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Mr. Lakshmi Narasimha I.N. +91-8867816605
simhablr.1904@gmail.com
Experience Summary ( About 14 Plus years of Experience)
• Having 3 years Plus experience in Product design and Training on Product design flow.
• Having 10 plus years of experience in Electronics Product Development full flow.
• Having 1 year Plus in Assembly and Testing as Junior engineer
Education
B.E in Electronics and Communication (1996 -2000)
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Diploma in Electronics and Communication (1992-1995)
M.N Technical Institute, Bangalore.
Professional Profile
8 July 2013 – Till date Technical Head
SchemaZen Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore
(www.schemazen.com)
3 Oct 2002 – 28 Mar 2013 Engineer - Product design (After B.E)
Advanced Electronics Systems, Bangalore.
(www.alsindia.net)
5 Apr 1995 – 10 Aug 1996 Junior Engineer Production (After Diploma)
Advanced Electronics Systems, Bangalore.
(www.alsindia.net)
Technical Skills
Having extensive experience in “Hardware Board Design” and “Product Design” life cycle
Working knowledge from Concept (NPI) to final Production involving in:
o Product features understanding from customer end.
o Requirement specification Block diagram Preparation discussion with technical team.
o Data sheet study, ICs, components, package (TH, SMDs, BGA) Selection
o Component procurement - local, online studying the MOQ, LT and competitive pricing.
o Orcad Capture -Schematic design Entry, Library Creation, Net-list & BOM generation,
o Checking the Net-list with the Schematic diagram for accuracy.
o Allegro- PCB design- Layout design, IC/ Component placement, Layer stack-up, trace
routing, Silver screen, Solder mask, power plane/ Island cutting, controlled impedance,
o Providing routing guidelines to PCB designers.
o Creation of Manufacturing data for PCB Fabrication house.
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o Getting PCB assembled through Assembly house, providing assembly BOM.
o Board bring up and board testing and trouble shooting following a protocol.
o Software Porting, Proto type testing and certifications done when ever necessary.
o Document preparation –Design flow document, Technical documents, Test Reports.
Knowledge on Design
o FPGA – Xilinx Spartan 3E Family,
o Processors – ARM9(Atmel SAM9CN12),PIC-16F8XX, 8051, 8085
o Packages – TH, SMD, BGA
o Memory - DDR2, E2PROM, Serial, NAND Flash
o Interface Bus – I2C, SPI, Ethernet, UART. USB,
o Power supply - Linear & DC-DC, Voltage Supervisors. Voltage Sequences.
o Software’s – Compilers & IDE (Keil, MpLab), Orcad, Alligro, Excel.
Professional Experience
 Currently working as “ Technical Head” at “SchemaZen Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.
Presently Heading Product & Board Design Development Team & Training Team.
Presented Technical Talk on “Carrier Options in Electronics Industry”, creating awareness for B.E,
M.Tech, E&C colleges students and motivating them to take H/W design as their carrier path.
Responsibilities handled involving with various teams:
o Meeting the customers to know their product requirement specification.
Reducing the requirement to a Block diagram architect level.
Selection of the Components and ICs (Processors, I/Os), studying the data sheets of different
manufacturers.
o Planning for the Synchronization of the work process with the product life cycle with time line.
Assigning timeline and mile stones for smooth flow of the product design and development.
o Getting Library, Schematics design, Net-list and BOM created.
o Ordering components, IC with different venders as per BOM, considering their MOQ, LT and
Pricing. Negotiating for the best for the same.
o Planning for PCB size, layout, IC & component placement finalization.
o Planning for PCB Layer stack up, Power planes / Island cutting.
o Providing routing guidelines for PCB team, generation of Gerber file
o Getting the PCB fabricated providing drill chart and information for PCB fabrication.
o Getting Board assembled from assembly houses, providing assembly BOM
o After Assembly involved in Board bring-Up following a protocol once the various stages are
ready then interacting with S/W team for Software porting,
o Once H/W & S/W are functional doing Prototype testing, Preparing the test reports &
Technical documentation.
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o Teaching hardware design for BE, M.Tech and working professionals –in Training Team
 Projects done at SchemaZen Technologies as a Technical Head.
 Fan Tray Controller (In-charge from PCB making to final hard ware board bring-up) done for
CISCO
This is a Atmel SMART SAM D21 (QFTP) 0.5mm fine pitch SMD processor based product, to control
16 fans, on the back plane of customized project, I2C interface based for controlling 16 fans for
checking the functional & various speed programmable using USART, and USB 2.0 based. 20A, 12V
controlled through MOSFET switch with DC-DC (12V-3V3) convertor for processor operation.
 Media Controller Board
This is a ARM9 ( Atmel SAM 9CN12)-BGA 0.8mm pitch processor based general purpose media
controller board Consisting of NAND flash, Serial flash, GPRS, Ethernet, UART, USB, ALS,DB9 with
LCD.
 And various Contracts based PCB making and Assembling works up-to board bring up.
 Presented Technical Talk sessions in 30 Engineering and 15 diploma colleges on “Carrier
Options in Electronic Industry”, a awareness creator program to educate the students on the
current trend of electronics and Hardware Product Life design flow. For the business for training
team.
 Advanced Electronics Systems as a “Engineer- Product design” listed some projects.
Projects:
 FPGA Spartan-3 Based Embedded Controller System.
This Spartan-3 product is ideal for high performance embedded controller application. It has on-board
Ethernet port adds networking capabilities for internet appliance solutions, while the configurable I/O
settings offer versatile interface options. This product user Spartan-3(3s400), CPLD, Flash, SRAM,
Serial Data Flash, Ethernet PHY Clock and LCD, USB and I/O pins..
 PIC 18F8680 Based Microcontroller with interface Study Board
This board helps the professionals to study the features of PIC 18F8680 and with the interface
board it helps to study the SPI (DAC, EEPROM), I2C (RTC, EEPROM, ADC).
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 Associated in various stages of many small & medium projects with the Design team,
production & testing team.
o Coding in assembly language coding in 8085, micro processors and 8051CISC, RISC processor like
PIC16F8xx, for the interfaces like Multi line LCD display, stepper Motor controller, DC motor
controller, LED and K/B controller, elevator controller, traffic light controller, ADC/DAC, RTC.
o Usage of Debuggers like emulators, testing and measuring instruments CRO, DMM.
o Involved in designing and implement many Study interface boards with the trainer kits
Primarily involved in finishing full product life cycle for the Educational Trainer kits on 8085, 8051,
PIC, FPGA, Digital Trainer kit etc.
o Advanced Electronics Systems as a Junior Engineer Production- (After Diploma)
o Involved in product installation and demonstration at clients’ places
o Testing and troubleshooting of micro controller / micro processor, Educational training Kits,
interfaces, Industrial custom designed circuit boards
o Primarily involved in BAPCON, COMCON Thermal production plant project involves the
following responsibilities
 Procuring components as per BOM. Doing random pre-bake and post-bake component
test and preparing report
 Get PCB assembled both in wave soldering and manual soldering As per Legend and
BOM. Check for quality of soldering and conformal coating
 Testing the units as per NPC specification procedure and prepare report of tested board
and final consolidated report for every lot.
 Getting the test done for proto type units such as soak test, burn-in test, dust chamber
test, vibration test etc. Preparing reports on them.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Address : #308, 66th
Cross, 5th
Block, Rajajinager, Bangalore – 560010.
DOB : 19 April 1976
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian
Passport : Valid Indian Passport (14 Jan 2016 to 13 Jan 2026)
Languages known : English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu.
Marriage status Married.
Hobbies
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• Practicing Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation.
• Attending Technical, Spiritual Exhibitions and Seminars.
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