Irvine, California, United States
I am known for engineering software design/validation in adaptively continuous manner by leveraging mechanical/optical CAD, telephony, enterprise applications, system diagnostics and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) experience. I lead and execute through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) wide-ranging internal and commercial projects from concept to close-down with contributors' strength-based approach. I am recognized for helping engineers release software with known quality and configuration as well as supporting users according to priority and severity of issues. I demonstrated team building and development with concise, clear and effective communication, adapting to changes and proactively preparing for future trends. Skills and expertise: - Program & people management - Software development - Quality control - Release engineering - Software configuration management
(previously Western Digital before 02/01/2025 SanDisk separation) + People/program-managed front-end CAD team to support ASIC development engineers and projects of flash BU in U.S., India, Israel and Taiwan by defining and executing team roadmap and OKRs as well as partnering cross-functional teams (back-end CAD, IT HPC/storage/network/infosec/cloud, procurement, ...) and external vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens/Mentor, Ansys, AWS, ...) + Improved and implemented engineering capability maturity through automation and optimization of front-end CAD flows, framework, methodology and infrastructure as well as inspired front-end CAD strategy and direction for ubiquitous ASIC design efficiency and productivity + Migrated High Performance Compute (HPC) environment and Design Verification (DV) flows from on-prem to AWS cloud of 3 regions in Oregon, Bangalore and Dublin for least network latency to on-prem sister sites and most EDA friendly EC2 instance availability by employing NetApp FlexCache based data management, in-house AI/ML-powered orchestrator using NC (Altair Accelerator)/Slurm, Exostellar assisted job-cost management and Cadence Xcelium PPU licenses via Cadence License Agent (CLA) + Drove and coordinated SanDisk separation (from Western Digital) topics and tasks for ASIC by helping and facilitating EDA/IP/hardware license segmentation, requirements and re-hosting
(previously Sun Microsystems) Optimized software development and deployment infrastructure and leveraged it for information enablement. Managed highly visible team to support 150+ CAD engineers and hundreds of microprocessor design engineers at 3 main U.S. sites. Built trust by providing reliable operating environments and contributed to delivering SPARC microprocessor tapeouts in major concurrent efforts.
Managed and improved software development and deployment infrastructure. Led team, enhanced build system for efficiency, administered ClearCase/UCM for productivity, oversaw QC activities for known quality and improved environments for traceability. Coordinated Lava roadmap, releases and patches.
Defined and established software development and deployment infrastructure. Developed CAD software development/release/patch/support processes and standard for Lava initiative, oversaw development activities, and contributed to transforming CAD organization from being support-oriented to development-oriented.