www.sugumar.com

Sugumar Govinda.

BIOS Engineering, Since Jan 2000

sugumar_1975@yahoo.com

objective

BIOS development lead, involving day-to-day design, development and debugging BIOS. Also work with customers, marketing on requirements; CPU and Chipset BIOS porting; work with Manufacturing, BIOS vendors, OS driver vendors on new BIOS features and usage models; support and train juniors including ODM if any; and drive third party silicon suppliers for compatibility and effective platform designs.

Skills

X86, IA-32 x64

CPU, MCH, ICH, SIO, BMC, Flash

ISA, PCI, PCI-X, PCI-E

IDE/PATA, SATA, SAS

ACPI, USB, SMBIOS, EFI

ITP Debugging, Scripting, Unit Test Automation

AMIBIOS Core 8, Tiano/Aptio

File Systems, OS Loaders

PVCS Database, Serena Dimensions Change Management

MS Office, MS Project

Experience

Intel, Bangalore, India                   - Since September 2003

Server Platform BIOS Development

Core BIOS Development for 2008/2009 Generation Platforms

Platform BIOS Lead for S5400SF Server

Monolithic BIOS Design/Implementation to run single binary on ~25 Platform/SKUs of S5000 Series Servers

Platform BIOS development Lead and ODC management for S5000VSA Server

Lead design and development for SysCon Key EFI support for 7520JR2 Server

Mentor RCG on PC hardware and software fundamentals

BIOS debug and offshore management representative for SE8500HW4 Server

AMIBIOS Core 8 platform BIOS porting for SE7221BK Server

 

Roles in above projects

·         Review Platform Requirements

·         Publish Platform BIOS Requirements

·         Publish BIOS External Product Specification

·         Writing some of Internal Product Specification (HLDD) for new features

·         Review Platform Baseboard Schematics

·         IRQ, GPIO, Super IO, DIMM Sockets, PCI Slot Routing

·         Porting ACPI, USB, SMBIOS Tables to FAB Design

·         Delegate features/debugging tasks to junior members

·         Coordinate and Manage ODC Team on BIOS Tasks

·         Plan, Track, Close BIOS deliverables both features and fixes

·         Power On On-site support in China, Off-site support for Alpha/Beta

·         Code Integration (cross-geo) and BIOS Releases

 

Dell, Bangalore, India           - From May 2003 to September 2003

Deployment Tools Development

CLI Tool for BIOS Configuration

CLI Tool for System Information

 

AMI, Chennai, India             - From Jan 2000 to May 2003

BIOS Development

AMIBIOS Core8 Chipset porting for STPC Atlas Chipset

Embedded Windows CE OS Loader for AMIBIOS Core 8

GV3/APM Implementation for VIA Chipset Board BIOS

AMIBIOS Core 8 OEM porting for Kodicom, Samsung, Click TV

Education

Master of Computer Applications (M. C. A.)

Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

73%, May 2000

 

Bachelor of Computer Science (B. Sc.)

Sri Vasavi College, Erode, India

67%, May 1996

 

Personal information

Full Name

Sugumar Govindarajan

Father’s Name

Mr. Govindarajan Arunachalam

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

12/NOV/1975

Marital Status

Married

Address

#7, Prashanthi,

3rd Cross, Ayyapa Layout,

Marathahalli Extn.,

Bangalore – 560 037

Phone

+91 (80) 2523 8115

Mobile

+91 98457 10049

Passport

Indian Passport

Traveled to USA, South Korea, China

Driving License

Clean Indian Driving License