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Work History

Education

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Veerabhadra Mathad

Technical Manager

Sindelfingen

Summary

14+ Years of experience in end-to-end Product , SW Development & Management in Supplier & global Automotive OEM
Proven experience in Project & Product Management, Business development & People Management
Innovative mindset-Author of 2 Patents and 3 Innovation Ideas

Overview

years of professional experience

2010

years of post-secondary education

Work History

Technical Specialist / Principle Engineer

Mercedes Benz Germany

04.2024 - Current

MB.OS (Mercedes Benz Operating System) EE Architecture development for Body & Comfort
Single point of Contact for the future architecture development at MBRDI India for Body & Comfort systems
Global release of Headlamp Systems, Seat ECU, Sunroof ECU, Door ECU , EPDU Systems & Energizing Couch System for the Mercedes Benz S Class & E Class including the Entry segment A & B Class portfolio
Bench Marking & Evaluation of the above systems against industry standards
Supplier evaluation & negotiation for the Headlamps systems
Complete validation of the Body & Comfort Systems on all the Mercedes Benz vehicles before release to Production
Supplier & Technology scout for the Headlamp EE Systems such as LED Systems up to 100K uLED Headlamps & Digital Micro Mirror LED Headlamps based on the MEMs technology
Bench Marking, Technology Evaluation, Supplier Nomination, Product Development & management
Managed multiple high-priority projects simultaneously, consistently meeting deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.

Technical Manager for Headlamp, its ECUs & EE System

Mercedes Benz R&D India

03.2017 - 04.2024

Responsible for End-to-end product life cycle management for Headlamp ECU development & EE Development
Developed the team of eight engineers and successfully transferred the product development work from India with colocation strategy and built the ecosystem of headlamp supplier in India
Technical Manager - Responsible for Complete Inhouse development of DMD(Digital Micro Mirror) Headlamps with 1.3Million Pixels and 25K MicroLED Headlamp EE Systems
Cross function management with R&D, Production, Assembly, Quality, Purchase & Procurement
Engineered Headlamp EE Systems & ECU Development (HLI, PXL, PHD) with local Team
Formulated & implemented product planning strategy based on vehicle development milestones
Engineered system & component specification
Developed hardware of the controller
Designed software control strategy using model based development (MBD) in MATLAB
Managed verification and validation of the controller, field failures analysis, software quality management and design of system DFMEA
Resolved critical tier two ASIC supplier logistic issue in crucial 15 days period that was affecting 28000 vehicles by formulating and implementing engineering change
Received Extreme Award for the development & Global release of GLA Headlamp with Colocation strategy and Local supplier with development of supplier eco system
This strategy saved 3 Million Euros

System Engineer for Electronic Pressure Pump motor with BLDC sensor-less Technology

Robert Bosch India

03.2012 - 02.2017

Successfully developed first FOC (Field Oriented Control)based motor control algorithm for with effective stakeholder management- involving motor supplier and Global OEMs
Formulated System control strategy for the various BLDC motor control algorithms
Designed scalable control strategy for two majors OEMs specifically on the Fuel Pump technology
Validated the control strategy for functional, diagnostics and In-vehicle Networking (IVN) requirements
Developed system FMEA for AMT system
Developed production End of Line (EOL) and after sales diagnostic tool
Designed & implemented tunable parameter/calibration sets to PID algorithms to stabilize the motor speed and position, Kalman filter to estimate the rotor position and generation of duty cycles with Newton Raphson & Liner regression

Software Engineer for Battery Management System

Delphi Automotive System

05.2010 - 01.2012

Software responsible for the Battery Management Systems
Formulated test Specification document
Executed component & System level tests
Managed vehicle electrical load benchmarking workshop to generate and implement Value addition-value engineering (VAVE) ideas for reducing the cost and weight of the product
Crafted code that is both scalable and maintainable for lasting software stability.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Siddaganga Institute of Technology

Tumkur

04-2009

Skills

Automotive Product Development

Product & Project Management

Innovation Coordinator

Automotive Software Development

Leadership/People Management

Technical Compliance

Automotive Product Validation

Recruitment, Training and Development

Technology & Innovation Management

Supply Chain Management

Budgeting and Cost Management

People Management

Automation Requirements

New Product Development

Risk Evaluations

Supplier Evaluation

Negotiation

Strategic Thinking