As an ECE graduate served 27 years in various capacities and retired as DIRECTOR from DGAQA, Ministry of defence. Executed & controlled the Quality assurance activities during design, development, production and repair of Airborne stores, Aircrafts ,UAVs & Ground Radar

Retired as Regional Director (Aircraft Division) HAL, Bangalore

Additional Director General (NFU)

 AMIE (ECE), PG Diploma in Material Management and UNIX, C, C++

Quality Assurance Courses

M.CAD&E-CAD : HAL, Hyderabad

Microwave devices&Circuits : Hyderabad Osmania University,

Intensive course on Airworthiness : DIAT, Pune

Ab initio Training : AFTC, Bangalore

Concurrent Engineering : BEQI, Bangalore

Application of COTs component : BEQI, Bangalore

Six Sigma : BEQI, Bangalore

Management Courses

Enhancing Managerial : Administrative Staff College of Effectiveness, Hyderabad

Lead Auditor Course AS-9100 : Engg. Staff College of India

Creative and Innovation Mgt in Hyderabad research : Engg. Staff College of India

Managerial Leadership 2 Courses : NITIE, Mumbai

Experience - 41 Years

IAF

(i) Training 2 Years

(ii) AN-12, M18-Repair/OH, No. 3 BRD IAF 5 Years

(iii) AVRO, Boeing 1st & 2nd line servicing 5 Years (Air HQ Comn Sqn, Palam)

HAL, ECIL, BEL, BDL, DLRL & DRDO Project at Hyderabad

Quality Assurance during design, development, Production/OH of Airbone stores and ground 20 years equipement pertaining to LCA, ALH, LCH, LUH, Dornier, Jaguar, SU-30, MIG & Pilatus and RUSTOM-II

Altogether more than 350 system and sub-system were evaluated, approval given for the defense use (IAF, NAVY, ARMY and COAST GUARD)

HAL-Nasik 4 years

Quality Assurance were provided during Production, repair and upgrade activities pertaining to MIG-21, MIG-27 and SU-30 aircraft.

Participation during Bramohs missile integration on SU-30 Aircraft.

HAL-Bangalore 3 Years

HAL, Overall division, provided QA coverage during Mirage, Jaguar, Kiran and Hawk aircraft for     repair and overall.

HAL, MCSRDC-Mirage upgrade & Jaguar D-III upgrade. Also participated during eight trails at Bangalore and Jaisalmer.

HAL, Aircraft division & NAL involvement during SARAS Aircraft development.

Countries Visited

SRILANKA : Specific Mission (IPKF) 4 times

RUSSIA : SU-30 Radar training 2 times

FRANCE : Automatic flight control system once

Quality Assurance aspect

Participated during the trail of Precision Approach Radar at Visakapatnam for IAF and Indian Navy.

Contributed to the committee for MSME in Defense Sector.

Involved as a PNC member during SAMUDRIKA project of DLRL.

Suggestions were given during the pariticipation meet L&T, Mahendra, Reliance and TATA, DATA Patterns, Anand Technologies and Astro Microwaves system, etc.

More than 55 private forms were Audited and Approval given.

EMI & EMC test chambers were commissioned at ECIL, Hyderabad, ASTRO Microwave, Hyderabad and ERDA, Vadodra

Life extension studies were conducted on KIRAN, MIG-21, MIG-27 and HAWK aircraft.

Lectures were delivered on QA aspects

9 times at AFTC, Airforce station, Bangalore.

13 times at ALISDA, Training Institute for DGAQA officers, Bangalore.

3 times at MILT, DIAT, Pune for Airforce officers training.

2 times at NIAT, Kochin for Naval Officers.

3 times at DIQA, Bangalore for IAF, NAVY and ARMY officers.

2 times at Aeronautical Society of India, Nasik&Bangalore.

Paper on "Quality as an inherent design features" published during the IAF Seminar (Excellence through maintainability in navigation).

Appreciations were received (Name a few):

Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi&IAF AVM Khandakar - Mechanical gyro of AVRO aircraft replaced with fiber optic gyro.

Program Director Shri. APVS Prasad - Contribution on RUSTOM-II project.