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Bharath M. Chandrashekhar

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Summary

Dynamic Product Engineer with a proven track record at Ford Motor Company, excelling in DFMEA analysis and cross-functional collaboration. Skilled in MATLAB and Jama, I drive system reliability and enhance customer experience through effective communication and innovative problem-solving. Committed to delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company
11.2021 - Current
  • Defined and documented specifications from system to component, incorporating cross-functional team inputs using the Jama tool.
  • Championed Technical Design Reviews, securing stakeholder feedback from Privacy, Legal, Security, and Safety teams.
  • Experience in communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB, NFC, and CCC Digital Key.
  • Developed boundary diagrams and interface definitions (ARXML, FIDL) to clarify key system interfaces with ECU owners.
  • Conducted DFMEA analysis to proactively identify potential failures prior to production.
  • Created and maintained quality documentation, ensuring Design Validation Plan reflected requirements and FMEA test cases.
  • Triage problems and resolved verification gaps across integrated systems to enhance reliability.
  • Developed human-readable test scenarios using Gherkin syntax in adherence to Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) method.
  • Managed Key Performance Indicator dashboards, tracked metrics, and delivered critical feedback on customer experience.

Systems Engineer

Umlaut, Inc. (Accenture) (Client: Ford Motor Co.)
10.2018 - 10.2021
  • Defined functional specifications for on-board and off-board interfaces.
  • Optomized functional specification for Digital Key feature, validating system using CANoe, Diagnostics Tool, SPLUNK, and Vehicle Spy.
  • Conducted functional tests on Bluetooth Low Energy Module using Vehicle Spy and Bluetooth Sniffer hardware.
  • Flashed hardware components, including TCU and Body Control Module, with latest software for testing.
  • Participated in triage calls to perform root cause analysis and provide production support.
  • Developed DFMEA for Digital Key to identify failure modes and implement countermeasures early.
  • Led initiatives to conduct clinics for gathering customer feedback on features.
  • Executed hackathons to assess system performance and software maturity.

Software Validation Engineer

Systems Pros (Client: Harman International)
02.2018 - 10.2018
  • Analyze requirements, and establish traceability using requirements management tools.
  • Perform bench testing for media, tuner, Bluetooth, Android Auto, CarPlay, and other app frameworks.
  • Perform smoke, system-level, functional, regression, and in-vehicle testing (hardware and functional) to guarantee product acceptance for mass production.
  • Conduct black-box validation testing for apps, BT/connectivity, tuner, and vehicle testing.
  • Use IBM DOORS for creating, reporting, and managing the requirements.
  • Use RAFT to simulate CAN signals for vehicle interface functions.
  • Responsible for developing the test procedures and performing root cause analysis activities.
  • Report and log issues into the bug tracking system, RQM, including track files and necessary steps to recreate.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan
01.2017 - 07.2017
  • Company Overview: Dearborn
  • Designed an effective GUI tool using MATLAB to data log several actions performed by the driver during the trip taken for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS).
  • Controlled data reductions, feature selection, cluster analysis of the acquired data.
  • Performed data validation on the physiological signals of the driver and documenting the result.
  • Train and test the system model and analyze the accuracy of the result.
  • Dearborn

Software Developer

Local Cube Commerce Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 05.2015
  • Company Overview: Bangalore, India
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for retail purpose.
  • Designed, developed, and enhanced the functionalities of the ERP system thereby facilitating better utilization of the features and automated the system to generate several well-documented reports.
  • Converted information from specifications to programming code.
  • Wrote specific programs by analyzing workflow charts and diagrams and applying knowledge of computer capabilities to satisfy system requirements.
  • Performed validation testing and developed various test cases to make the system bug-free.
  • Established compatibility by developing necessary code to integrate with Google products API.
  • Bangalore, India

Education

MS - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Michigan – Dearborn
Dearborn, MI
04.2018

BE - Electronics and Communication

Visvesvaraya Technological University
India
06.2014

Skills

  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • IBM RQM
  • TeraTerm
  • RAFT
  • QNX
  • GIT
  • DFMEA analysis
  • Cucumber
  • Jama
  • Jira
  • CANoe/ CANalyzer

Certification

  • SysML 101 - Systems Modeling Language Fundamentals

Timeline

Product Engineer

Ford Motor Company
11.2021 - Current

Systems Engineer

Umlaut, Inc. (Accenture) (Client: Ford Motor Co.)
10.2018 - 10.2021

Software Validation Engineer

Systems Pros (Client: Harman International)
02.2018 - 10.2018

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan
01.2017 - 07.2017

Software Developer

Local Cube Commerce Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 05.2015

MS - Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Michigan – Dearborn

BE - Electronics and Communication

Visvesvaraya Technological University

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