Sujith Janardanan
Summary
Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of Automotive and Telematics products. Ready to offer 12 years of experience and take on a dynamic new position.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Advanced Product Owner
Ford Motor Company
08.2021 - Current
- Identify requirements for features of CV2X products such as Tolling and Emergency Pre-emption Vehicle
- Helped team deliver Emergency Pre-emption vehicle in 3 months by testing and validation
- Presented Basic Safety Messages (BSM) to the team with fundamentals for V2V (Vehicle to Vehicle) communication
- Managed documentation for all the functional specifications through Engineering SharePoint
- Coordinated and attended meetings with SAE Standards documents J2534 A/B/ J3161
- As Product Owner, partnered with teams for great ideas and concepts for in-vehicle products such as Facial Recognition Systems for vehicles in Latin America
- Analyzed the underlying assumptions and risks associated with new features and understand how to prioritize FMEA and DFMEA principles that need to test for the products
- Patent Disclosures on Major In-vehicle features such as Sentinel
- Systems and Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to develop and understand code-level concepts of Diagnostic Engineering Tool for
- Upfitter module Customize Interface Module
- Collaborated with different teams and documented valuable feedback to understand the value proposition and to develop prioritization for current deliverables.
Technical Account Manager
DanLaw Inc
10.2016 - 08.2021
- Work and coordinate with all Customer accounts providing technical support for customers like Allstate, Shell, Roush, and other major customers using the Datalogger products
- Efficient handling of business requirements to developers to derive technical requirements for the product design with quick deliverables estimated
- Coordinate all the development changes with the cross-functional teams and document changes in terms of Engineering specifications
- Communicated day-to-day changes across cross-functional teams in weekly meetings and keep documents up to date
- Track record of maintaining all documents up to date
- Validated and verified that the data are developed reliable and robust using Automation Testing tools such as simulation and in- vehicle testing
- Managed engineering changes with existing and future product development teams at every stage of development
- Managed matrix reports for all technical and business metrics with consumers and Danlaw using tools like Polarion, JIRA
- Managing Accounts reports, status reports customer issues, and providing on-time support is key, as being able to provide quick solutions to fit their use case and resolve their solutions
- Lead Onsite & Offshore team for testing and validation for firmware
- Inducted & trained new members of the technical team, responsibilities to be a team leader
- Requirement gathering, developing customer use-cases, following processes to deploy devices into production
- Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver features in a productive and efficient manner.
Software QA Lead
DanLaw Inc
03.2011 - 10.2016
- Piloted Datalogger Generations products GEN1, 2, 2.5, 2.9, and 3.0 with Hardware and Software testing
- Worked with different technologies such as GSM, CDMA, GPS, BT, and Accelerometer according to the design requirements
- Experienced working knowledge of Standard OBD II PIDS &
- Diagnostics with vehicle communication protocols such as J1850
- PWM, J1850 VPW, ISO9141, ISO14230 Five Baud, ISO14230 Fast Init,
- ISO15765 CAN11, CAN29, Truck Protocols J1708, J1939, OBD II PIDS
- Developed and created Functional test plans/cases on customer requirements, device specifications, and operational conditions
- Create & Test Vehicle Spy automated (Intrepid) scripts & function blocks using Vehicle Spy on the test benches
- Assessed and verified extensive Data analysis on different protocols such as TCP & UDP
- Expertise in Agile Methodology and various levels of testing
- Acceptance testing, Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, Integration testing & Unit testing
- Developed and Maintained a Standalone tool using Python scripts for Parsing & extracting Data from server logs
- Good knowledge of requirement management & defect tracking tools like JIRA, ALM tool Polarion & Confluence.
Education
MS - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oakland University
12.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Anna University
05.2007
Skills
- TECH SKILLS
- Product Development and Launch
- Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Troubleshooting and Testing
- Failure Analysis
- Process Management
- Test Case Development
- Training Junior Team Members
- Firmware Development
- Automated Test Equipment
- System Integration Testing
- Requirements Verification and Validation
- OBD Vehicle Protocols knowledge
Accomplishments
- Achieved high product sales by effectively helping with Product features and technical documentation for customer Azuga in the fleet management business.
- Supervised a team of 10 staff members as Software QA Lead both On-site and off-shore team members
- Documented and resolved processes which led to quick resolutions of features and functionalities with customers.
- Developed hands-on data analytics through tools that helped the team with effective data analysis.
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Danlaw
- Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum, IBM
- Foundations of Project Management, Google.
Quote
Fall seven times; stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
Timeline
Advanced Product Owner
Ford Motor Company
08.2021 - Current
Technical Account Manager
DanLaw Inc
10.2016 - 08.2021
Software QA Lead
DanLaw Inc
03.2011 - 10.2016
MS - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oakland University
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Anna University
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