Ethel Devadoss

Experience

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  Visteon India

  Oct 1998 - Jul 2016

  • Project Leadership: Provided Project leadership encompassing Project management, Review of Technical Documents, responsible for Quality sign offs and being the Scrum Master• Cost Management: Reduced engineering turnaround time by 50% by automating the test environment, received client appreciation and thereby won more programs• Conducting weekly project tracking and oversight meetings with each project team, Prepared budget and reviewed closely the actuals, understanding the exact needs of the customer across the globe and aligning the work plans accordingly• Excellent negotiation skills. Solved conflicts in the team• Risk Management: Proactively plan for the risks involved in the plan and their solutions. Have involved the Clients in riskmanagement.• Contract Management: Proficient in third party supplier management, MSA, SOW documentations.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals in a timely and effective manner• Collaborated with Clients across the Globe. Korea, Japan, China, Europe, North America.• Critical Thinking: weigh up the pros and cons of the solutions of problems before moving forward.• Excellent communicator, team player, eager to learn new skills and mindful of response times• Project Recovery:• Automating the integration test with an in-house tool that resulted in increasing coverage and reducing effort• Coaching: recruited fresh and inexperienced engineers and coached them to become top performers. • Task Management: Reviewed and Created work break down structure for planned /Phased deliveries• Quality Management: Reviewed and aided weekly quality metrics. Developed detailed and effective reporting templates with the extensive use of KPIs• Business case writing: Have authored business cases for ‘project cost reduction by automating the test environment.’ • Proficient in both Waterfall and Agile development Methodologies.• Practical Experience of AGILE, SCRUM or Test Driven Development methodologies Show less Accountable for inter group planning, Requirements gathering and technical reviews of the Jaguar and Ford Programs• Crucial Role in the development of Newton Platform for the Asian market• Participated in the discussions with the Resident Engineer at Jaguar and Ford to understand the system requirements• Functioned as a software Project Coordinator for the Jaguar and Ford Programs in the UK• Engaged in discussing the software defects with the customer and was responsible in filling the night letters with respect to the defect status to the customer• Coordinated with Department Manager to solve inter-personal behavioral issues among team members to smoothen the project flow• Responsible for the risk reviews and mitigation strategies for projects Show less • Trained in Visteon U.S for embedded development.• Captured Requirements, Designed and did Coding for various features in Instrument clusters• Proficient in developing software using Embedded C for Instrument Cluster Features Like Gauges, Telltales, Warnings, Diagnostics,Fuel Fired Heater, Side airbag Modules.• Authored Functional testing semi - automation activities for Clusters using in-house tools• Led Ford Instrument clusters programs, was responsible for the delivery and customer interface, reviewing of customerrequirements, scheduling various milestone deliveries and signoff the release• Responsible for the risk reviews and mitigation strategies for the projects Show less

  • Project Manager

    Dec 2006 - Jul 2016

  • Senior Software Design Engineer

    Jul 2005 - Dec 2006

  • Software Design Engineer

    Oct 1998 - Jun 2005
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  Unemployed - No work VISA

  Aug 2016 - May 2021

  Career break - Relocated to US

  Since i did not have a EAD could not resume work in the USA

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

  Recruitment Coordinator

  The EAD expired in October and the renewal process has taken a year