GIRIDHAR PRAGADA Phone: +91- 9618482614 E-Mail: giridhar.pragada@gmail.

com PROFILE Dynamic professional with over 12 years of rich experience in Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Development (Design, Development & Testing), Team Management and Customer support in the field of EW and ATE systems. Working with Sorokasoft India Private Limited as Senior Project Manager. Managed high end software solutions in the fields of Electronic Warfare and Automatic Test Systems. Possess rich experience in project management starting from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding and testing, de-bugging, documentation and deployment Expertise in managing ATE projects covering Regression Test, Feature Test, System Test, endurance and robustness test automation and conducting quality assurance by taking stringent quality measures. Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills with demonstrated abilities in handling stakeholders from different countries. Key Achievements/Roles 1998-99 : Interfacing with Programmable instruments on RS-232 and GPIB Coding and Testing Data Acquisition System of testing turbines for BHEL, Hyderabad. Coding and Testing of Spectrum Monitoring System developed in VB for WMO, New Delhi Conducted Software Demonstration to delegates from HP-Singapore and HP-USA. 1999-2000 : Requirements Analysis, Coding and Testing for GIS Based GSM Network Drive Test Solution for Agilent, India Online help and training provided to customers from Brunie and Middle East. 2000-2002: Requirements Analysis, Software Modules Design, Coding, Test Documentation for a major EW COMINT system in C, VB and VC++. Meeting with engineers from Bharat Electronics Limited and Scientists from DLRL Delivered Classroom training to a team of 10 members from the Indian Air Force. Generated Test Procedures documentation for qualification of the software. 2000-2002: Requirements Capturing, Analysis, Software Design, Coding, Testing, Onsite System Integration, Training to DLRL. Khairatabad, Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh, India.

Software Documentation as per MIL-Std 498 C, Visual C++, Windows NT, Network Programming TCP-IP/UDP, MIL-498 and Oracle 9.0

2002-2005: Requirements Capturing, Analysis, Software Design, Coding, Onsite System Integration, Training to DLRL for development of receiver controller software. Convinced the team of Scientists from DLRL Design team on choice of target OS for the software as XP-Embedded. Software Documentation as per MIL-Std 498 C, Visual C++, XP-Embedded Network Programming TCP-IP/UDP, MIL-498 Presented a write up on Design of HF/VHF Monitoring receiver and realization using XPEmbedded, that was published in DLRL News letter. Design and development of device replacement software for testing various EW systems. Interacted with Agilent UK and Singapore for upgrade of Analysis Reporter. Managed the project for 4 years and supported the product E6474A for upgrading with changing technologies (2G-2.5G-3G). Led a team for ATE development of an airborne EW system at HINDAN, New Delhi. 2006-2012: Technical Proposals, Budgeting, Project scheduling, team building, task allocation to teams, project execution, and interaction with client from DLRL, CABS, Certification Agency RCMA/CEMILAC, IAF Recognition for leading and meeting software development as per DO-178B Level C. Started TR Module ATE solutions with Agilent Technologies, India. Successfully lead team for development of ATE Software for testing TR Modules used in RISAT. Agilent continues the TR Module ATE solutions business with us and we provided solutions for LRDE, ISRO and ASTRA. Lead teams for providing solutions to BHEL data acquisitions systems. Successfully implemented and deployed ATE for qualifying PUMPS and Electrical Machines like Generators/exciters etc. Technologies and Tools used during the period Microsoft .Net, VxWorks, Qt, C, DOORS, LogiScope, MISRA-C, DO-178B.

Summary of Technical Skillset: Microsoft development technologies and architecture (C#, VB.NET, VC++, VB). Rapid Application Development Design Modeling and Simulation Skills Sound knowledge of IEEE Software Development and documentation standards (MIL-498, 12207, DO-178B)

Embedded System Software development in C on VxWorks, MISRA-C Standards, Receiver Design and Implementation on Windows XP Embedded. Experience on Case tools: DOORS, LogiScope, Raphsody Experience on Project Management and Tracking tools: MS Project, SVN, BugZilla.

EDUCATION o BE Degree in Computer Science, REC Silchar