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Strategic thinker, an emergent leader and an effective team builder. Experienced thought leader. Passionate about applying technology, AI, and automation to help improve product safety, and user experience. Extensive Automotive System Safety Experience. Over 25 years of specialized technical and people leadership experience in automotive engineering, systems, software, safety and technology innovation. -Awarded GM Boss Kettering Award for safe deployment of AV -Hands on experience with end to end design, development, integration and validation of complex safety critical and mission critical systems -Extensive leadership experience with AI, high performance compute. and software intensive architecture -Thrives in the undefined space and embraces the unknown -Loves to innovate and set the precedence -Challenges the status-quo, adapts, and is always eager to learn and grow -Leads from within -Currently leading the Strategy and Practice of Automotive Technology and Engineering -Super excited to be part of the mobility revolution and to help enable the industry transformation from hardware centric to a digital platform based, software defined, and service oriented vehicle using AI, SW, Automation, Virtualization, & Connectivity. Most Recent Experience: -Instrumental in working with Cruise to achieve Driverless Vehicle Deployment in early 2022 -Led the GM SDV strategy for OTA, Operations, Certification, Release Governance and Connected Applications -Led the development of AV safety case, systems architecture, design, development, integration and safety validation Past Experience: -GM technical fellow -Principal architect of GM system safety process and policy, and led its global institutionalization -Architected and deployed broad range of safety and mission critical systems -Expertise in MIL STD 882, IEC 61508, MISRA, SAE ARP 5580, ISO 26262, ISO 21448 -Developed and instructed several training courses in system safety and led the M.S. Systems engineering degree program for GM -Published at several national and international conferences -Led EcoCAR and AutoDrive Competitions Specialties: -Self Driving, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Perception, Localization, Planning, and Vehicle Control -Compute, Connectivity, Software Defined Vehicle, Electrification, Software, and Hardware integration -Systems Architecting and Engineering, Functional Safety, Fault tolerance, Resilience, Emergent principles -Broad automotive domain knowledge including Steering, Brakes, Propulsion, HV Battery, and Occupant Protection systems, AV, ADAS and User Experience