25 years of hands-on experience demonstrating strong technical, collaborative and leadership skills in building and leading global cross functional teams for product execution and customer launches under aggressive schedules. Adept to turn complex problems into small easily manageable tasks, that keep both the business development and technical teams aligned with the same goals. Aptness to identify and provide solutions to organizational needs/challenges and resolving conflicts to instill satisfaction and confidence. Technical Expertise: Connectivity - WLAN, Bluetooth, NFC, PLC, IoT (Internet of Things); Access Network - FWLL (Fixed Wireless in local loop), CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data); Cellular Systems (TDMA, GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE); Protocol Stacks (SS7, V5.2, GR303, IS-136, CDMA); Operating Systems – VxWorks, Android, Brillo, PSOS, Nucleus, QNX, Windows, WP8, Linux/Unix, VAX/VMS; Languages – C, C++, JAVA, SQL; Cloud/SaaS

Director, Engineering @ Performed dual responsibility – Project Engineer for connectivity SoCs and Lead for connectivity system test team. As a Project Engineer, successfully launched Qualcomm’s first WLAN [WCN1312] mobile SoCs. Provided strong leadership, strategy, and direction to global cross functional teams for design, development and commercial launch of connectivity SoCs. Worked in tandem with product management to ensure the development of inherently aligned technology, capability and realization roadmaps. Influenced product development and execution for over a large engineering organization. Key contributor for design wins for big name companies. As a Connectivity System Test Lead, grew a newly acquired 17 engineer’s test team to globally 480 engineers working on WLAN, Bluetooth, FM, NFC, PLC and IoE/IoT (Internet of Things). Created a scalable organization to support multi-sites development, test and commercial launches. Developed integrated test strategies steering execution across a large test engineering organization for Qualcomm connectivity portfolio. Conceived end-to-end test methodology, quality guidelines, test escape management, automation infrastructure, capacity models and leverage strategies. Gained company acceptance for introduction of Qualcomm devices into WFA test beds. Established new third party test house to serve and monetize under-served consumer segments. Lead test planning - resource hiring/ allocation and capex/opex planning based on the product portfolio. Successfully transferred projects to remote Geo’s for derivative product development and commercial launches. Managed and mentored career development of engineering staff. From December 2007 to Present (7 years 11 months) San Jose, CACustomer Program Manager / Project Engineer @ Achieved on-time delivery by successfully managing day-to-day operations with global cross functional team in multiple geo’s for the integration of NXP's WLAN SoC [BGW200, BGW211] into Qualcomm's WLAN reference design. Built a highly effective engineering design-in team. Influenced Product Management to augment existing requirements and project plans with QCT requirements and milestones. Mobilized engineering teams to resolve complex customer issues to meet delivery milestones. Managed customer communications regarding hardware delivery, software releases, homologation/ certifications, manufacturing, application notes and known issues. Developed processes to improve program efficiency which significantly improved software quality and reduced onsite support at QCT, San Diego. Managed product evaluation and acceptance by OEMs (Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan) by providing customer samples, development boards, PCB guidelines, product training, performance reports, certifications (WFA, TELEC), software releases and integration support. Communicated weekly project status to Management. From July 2004 to November 2007 (3 years 5 months) San Jose, CASoftware Project Lead @ Established and managed global team for design & development of UPNP enabled wireless digital audio receiver using C/C++ and PSOS on trimedia PNX1300 processor. From December 2003 to July 2004 (8 months) SunnyvaleSoftware Project Lead @ Successful development of a number of wireless Home Networking products including Bluetooth and WLAN. Established and led a cross functional engineering team for design and development of WLAN 802.11a/b/g miniPCI card for IBM ThinkPad laptops. From November 2001 to December 2003 (2 years 2 months) Sunnyvale, CATeam Lead - Device driver/Protocol Group @ Successfully lead and managed Philips and Intel team to deliver TDMA (IS-136) cellular handset based on Intel D5204 reference design on a very tight schedule and CDMA protocol stack team to develop features for CDMA200+ chipset (a dual core ARM7TDMI and OAK DSP) using Nucleus, C and ARM7TDMI assembly. From February 2000 to October 2001 (1 year 9 months) Sunnyvale, CASr. Software Consultant @ Designed and implemented an embedded TL1 agent for system controller module on optical add-drop multiplexer. From April 1999 to January 2000 (10 months) Mountain View, CASr. Software Consultant @ Designed and implemented hardware adaptation layer and integrated device drivers for digital camera, using C and VxWorks on MCF 5307 and PowerPC 823 processors. From November 1998 to March 1999 (5 months) San JoseSr. Technical Leader @ Drove multiple innovative software efforts as Sr. technical leader in the wireless group connected with the design and development of V5.2 signaling stack, Call Processing, Global Resource Manager and OMC features on GMH2000 Access Network for FWLL (Fixed Wireless in Local Loop) and CDPD (Cellular digital Packet data). Initiated and led a team of engineers for software design and development of the Access Network base-station software using C/C++ and VxWorks on i960. From May 1995 to October 1998 (3 years 6 months) Gurgaon, India/ Germantown, MDSr. Software Engineer @ Design and develop Hot Strip Mill Level II Automation System connected to Honeywell DCS and Allen Bradley PLC using C on VAX/VMS system. From April 1991 to April 1995 (4 years 1 month) Jamshedpur, IndiaSoftware Engineer @ Participated in design and development of Sequential Event Recorder (SCADA) system for UPSEB and Expert System for Annealing process for Bokaro Steel Plant using C, Lex, Yacc on UNIX. From May 1990 to March 1991 (11 months) Lucknow, India

MBA @ XLRI, India From 1992 to 1995 B. Tech, Computer Science @ Institute of Engineering and Technology, India From 1986 to 1990 Bikram Srivastava is skilled in: Engineering, Wireless, Embedded Software, LTE, Device Drivers, ARM, Embedded Systems, Software Development, SoC, Semiconductors, Program Management, Leadership, Debugging, Product Lifecycle..., System Architecture, Linux, Software Project..., RTOS, Mobile Devices, ASIC, Firmware, Integration, WiFi, C, Mobile Communications, Unix, Software Engineering, Telecommunications