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RAMU KATHUROJU

Plymouth

Summary

Dynamic Technical Project Manager with a proven track record at Robert Bosch LLC, excelling in software development and stakeholder engagement. Expert in C/C++ and adept at managing complex projects, I drive successful outcomes through effective schedule planning and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Project Manager, SW-PM

Robert Bosch LLC
Plymouth
06.2015 - Current
  • Account for software functionality of control module, vehicle configurations, ECU algorithms/calibration, System Overview (including HW and Sensors), sensors diagnostics and In-vehicle network control.
  • Work with all stakeholders including SW PCMs, System/SW Architects, Integrators, Testers, Engineering management and PjM. Plan technical review, SW/ HW schedule review with team and customer.
  • Support in project acquisition phase, provide estimations and perform estimations for change requests.
  • Support of customer requirements (CRS) analysis, review of project system requirements (SYRS), –design specifications (SYDS) and review of project software requirements (SRS).
  • Create overall timeline and update the SW project plan, define contents, and schedule project deliveries with project management and to meet customer release activities.
  • Establish, cultivate and maintain a positive customer relationship and development team. Customer interface to team for technical points and plan technical review meeting with team and customer with OPL’s.
  • Requirement Management (DOORS), review and negotiate requirements and delivery with customer and track all development activities and project schedule.
  • Responsible for the Software Architecture of the Customer Library, define the synchronization strategy for the Core Assets Library and ensure the reuse of platform functionality.
  • Review project workload and identify the components, services for the outsourcing and align with third party suppliers to meet milestones.
  • Establish tasks for Requirement Development, Architecture, Implementation, Integration (ALM-SCM/MKS) and Requirement Tests. Internal technical responsibility for the software including all components.
  • Lead and track all system tests including SW, HW, PV, DV and production launch.
  • Prepare and attend SW project review and track the SW changes (ALM-CCM/CQ). Assist the CM for each baseline and review baseline for planned functionality.
  • Defect tracking, defect management and support in defect analysis. 5-why and 8D process for relevant defects.
  • Participate in project meetings, assign responsibilities to team members as needed. Motivate and challenge team members to ensure deadlines are met. Maintain an OPL and take minutes for weekly meetings.
  • Prepare and attend quality assessments and prepare status reports for customer and upper management (Power point, PowerBI). Support and attend internal and external assessments. Contribute to project risk management.
  • Support the hardware team and serve as interface to support SW delivery to the plant
  • Process compliance (CMMI, A-SPICE, CC-PS processes) in life cycle of the project from acquisition to product delivery to the customer.

Technical Specialist, SW development, integration

General Motors LLC
Milford
02.2012 - 06.2015
  • Company Overview: Milford, MI (iGATE Americas Inc)
  • Designed and development of CAN/Functional Diagnostics, Diagnostics Manager for safety critical applications of Automotive SW.
  • Architect and implemented automotive software to AUTOSAR compliance software Architecture.
  • Created new Models and enhancement of existing models using MATLAB/SIMULINK.
  • Conducted and analyzed functional requirements for embedded software development and software meets performance through review, testing and debugging.
  • Managed the team with analyzing development and performance issues and planned to meet scheduled releases.

Project Manager/Architect

Videojet Technologies Inc
Wood Dale
10.2010 - 02.2012
  • Company Overview: Wood Dale, IL (Wipro Technologies)
  • Project scoping, requirement gathering and detailed design of the system.
  • Managed and coordinated with global team with planning and scheduling tasks.
  • Implemented board supported package(BSP), UART, I2C, ADC, DAC, FLASH, FSMC, DMA etc features for new hardware(ARM CORTEX-M3) and bring up of new BX-6300/6400 printer hardware
  • Porting BX-IMS & PM application with new RTOS (uC/OS-III) on new BX-6300/6400 printer hardware.
  • Board and integration testing, debugging the application and supported system testing for software.
  • Integration and trouble shootings issues with Videojet Inspector Software.

Project lead/Architect

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
12.2005 - 09.2010
  • Company Overview: Bangalore, India
  • Requirements gathering and discussion, supported in design of system and modules, planned and assigned the work to the team members.
  • Guided the team members for any technical issues and release of all deliverables as per the project plan.
  • System architect and design the SW porting from MY 06 to MY 08 architecture.
  • Designed and implemented the Power Moding, HMI, Real Time Clock and Diagnostics and its interaction with other modules (GMLAN-CAN in the vehicle diagnostics) for Wakeup and Shutdown for Car infotainment.
  • Designed and developed application layer (HMI) for traffic information download, Operator, Pre- trip , speed trap download and Carwings protocol and reviewed the SW and documents.
  • Designed and Development of VR-HMI (Voice Recognition Human machine Interface) for processing the messages. Developed Voice recognition display sheets and control to the Sheets and handling messages from application layer for calling navigation API’s.
  • Developed display drivers and interface API’s for Graphics Library for XGA and WVGA display, API’s for video feature for application layer (HMI), switching between different layers( HMI, Map, Video etc.) on Display unit of Navigation system.
  • Implemented SW in establishing communication between client (PC/laptop) and server (Navigation system) through TCP/IP.
  • Enhanced the sequence layer for Bluetooth pairing and connection and ported Network stack
  • Managed the OS layer, system memory allocation , optimization SW and maintained SW in CVS
  • Analyzed the similarities between the graphics library and OpenGL ES API’s and designed the graphics simulation environment, and supported in porting of OpenGL ES API’s on graphics library and Navigation application.
  • Analyzed the CAN protocol for external amplifier the bugs reported on HMI application layer of the Audio feature Navigation system product.
  • Study of Locator module and its dependent modules viz. Sensor, GPS, and Gyro etc in navigation software-message queue interactions and shared memory of Locator module with other modules of navigation software.
  • Supported in building new system with BSP on new target to have Inter -process communication with navigation software target.
  • Optimized the Graphics Library (XGL. OpenGL), HMI and analyzing display parameters for XGA and WVGA display.
  • Enabled cache for system performance optimization, memory optimization and Integration of memory configuration for external modules MSB (Music Server Board), CF (Control Flash) and Sensor board.
  • Guided team members for issues/problems evolved during porting/development and esolved issues -route calculation, route simulation, scrolling, bootrom corruption, BSP etc.
  • Reviewed ported code for MY 2006 for installation, design, standard coding guidelines and memory leaks and test case documents.

Software Engineer/Developer

Mindteck India Limited
Bangalore
04.2005 - 12.2005
  • Company Overview: Bangalore, India
  • Designed and developed I2C communication, Video Input Driver with Picture in Picture (PIP) feature for SH7770 processor on Lanbic. - Synchronization of I2C, Video Input driver/application and display driver for PIP feature.
  • Developed the API’s for application layer like Draw lines, Draw Images, delete lines and Images for Navigation in HMI layer.

Project Engineer / Developer

Uday Udyog Electronics Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2002 - 03.2005
  • Company Overview: Hyderabad, India
  • Developed the firmware in C for AT89C52 (DAS4)/ C8051F020 (LVPS) Microcontroller.
  • Supported GUI Design and Development in Lab VIEW 6.1 for LVPS.
  • Integrated the modules and tested of system through RS485 communication.
  • Developed Embedded software in C (pSOS RTOS) to correlates the analog signals of Direction of Arrival of emission RADAR to find the position of radar.
  • Established a RS232 communication link between DFQF and System Controller
  • Acquiring the X and Y Signals VHF/UHF DF unit from Antennas and Calculating the Quality Factor and displaying the Quality Factor on LED.
  • Sending Quality Factor to System Controller using a protocol called Serial Asynchronous Message Interface Protocol (SAMIP).
  • Estimated the quality factor (DQFS) and sending back to the different sub systems of Master controller and system Integration testing.

Education

Bachelors in B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India
06.2001

Skills

  • Programming languages: C/C, Perl, CAPL
  • Development tools: JIRA, Jenkins, DOORS, ALM-CCM, ALM-SCM, Rhapsody, iSTAr, Vectocast, CANoe, CVS, QAC, MATLAB/SIMULINK
  • Network protocols: TCP/IP, I2C, UART
  • Operating systems: Unix/Linux, VxWorks, uC/OS-III, WINCE, QNX
  • Project management
  • Software development
  • Requirement management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Defect management
  • Schedule planning
  • Customer relationship
  • Team collaboration
  • Agile methodologies
  • Cross-function collaboration

Linkedin Profile

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ramu-kathuroju/1a/9a8/a8a

Timeline

Technical Project Manager, SW-PM

Robert Bosch LLC
06.2015 - Current

Technical Specialist, SW development, integration

General Motors LLC
02.2012 - 06.2015

Project Manager/Architect

Videojet Technologies Inc
10.2010 - 02.2012

Project lead/Architect

Wipro Technologies
12.2005 - 09.2010

Software Engineer/Developer

Mindteck India Limited
04.2005 - 12.2005

Project Engineer / Developer

Uday Udyog Electronics Pvt Ltd
01.2002 - 03.2005

Bachelors in B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad

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