
Timeline
About me
Vice President and General Manager, SARAS 3D alias 3D EdTech Pvt. Ltd and Technical Director, NeoSenseVector Technology, Former GD, ISRO Ahmedabad
Education

L.d. college of engineering
1977 - 1980Bachelor of engineering (b.e.) electronics engg 1st class with distinctiondeveloped a 8085 microprocessor trainer kit. This kit became the 1st kit in the college!!

A. v. parekh technical institute
1972 - 1975Dere electronics & radio engineeringActivities and Societies: won several prizes in Technical exhibitions.

Dewan ballubhai madhyamik shala, paldi
1967 - 1970Ssc physics -maths
Vidya kunj, rajkot
1965 - 1967Middle school general studies
Dharmsinh desai university
1989 - 1991M. e. electronics engineering 1st class with 2nd rank in universityDeveloped a Logic Analyzer using dual port memory on PC AT platform.
Experience

Accumax electronics
Apr 1975 - Mar 1976Jr. engineerDesign and development of high precision DC Power-supplies, Bipolar Operational power supplies, auto ranging frequency counters etc.

Physical research laboratory
Mar 1976 - Jun 1977Sa aWorked on Radio Beacon Experiment using ATS F satellite. Worked at Radio Astronomy Centre, Ooty

Isro headquarters
Jun 1977 - May 2015Scientist/engineer 'h' (retired)I was Associate Project Director, Payloads for INSAT 3D, 3DR &3DS - Imager, Sounder, DRT/SAR and GISAT High resolution imaging Payload with Phased array antenna. Project Manager, VHRR Payloads INSAT 3A and Kalpana Group Director, EOSG/ SAC, ISROElectro - Optical Payload development ranging from Visible to Long wave IR range. Project management.

Isro
Jan 2009 - May 2015This group caters to the overall system design, development, qualification and characterization of Electro- Optical Payloads for ISRO. Also carries out post launch performance analysis. The INSAT 3D series of satellites carry state of the art Imager and Sounder Payloads for Meteorological applications. GISAT, when launched, will be one of its kind civilian satellite that will provide high spatial resolution VNIR, Hyperspectral VNIR & SWIR and Multi spectral Longwave IR imageries from GEO platform. Show less
Formerly the Group Director, Electro Optical Systems Group & Associate Project Director, Payloads:
Jun 1977 - May 2015Associate Project Director
Jan 2009 - Jan 2015

Space applications centre, isri
Jun 2014 - Apr 2015Course director, structured training program on space systems engineeringDesigned and conducted this course with invited faculties from the Aero space industry and other ISRO centers. Participants were from 11 ISRO centers dealing in Rocket science, Spacecraft engineering, Launch pad operations, Image data reception etc.

Hoourary position at vikram sarabhai space exhibition, sac, ahmedabad
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016Inspirer and resource scientist
Neo sense vector technology pvt. ltd.
Jan 2017 - Apr 2024Technical directorThe company is engaged In healthcare segment, designing advanced medical devices with the motto of Democratizing the healthcare .

Saras 3d alias 3d edtech pvt. ltd
Jan 2017 - Sept 2022Technical directorThis 3D EdTech Pvt. Ltd company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SARAS-3D Inc, USA. The company is involved in 3D video technology and content development for school education. The website is on SARAS 3D name.

Saras-3d
Jan 2017 - nowVice President and General Manager
Oct 2022 - nowTechnical Director
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Licenses & Certifications

Certificates of participation for india's first multi purpose satellite insat 2a launch and subsequently, insat 2b, 2e, 3a and 3d.

Launch team member
Isro- arian space
Amateur wireless radio operator - ham radio- call sign vu2kum
Government of indiaOct 1972
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Kashyap MankadFellow Astronautical Society of India Sep 2022 Awarded the Fellowship for the significant contribution in the field of Astronautics.
- Awarded to Kashyap MankadFellow IETE August 1, 1993 Fellow member, IETE
Volunteer Experience
Inspirer and communicator (Honorary)
Issued by Space Applications Centre, ISRO on Aug 2015
Associated with Kashyap Mankad
Languages
- hiHindi
- guGujarati
- enEnglish
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