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MUKUND SRIVASTAVA

Senior Technical Lead

Collins Aerospace, Hyderabad, IN

E-mail:job.mukund@gmail.com

Mobile: +91 958 125 1193

OBJECTIVE

Deliver zero defect product on-time with high quality and effective savings.

HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE/ CAREER SYNOPSIS

  • Working with Collins Aerospace as a Senior Technical Lead (Scrum Master & Product Owner).

  • 12+ years of domestic and overseas experience in Software & Verification Development all under the leadership of Collins Aerospace.

  • Extensive hands-on engineering in aerospace systems including planning, tracking, analyzing progress, requirement analysis, software development and V&V.

  • 7 years of experience in leading multiple teams simultaneously (size of >10).

  • Creating an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.

  • Capable of leading multiple teams constituting of personnel from versatile backgrounds & location (Including onsite).

  • A skilled communicator with strong interpersonal & relationship management skills.

  • I ensure that the project progresses efficiently & effectively by assigning the right job to right engineer.

  • Experience of working in Agile environment.

  • Positive attitude and out of the box thinkers, have presented many innovation ideas out of which few are under patient process.

  • Possess significant experience & ability to work in multicultural environment.

  • Self-directed and provides coaching to team members.

SOFT SKILLS

  • Effective communicator, positive & constructive attitude, collaborative, and a quick learner.

  • Lead by example, creative, innovative, good problem solver and out of the box thinker.

  • Patient, optimistic, good listener and believe in teamwork.

CURRENT JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Leading efforts for developing requirements, software & verification development.

Organizing & leading iterative ceremonies such as increment and scrum planning, product backlog planning & grooming, daily scrum, scrum of scrums, reviews, retrospectives, sprint demo, calculating velocity and other agile meetings etc.

Mentoring and training to team.

Listening and supporting team member in their daily issues.

Delegating task whenever required to coach experience engineers & prepare them to be the leader of future.

Resolve upcoming issues along with facilitating platform to software & system team.

Monitoring development & execution of test including tracking of verification activities (DRY RUN, RFS and SCA).

Perform risk Identification, estimation & mitigation planning.

Distribution of workload among the team with right job to right engineer whenever possible.

Building sync with onsite stakeholders/SMEs/team.

Regular release of progress report, project status, impediments, and relevant metrics (burndown, velocity charts & etc.).

Ensuring the completeness and quality of all project deliverables with participation in reviews, including the reviews from other integrated subsystem’s team & system’s team which impact us.

Creating new processes & following existing ones to achieve zero defect product & counter new escapes/turnarounds.

Encouraging team to performing continuous runs to increase reliability and performance with each software update as part of CI/CD.

Implementing lean, innovation & automation, and leading\guiding team to arise with some ideas.

Lead SOI’s & closely involve in Certification & AS9100 Audits.

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE/ SKILLS & COMPETENCES / TECHANICAL SKILLS

Name Years Beginner Experienced Advanced

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Programming Skills

Python [REST, Sqlite3, pytest, web scrapping] 12 Yrs X

C / C++ 11, VBA 3 Yrs X

Tools & Technologies/Software’s

Software Development Life Cycle 12 Yrs X

ALM, JIRA, Clear case, IBM Rational DOOR 12 Yrs X

LDRA, Rapita 4 Yrs X

Visual Studio 2015, MATLAB 2018b 3 Yrs X

Eclipse Peer Review / Crucible 12 Yrs X

Jenkin, STARWAR (DevOps) 3 Yrs X

VAPS, Wireshark 5 Yrs X

Google Sketch up 1 Yrs X

Operating Systems

Linux 5 Yrs X

Windows 12 Yrs X

Others

DO-178 B/C (Avionics Standards) 12 Yrs X

DO-330 (Tools Qualification) 3 Yrs X

Configuration management 12 Yrs X

Verification Environment Setup (Hardware) 9 Yrs X

CERTIFICATIONS

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

May 2019 – Current: [Sr. Technical Lead]

Flight Display System Application (Airbus C295, Canadair VWB, AW609)

  • FDSA for display of all data from different applications over MFD (Multi-Function Flight Display) and PFD (Primary Flight Display). Programs were having new installation & implementations of new features (equipment). Challenge was to get these features implemented & tested. Customer was expecting all these deliveries within 1 year, which was a aggressive time line. During this period our onsite location has faced natural calamity & it effected entire team in IDC as well.

  • Tools used Python, DOORs, Crucible, JIRA, SVN, LDRA, MATLAB 2018b, Visual Studio 2015, STARWAR

  • Performed testing (automated & manual visual), SIL, MIL, Integration, SCA that include development of test cases/test scenarios & test procedure including execution, regression & review of tests. In absence of onsite team, I took the ownership of reaching out to system & subsystem teams in IDC to get team dependencies & issues resolved. I also resolved team issues without help from onsite team.

  • All deliveries have been made ready, but customer right shifted the final deadline. I got appreciations for taking ownership & for performing above & beyond, finding & raising issues & supporting teams with my knowledge. Supporting onsite team in SOI audits and TSO certification.

Jun 2017 – Apr 2019: [Technical Lead]

Flight Control System (Boeing 777X)

  • Flight Control System application performs fly-by-wire interactions with actuators to control aircraft surfaces. Boeing is one of the biggest and critical customers for us and Due to its aggressive schedule implementation and testing of software application along with mechanical updates were done in agile manner. So that the implementation & testing gets over quickly with quality and we meet the critical deadlines.

  • Tools used Python, DOORs, Eclipse Peer review, SVN, MATLAB, Rapita, Trace32, Visual Studio 2015

  • Performed requirement based automated software testing that include development of test cases/test scenarios & test procedure including execution & review of tests. I also performed Dry Runs & RFS. Being senior in team I have given guidance & mentorship to team.

  • All deliveries have been made on time. I got appreciations for taking ownership, on time completion of my task, finding & raising issues & supporting teams with my knowledge. And setting up Rapita for SCA from scratch.

Jun 2013 – Apr 2017: [Senior Test Engineer]

Radio Tuning System Application (Embraer KC390)

  • This was new project and new team in IDC. Ownership of testing of this application was given to me along with 3 mentees to onboard. Expectation was to start the project testing, onboard team, resolve challenges & keep on meeting milestones

  • Tools used VISTA (Test Bed), Python, DOORs, Eclipse Peer review, SVN, wireshark, C/C++, Jenkins

  • Performed requirement based automated testing that include development of test cases/test scenarios & test procedure including execution, regression, smoke test & review of tests. I also performed Dry Runs, RFS, SOI audits & involved in certification. Being senior in team I have given guidance & mentorship to team.

  • All deliveries have been made on time. I became the Test SME in IDC and got appreciations for taking major ownership, successfully completing test activity, resolving big challenges such is target setup/debugging & clearing impedances for team.

Oct 2009 – May 2013: [Senior Test Engineer]

Flight Management System & Vspeeds (Embraer EEJ/KC-10, L-C130, DRAGON AWACS)

  • Project were with strict deadlines with customers & require automated software testing for FMS/CPF (Cockpit Display Unit) and FMS-EDS/ICPF displays which includes Flight Planning, V-speed, Performance, Weight & Balance, and Mission Patterns, Database and Navigation. For KC-10 & DRAGON AWACS programs entire testing has to be done within IDC.

  • Tools used VISTA (Test Bed), Python, VCL, DOORs, Eclipse Peer review, SVN

  • Performed requirement based automated software testing that include development of test cases/test scenarios & test procedure including execution & review of tests. I also performed Dry Runs & RFS. Being senior in team I have given guidance & mentorship to team.

  • All deliveries have been made on time. I became the only SME in IDC and got appreciations for taking major ownership, before time completion of my task & supporting multiple teams with my knowledge.

INNOVATION IDEAS/ PROJECTS

I’ve produced multiple innovation ideas, out of which some are under process of prototyping & patenting

    • Intelligent Display: Making display more intelligent by automating certain things using Data Science.

    • Emergency Landing: Pilot assisting idea to make emergency landing smooth by using Machine Learning.

ACHIEVEMENTS/ TECHANICAL PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS & HONOURS

  • Runner-up in global Rockwell GS Rock-Starter innovative idea competition (shark tank alike theme).

  • Innovative idea Award 2020, 2019 & 2017 now under IP Council draft submission.

  • Awarded for conducting Creative Thinking workshop that produced 6 innovation ideas for company.

QUALIFICATION

Degree/Certification University/Board Percentage Year

  • Master’s in software system BITS, Pilani 7.0 CGPA 2017

  • PG Diploma in System Software Development CDAC-ACTS, Pune 75.92% 2009

  • B. Tech Computer Science & Engineering U.P. Technical Univ. 72.8% 2008

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Playing Badminton, Table Tennis, Chess, Swimming, Portrait Sketching, Styrofoam modeling, Diorama modeling, Watercolor Painting, maintaining my website, palmistry, calligraphy, and Philosophy.

Thanks & Regards

Mukund Srivastava

Please reach out to me if you have any further questions, I would love to talk and discuss this opportunity.

ACRONYMS:

MFD: Multifunctional Display

CSE: Computer Simulation Environment

CNS/ATM: Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management system

ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization

FAA: Federal Aviation Administration