PAVAN KUMAR B K

|Email: g13088@astra.xlri.ac.in | Mob:+91-7766904710 |

Professional with 5 year and 9 months of experience in Research and Development of Technology Products, seeking challenging roles in
marketing, sales or operations.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
XLRI, Jamshedpur

June 2013-Present

Pursuing PGDGM, Full-time General Management Program, Class of 2014. Member of Brochure (GMP 13-14) Committee.

PES Institute of Technology , Bangalore

September 2003 June 2007

BE in Electronics and Communication with 83.5%.

SDM College, Honnavar

June 2001 June 2003

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1 to District with 93.5%.

Holy Rosary Convent, Honnavar

1992- May 2001

Government of Karnataka Merit Scholarship with 92.48%.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Systems Engineer II (Firmware) , Hewlett and Packard India Software Operations, Bangalore
BIOS (Firmware)
Development for
Business Critical
Servers

April 2011 April 2013

Responsible for collection of requirements, preparation of design, development of modules and for interaction
with partner teams at Bangalore, Singapore, China and USA. Modules were mostly related to memory part in
X86 based Superdome Servers.
Responsible for analysis of overnight test results, triaging of issues , fixing of issues , analysis of enhancement
requests and implementation of enhancements in Error Handling module of Integrity Servers.

Program Coordinator
for HP-Intel Issues

Coordinate weekly meetings with Intel for updates on program schedule.

Coordinate debug sessions with Intel.
Represent team in Program level meetings at HP.

Team Lead for PAL

Validation

Lead a team of 10 members (across test and development teams) to validate PAL code drop provided by Intel.
The team filed 50% of hardware issues found in PAL.
Created standard and process for PAL validation and the log analysis.
Trained the team to perform PAL validation.

Senior Software Engineer II , Samsung India Software Operations, Bangalore

Protocol
Development for
Wireless / Core
Networks
Research
Coordinator

Responsible for protocol development from requirement phase to system test phase for modules in RF4CE
(ZigBee Remote Control Standard), Sensor Networks, WPS, Wi-Fi P2P, OSPF and RIP2.
Worked as defect prevention coordinator of the team.

Formed a inter division research team for generation of ideas, filing of patents and authoring of papers.
Generated around 200 ideas and filed 15 Disclosure of Inventions.
Presented the ideas to Chief Engineers, Division heads, project managers and Patent Coordinators.
Worked with Patent lawyers for filing of patents.

Student Assistant at Indian Institute of Science

Developer /
Embedded Systems

July 2007 April 2011

January May 2007

Worked under Principal Research Scientist Prof. Ramgopal for the project Precise Angular Positioning System
Utilizing self-developed programmer kit, 89s52, accelerometer sensors, stepper motor and I/O devices.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Professional

Co-curricular &
Academic

Filed 3 grade A Patents and 1 grade B patent at Samsung Electronics in M2M, RF4CE, OSPF and Senor Networks
domain. Youngest to file 4 patents in first two at Samsung.
Rated Significantly Exceeds Expectations at S2 Job Level at Hewlett and Packard.
Awarded Most Valuable Player of the Quarter at Hewlett and Packard for leadership and agility.
Won Outstanding Contributions award at Hewlett and Packard for solving complex issues.
nd

2 among 750 Students with 93.5% during first year of Engineering.

th

56 rank in Karnataka State Engineering Entrance Exam.

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1 at National Level IEEE Students Chapter Paper and Project Presentations (Robotics).
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Principal Coordinator for Fashion shows at Samsung which won 1 prize consistently for 3 years.
Fun team lead at Hewlett and Packard - organized team outings, team celebrations, and team t shirts.