1. Ranganatha Sasikumar M
Career Objective
Seeking a project / program / platform/ engineering management position with senior leadership responsibilities including
problem solving, managing products and meeting targets with a company by utilizing the previous experience and skills to
meet business objectives/support commitments to customer service, employee development and continual improvement.
Highlights
 Experienced Project Manager offering 14 years of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects in IT,
Systems, Product development, Healthcare, Energy, Building Technology, Security systems & Consumer goods.
 Certified Project Management Professional-Bosch internal PMQ
 Certified ISTQB Professional
 Expert in implementing IT Infrastructure, agile and SDLC project management methodologies.
 Expert in using project management tools like MS Project, PRIME etc.
 Experience in PMO setup, developing processes & tools for the engineering departments.
 Onsite experience at Client and Vendor places in Germany and USA for about 1.5 Yrs.
Professional Contributions and Achievements
 Complete responsibility of Product Development Life Cycle (Healthcare, Energy, Consumer domains)
 Responsible for defect free engineering delivery to the business teams
 Expertise in Bosch ST-PEP, BES-PE and Quality gates of RBEI/QMM
 Program management of products from business case to market release with gates of QG0-QG5
 Application of new methodologies, tools and lean process with improvement plans in the dep’t
 Stakeholder management from the point of Technical and Business views
 Risk management for entire PDLC from the point of Technical and Business side
 Internal trainer of various technology areas including project management practices
 Member of COP teams like Cop_PM and Cop_Testing, Threat Modeling etc
 End to end involvement of 2 products which are first of its kind from Bosch for I ndian market
o http://www.bosch-eyecare.com
o http://www.bosch.nonintrusive-energy.com/
 Worked in products which have been demonstrated to PM of India, German chancellor etc
 Technical reviews of project artifacts including design, schematics, test strategy etc
 Defining Test automation framework and evaluation of various tools
 Active participation in various strategic discussions for the Organization growth
Mob: +52 1 3318627960
sasikumar.mr@gmail.com

2. Professional Experience
1. Program Manager – Product Development & IoT Group, RB Mexico
Duration:May 2016 – Till Date, Organization:Robert Bosch Mexico
Program Manager for new product development based on IoT platform: Managing multiple products from different
engineering departments of Bosch along with Global customers from NA market.
Responsible for Business development and Delivery operating out of Guadalajara, MX for the entire NA market
BBSN: 48V Battery development for Electric Cars: SW Development for Hybrid Electric OEMs
BEG: HMI Cluster development for 2WP (2 Wheeler Power Sports & Recreational vehicles)
IoT product development for Global customers: Smart LED Tags, IoT suite ready to use boards, Knob development
 Responsible to develop the business within Bosch as well as Global customers for NA market
 Stakeholder management-Internal and external vendors; Define the contracts (SLA), coordination and tracking of
all the Technical Deliverables, POs, Funds etc. (CI, ISY, FIN, LEG, CTG, CFA, ICO etc)
 Setup the teams, recruit new talent and groom the team to reach customer expectation, make them to align in
project deliveries and independent enough to handle the project delivery
 Travel to customers to have review meetings, project definitions, new requirement discussions, handling
escalations and for smooth project deliverables
 Driving the new business opportunities and leads related to IoT across NA market. Convert the lead to opportunity
by providing engineering estimates and cost proposals
 Good in customer interactions, identifying target customers for the pilots and taking them successfully into the
commercial discussions with a logical closure.
 Rigorously managing scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
with focus on delivering the business benefits.
 Validating financial forecasts and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other product development
related expenditures as per the agreed business plans.
 Defining and tracking project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated
delivery plan.
 Developing the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan, contingency plan, and other
project management artifacts and responsible to complete Quality Gates.
 Publishingperiodic project status reports, risks and dependencies to all the stakeholders of product development.
 Collaborative work with peer managers to ensure a good team spirit is established for the entire unit
Professional Experience
1. Program Manager – NBT Projects
Duration:Sep 2013 – May 2016 Organization:Bosch India & 38 Zeros Portland,USA
Program Manager for NBT Projects: Managing multiple products from different engineering departments of Bosch India
along with external vendors from various parts of the Globe.

3. NILM: Internet of Things for Mid size market India
Non-IntrusiveLoad Monitoring(NILM) is a technique used to identify the sources of electric consumption in a building by a
single-point of measurement of voltage and current, usually at the main distribution panel. In other words, NILM is used to
disaggregate energy consumption and provide energy-use feedback to consumers at a detailed, appliance level. NILM is
targeted as an end-end solution for quick servicerestaurants, retail and telecom service providers. This has a smart energy
meter that measures the complete electrical characteristics of various appliances of the target location and algorithms
represent desegregated information in Cloud and through the Web based dashboard in a user understandable format.
http://www.bosch.nonintrusive-energy.com/
Work location: Bangalore, USA
Eye Care: (First Health care product from Bosch for B2C)
Eye Care is an eye screening system for detecting and analyzing lesions for diabetic retinopathy of a patient. Bosch Fundus
camera is used to acquire the patient images and Medibilder acts as standalone workstation software for doctors, who
capture images of patients’ eyes, store images, convert images into DICOM format and import them into database (PACS),
manipulate images such as lesion marking, perform automatic tasks of image anal ytics such as lesion detection, and view
images for analysis of any anomaly.
http://www.bosch-eyecare.com
Work location: Bangalore, Chennai
 Managing the projects from all variants like software, firmware, hardware, mechanical, UX, manufacturing,
production etc and integrating all these work to meet the customer requirements.
 Stakeholder management-Internal and external vendors; Define the contracts (SLA), coordination and tracking of
all the Technical Deliverables, POs, Funds etc. (CI, ISY, FIN, LEG, CTG, CFA, ICO etc)
 Part of the new business team that is core in entire organization to incubate new product development for Indian
market; Very strong in strategic decisions for taking the right product in time as per market need.
 Setup the new engineering center build with enhanced IT infrastructure to create a complete IT environment and
with a vision to expand the team with more LAB facilities for testing.
 Part of core team to define the cloud infrastructure development along with Amazon, Vendor teams and develop
the same as per need of projects.
 Good in customer interactions, identifying target customers for the pilots and taking them successfully into the
commercial discussions with a logical closure.
 Rigorously managing scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
with focus on delivering the business benefits.
 Validating financial forecasts and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other product development
related expenditures as per the agreed business plans.
 Defining and tracking project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated
delivery plan.
 Developing the project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan, contingency plan, and other
project management artifacts and responsible to complete Quality Gates.
 Publishingperiodic project status reports, risks and dependencies to all the stakeholders of product development.
 Scrum master for the product development team. Ensure that daily, sprint and release commitments are being
upheld. Identify and remove project roadblocks.
 Conduct different scrum meetings– Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective.
 Resource Management - Plan headcount in line with the targets and effectively manage the resource portfolio in
terms of utilization and capacity. Align the resource loading as per agreed business plans.
 Risk and IssueManagement - Diagnoseand evaluatepotential risks and issues, highlight them to the business, and
execute mitigation plans. Define and maintain FMEA at product level too.
 Conduct Lessons learned workshops for different projects and identify future improvements including PMP topic.
 Conduct process reviews, identify gaps and suggest, implement process improvements.
 Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment. Identifying & implementing all the
Learning and Product Development Requirements of the team.

4. Skills & Tools Used : PMP, Agile, Scrum, Project Planning, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Change
Management, Budget & Cost Management, Resource Management, SharePoint 2010, MS Project 2010, PMBOK, TFS, SDLC,
ASP, Java, Net beans, Excelsior Jet, J Wrapper, DICOM, HL7, HIS, Visual Studio 2012, Win Server 2012, SQL Server 2012,
AWS, Matlab, Machine learning techniques, Supervised and Unsupervised learning’s .
2. Project Manager – V&V Projects
Duration: Feb 2009 – Sep 2013 Organization: Bosch Bangalore and ST Germany
MAP is a new generation security panel for middle and high-end market segments, for Intrusion, Fire and Access Control
system aimed at a world-wide market. RBEI is responsible for providing support to the Firmware development of Control
panel & UI keypad and my team is responsible for Verification & Validation activities i.e. system testing of MAP. Control
panel is being the heart of system; UI Keypads, LSN GW, Power supply and DE Module are connected on CAN bus of panel.
All LSN devices are connected to GW in loop/stub. DE module acts as an interfacefor alarmreporting to the communication
center/central station. Panel can be programmed remotely via TCP/IP by using RPS.
 Understand Product requirements and get the requirements analyzed effectively by team
 Creation of Master Test plan and defining Test Strategy; Size estimations for Requirements by using ATR
 Review of various levels of Test Specifications and Test Plan
 Defining Test Metrics for each V&V sub-project and track the same
 Impact Analysis discussions, scope definitions; Team building, handling and Mentoring the team
 Responsible for Project Status Report to senior management and client
 Conduct team meetings and provide onsite/offshore coordination
 Planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Risk Management, PO’s, Shipments
 Employee development and Performance Review of the Team
Significant Achievements:
 Awarded ‘Beyond the Expectations’ in all the years
 Appreciations from Dev team, Senior Management and Client
 Received ‘One Time Award’ for successful market releases
 Best Practices Award for following process related activities
 Project used as a base for many V&V projects in Dep’t
Skills & Tools Used : Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, .Net, C++, Linux, 32 bit Arm9
microcontroller, CAN, TCP/IP, LSNi, Wind river, UML, MKS.
3. Project Manager – Development Projects
Duration: Feb 2012 –Mar 2013 Organization:Bosch – Bangalore
Pace is a new generation configuration tool that is used for configuring all types of Fire Panels worldwide i.e. development
and support of a PC based configuration tool (RPS) for Magic Panel Series of security panels. It is used to configure the
properties of Panel, Modules, Sensors, Downloading or uploading configuration data to panel. It also supports performing
operations on panel remotely using Remote Terminal feature. Configuring a network of panels wherein 2 or more panels
are connected each other over CAN. Team is responsible for the Development, maintenance and support of configuration
software FSP-5000-RPS.
Responsibilities-Technical:
 Understand the Product requirements.
 Get the requirements analyzed by team and conducting DOU
 Creation of WBS for every task or change request
 Usage of PPM for detailed estimations and WBS
 Defining Project Metrics and track the same
 Scope definition for Testing activities

5.  Inputs to QRT team at Client’s side
Responsibilities Non-Technical:
 Responsible for Project Status Report to senior management and client
 Conduct team meetings and provide onsite/offshore coordination
 Team building, Team handling and Mentoring the team
 Planning, Scheduling, Tracking, Risk Management, PO’s, Shipments
 Lab Setup, Project Metrics, Conducting CAR, DAR with team
Significant Achievements:
 Appreciations for managing a Dev project from Senior Management
 On time project status report, quality being Green
 Initiate and track the Improvement plans for project
 Achieved a good customer satisfaction index
 Successful product release to market in Aug-12 with more business to BOSCH Group
Skills & Tools Used: .Net, C#, XML, Crystal Reports, MS Access, Win-XP, VISTA, Win 7, VSS, Rational Rose 2000, MS Project
4. System Engineer
Duration: July 2005 – Jan 2009, Organization: Bosch – India,ST Germany
Intrusion Alarms belong to family of Social Alarm Management Systems provided by BOSCH for managing all the receiving
centers especially in European countries. LMS gives Automatic voice recording of all telephone calls, Remote programming
of Local devices, Automatic data backup, Key administration, HTML technology, Output and Reports. Web Administration is
a web based application,consistsof necessary subscriber information embedded in a browser by using HTML technology. It
provides mechanisms for ‘Management of subscriber and event data, Management of Local Units’ etc.
 Understand the System requirements.
 Involved in Functionality and System Testing
 Defect trackingand bug reporting usingRADAR
 Handlingresponsibility towards ‘Testing’ for both Onsiteand Offshore
 Prototyping of Automation concepts by usingQTP7
 Involved in ‘Effort Estimation’ of Offshore/OnsiteTest Executions
 Leading a Testing team of two in offshore
Skills & Tools Used: Windows XP, ASP, VC++ (MFC), SQL server 2005, VSS, QTP 7
5. Test Consultant
Duration: Sep 2004 – Apr 2005, Organization: Siemens Bangalore, Berlin Germany
Switch Commander belongs to family of Network Managements Systems provided by Siemens for management of Network
Elements. Itsupports GPRS Support Nodes and STP (SignalingTransferringpoint) switches.Alarming is a Sub-Project, which
comes under Fault Management in NMS. It provides mechanisms for detecting & reporting failures of Network Elements
usingAlarmingInfrastructure.Itprovides various functionsfor Alarm surveillance; and Alarm states visualization provided
by HP Open view, NNM map, Event processor, Event catalogue and DB Administration.
Skills & Tools Used: Windows 2003, VC++ (MFC), Oracle, XML, TOM, FEKAT, Win Runner
 Involved in Regression and Functionality Testing
 Defect tracking and Bug Reporting using FEKAT
 Test Case Management by using TOM
 Familiar in using Simulators as well as Real Network Elements
 Knowledge of Telecommunication concepts

6.  Coding in C++, Unit test framework development
Educational Qualifications
Qualification University Duration Subjects
B-Tech S.V. University 1998-2002 Mechanical Engineering
M B A IGNOU 2004-2007 Human Resource Management
Personal Information
Address : #470, Sri Sai Nilayam
17th Cross, 2nd Block, VP Nagar, Begur
Bangalore 68, Karnataka, India
Marital Status : Married
Date of Birth : 15-06-1979
PassportNo : K2697067
VISA Status : B1 valid till 2025