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Consultant with 2 decades of product development expertise
Raja Kasinathan
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Rugby, United Kingdom
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A customer focussed Software professional with strong experience in the areas of Requirements Management, Project Management, Engineering Management and end-to-end Product Development in Embedded Systems
A project planner with expertise in Pre-Sales, planning, executing and spearheading various Automotive projects from start to closure in compliance to quality standards.
Adept in end-to-end development of Automotive software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding testing, debugging, and documentation
Has implementation knowledge in ISO, SEI-CMM and Automotive SPICE software engineering methodologies.
Extensive hands-on experience in software development, both as a technical leader and as a developer
Interfacing with customers, expertise in a multi-location & multi-cultural onsite-offshore work model
Triaging Systems Requirements and Systems Issues/defects
A project planner with expertise in Pre-Sales, planning, executing and spearheading various Automotive projects from start to closure in compliance to quality standards.
Adept in end-to-end development of Automotive software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding testing, debugging, and documentation
Has implementation knowledge in ISO, SEI-CMM and Automotive SPICE software engineering methodologies.
Extensive hands-on experience in software development, both as a technical leader and as a developer
Interfacing with customers, expertise in a multi-location & multi-cultural onsite-offshore work model
Triaging Systems Requirements and Systems Issues/defects
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2015 - ?
freelance
Tech Consultant / Technical Project Manager
Jaguar Land Rover.
Helped to improve the stability and performance of the Infotainment system by fixing hundreds of Systems
issues like memory issues, CPU load issues and design issues across various components
➢ Led the roll out of several Linux performance measurement and optimization tools (valgrind, calgrind, gcov & lcov) across the JLR development centre and trained various teams
➢ Successfully integrated features such as Camera, Park Aid, 4x4i, Seats, Massage, Climate, Instrument cluster and
Electric Vehicle features with Infotainment for 2 Programmes - Next Generation Infotainment (NGI) and Pluggable -In-Vehicle Infotainment (PIVI).
➢ Led the JLR Triage team to triage several thousand defects
➢ Single technical & management point of contact for JLR Infotainment from all CoC's across various
Engineering and quality departments.
➢ Responsible for doing impact analysis for all Change requests to TCS and represented TCS in Change Control
Board (CCB) meetings
➢ Assisted Technical Triage of issues by reviewing requirements, design, code and logs to identify the software
component where issue-root-cause lies
➢ Mastered the architecture and design of 2 JLR Infotainment products - Hardware and Software and provided
Technical/design solutions for the development teams
➢ Performed design reviews and code reviews for the software components
➢ Supported in preparation and review of RFQs, RFPs and RFIs
➢ Rolled out guidelines for coding and Requirements/CRs
➢ Defined and implemented the defect & change management process and developed the process handbook.
➢ Demonstrated Jira expertise by implementing defect management process in Jira/Confluence across JLR and all
JLR suppliers like LG, HERE, Neusoft and Visteon
➢ Performed the role of Project Lead in Jira for 3 projects and led the Jira admin team for process
workflow, and user accounts management
➢ Trained JLR and multiple supplier teams; and developed 'Defect & Change Management Handbook'.
➢ Led JLR High Hurts meeting and Feature Task Force meetings with JLR and all suppliers which
resulted in implementing and integrating several features, implementing thousands of defects and CRs, resolving numerous technical issues and suppliers blocked items.
➢ Put all technical and management learnings from previous project in practice in the new project and also through
new ideas which resulted in 50% reduced number of Vehicle Interaction features defects (~3000 defects),
compared to the previous program
➢ Trained the Triage team members and streamlined the defect management process to achieve very high
productivity
➢ Successfully led and drove the test cases in JLR's National Instruments automated System Test Rigs (STR),
analyse the overnight STR test reports every day, log issues found in the STRs in Defect Management system
➢ Led a team of manual vehicle test engineers who wrote test cases in Zephyr and tested in vehicles /rigs
➢ Maintained the traceability between Specs in DOORS, and Test cases in Zephyr and defects in Jira
issues like memory issues, CPU load issues and design issues across various components
➢ Led the roll out of several Linux performance measurement and optimization tools (valgrind, calgrind, gcov & lcov) across the JLR development centre and trained various teams
➢ Successfully integrated features such as Camera, Park Aid, 4x4i, Seats, Massage, Climate, Instrument cluster and
Electric Vehicle features with Infotainment for 2 Programmes - Next Generation Infotainment (NGI) and Pluggable -In-Vehicle Infotainment (PIVI).
➢ Led the JLR Triage team to triage several thousand defects
➢ Single technical & management point of contact for JLR Infotainment from all CoC's across various
Engineering and quality departments.
➢ Responsible for doing impact analysis for all Change requests to TCS and represented TCS in Change Control
Board (CCB) meetings
➢ Assisted Technical Triage of issues by reviewing requirements, design, code and logs to identify the software
component where issue-root-cause lies
➢ Mastered the architecture and design of 2 JLR Infotainment products - Hardware and Software and provided
Technical/design solutions for the development teams
➢ Performed design reviews and code reviews for the software components
➢ Supported in preparation and review of RFQs, RFPs and RFIs
➢ Rolled out guidelines for coding and Requirements/CRs
➢ Defined and implemented the defect & change management process and developed the process handbook.
➢ Demonstrated Jira expertise by implementing defect management process in Jira/Confluence across JLR and all
JLR suppliers like LG, HERE, Neusoft and Visteon
➢ Performed the role of Project Lead in Jira for 3 projects and led the Jira admin team for process
workflow, and user accounts management
➢ Trained JLR and multiple supplier teams; and developed 'Defect & Change Management Handbook'.
➢ Led JLR High Hurts meeting and Feature Task Force meetings with JLR and all suppliers which
resulted in implementing and integrating several features, implementing thousands of defects and CRs, resolving numerous technical issues and suppliers blocked items.
➢ Put all technical and management learnings from previous project in practice in the new project and also through
new ideas which resulted in 50% reduced number of Vehicle Interaction features defects (~3000 defects),
compared to the previous program
➢ Trained the Triage team members and streamlined the defect management process to achieve very high
productivity
➢ Successfully led and drove the test cases in JLR's National Instruments automated System Test Rigs (STR),
analyse the overnight STR test reports every day, log issues found in the STRs in Defect Management system
➢ Led a team of manual vehicle test engineers who wrote test cases in Zephyr and tested in vehicles /rigs
➢ Maintained the traceability between Specs in DOORS, and Test cases in Zephyr and defects in Jira
Engineering, LED, Manager, Feature, Software, Development, Hardware, Confluence, Workflow, Design, Architecture, Test, Management, Jira, Linux, Project Manager, Change management
2010 - 2015
job
Systems Requirements Lead
Harman International.
➢ Maintained the traceability between Specs in DOORS and Test cases in Rational Test Manager
➢ As Requirements Lead, analysed and created architecture comparison of 3 Harman Infotainment platforms (High, Mid and Low) and features supported in each. Bridged Fiat Chrysler and Harman development team; end-to-end
implementation and delivery of customer requirements. Setup Assembla defect management project and Triaged
all defects. Act as technical and requirements interface for customer and partner Sprint PCS and its suppliers,
who implemented the Harman Connectivity and Telematics API (Application Programming Interface), resulted in cost savings of several man-years, and improved efficiency of requirements management, defect/change
management and release management for the product which enabled Chrysler to successfully launch the vehicles
without delay
➢ Represented Harman in several Triage workshops at customer's location, collaborated with partners, and implemented the Harman API
➢ Chrysler Program Manager, Alan Birkle, recognized my contributions for the 2 weeks Triage Workshop at Harman
in 2013, where I led and represented Harman and supported Chrysler as well as its suppliers
➢ Awarded by Harman for leading few process areas for Automotive SPICE audit where Harman was
SPICE certified first time in 2012
➢ Prepared responses to RFPs from several European and Indian Automotive OEMs. Resulted in 2 project wins
(MAN and Scania) for Harman
Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK Mobile: +44 (0)7775353834
➢ As Requirements Lead, analysed and created architecture comparison of 3 Harman Infotainment platforms (High, Mid and Low) and features supported in each. Bridged Fiat Chrysler and Harman development team; end-to-end
implementation and delivery of customer requirements. Setup Assembla defect management project and Triaged
all defects. Act as technical and requirements interface for customer and partner Sprint PCS and its suppliers,
who implemented the Harman Connectivity and Telematics API (Application Programming Interface), resulted in cost savings of several man-years, and improved efficiency of requirements management, defect/change
management and release management for the product which enabled Chrysler to successfully launch the vehicles
without delay
➢ Represented Harman in several Triage workshops at customer's location, collaborated with partners, and implemented the Harman API
➢ Chrysler Program Manager, Alan Birkle, recognized my contributions for the 2 weeks Triage Workshop at Harman
in 2013, where I led and represented Harman and supported Chrysler as well as its suppliers
➢ Awarded by Harman for leading few process areas for Automotive SPICE audit where Harman was
SPICE certified first time in 2012
➢ Prepared responses to RFPs from several European and Indian Automotive OEMs. Resulted in 2 project wins
(MAN and Scania) for Harman
Location: Rugby, Warwickshire, UK Mobile: +44 (0)7775353834
API, Audit, Management, Test, Architecture, Workshops, Implementation, Development, Test manager, Audit, Workshop, Manager, LED
My education
1996
Center for Development of Telematics
Diploma, Software Engineering
Diploma, Software Engineering
1992
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1996
Institute of Road and Transport Technology
Bachelors, Electronics & Communication Engineering
Bachelors, Electronics & Communication Engineering
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