• Development-Engineering Manager/Director • Senior Technical Program Manager (Concept-to-Market) • OEM-Vendor-Supplier Manager • Customer-Experience, Customer-Satisfaction and Design for Excellence (DFX) Champion • Worldwide Regulatory Compliance ** Enthusiastic about Challenging Career Opportunities ** ** Contact: RajKulkarni@live.com ** BRING INNOVATIONS TO MARKET. Proactive Business Transformation leader; Proven business-financial acumen Adept Talent/People Manager, Mentor, Coach Drove market-centric decisions, strategy and business process re-engineering Champion in global Ecosystem Integration, Design for Excellence (DfX), Best Practices Worldwide Regulatory, Customer-Experience and supply chain Quality expert ● Dell, Toshiba, Foxconn, Philips: Fortune-100 ● Technical Program Owner: Delivered 120 programs through life cycle ● Program / Project Manager: Led Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, Best Practices, Audits ● Development Manager: Managed over 25 in-house and OEM programs through lifecycle ● Engineering Leader: Concept-to-Market Developed and Launched over 75 platforms ● People Manager: Mentor & Coach. Empower Talent. Lead cross-functional teams ● OEM-Supplier Manager: Managed leading global suppliers, value chain, business partners ● Quality Manager: Voice of Customer. Value-chain and Supplier Quality ● Transformation Leader: Led Strategy, Process Reengineering, & Ecosystem Integration ● Customer Relationship: Led Customer Experience, Expectations ● Worldwide Regulatory: EMI-EMC-Safety-Environmental compliance, certification ● Results: Drove MM$ business results, metrics improvement, MM$ savings through globalization ● Expat in Hong Kong, China: Transition of Headquarters, Bring up LOB development center ● Multi-industry: IT, Computer, Enterprise Systems, Blades, Servers, & Consumer Electronics, Audio, Video ● MBA, ME credits-Technology Management, BSEE, PMP credentials

Global Engineering Operations and ODM-JDM Strategy Leader @ From 2014 to Present (1 year) Enterprise Quality Governance @ From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) Sr.Technical Program Manager: Engineering and Operations Quality @ Engineering leader & operations program manager for entire Converged Infrastructure quality: $1B/yr. 14 platforms of Enterprise Systems, Blades, Servers, HW-SW-FW and console. Managed end-to-end quality: (a) Engineering, HW-SW-FW (b) Supplier-OEM-Vendors (c) Customer Experience, field quality (d); Manufacturing, Operations (e) IP/Technology partners Engineering Leadership & PM through Lifecycle: Define-Plan-Develop-Launch-Sustain  Pursued design review, compatibility-tolerance-margin and failure analysis, root-cause  Led Risk Analysis, cross-functional Risk Mitigation, Closed Loop Corrective & Preventive Actions  Competitive Analysis, Benchmarking, Tear Down, Construction and DFX analysis, Lessons Learnt  Deployed systemic engineering upgrades, market-centric decisions, continuous improvement  Drove Supplier Quality Management, governance on KPIs, vendor-commodity volume allocation  Governed FIR-IFIR, LRR, metrics, evaluated design issues, field impact; ran FAI/OOB/ICE audits Customer Relationship: Proactive engagement. Managed expectations, escalations and messaging • Achieved $5M/year savings in service and warranty costs by improving FIR-IFIR by 5-13% Y/Y. Exercised Business Intelligence, metrics, worldwide Governance, and data analytics. • Drove ‘Voice of Customer’ and over 30 market centric decisions on customer experience, usability, segment (enterprise/HPC/SMB/data center), won customer-loyalty, retained 100s of MM$ accounts • Championed Best Practices. Conducted 12 Competitive evaluations, Benchmarking; DFX analysis, Lessons Learnt. Conducted 25 process-customer Audits. Achieved >98% end-to-end traceability. • Led lifecycle Customer Experience. Transformed products, web portal, ordering, logistics, service. • Increased customer satisfaction % Q/Q by managing customer expectations, analyze field issues, imparted sense of urgency. Implemented Tactical solutions & Structured – Systemic - Strategic program upgrades. From 2011 to 2013 (2 years) Director of Engineering│Technical Program Manager│Development Manager│Customer-Satisfaction│Quality @ Concept-to-Market Engineering Director • Development Manager • Sr. Technical Program Manager Customer-Satisfaction • Design for Excellence Dedicated to bring innovative products/solutions to market. “Decision-Action-Execution” leader across value chain. Deploy Breadth as Development Director coupled with Depth as intricate Engineering leader and Senior Technical Program Manager across end-to-end life cycle. Agile Span across broad leadership and to Scale to details. Skilled global cross-functional Team Leader & OEM-Supplier Manager. • Managed In-house & OEM programs and Launched 120 platforms globally • Managed from customer inputs, concept, quote into architecture, design, NPI, launch, and sustain • Managed portfolio, products, schedule, plans, budget, cost, roadmaps, international communication • Design for Excellence, Quality, Regulatory Compliance, Supplier Management, Systems Engineering champion • Help people succeed. People Manager, Mentor, Coach. Motivate international teams, as’ trusted go-to champion’. Optimize Resources, Efficiency, Time-To-Market • Lead Strategy with business-financial acumen Skills: ● Technical Program Manager ● Development Engineering Manager ● OEM-Supplier Manager ● Quality, Six-Sigma, FMEA ● Regulatory Compliance ● People / Talent Manager ● Best Practices, DFX-DFA-DFM-DFT-DFC-DFS-DFR ● Risk Management ● Business Transformation, Process Reengineering ● Mentor, Coach, Training ● Empower & Lead global teams ● Audit, Governance ● Customer Relationship, negotiations ● Customer-Experience, VoC ~~~~ ● MBA, ME credits-Technology Management, BSEE ● Expat in Hong Kong, China. Transition of BU HQ ● Bring up 4 regional centers ● Globalization, transition 4 LOBs to Asia ● Unique reciprocal experience of supply-chain as customer and supplier. Managed global Suppliers-ODMs ● Multi-Industry portfolio: IT, Computer, Enterprise Systems, Blades, Server, Converged Infrastructure, Consumer Electronics, Peripherals, Printers, Audio-Video, HDTV, Phone From 1996 to 2013 (17 years) Program Manager: Engineering and WW Regulatory Lead @ [World’s largest electronics manufacturer, >$75B, 1.2 million staff] Complete Concept-to-Market Design Engineering Leader & PM. Led Asia engineering teams & delivered 8 Workstations and Desktop models (Intel x86, Westmere, Sandy Bridge)  Led engineering teams through specs, features, architecture, hardware-circuit design, board layout, systems engineering, integration, quality, reliability, validation, lessons learned  Integrated electrical-mechanical-chassis, power management, thermal, acoustics, signal integrity  Drove design analysis, debug, Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause (RC), corrective actions  Introduced usability, graphics (Intel, NVidia, ATI/AMD); GPGPU; DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, VGA; 10G Ethernet; InfiniBand, Audio codec, remote PCoIP, HDD/SSD, Flash, WiFi  High speed bus, PCIe, DDR3, USB3.0, SAS, SATA, RAID Technical Program Manager thru lifecycle: RFI, RFQ, features matrix, planning, scheduling, SOW, milestone, phase/gate review, NRE-BOM cost, budget, resources allocation  Synchronized Asia engineering teams, China/Mexico manufacturing operations Led Worldwide Regulatory, EMI, EMC, Safety; Lab test, analysis, debug, mitigation, compliance. Ensure worldwide compliance (NRTL) and agency certifications (FCC, UL, IC, CSA, CE, CB, etc) Customer Relationship management, close customer engagement, negotiations, ensure specs and engineering/program deliverables • Developed and launched 4 programs, 8 Workstation and Desktop models, > 1.3B$ business • Reengineered business by strategic transformational ‘Joint-Development’ model • Optimized resources, saved 12M$ cost through OEM value-chain • Exercised Customer Relationship Management, direct engagement, negotiations and alignment • Achieved Ecosystem Integration across customer, end-users, ODM, IP providers, suppliers • Led Best Practices, features, value added user options, unique selling points, usability, design for excellence-DFX-DFM-DFA-DFT-DFR-DFC-DFS, COGS, serviceability, time-to-market, CoS From 2008 to 2011 (3 years) Engineering Leader and Program Manager: Worldwide Regulatory Compliance @ Managed worldwide regulatory compliance, certification, agencies, logos and legal documentation  Design, validate and ensure compliance to EMI-EMC-RF, ESD, Safety and Environmental  Certified to FCC, CE, IC, UL, CSA, CB, IEC/EN, FDA/DHHS, VCCI, BSMI, CCC, KCC, SABS, etc  Ensured Environmental, Energy Star, ROHS / REACH, China ROHS, WEEE, Recycle  Manage ODMs to time-to-market, completeness of all certifications, logos and agency marks Regulatory Technical Leader: Led EMI-EMC-ESD-Safety into architecture and through design.  Analyze circuit, boards, chassis designs; validate through lab/chamber tests; debug, mitigate  Monitored worldwide regulatory requirements and standards. Build regulatory knowledge base.  Subject Matter Expert on ITE and Consumer Electronics. Led convergence technology products. Program Manager: Competitive analysis, benchmarking, supplier partnership, postmortem, DFx, lessons learnt, tear-down, process reengineering, gap analysis, global team integration, planning, scheduling, standardization, resources/lab budget, gate review, milestone management, Six Sigma, BPI Supplier Management of OEMs/technology partners through various integrated value-chain models • Delivered regulatory compliance on 20 platforms and 60 peripherals across 30 agency certifications  Enterprise: Servers, Modular Infrastructure, Blades, Storage/JBOD, HDD, SSD, RAID, Network  Client: Desktop PCs, Laptop/Notebooks, All-in-one (AIO) Computer, Graphics-Video-Tuner  Consumer: Printers, HDTV, Monitor-Display, USB, Peripherals • Led Business Transformation: Developed 4 new OEM/supplier engagement models • Achieved up to 40% efficiency by well-defined specs, standardization & streamlined processes • Gained 4 weeks in time-to-market by reduced gating, aligned roles & responsibilities with OEMs • Reengineered processes: Led 6 governance audits; reduced audits by 50%, time by 35% • Achieved Globalization: Transitions of 2 major LOBs to Asia; Coach and mentor global teams From 2004 to 2008 (4 years) Development Specialist: Design Engineering @ Concept to Market lifecycle development: Led Engineering through benchmarking, competitive evaluation, specs, definition, architecture, Analog-RF-Mixed Signal circuit--schematic design, board layout, development, system engineering, test, validation, debug, root cause, analysis, FMEA, cost, DFx-DFM/DFA/DFR/DFC/DFT. Drive across NPI, pilot and manufacturing. Resolved manufacturing and CoS issues. Regulatory: EMI-EMC-ESD, safety, analysis, mitigation and ensured regulatory compliance Technical Program Manager: Provided training. Led schedule, value analysis, FMEA, NPI, production launch. Led team integration with Japan & Mexico. Practiced Six-Sigma Green Belt projects. • Key player in bring-up new US design center • Delivered 8+ programs, high-end TVs & HDTVs. Enabled new factories. Consultant for OEM. From 2000 to 2004 (4 years) Expatriate Specialist: Development and Realization @ Programs Manager & led global engineering integration: Orchestrated platforms development across China, Singapore, Europe and India. Synchronized programs, specs, schedules, designs Concept-to-Market life cycle development and launch of numerous consumer electronics products Product Owner: Architecture, product-HW-SW design, system development, EMI, EMC, validation, quality. Launched multimillion volume platforms for global markets • Partnered in transition of Business Unit Headquarters from Europe to Asia • Transformation: Key in growth of new LOB development and worldwide manufacturing center • Unified China-Singapore-Europe engineering teams, China manufacturing operations, semiconductor suppliers • Introduced highest selling platform with 54 models, multimillions shipped globally From 1996 to 1999 (3 years) Development Engineering Manager @ Development engineering manager: Managed team of direct report design engineers People Management: Capacity planning, Resource scheduling, Task allocation. Goals setting, performance reviews, HR and talent management. Mentor and Coach for engineers. Managed over 18 programs and engineered over 60 Consumer Electronics launches thru complete Product Development Lifecycle: Competitor evaluation, benchmarking, feasibility, QFD, marketing, concept, definition, features matrix, specs, architecture, system-circuit design, board layout, FW-SW, system integration, validation, quality, reliability, safety, EMI, EMC, ESD, FMEA, DFA-DFM-DFC-DFS-DFX, DOE, SPC, launch, NPI, manufacturing and sustaining Program management: Risk management, risk mitigation, budget, investment plans, NRE, BOM tooling, cost, planning, scheduling, make vs. buy decisions. ISO-9000. Lead ECM/suppliers Expert in mixed-signal/analog/RF, home/portable/car audio systems, power, acoustics, phones Designed at all configurations: Architecture, system, module, board, chip. Managed OEM/ECMs/subcontractors. • Managed 18 programs and engineered over 60 Consumer Electronics launches thru Lifecycle • People Management: Managed team of direct report design engineers. Mentor and Coach. • Best Practices: DFx, QFD, Design of Experiments, SPC, FMEA, DMAIC, Six Sigma, ISO-9000 From 1994 to 1996 (2 years)

ME-Masters of Engineering Credits, Management of Technology @ Vanderbilt UniversityMBA - Masters of Management Science, Business Management @ Pune UniversityBSEE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics Engineering @ University of PuneDale Carnegie Graduate, Effective Communication and Human Relations @ Dale Carnegie From 2013 to 2013 Masters Diploma, Computer Science @ Technical Education Board, MH State Raj Kulkarni is skilled in: Development Management, Program Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Product Development, Design for Excellence, DFx: DFA, DFM, DFC, DFR, DFS, DFT, Global Regulatory Compliance, Customer Experience Management, Product Management, Quality Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Testing, Systems Engineering, Engineering, Management, Business Intelligence