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Veerabhadra Mathad

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

15
15
years of professional experience
2010
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

Timeline

Technical Specialist / Principle Engineer

Mercedes Benz Germany
04.2024 - Current

Technical Manager for Headlamp, its ECUs & EE System

Mercedes Benz R&D India
03.2017 - 04.2024

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

Robert Bosch India
03.2012 - 02.2017

Software Engineer for Battery Management System

Delphi Automotive System
05.2010 - 01.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Siddaganga Institute of Technology

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