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Director Product Development| Customer Leader |Technology Icon 50 under 50 | Automotive |Connectivity |Cockpit Electronics| Next Gen Women Leader Awardee | Industry 5.0|Certified Independent Director

About

With 22 Years of Experience in the Aerospace/Automotive domain across R&D/Product Development, Industrial Engineering & New Product Launch, I have broad expertise in leading teams from Quote till Product Launch including Automotive product design/Embedded design, Digital Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 Implementation. The approach throughout has been to drive organization-wide change to improve skill, quality and cost. My emphasis is on Business growth bringing in new Automotive technologies to local Market. Supported Global programs with local R&D team (China, Japan markets) & Enabler to setup design teams in India. Support Manufacturing units to be a better place to work and grow for women. Active participation in Employee engagement, women welfare activities, Contribution towards attaining physical and mental well-being for all employees. Specialization: Automotive product design /Engineering Leadership Manufacturing Technology Roadmap definition, Capacity Planning, Headcount Calculation, Product Development & Launch, Process Design, EMI/EMC Validation, Release Level Management, Aerospace & Automotive Hardware Digital Design, Simulation, Worst Case & Stress Analysis. Body Electronics/Body Control Modules, Cockpit Electronics, Domain controllers ,Infotainment, Clusters, Telematics Team Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, Product compliance certifications Additional Contributions: POSH Presiding officer /CSR Expert in Automotive Regulations - Homologation (Govt of India Expert Panel member). Ideated and created Women Excellence cell. 50 under 50 Technology Icon 2024 - Mentor at Iron Lady Women Leadership community

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

Work experience

Director of Product Development | Customer Leader at Visteon Corporation, Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, India, • Responsible for driving Automotive Engineering Design and Product Delivery • Lead Team of Chief Engineers & Senior Program Managers - Cockpit domain controllers, Infotainment systems, Instrument clusters, Telematic control units.. • Strategic Customer Engagement, Program Budget & Resource Management. • Drive culture of strong collaboration and cross functional stake holder management

General Manager -Head of New Product Launch Bangalore at Continental, Dec 2019 - Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, New Product Launch Management in Manufacturing - Clusters, Body Control Modules, Telematics, Airbag, ABS/ESC Technology Roadmap definition for location, Strategy Development, Program Launches Industrial Engineering - Heading multiple teams including Test Engineering (End of Line /ATE/ICT), Process (SMT/AOI/Selective Soldering), MES (Manufacturing Execution System) , Keynote speaker Industry 4.0 Production Cyber Security Advisor for Bangalore Plant

Head of Access Systems Product Group (R&D), Bangalore at Continental, Jan 2017 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs, India, Responsible for Engineering Product Group - Access Systems. Engineering product development, Validation & Regulations for India & Europe Market Product Range - Immobilizers, Passive Keyless Entry, Remote Keyless Entry etc

Technical Project Leader - Automotive R&D /Engineering at Continental, Dec 2008 - Dec 2016 · 8 yrs 1 mo, Bangalore, Technical Project Lead - Responsible for Project Technical Delivery across Disciplines - Hardware, Software, System Engineering , Validation , Product Certifications /Homologations.

Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies, Jun 2006 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Aerospace Hardware/Electronics Circuit design , FMEA, Worst Case Analysis

Education

Master's degree, Digital Manufacturing & Industrial 4.0, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Postgraduate Programme, Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning, The University of Texas at Austin