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ALSTOM · BENGALURU, INDIA

Rakesh Muttalli

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15 years turning complex aerospace, defence and rail engineering programmes into delivered outcomes.

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Years Experience
15+
Years Experience
Certifications
8
Certifications
Industry Domains
3
Industry Domains
Countries Worked
2
Countries Worked
AerospaceDefenceRail TransportQuality & Compliance
01Profile

Where engineering meets commercial reality

Techno-commercial leader with 15 years across program management and engineering, carrying safety-critical programmes from bid through delivery.

Work sits where engineering meets commercial reality — scoping and pricing the offer, holding the schedule against it, and keeping quality systems auditable throughout. PMP® and PSM I certified for delivery; CSQE and AS9100 D / ISO 9001 internal auditor for quality.

Twelve years in aerospace and defence engineering built the assurance instinct — AESA radar development, engineering automation, and ownership of an AS9100 D quality system. The move into rail at Alstom tested whether that instinct travels. It does: safety-critical is safety-critical, whether it flies or runs on rails.

AerospaceDefenceRail TransportQuality & Compliance
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Current
Alstom — Global Rail Transport OEM
Education
University BDT College of Engineering, Davanagere (2007–2011) · 80.33%
Languages
Kannada (native) · English · Hindi

Dual credential

Delivery (PMP®, PSM I) and quality (CSQE, AS9100 D, ISO 9001) in the same person — the reason engineering teams accept his commercial calls.

02Capability

What he actually does

Five capability groups, built in sequence — engineering depth first, then quality systems, then programme and commercial ownership.

Program & Project Management

  • Program Management
  • Project Planning & Scheduling
  • Risk & Issue Management
  • Stakeholder Governance
  • Resource & Capacity Planning
  • Earned Value Management
  • Multi-site Delivery
  • PMO Reporting

Techno-Commercial

  • Bid & Proposal Engineering
  • Costing & Pricing
  • Contract Management
  • Change & Variation Control
  • Customer Negotiation
  • Key Account Management
  • Margin & P&L Tracking
  • Vendor Management

Quality & Compliance

  • AS9100 D:2016 Internal Audit
  • ISO 9001:2015 Internal Audit
  • Software Quality Engineering
  • Process Definition & Metrics
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Configuration Management
  • Compliance Reporting

Engineering Domains

  • AESA Radar Systems
  • Aerospace & Defence Engineering
  • Rail Rolling Stock & Signalling
  • Engineering Automation
  • Systems Engineering
  • Requirements Management
  • Verification & Validation

Ways of Working

  • Scrum (PSM I)
  • Hybrid Stage-Gate / Agile
  • Cross-cultural Team Leadership
  • Global Distributed Teams
  • Coaching & Mentoring
  • Executive Communication
  • Generative AI for PM
03Career Timeline

Fifteen years, three epochs

Each epoch carries a confidence score — how settled the role was in its domain. The dip at the 2023 transition is the point of the story, not a flaw in it.

  1. Epoch 2 · Group Leadership2024 – PresentRail

    Program Manager — Group Assignment

    Alstom/Global Rail Transport OEM

    Rail transport programme management at group level, working between the Bengaluru engineering centre and headquarters in Paris.

    • Runs programme scope, schedule and techno-commercial performance across globally distributed engineering teams.
    • Bridges India-based delivery capability with European programme governance and customer expectations.
    • Applies PMP® and Scrum practice to a hybrid stage-gate delivery model for safety-critical rail systems.
    Program ManagementTechno-CommercialRail SystemsStakeholder GovernanceAgile / Scrum
    Domain confidence96%
    Residual risk0.04
  2. Epoch 1 · Transition2023 – 2024Rail

    Program Manager

    Alstom/Global Rail Transport OEM

    Moved from aerospace and defence into rail transport, taking programme ownership within Alstom's Bengaluru engineering organisation.

    • Carried aerospace-grade quality and configuration discipline into a new rail engineering context.
    • Earned PMP® certification (Apr 2023) alongside the transition, formalising a decade of delivery practice.
    • Built the stakeholder map and governance cadence for programme reporting.
    Program ManagementRail SystemsRisk ManagementPMO Reporting
    Domain confidence91%
    Residual risk0.09
  3. Epoch 0 · Foundation & Growth2011 – 2023Aerospace & Defence

    Engineering & Program Management

    Cyient/Aerospace & Defence Engineering Services

    Twelve years in aerospace and defence engineering services — from hands-on engineering into programme ownership and quality system leadership.

    • Recognised for contributions to AESA radar development programmes with defence organisations.
    • Recognised for engineering automation initiatives that reduced manual effort in the design cycle.
    • Qualified as an internal auditor for AS9100 D:2016 and ISO 9001:2015, owning quality system compliance.
    • Certified Software Quality Engineer (ASQ) — brought measurable process and metrics discipline to engineering delivery.
    AESA RadarSystems EngineeringEngineering AutomationAS9100 DISO 9001Software Quality Engineering
    Domain confidence74%
    Residual risk0.26
04Career DNA

How the pieces connect

Two views of the same fifteen years — what carried across each move, and how the balance between engineering depth and programme ownership shifted.

Career graph

Nodes = organisations

Edge thickness is the weight of skills carried from one posting to the next.

Cyient2011-2023Alstom BLR2023-2024Alstom Paris2024-Now
  • Aerospace & Defence
  • Rail Transport
  • Rail Transport

Skill progression

2011 → 2026

Relative depth over time. Engineering depth plateaus as programme and commercial ownership take over — a deliberate trade, not a decline.

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05Programmes

Selected work

Defence and rail programmes run under confidentiality — described at the level the customer permits, without naming systems or figures that are not public.

Defence

AESA Radar Development Programme

Defence organisation (via Cyient)

Engineering contribution to Active Electronically Scanned Array radar development — a long-cycle, high-assurance defence programme with strict configuration and compliance requirements.

Outcome
Formally recognised by the customer organisation for contribution to the programme.

AESA RadarSystems EngineeringV&VConfiguration Management
Aerospace & Defence

Engineering Automation Initiative

Cyient — Aerospace & Defence vertical

Automation of repetitive engineering design and verification tasks, cutting manual effort and error rate across the aerospace design cycle.

Outcome
Formally recognised for the automation contribution.

Engineering AutomationProcess DesignQuality MetricsTooling
Quality

AS9100 D Quality System Ownership

Cyient — Aerospace & Defence vertical

Internal audit and compliance ownership against AS9100 D:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 — audit planning, non-conformance tracking, and corrective action closure across engineering teams.

Outcome
Certified internal auditor (TÜV SÜD, BEL Academy); sustained audit readiness across programmes.

AS9100 D:2016ISO 9001:2015Internal AuditCAPAProcess Metrics
Rail

Rail Programme Delivery — India ↔ Paris

Alstom

Programme management across Alstom's Bengaluru engineering centre and group functions in Paris, aligning distributed delivery with European programme governance.

Program ManagementRail SystemsTechno-CommercialGlobal Delivery
06Credentials

Eight certifications, two disciplines

Delivery credentials and quality credentials held at the same time — each one maps to an accountability he actually carried.

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

The global standard for programme and project delivery — scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder governance across predictive, agile and hybrid approaches.

Project Management Institute · Apr 2023 – Apr 2026

Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I)

Scrum framework mastery and team facilitation — applied to hybrid stage-gate delivery in a safety-critical engineering context.

Scrum.org · Jul 2022

Generative AI Overview for Project Managers

Applying generative AI to programme planning, reporting and risk analysis.

Project Management Institute · Oct 2023

Certified Internal Auditor — AS9100 D:2016

Aerospace quality management system auditing — the standard governing design and manufacture for aviation, space and defence.

TÜV SÜD · Oct 2019

Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE)

Software quality principles, process metrics, verification and validation, and audit practice.

American Society for Quality · Jan 2019 – Jun 2023

Certified Internal Auditor — ISO 9001:2015

Quality management system auditing, delivered through Bharat Electronics Limited's training academy.

BEL Academy · Issued

Executive Management Program

Executive education in general management, finance and commercial strategy.

Management Development Institute · May 2014

Key Account Management

Strategic account growth, customer relationship management and commercial planning.

LinkedIn · Jul 2018

Education

University BDT College of Engineering

Davanagere, Karnataka · 2007 – 2011

Bachelor of Engineering — aggregate 80.33%.

Languages

  • KannadaNative / bilingual
  • EnglishProfessional working
  • HindiProfessional working