SUDHAKAR PAMMI MTech, MBA, PMP

401, ROYAL SPLENDOR APTS, VIJAYANAGAR COLONY, HYDERABAD, 500057, India

Contact: +91 9963232227 ; E-mail : [email protected]
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SR. PROFESSIONAL – HW PROJECT / PROGRAM Management

22+ yrs. of proven expertise in Product Development, R & D, Project Management

SYNOPSIS

● MBA & PMP Certified with experience in HARDWARE & SOURCING Project/Program Management
● 6-Sigma certified, Lean & Agile Trained; versed in ISO systems
● Electronic & Telecom Engineer with 22+ years with Productive Global experience, working in
Management from past 11 years
● Strong competency experience across Program /Project Management (NPI), Manufacturing,
semiconductor Vendors & Test houses.
● Highly effective in managing geographically dispersed large teams handling multiple projects ● Key
competencies in HW Product Development with knowledge of FW & SW lifecycle.
● Deft in steering R&D activities and leading new product development initiatives.
● Demonstrated professional excellence in project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and execution of
projects to customer satisfaction.
● Excellent man-management, time management, and leadership skills.
● Experience gained in handling projects in Aerospace, Defense, Space, Telecom and Industrial
Automation domains.
● Worked at Honeywell as Project lead (NPI/Obsolescence) , was associate with GE Program lead
for VE/OBSO engineering.
● Currently Pursuing at Qualcomm as Sr Staff Eng. Project Manager handling 4 verticals covering
Lab Space project Planning Engineering, Sourcing/Inventory management, Test Equipment’s &
Basestation setups
● Handled complete labs redeployment from Mindspace to Commerzone building as part of Qualcomm
consolidation project covering $100MM Project

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

★ Successfully Program Managed a large team of globally dispersed HW/FW/SW/ME Design and Test
engineers to deliver the multimillion GE4GE project with challenge of meeting accelerated timelines.
★ Received Impact award from VP for successfully fostering testsetup team in a short time to meet
WFH needs for the tech departments.
★ Leading multidisciplinary global medium & large scale Redesign programs – Avg span of (1-3 years),
team members (40-65) ; OPEX ($1MM - $15MM) CAPEX ( $80MM)
★ Got Recognition from ISC V.P AERO SPACE for successfully driving the team to on time delivering
the DU1310 product for Boeing and enabling $29MM in Q4’2018.
★ Got Recognised with Outstanding Achiever award for managing the Obsolescence team in reducing
the LTB value significantly and for improving the Cycle time to 50%
★ Received Silver Award for identifying and successfully coordinating w/ Religh Design team &
Manufacturer resulted in $313K saving opportunity. Further, captured my achievement in wall of fame
for the year 2013-14.
★ Recognized with Bronze Award for successfully completing $150K connectors DMP project by
rigorously following up with design, testing, Jabil manufacturing teams.
★ Got a recognition with Silver award in the first of year of joining in Honeywell, for the successful
leading of the EMS transition and for closing 2 of the obsolescence project in a quick time with zero
defects.
★ Received Global Applause award for Identifying 64 PIN FLASH SST part as alternate and for
achieving $65K deflation savings. Demonstrated exceptional performance and earned the ‘Long
Service Award’ for extending long period of service to the company.
★ Received Global Applause award for Identifying 64 PIN FLASH SST part as alternate and for
achieving $65K deflation savings.
★ Completed global level trainings like, Building Essential Leadership, Hiring Skills, Team Development,
Influencing, Coaching, Presentation, Time Management, Assertiveness, Effective Communication Skills
★ Completed & got certified for the Honeywell project leadership skills containing Integrated Product
Delivery and Support (IPDS) Process Overview ; Leading a High-Performance Team ; PMP: 06Initiation
Basics, Developing a Project Charter and Project Management Plan ; PMP: 13-Estimating & Budgeting
Project Costs ; Creating a Design for Cost Culture - Integrating DTC, DFM, Complexity, & Performance
; PMP: 07-Collecting Requirements and Defining Scope ; AG-5321 Risk Management ;
Updated Baseline Change Management (BCM) Training ; Intro & Implementation to EVMS (Earned
Value Management System)

Professional Experience

QUALCOMM, HYDERABAD
SR STAFF E NG PROJECT MANAGER | SEP 2019 TO TILL DATE

➢ Leading a team of 70 enthusiastic engineers to drive engineering details and business aspects
when making engineering & sourcing operational decisions.

➢ Led and successfully completed 2 significant first of its kind 5G projects- towards establishing
40GHz mmW anechoic chamber in India besides deploying Resident professional AMC with
Keysight 5G UXMs to reduce TAT to 5 days to improve the equipment repair time worth each
~$500K.

➢ Inventory & process control of QIPL Partnering with global procurement, finance, logistics,
engineering, Program Management, Eng Ops, chipset PMs and PAs, and other stake holders to
accurately acquire to ensure on time traceability of items /assets

➢ Project estimation, planning, schedule, resource management and prioritization for all the lab
projects that covers RF Screen rooms, mmW anechoic chambers, specialized labs (to simulate
Audio/Multimedia/Customized labs)

➢ Key component suggestions that are needed for the design to test SOC and to maintain the
component database in Agile.

➢ Owning and driving new initiatives from development through implementation. Establish routine
update & communication process: update status, schedule trends vs. baseline, risk management,
mitigation and recovery actions. Develop program indicators to push information to internal teams
and management.

➢ Improving process and tools methodologies. Strong clasp of controlling & running budgets,
resource management and forecasting.
 ➢ Ability to understand business implications of complex risks. Track, collate, and publish large
amounts of data in a concise, accurate, and intuitive format. Publish to all the tech teams and to
Eng ops, IT, Sourcing, Logistics & Facilities.

➢ Man management for the career guidance and performance annual reviews, goals settings and
tracking the accomplishment & hiring. Covering all the bring up planning & support for the new
SOD. Has expanded the team from 15 members to 55 members within span of 2 years.

HONEYWELL, BANGALORE
ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY SR. PROJECT LEAD | FEB 2015 TO AUG 2019

➢ Been part of multiple design releases covering Cockpit Display products, SKY TRACKER, DIGITAL
RADIO & WEATHER RADAR programs scaling from NPI, Refresh/Obsolescence redesigns.

➢ Task including the scope identification, SOW, end to end cost, Governance board review, CBT,
Kickoff, schedule, quality, alternate part identification, SCM association with blue & red label build,
complete qualification, Milestone fidelity, Preliminary & Critical Design review, Phase exit towards
the component engineering point of view.

➢ Lead the transition project from EMS tool to another Contract Manufacturer by paving a road map
and mitigating the road block by coordinating with all the stake holders like Project Engineers,
Component Engineer & Sourcing.

➢ Been instrumental in getting Obsolescence projects to AERO HW COE which was a game changer
for the Indian operation for AERO business.

➢ Led a team of 8 individuals & few contract employees to sustain the Legacy product lines
by covering 10 different Design locations and 5 Contract Manufacturers with round the clock
support.

● As Project lead:
o improving team’s performance with associating to soft & technical trainings
o Onsite & SCM visits o Annual operating review o Performance
development cycle – BEL curve, funding activities, o Charge code association o
Technical Career Path.

GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS ▪ HYDERABAD

PROGRAM LEAD | 2010 JUNE - 2015 JAN

➢ Delivering annual cost out (Deflation, VCP) Projects to meet the business goals on the on-going
products.
➢ Interacting with cross functional teams comprising of 7 Business units globally to identify low cost
drop in alternate components & board solutions, verifying the design suitability, studying project
feasibility, co-coordinating with factory on testing’s, part approvals, new part switch over, update
finance.
Obsolescence Management
➢ Monitoring Component life cycle, relaying it to design teams on Part discontinuation, Suggesting
alternates, studying the project scope, if no alternates suggesting the required LTB to made.
Product level RoHS conversion
➢ Identifying the products that are to be made compatible to EU-RoHS regulations based on the
current SAP drive
 ➢ Researching the components that needs change
➢ Reviewing the DP milestones
GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS ▪ HYDERABAD
LEAD ENGINEER| 2006-2010

➢ NPI Support by creating the Component profiles and maintaining the life cycle, corroborate with
design entity for test plan creation, SI and simulations when required.
➢ Continuous interacting with Vendors to streamline the manufacturing requirements
➢ Product level Reliability estimation using RELEX MIL-HDBK tool.
➢ Continuous interacting with Producibility, CAD team towards package creation.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTION:

➢ Successfully executed $313K deflation project by suggesting Unigen as a 32GB mSATA drive and
provided full support to US team with required spec requirements.

➢ Handled 5 cost-out projects by rigorously following with the global stake holders with leading 2
test engineers resulted in $250K savings in the year 2008-10.

➢ Successfully implemented project management methodologies, tools and best practices and
delivered projects meeting high quality standards and customer expectations

➢ Provided excellent support on MTBF Data for ~100 Products by understanding & adapting new
Relex Reliability tool to meet business priorities towards customer requests.
➢ Recommended interposer option to the design team for the older NEC V25 processor parts to
sustain legacy design product.

C-DOT ▪ BANGALORE
RESEARCH ASSOCIAT|1999-2006

Vendor Development Activities:

➢ Component selection and standardization, part no issue, samples arranging, component testing
and qualification, Vendors approval, documentation specifications, Data base of Component
Ordering information.
Design Support:
➢ Providing technical input to the designers in selection of all ANALOG and DIGITAL IC’S and Oscillators.
Arrange samples for testing in the design / placing trial orders in case of high price items. Arranging
technical Presentation to create awareness of the latest technology trends and testing tools available in
the market.

MAJOR CONTRIBUTION:
• Developed M/s KHEL, M/S USHA Semiconductor & M/S Naina Semiconductors as alternate sources for
the single source obsolete IR part 62CNQ030 diode used in EPU Involved in the
• Environmental testing of TEMEX make RMO type 10.24MHz Rubidium Oscillator conducted at ITI, as
per QM 333 for the TEC approval.
• Modified the PCB design for the TEMEX-RMO-10.24MHz Oscillator and sent the same to the vendor.
• Downloaded about 4300 data sheets of Active semiconductors like Logic devices, Memories,
Transistors, Diodes and Oscillator parts and the same are uploaded to the VDG web site.
 Education & Academic Performance

M.Tech (Embedded Systems) from BITS with 85%

Executive MBA in Project Management from URAL federal university with 76%
Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (AMIETE) Awarded by Institution of
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) – New Delhi, India. 61%
Diploma in Electronics and Communication from Andhra University 76%
PMP Certification Number 3347099

Technical Skills

✓ Knowledge of LTE, 5GNR REL 15, 16 Standards & applications

✓ Knowledge of using Agile and SAP for production issues, Agile SCRUM Master, Siemens Team centre
✓ Component Searching tools like PARTMINER, ICMASTER, DIGCHIP, Promoier, IHS, Arrow & Avnet etc.,
✓ Key Skills,: ROHS, MDDS, ECCN, ,IC, BGA, MEMORY, MTBF, RELEX, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
✓ Tools – Relex-Reliability tool, Mentor graphics, Minitab.