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Tom MOOLAYIL

Atlanta,Georgia

Summary

Robotics Masters Graduate from Carnegie Mellon University with a 10+ year career experience encompassing a range of engineering, technology marketing, and management roles. Excellent leader with a eye for disruptive technology, along with great communication and interpersonal skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Engineering

Uchimura Robotics LLC
11.2019 - Current
  • As a key player in a startup, built a professional team from the ground up, established streamlined procedures and budgets for engineering tasks, aligned financial parameters with business objectives to optimize Return on Investment (ROI) for delivered projects. Championed the company's presence in client industry organizations and key industry events, cultivating and expanding relationships through proactive communication. Served as the primary point of contact for high-profile clientele, addressing concerns and consistently surpassing expectations
  • Pioneered impactful proposal development and strategic decision-making, analyzing diverse requirements to shape system design and achieve cost-effective project outcomes. Spearheaded department-wide initiatives, consistently delivering progress updates to senior leadership. Masterminded the formation of high-performance teams through strategic recruitment and mentorship, driving individual growth in software and hardware design. The result: an outstanding 92% success rate in project completion, seamlessly aligning with company business goals and deadlines, and fostering a culture of innovation and achievement
  • Specializing in Collaborative robotics and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), recognized for steering cross-functional teams towards seamless integration of cutting-edge technologies, including 2D and 3D vision with AI. Through a unique blend of strategic leadership and technical expertise orchestrated successful project planning and deployment, driving operational efficiency and innovation
  • Collaborated with vendors and internal sourcing to cultivate strategic relationships, unlocking new opportunities, innovative solutions, and significant cost savings

Mobile Robotics Applications Engineering Manager

Omron Robotics And Safety Technologies
11.2017 - 08.2019
  • Hired and managed highly talented mechanical, electrical and software engineers focused on driving innovation by developing proof of concept robotic solutions to solve real world factory problems
  • Worked closely with Product Managers to align on NPI strategy as well as product sustenance by triaging bug fixes and new feature requests to determine scope, timeline, resources required and adding to product roadmap
  • Established proper communication channels across several departments globally reducing issue resolution timeline by 60%. Implemented application based test procedures to improve quality of mobile robotics software reducing software quality issues by 70%
  • Designed, developed and deployed a Mobile Manipulator robot platform, that combines AMR technology with Collaborative robot Arm technology, aimed at solving quality and throughput issues within Semiconductor industries

UR Plus Program Manager

Universal Robots USA Inc.
07.2016 - 10.2017
  • Conceived the ecosystem concept and played a key role in developing the Universal Robots Plus(UR+) platform which is essentially an "appstore" for robots, a concept uncommon in the robotics industry
  • Worked with different vendors to develop integrated drivers via the UR+ SDK to enable plug and play operation with UR robots
  • Introduction of platform improved overall robot sales by 25% due to improved customer perception and ease of use

Technical Manager North America

Universal Robots USA Inc.
07.2013 - 06.2016
  • Participated in hiring key business partners that proved instrumental in company growth. Played a key role in increasing revenue from $0.7million to $17million over just 3 years
  • Worked with power users to develop and deploy complex applications utilizing ROS to integrate Cobot arms with vision/force sensors and achieve real-time trajectory control
  • Engaged in Sales and Technical symposiums throughout the Americas and managed a team of 20+ distributors to drive robot sales

Software Developer - R&D

Motoman Yaskawa
07.2012 - 01.2013
  • Partnered with SWRI (South West Research Institute) to accelerate development of the Motoman to ROS-Industrial interface.
  • Developed the 'MotoROS' library within a short span of 6 months while documenting functional and technical specifications for the project.
  • Success of this project enabled end users achieve smoother motion control while passing dynamic trajectories to the robot

Senior Software Engineer

IBM
12.2007 - 06.2011
  • Developed and submitted multiple Business Value Additions to enhance project functionality by 40%, thus reinforcing team reliability.
  • Successfully mentored and assisted new members to deliver new and complex high quality solutions via iterative analysis, design, development and testing of services utilizing SAP
  • Over a short period of time grew to become an expert and valued developer within the SHELL core team

Education

Master of Science - Robotics Systems Development

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
2012

Bachelor of Science - Applied Electronics and Instrumentation

College Of Engineering, Trivandrum(Kerala University)
Trivandrum, India
2007

Skills

  • Agile Methodologies
  • Product Development and Program management
  • Team Leadership
  • Collaborative Robotics Safety Expert
  • Tools : Confluence, Trello, Office 365, Jira, Bitbucket, Visual Studio, Eclipse
  • Software Development : C, Python, SAP-ABAP

Accomplishments

  • Former member of the ISO committee responsible for revising the ISO10218 standard and developing TR20218 and TS15066 intended for collaborative robot applications
  • Former member of the Robotics Industries Association(RIA) and participated in 15.06 and 15.08 committees for collaborative robots
  • Avid movie buff. Enjoys writing, directing, producing and acting in theater plays/short films. Motorcycle enthusiast who also loves traveling

Timeline

Director of Engineering

Uchimura Robotics LLC
11.2019 - Current

Mobile Robotics Applications Engineering Manager

Omron Robotics And Safety Technologies
11.2017 - 08.2019

UR Plus Program Manager

Universal Robots USA Inc.
07.2016 - 10.2017

Technical Manager North America

Universal Robots USA Inc.
07.2013 - 06.2016

Software Developer - R&D

Motoman Yaskawa
07.2012 - 01.2013

Senior Software Engineer

IBM
12.2007 - 06.2011

Master of Science - Robotics Systems Development

Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Science - Applied Electronics and Instrumentation

College Of Engineering, Trivandrum(Kerala University)

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