Over 20+ years experience with hands-on exposure in IP development, ASIC Design Methodology, Chip design, EDA Pre-sales, Applications Engg., Managing teams in global locations.Current Areas of Interest:VLSI Chip design, ASIC flow, EDA, Consulting services, Management, business leadership strategies.Other areas:Japanese,small budget movie production/direction/video editing,tennis,cricket, techno gadgets/reviews.Areas of Experience:South bridge/SOC Chip designRTL IP (PCI,USB,firewire) developmentEDA tools pre-sales, chip optimization techniques for timing, area, power.RTL design, functional verification, DFT, P&R, COT/ASIC tape-out.Specialties: Hiring, Building and Managing global engineering teams.Working and building relationship with Japan.Strategies for taking global teams to next level and passion for execution.