OEM partners to enable joint collaboration, technology development leading to successful commercialization of products.
  • Responsible for Carrier partner and OEM feedback to Intel management, product planning and engineering teams.

Software Project Manager

Intel Corp
Santa Clara
07.2012 - 01.2015
  • Managed software development schedule and delivery for 3 key customer engagements(Samsung, Microsoft and Sierra Wireless) for 3 platforms( XMM7160,7120 and 7260), while collaborating with Requirement Engineering, Software development, Hardware, SCM, Validation-Functional, Performance, Certification, Power and Stability teams.
  • Collaborated with different POC(SW, HW, Test, Customer) on a regular basis to ensure project schedule and deliverables are aligned & agreed upon to enable OEM partners milestone and commercialization target.
  • Managed Customer Escalations, Support Requirement, Task Prioritization and Software Delivery to enable internal and external partners.
  • Responsible for regular overall program health reporting and for regular readout to internal and external teams - leadership, engineering management and product planners.

Validation Project Manager

Broadcom Corp
Sunnyvale
03.2010 - 06.2012
  • Managed end to end validation of Dual Sim solutions(2G-2G, 3G-2G, 3G-3G) including Schedule and Resource Planning, Execution, Bug Tracking and Closure, Customer support and Commercialization.
  • Collaborated with different teams-GCF, PTCRB, Functional, Performance, Field test and Carrier for test coverage, lab availability and ensuring test setup availability.
  • Responsible for regular overall program health reporting and for regular readout to internal and external teams - leadership, engineering management and product planners.

Engineer-II

Broadcom Corp
Sunnyvale
02.2008 - 03.2010
  • Technical Lead for the functional validation, weekly regression and carrier acceptance testing on BRCM Cellular Platform namely 21333/4, 2153, 2157 and 21553.
  • Responsible for conducting IODT, IOT at different Infrastructure labs(Ericsson, Nokia), for functional test script development, functional validation, field test and for extending customer support.
  • Planned, coordinated and implemented automation framework for different Network Simulators resulting in efficient usage and productivity increase.

Senior Software Engineer

Lucent Technologies
Bangalore
08.2004 - 08.2007
  • Lead a group of 4 Team Members for the validation of IP Based Soft Handoff (IPSHO) feature for 1x Radio Network Controller being introduced to migrate all the existing ATM Networks to IP based Networks as per 3GPP & 3GPP2 standards.
  • Responsible for E2E software bring up of the CDMA 1X Test Network.
  • Responsible for extending Technical Support to the Test & Development team for the different issues reported from the customer sites in terms of understanding the nature of defect and possible resolution.

Associate Software Engineer

LG Soft
Bangalore
07.2004 - 07.2005
  • Responsible for different validation aspects-InterOperability Testing (IOT), Field Testing(FT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Mobile Application Validation of LG UE (User Equipment) for different launch markets.
  • Responsible for Validation of a TriBand (AMPS, CDMA 800, CDMA 1900) Vehicle Communication Platform (VCP)- Early Version of Autonomous Car for GM Onstar, Collaboration with GM Team, Bug identification and closure, customer support and commercialization.

Intern- Test Engineer

Skyworks Solutions
Noida
12.2003 - 06.2004
  • Established Regression Test Center, Indian Engineering Design Center (IEDC) for complete validation of GSM/GPRS Protocol Stack based on GCF and PTCRB test suites.
  • Validated GCF and PTCRB Test Scenarios on different Platforms (Pegasus 0/Pegasus 0.5) using different Network Simulators Analyzed L1/L2/L3 Messages for GSM/GPRS Protocol Stack using the In-house.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma - Mobile and Optical Fiber Communication

Amity University
INDIA

B.S. - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Maharshi Dayanand University
INDIA

Skills

  • Program management and strategy
  • Product delivery at scale
  • Organizational skills
  • Vendor and carrier management
  • Customer engagement
  • Empathy and integrity
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Cellular technologies (5G, 4G)
  • Wireless communication (WiFi, Bluetooth)
  • Networking protocols
  • Mobile operating systems (iOS, Android)
  • Real-time operating systems (RTOS)

Leadership Awards

  • Divisional Recognition Award for First Verizon Product Launch, Intel Corp
  • Three Spot Award for Leadership, Innovation, Efficient Execution, Broadcom Corp
  • Appreciation Award for 1x Radio Network Controller (RNC) Product Delivery, Lucent Technologies

Leadership Technical Skills

Program Management, Strategy and Vision Setting, Delivering Products at Scale, Organizational Skills, Vendor Management, Carrier Engagement, Customer Management, Empathy and Integrity, Mentoring, Cellular- 5G, 4G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Location, Networking Protocols, iOS, Android, RTOS

Timeline

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Meta Platforms Inc
06.2021 - Current

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Apple Inc.
01.2018 - 06.2021

Carrier Project Manager

Intel Corp
07.2015 - 01.2018

Software Project Manager

Intel Corp
07.2012 - 01.2015

Validation Project Manager

Broadcom Corp
03.2010 - 06.2012

Engineer-II

Broadcom Corp
02.2008 - 03.2010

Senior Software Engineer

Lucent Technologies
08.2004 - 08.2007

Associate Software Engineer

LG Soft
07.2004 - 07.2005

Intern- Test Engineer

Skyworks Solutions
12.2003 - 06.2004

Post Graduate Diploma - Mobile and Optical Fiber Communication

Amity University

B.S. - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Maharshi Dayanand University

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