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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Santa Clara, Ca

Managed divisional IT operations and drove ambitious operational efficiency initiatives throughout a global R&D organization.Implemented several ambitious efficiency programs resulting in significant reduction in IT OPEX by 20% or $28M. Engineering organization’s IT cost/head/year improved by 23% or $7K /head/year.Bridged the wide gap between business and IT by forming collaborative channels to highlight values of IT as enabler so business strategy can get executed with confidence and predictability.Established internal principles, disciplines, structure, governance, raising awareness and improving productivity by producing results that surpassed most optimistic ROI cases.Initiated, secured executive support and successfully implemented a 3-year comprehensive R&D strategy encompassing infrastructure, tools and services to scale and support the business roadmap.Created IT productivity loss improvement program with cost avoidance goal of $13M by setting achievable targets and plans to include infrastructure, clients, service desk, tools, services, etc. Formed a high performing cross-functional network of individuals by securing close partnerships and synergy among previously fragmented engineering and central/local IT organizations. Ensured alignment on strategic roadmaps, governance, priorities and targets.Establishing processes to increase engineering productivity while reducing cost by optimizing IT service delivery. Developing KPI, metrics to ensure operations are monitored for continuous improvement and agile ways of working. Created SLAs to formalize serviceability and support.Managing multiple transfer projects as part of a major global engineering labs and data centers consolidation program into three mega ICT centers to provide world-class IT and telecom cloud services for internal and external customers to cultivate opportunities to grow.

San Diego, Ca

Managed several teams of business and IT professionals with overall responsibility to enable mobile applications and services for mobile devices. This lucrative usage-based early adopter Cloud service (SaaS) business delivered via a scalable cloud platform (PaaS) for mobile devices was developed to address the business needs of Internet Services Division. Established a cohesive, effective and efficient service-oriented organization to support the optimized delivery and quality of Cloud solutions to the mobile users while lowering cost by implementing several efficiency and predictive measures such as competency centers, automation, monitoring and metrics.

Silicon Valley, Ca

Managed large organizations responsible for development and production support of the entire portfolio of applications, tools, solutions including SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SOA-based Open Source applications. Achieved 100% SOX compliance for all eligible enterprise applications and databases. Represented Applied Materials on the RosettaNet Semiconductor Manufacturing Council Board setting open B2B industry standards

Silicon Valley, Ca

Managed Data Centers globally with a significant operational budget and staff delivering operational excellence in availability and reliability of services. Consolidated all company’s data centers into two state-of-the-art Production and Test/Development/Failover data centers. Managed and consolidated infrastructure support organizations consisting of Database Administrators, UNIX and Windows system administrators teams globally

Silicon Valley, Ca

Developed 3-5 year IT plan, standards, principles, strategies, blueprints and roadmaps to support verticals and horizontal functions. Drove products/vendors selection process effectively resulting in stakeholders alignment and full consensus behind major and minor initiatives.

San Diego, Ca

Managed full product development lifecycle of several major products developed using Legacy, Java-based technologies and CORBA. Managed team of software engineers to port a suite of 300+ GUI interfaces of a major Enterprise Management product from legacy to Java-based technologies