1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He did his education in India and has background in Mechanical Engineering. His passion has always been automotive and started his career with XXXX where he started in mechanical design then went to system design and now working on the software engineering side of things; he has gone through the whole cycle of vehicle development. He is currently with XXXX as the Head of Product Quality where he handles about a team of 30 engineers; he built this team from scratch and has developed/delivered high-class results in the last two years. In this role, he is responsible for the software process engineering, define the engineering standards for their developers to follow; they have ongoing platform software development including operating system and middleware for ECUs in Toyota vehicles. They also have an ADAS team that works on fully automating Toyota vehicles in L5 autonomous level and apart from these, he is also involved with audits and assessments so once they define the process engineering standards for the development team, they use those standards to develop software for different line of businesses, his team checks the compliance and quality risk before shipping their products outside to customers.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be his strong understanding of vehicle engineering; he knows everything about vehicles from inside and out since it’s his passion. He has developed transmissions, entire drive train for vehicles, all on the software, hardware, mechanical, and hydraulic side of things. On the soft skills side, leadership is what excites him every day; he likes to motivate people and work with high-performing engineers. He also likes to develop a culture of self-motivated and driven-to-win kind of teams. He is very flexible and can place himself wherever he’s needed; he can do heavily involved on the leadership side if it’s necessary and can be a technical person as well if he needs to lead by example.
3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
He has more than 18 years of experience on the automotive industry and has been into different technical positions as well as leadership roles in this area. Apart from that, he’s been leading cross-functional teams in engineering and automotive related projects; he’s proficient with system, software, and mechanical engineering so he can leverage this on his next role. On the business side, he can also do budget management, risk mitigation, and others that are essential to the business. He has worked with Western teams and companies so he can also exercise that exposure in this role if ever.
