CURRICULUM VITAEJigar I. SoniM +919530075397E-mail:jigar.i.soni@gmail.com

Career Objective:To work with Creativity, Innovation, Imagination - utilizing and enhancing Technical, People, Verbal, Written and Leading skills – deliver best, innovative, needed, which serves – manage, create and grow to ultimate and wow

Professional Synopsis: Have result, quality and timeline oriented 10 year experience in various areas of

architecture, design, code, test & debug, for embedded Software, firmware and system development

Expertise includes embedded software architecture, design, development on 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit microcontroller in assembly language, Embedded C, RTOS. Having rich experience in energy domain, AMI projects.

I have gone through a simple logic development for tiny functionalities up to successful integration of metering unit with communication device for a typical AMI system and meeting AMI regulations by international utilities, by working as team member role to a leader, designer and architecture role in embedded software, firmware and system development.

I grow in between designer, developers and architect to solve and improve function goals and strength, worked for cross functional responsibility and cross functional interface development and management, manufacturing process developments and improvements, customer supports and SLA’s fulfillment, And extremes of war room against field failures and their track to closure with corrective and preventive actions

Has developed first over the air upgrade module for application software as well firmware, and be expert and mentor in upgrade designs and development in organisation

Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools, & peer review, automation tools, failure analysis tools and techniques

Flexible to adapt to changing requirement & finding solutions to challenging issues

Good at soft skills, self-motivated & able to motivate team. Successfully grown team members and enabled them to leader position

Strong verbal & writing skills

B. E. in Electronics and Communication with Distinction in 2006 from HNGU.

Notable Achievements:

Development of Embedded software for AMI Meters for an utility, Company is first to deliver AMI meters in region and project team wins the Best team for New product development at Secure Meters limited for year 2008-2009.

Awarded for hard work, commitment to beat the deadlines and shouldering the cross functional responsibility where company has achieved a significant milestone in the Advance Metering Infrastructure arena with the”on-schedule” rollout of AMI meters in Victoria.

Topper for final year project in engineering collage and achieved targets forgiven projects at Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad

Core Competencies: Embedded software programming in assembly and Embedded C for 8, 16 and 32 bit

microcontroller, RTOS 89C51, 8086, ARM7, MSP430 (FE448), C505L, MCF51EM256 UART, IIC, LCD, RTC, ADC, SPI, sensors, actuators, tamper detection, battery operations, power outage detection, power

management, clock management, low power modes memory management, memory endurance management, stack management, boot loader,

over the air upgrade, architecture development, multi layer architecture design, resource estimation, controller

selection, modular designs and development approach, DLMS, MBUS based system design Tools: Keil, IAR, Code warrior, Model SIM, Emulators and compilers Software debugging and emulation, White Box and Black Box testing Version control & source code management tool CVS

Company wise role and responsibilities:

Company: Secure Meters Limited, Udaipur, Rajasthan.Role: Lead Embedded Software DeveloperDuration: Feb 2008- Aug 2011, Jan 2012 – ContinueDuties:

Embedded Software design and development for Electronics and AMI Meters

Company: Reinfold PIL, Ahmedabad.Role: Embedded EngineerDuration: July 2006 – Feb 2008Duties:

FPGA & CPLD programming using VHDL Embedded C and assembly Programming for 8 bit & 32 bit Microcontroller

Project Undertaken: AMI interface for Heat Meter

DLMS based Single Phase and Three Phase AMI Meter Development Single Phase and Three Phase AMI Meter Development Meter reading time reduction for Indian utility Tamper logic for Electronics meter Meter reading protocol development for electronics meter FPGA, CPLD & 8051 based development board with advance interfaces

Education:

Exams Passed Year of Passing Board PercentageB.E. (Electronics & Communication)

2006 HNGU 70.52%

H.S.C Science 2002 G.S.E.B 77.11%S.S.C 2000 G.S.E.B 85%

Personal Details:

Date of Birth : 24th May, 1985Father’s Name : Soni Indravadan C Base Location : GujaratNationality : IndianMarital Status : MarriedLanguages Known : English, Hindi & GujaratiHobbies : Movies, Music, Travel