Detail profile of Sandeep Chakraborty

1. Sandeep Chakraborty
Address: D - 303, Godrej-E-City Apartment, Doddathogur, Electronic City Phase -1 Road, Bangalore - 560 100
Phone: +91 9886780346, +91 9886680346| Present Location: In Bangalore
Email: sandeepchakraborty12@gmail.com; LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/chakrabortysandeep
Senior Level | Techno-Managerial Operations| Avionics System | Defence & Aerospace Domain-Automobile
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
 Specialist in Aircraft systems,Electro OpticalSensors & Control Systems,Image processing guidance and Navigation(
INS and GPS)
 Expertise on Flight management System(FMS), Flight Control System(FCS), Communication & Navigation
System(CNS) and aircraft Display System
 BE in Electronics & Instrumentation having 11 years of experience in aviation with 5.5 years of research experience
as a scientist in Aerospace & Defence Organisation(DRDO)
 Possess hands on working experience in Honeywell Aerospace lab at Phoenix USA
 Design for Six-Sigma (DFSS) (Green Belt Certification) - by Honeywell - 2007.
 Strong background on Avionics Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) for software development on Integrated
Aircraft Systems (IAS) along with the system testing of avionics products.
 Good understanding of DO-178B/C, DO-331 and ARP-4754 objectives and guidelines
 Model Based System Designing of Safety critical avionics System.
 Possess multiple patents and publications related to Aerospace domain.
 Ability to lead team (Team Size up to 5) to meet projects and organisations goals as well as an individual contributor.
 Project Management, Coordinate the development and maintenance of cost and schedule estimates for the project.
COMPETENCIES
Team/People Management ● Process Improvement ● Procedure Management ● Maintaining Documentation ● Business
Case Analysis on Intellectual Property ● Customer Interaction ● Six Sigma ● Engineering Management - Software Test
Execution ● Honeywell Operating System (HOS)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Technology/Domain :
Aerospace/Avionics System Engineering, MBSE, ARP-4754, DO-178B/C,DO-331, Infrared Sensors , Digital Image
processing, Flight trajectory data analysis, Satellite Navigation, Interactive Navigation Display (INAV),ADS-
B,2DAMM,Enhanced Vision and Synthetic Vision System (EVS/SVS), Embedded System,RTOS, Software Testing,
AFDX, ARINC 629, ARINC 429,ARINC, IAC( Integrated Avionics Computer)
Tools :
Visual Studio(C/C++),Embedded C, MATLAB/SIMULINK, Visual Basic, Honeywell Auto code Manager (HAM), Clear
case, Serena Dimensions, DOORS, Team Centre, Understand Tool, Source Insight, Beyond Compare.
CAREER PATH
Honeywell Technology Solution Lab
Sr. System Engineer/Tech Specialist (IAS. B777X) 2017
System Engineer III (IAS. B777X) 2015 - 2016
System Engineer III (IAS. On MBSE) 2013 - 2015
Technical Lead (Display & Graphics) 2012 - 2013
Technical Lead (Display & Graphics) 2008 - 2012
Senior Engineer(Software Testing) 2006 - 2008
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) 2001 – 2006
Scientist - C 2004 - 2006
Scientist - B 2001 - 2004
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Patents/Publications
 “System and Methods for Displaying Degraded Traffic Data on an In-Trail Procedure (ITP) Display” - Patent
No.: US 8,478,513 B1, Jul 2013.
 “System and Methods for Traffic Prioritization” - Publication No. US20140232559 A1, Aug 2014.
 “System and method for decluttering an image on a cockpit display system”- US 20150169191 A1, Publish Date
06/18/2015
 “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOICE ENABLED TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION”- Grant of US Patent US 9508262
B2,Nov 2016
 Systems and methods for voice enabled traffic prioritization - Grant of US Patent 9508262,Nov 2016
 “Role of Passive Sensors in Enhanced Vision Systems - Present and Future”. The abstract has been accepted
by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
 Presented the following papers in INCOSE International Symposium (APCOSEC 2016 9-11th Nov) and published on
Wiley Online, volume 26, Issue S1
 Model based system engineering approach to design Avionics systems: Present and Future
prospect” , http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00328.x/full
 “An approach to develop a Remotely Operated Integrated Avionics Test Suite”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00330.x/full
Major Awards & Recognitions
 Merit Award on the idea “An algorithm to Compute Aircraft position from Correlation of EVS and Synthetic
Image of Runway in GPS denied environment” Nov, 2016
 Merit Award on the idea “A METHOD TO COMPUTE THE AIRCRAFT POSITION FROM THE EVS IMAGE OF
RUNWAY DURING FINAL APPROACH OF LANDING” Oct, 2015

2.  Awardee of Honeywell ‘BRONZE’ award for “CONTRUBUTIONS TOWARDS BUILDING 777X ITB- BANGALORE”-July
31,2017
 Team Excellence Award - Jun 2013 & Jun 2014.
 Patent Award "System and Method to Monitor Presiding Aircraft Separations in ATSA-VSA” - Jun 2013.
 Patent Award “Method and Apparatus to Display RVSM Airspace Annunciation and Alert for RVSM Criteria Non-
Conformity”, Feb 2011.
 Certificate of Appreciation for being a "Prolific Innovator in Driving Accelerated Innovation across D&G” - Jun 2011.
 Spot Award to "Meet HW3 Load 4.0 SCM Milestone 2 Days in Advance" - Jun 2011.
 Patent Award "Method to Depict Symbol and Label for Railway Station in Cockpit Display” - Jun 2010.
 Team Excellence Award - Jun 2010.
 Individual Innovation Award - Jun 2008.
 Team Achievement Award - Jun 2007.
 Commendation Certificate for "Post Flight Image Processing System” awarded by DRDO in Interim Test Range,
Chandpur - Jun 2002.
SKILLS ENHANCEMENT – TRAININGS/CERTIFICATIONS
 Integrated Foundation and Orientation Programme (INFO) - Field of Study: Missile Technology, signal
processing, Microprocessor, “C” Programming Language, Radar technology, Image processing, communication
systems, Digital signal processing(DSP), Telemetry System and Navigation Systems by Institute of Armament
Technology (IAT), Pune (A University by Ministry of Defence, India - DRDO) - 2001.
 Thermal Imaging Technology - Field of Study: Study of Infrared Sensors and System, Image processing by
Instruments Research & Development Organization (IRDE, A DRDO lab), Dehradun – 2001.
 Line of Sight Stabilization Technology - Field of Study: Study and analysis ofcontrol and guidance systemusing
MATLAB, Image Processing by Instruments Research & Development Organization (IRDE, A DRDO lab), and
Dehradun - 2002.
 Design for Six-Sigma (DFSS) (Green Belt Certification) - Field of Study: Familiarization and application of
various tools used for Six-Sigma Certification by Honeywell - 2007.
 Aero Certification Capability Enhancement Series: Software Change Impact - Field of Study: Software
design with Change Impact Analysis by Honeywell - 2009.
 Aero Certification Capability Enhancement Series: Databases - Field of Study: Database Design Concepts by
Honeywell - 2009.
 Aero Certification Capability Enhancement Series: Software Reuse - Field of Study: Software design and
reuse by Honeywell - 2009.
 Aero Systems Training Phase I - Field of Study: Concept of avionics and its related technologies by Honeywell -
2010.
 HOFFE Training - Field of Study: Cockpit philosophy and basic flight operations in-flight simulator by Honeywell -
2011.
 Aero System Training Phase II (Core Subjects) - Field of Study: Next Generation Air Traffic Management
System, Navigation by Honeywell - 2012.
 Aero System Training Phase II (Display & Graphics Systems) - Field of Study: Next Generation Air Traffic
Management System, Navigation by Honeywell - 2012.
 System Engineering Training L 1 - Field of Study: Next Generation Air Traffic Management System, Navigation
by Honeywell - 2013.
 Ground School Training for Aero Domain - Field of Study: Navigation, Sensors, Flight management System,
Basic concept of aviation and Engine by Asia Pacific ground School (Sponsored by Honeywell) - 2014.
 MATLAB Training - Field of Study: MATLAB features, scripting and modelling with Simulink by Honeywell - 2014.
 A Brief Introduction to OpenGL Graphics Library - Field of Study: Graphic design with OpenGL library by
Honeywell - 2008.
Software Quality Assurance - Field of Study - Software Engineering by Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 2004.
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATION
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, Kolkata
BE - Electronics & Instrumentation - 1st
Class with Honours 1998
PROJECTS- CONTRIBUTION (Annexure – I)
Honeywell Technology Solution Lab; Domain: Integrated Aircraft System, IAS)
Project : Avionics System Integration for BOEING (B777x) programme
Project Scope : System Integration for Flight Managements system(FMS),CNS and MS systems
Responsibilities : Leading B777X system Integration activities by doing following:
 Development of Integrated Avionics Test Environment
 System Integration with
 Navigation and guidance functionalities of FMS,
 Flight Control computer System
 Communication management System (CMF)
 Analysing different road blockage for Integration rom multiple domains and
coming up with appropriate solutions blockages for seamless integration.
 Participating in ICD discussion and attending JPR for status/milestone updates.
 Coming up with system Integration Test strategies for BTE( Break to
Exit),Runway Overrun warning(ORW),EO SID( Engine out SID), pilot defined
waypoints and simulating the scenarios in Integration bench.
Project : Mathematical modelling of the system of ‘On board vision based Navigation’ in GPS
denied environment

3. Project Scope : Defining a passive sensor based navigation system to generate aircraft own position
Roles /
Responsibilities
:  Literature study and generating POC(Proof of concept)
 Developed an algorithms to Compute Aircraft position by Correlation of EVS image
 Developed a mathematical model to compute aircraft
Project : Vision based guidance and Automatic landing system of unmanned aerial
vehicle(UAV)
Project Scope : Development of efficient image processing algorithms for runway detection
Roles /
Responsibilities
:  Explored an efficient image processing algorithmfor runway detection fromsensor
image.
 Generating the guidance signal from image and interfacing with Flight
Computer system(FCS) for auto landing operation
 Performing System Simulation to verify the performances of runway detection
algorithm and flight control operations
 Guided other co members to understand algorithms and generation a quick proto
type.
Project : Model Based System development and Integration for Dassault F5X Aircraft
Tools/Technologies : C/C++, MATLAB/SIMULINK,ASCB, Team Centre, PVCS, TIU (Test Interface Unit),
GMD, DOORS,
Roles /
Responsibilities
:  Capturing OEM’s requirement
 System Model development in SIMULINK environment using HAM library and code
generation of the following systems :
 Flight Control Systems(FCS)
 Monitor Warning System(MWS)
 Electrical and Hydraulic Synoptic System
 System Integration Testing
 Came up with appropriate test strategies for Testing in Integration bench
Project : Software architecture design for Integration of Airport moving map (AMM)
feature with Interactive Navigation (INAV)
Project Scope : System Integration of 2DAMM with INAV, Hardware in loop (HIL) testing.
Tools/Technologies : C/C++, ASCB, Team Centre, PVCS, TIU (Test Interface Unit), GMD, DOORS,
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Leading AMM integration activities as a system specialist by doing following:
 Analysing high level system requirements and generating low level requirements.
 Proposing an efficient systemarchitecture through which 2DAMM can interact with
multiple process simultaneously as per Honeywell EPIC architecture
 Identifying the I/O, APIs from existing code ofINAV and AMM software and guiding
junior members to write integration code.
Project : Designing a common software architecture of Interactive navigation System
(INAV)
Project Scope : Navigation Display System Development for INAV.
Tools/Technologies : Visual Studio C/C++, OPENGL, ASCB
Roles /
Responsibilities
:  Proposes a common software architecture of INAV code by analysing the existing
legacy INAV code of different programmes.
 Generating a quick prototype of common INAV software.
 Generating the test strategies for testing of common INAV software.
 Integration ofcommon architecture in desktop(SIL)and target environment(HIL)
 Presented a demonstration in front of Higher management of Organisation
Project : Ground Based Augmentation System(GBAS) Data Analysis for Chennai
Airport
Project Scope : Honeywell GBAS data analysis for Chennai Airport
Tools/Technologies : MATLAB, Cygwin tool, LTIM
Roles /
Responsibilities
:  Study and analyse of ‘Atmospheric scintillation phenomena for GPS data loss
 Binary to RINEX format conversion for the data from each GBAS data receiver’s
station
 Used RINEX file format in LTIM, TEQC, and adaptive filter algorithm
 Generating the graphical plots in MATLAB
 Presented in front of other Apps team member and explain the atmospheric
scintillation phenomena with graphical data
Project : Idea incubation for new product development on cockpit navigation display
Technologies : MATLAB/Simulink, C
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Individual Contributor as a Research Expert and Guide Co-members by doing
following:
 Developed a productivity toolin MATLAB using the concept ofOpticalCharacter
recognition (OCR) which automatically recognize the specific CAS (Crew Alert
System) messages from CAS window by implementing image correlation
algorithm.
 Studying the existing patents/papers of various inventions along Honeywell
Business path
 Came up with multiple invention disclosures and out of that five disclosures
got approval for filing patent.

4.  Trained other co-members about various algorithm of Image processing to
come up with ideas on vision based landing.
 Preparing Organizations Line of Business (LOB) deck.
Other Projects in Honeywell:
 Model based Design and Development of Input & Output parameters for Interactive Navigation System
 Software testing of Cockpit Display, Flight Control System for Level A and Level C software component
 Developing the in-house productivity tools
DRDO Scientist for Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP)
Division: Electro Optics
Project : Flight Data analysis and Trajectography Modelling and analysis by Multi-Sensor
Data Fusion
Designation : Scientist ‘B’
Project Scope : Successfully generation of 3-D flight trajectory from multiple passive sensor data.
Technologies : C/C++, MATLAB
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Evolving a mathematical models to compute accurate flight trajectory using multiple
sensors data fusion.
 Comparing the Inertial and DGPS Data with optical data
 Simulation and implementation the algorithm in ‘C’ and interfacing the same with
existing Video Data Analysis Software.
Project : Implementation of Image Tracking Algorithms from INFRARED images
Designation : Scientist ‘C’
Project Scope : Analysis and implementation of tracking algorithm by various image processing operations.
Technologies : MATLAB, Visual Studio (C Language)
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Detail analysis of Correlation, Contrast, Edge mode of tracking algorithms
 Simulation by MATLAB to understand the performances of those algorithms
 Implementing image tracking algorithm in ‘C’
 Extracting the movement of the target image (ΔX and ΔY in pixels) which is useful for
Gimbal Control System
Project : Implementation of Control Algorithms for automatic tracking of airborne
target INFRARED/THERMAL CCD images
Designation : Scientist ‘C’
Project Scope : Analysis and implementation of control algorithm for Gimbal movement
Technologies : SIMULINK/MATLAB
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Generating a SIMULINK model which represents the automatic and as well as manual
control of Gimbal system.
 Came out technical specification of Gimbal system, angular encoder for precise control
system
Project : Supporting missions and pre- mission activities as a system In Charge of
Electro Optical Tracking System (From SAGEM , France)
Designation : Scientist ‘C’
Technologies : MATLAB, C
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Tracking of Airborne targets during real time mission scenario
 Debugging the real-time problem during mission time to provide solution.
 Missed distance calculation for Multi target Mission.
 Participating Post Mission Analysis (PMA) by presenting the mission data in front of
senior scientist and Project Directors.
 Managing the technical staffs during Mission time
Project : Implementation of Data Analysis algorithms for post mission flight trajectory
Data analysis
Designation : Scientist ‘C’
Project Scope : Generating the final trajectories of the airborne targets
Technologies : MATLAB, Visual Studio (C Language), Video Data Analysis(VDAS)
Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Digitization of mission video and computations of Offset values from sensor images
 Interfacing KALMAN filter with triangulation algorithm for extracting the final trajectory.
 Computation of the flight data to identify/predict touch down point.
 Implementation of moving average and least mean square estimator
Project : Pre-mission Data Analysis from DGPS, Electro optics , Radar and Inertial
Navigation Systems(INS) for Range bias Estimation
Project Scope : Surveying with “Leica” GPS system for the mobile instrument stations and DGPS
system configuration and logging data during Helicopter Sortie in pre mission.
Technologies : In built Leica Software with GPS receiver(Leica GPS), MATLAB

5. Roles /
Responsibilities
: Worked as a Junior scientist by doing the following:
 Generating the trajectory of Helicopter Sortie data
 Computing the instruments offsets (bias) in various legs of the sorties.
 Comparing the DGPSdata with Radar tracking,Electro Opticaltracking and Inertial
Navigation data to compute the range bias which is used during real time mission
scenario.