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22+ years of diversified leadership exposure as an Entrepreneur, Product Management, Silicon Engineering Management/Program Management (Concept-to-production) and Business Management in semiconductor industry.
Career Summary:
• Entrepreneurship/Product : Co-Founder, Product/Technology Owner & successfully exited 3 start-ups
• Engineering/Program Management: Built & Managed large cross-geo teams. Delivered 20+ successful SoC/ASIC volume productions.
• Biz Dev: Influenced & Won new business/existing business portfolio worth 10MUSD+.
• Achievements:
* Hold 1 US Patent (US 7167017 ) & 12 technical publications.
* Won Intra Texas Instruments, System Design Contest on “Sub $10 Phone architecture”.
* Awarded as "Out-of-the-box" thinker and innovator
• Academics: Enthusiastic Continuous learner
*Management Degree - Harvard University, Extension School, Cambridge, MA, USA (Pursuing)
*MS – Microelectronics, BITS Pilani, India
*BE – Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Thapar University, India
Specialties:
Product Management, Large Program Management, Engineering Management, Business Management & Customer Management
Industries:
Semiconductors - SOC Design, ASIC Chip Design
Mobile/Web/Social Product Development/Management
Personality :
An Entrepreneur at heart & working style, self-motivated/self-driven who loves company of smart, honest & mature people. Passionate about creating new products, new business opportunities & building teams from scratch.
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Work experience
- July 2022 – present
AMD
Chief Engineer - Sr. Director, Silicon EngineeringOne line summary of Chief Engineering role is "Own & Deliver the program from concept to production" • Responsible for all aspects of a product (a set of silicon devices and associated platform, software and other enablement materials) from concept through production. Ensures program deliverables are in alignment with customer and division objectives and market requirements • Manage & Own end-end development & delivery of large & complex multi hundred-million dollar NRE cost programs in Datacenter/Client/Gaming SoC domains to exceed or meet Engineering Costs Budget, Schedule, Power, Performance, Area & Yield goals (PPAY Targets) • Lead large global teams of 600+ engineers comprising Architects, SoC Design/Verif/PD/DFT implementation, Software/System/Product/Package/Q&R/Foundry technology/Operations engineering • Directly work with Customer, Executive Leadership, Biz Dev & Architects to understand business needs and negotiate mutually agreeable bounding box target to set the product vision, specification & schedule goals. - January 2019 – present
Self
Angel Investor with SucSEED Venture FundMy investment philosophy is simple: "Invest In People", rest all are expenses ! I value people over product/services ! I value "Value system (Integrity, Honesty, Hard "Smart" Working " in people over degrees/education/past achievements ! - March 2020 – June 2022
AMD
SoC Lead - Director, Silicon EngineeringResponsible for End-End SOC execution from Concept to Tapeout including all silicon revisions. - May 2017 – March 2020
AMD
SoC Lead - Sr. Manager, Silicon EngineeringResponsible for end-end SoC Execution from concept-tapeout including silicon revisions - July 2012 – April 2017
Graphene Semiconductor Services Pvt Ltd. (Acquired by L&T Technology Services)
Co-Founder, CSO & CTOGrew the company to 400+ engineers from scratch, 10MUSD+ revenue in less than 4 years and successful exit with an acquisition by billion-dollar firm L&T Technology Services, India. - February 2012 – December 2012
Aliveprofile - Bringing Life to your Resume
Co-Founder & Product Management• Problem: Resumes are updated only when someone looking for a job and mostly doesn’t really convey true skills possessed by the person. • Solution: Aliveprofile brought life to resumes and made resume creation automatic. This was a web & mobile application which automatically captured user’s online learning & skill building activities to create a Live Resume. • Technology: The application was built on a Machine Learning & Natural language processing algorithm which would capture user’s interest topics/keywords and use those to scroll the web to feedback the right articles around those interest points to help further improve their skills - January 2011 – December 2012
InfluenceQ - Discovering one's influence in their professional world
Co-Founder & Product Management• Problem: There is no way to objectively assess one's professional influence/clout and discover top influential & quality professionals based on a given criteria. • Solution: InfluenceQ is Web/Mobile based Social Application in Big data analytics, which would analyze user’s career profile and professional network connections to assess their strengths & weakness and discover their relative influence clout compared to their peers in the same industry/network/company. • Success: The application became an overnight success where people got extremely curious and got hooked to check their relative influence ranking/standing and their strength/weakness. 
February 2011 – August 2012Infosys Technologies Ltd
Business Development & Strategy , Semicon DU• Responsible for incubating Infosys VLSI Services practice, building the team & business from scratch. • Acquired 5 big new customers and influenced business worth 5MUSD+- April 2008 – February 2011
Insilica Semiconductors Ltd
Project Manager, SOC Lead - ASIC Chipsets• Delivered 4 successful ASIC Tapeouts for VOIP/DPF application with SOC Development team comprising of RTL Designers, Design Verification, DFx, Implementation and Physical Designers 
October 2005 – February 2008BroadCom USA
Senior Design Consultant• Worked on 65nm SoC backend development of 3G Video & Graphics Coprocessor Mixed signal SoC and 6 blocks.
July 2000 – October 2005Texas Instruments
Senior Design Engineer• Led & worked on 90nm SoC Full-chip development of GPS Single Chip RFCMOS chipset solution. • Led & worked on 90nm SoC Full-chip development of mobile handset Digital TV chipset solution. • Technical Lead & worked on entire DDR IP backend Development Program in 90nm & 65nm process node for Nokia RAPIDIO Platform & TI OMAP2430/OMAP3430 Platforms.
Education
- 2021 – 2023
Harvard University
Management Degree - Extention School - 2019 – 2021
Harvard University
Strategic Management - Graduate Certificate, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services - 2003 – 2005MTech, Microelectronics
- 1996 – 2000
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical and Electronics Engineering