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• Passionate leader driving strategy, innovation, and growth in Cloud, Storage, and ClimateTech industry.• 20+ years of experience across Product, Strategy, Marketing, Engineering, and Leading teams• My superpowers are networking, building partnerships, and strategic thinking• Scout for innovation, align customers and internal stakeholders and drive proof of concept to commercialize innovation.• Explored new markets, built innovative products, and realigned business models to markets to drive new growth. • Identified customer pain points and drove a solution to give them an edge to become a market leader• Foster Partnerships with customers, eco-system players, and internal stakeholders to drive growth for all parties.• As a Chief of Staff, took ownership of EVP's strategic projects, evaluated options, and drove them to success• Built a high-performance team to automate workflow, scale operations, and reduce time to market.• Social Impact investor: Invest in programs that provide basic needs (food/water) for low-income children so they attend school instead of working as a child labor• Social Impact investor: Invested in the production of a breakthrough film to normalize LGBTQ+ stories as a part of mainstream Bollywood• Set historical precedence, challenged societal mindset, and made a bold political statement by openly marrying my husband in Yavatmal, a small town in India, to set a new bar for the LGBTQ+ community to follow𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬• Hiking o Hiked for 15 years in over 20 countries o Organize monthly hikes for IIT-BayArea to build a network and strengthen the community• Photography o I have taken landscape, event, and portrait photography for over 35 years in all the 45 countries I have visited. o Created awareness and pull via social media for the different nonprofit organizations I served via creative photography• Traveling o Solo traveler to 45 countries who goes off the beaten path to connect with the local culture, history, food, architecture, and people o Insatiable curiosity to always learn, and expand the horizon o Seek out unique experiences during travel such as bungee jumping, parasailing, and tandem skydiving
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Marketing And Climatetech Track Co-Chair- TieconTie Silicon Valley Feb 2023 - PresentPalo Alto, California, UsTiE Silicon Valley is a 501c(3) California nonprofit and is one of the world's largest ecosystems for technology executives, entrepreneurs, and VCs. TiEcon is an annual entrepreneurship and innovation conference with over 47K registrations in 2022.· Develop a GTM plan: Put together a strategy to get 5000+ registrations, identify the target audience, define the key messages, set the budget, and select the marketing channels.· Coordinate a team of 25 volunteers to execute social media and other marketing campaigns· Create promotional materials templates: Defined marketing theme, and designed Canva banner templates for LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram campaigns, trained volunteers to use the templates.· Build partnerships: Establish partnerships with organizations, associations, and other stakeholders to help promote the conference and reach a wider audience.· Track/Analyzing results: Track the success of your marketing activities and analyze the results to identify what worked well and what needs improvement -
Marketing/PartnershipsTie Silicon Valley Jan 2010 - Mar 2023Palo Alto, California, Us• Launched first-ever partnership programs with 50 new organizations to increase diversity in conference attendees and increase cross-pollination of ideas• Build a market template and leveraged the social capital of speakers/sponsors to expose the conference to a wider audience.• Discovered best practices and trained other volunteers to embody them to dramatically uplift their output. -
Board Member, Ongoing ActivitiesIit Bay Area Alumni Association Apr 2022 - PresentBay Area, Ca, UsThe Indian Institute of Technology Bay Area Alumni (IITBAA) is a 501(c)3 California nonprofit dedicated to the professional development of 15,000+ BayArea-based alumni from 23 IIT Campuses in India. IITs are the 4th largest unicorn founder producers in the world. -
Board Member, SponsorshipsIit Bay Area Alumni Association Aug 2020 - Apr 2022Bay Area, Ca, Us• First openly gay person on the US-based Indian University Alumni organization board.• Led brainstorming and ideation sessions with the 8 member board team, and set KPI for 20+ volunteer team to increase alumni attendance from 1500 to over 6000 that strengths community and creates connection points• Build fundraising strategy and ran a campaign to raise funds from VCs and corporate executives resulting in turning around a $60k loss from the prior conference to raising $110k • Founded a hiking club during COVID to offer safe group outdoor activities and career networking during outdoor luncheon• Launched and built a speaker series to impact alumni on career, leadership development, and financial planning• Led a team of 10 for the hiking club and a team of 5 for fundraising. -
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President - Sf Bay Area ChapterIit Bombay Heritage Foundation Jun 2022 - May 2024Cupertino, Ca, UsRevived the IITBHF chapter post-COVID, leveraging social media to reconnect members. Led impactful events (Roadshow, CXO Forum, Pi Day networking, Summer Picnics) and rekindled the IITB bond through visiting professor outreach (e.g., Prof. Phatak, Prof B K Charkavarthy). Notably, 80%+ outreach success for the SemiX event secured 20 prominent industry advisors for the center, thanks to a collaboration with Prof. Ganguly. Drove partnership with IIT-BayArea.org brought engaging monthly activities to hundreds of alumni families, fostering a thriving community. -
Director Of Product Planning - Special ProjectsSamsung Semiconductor Us Jan 2022 - Mar 2023• 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭/𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐬o Strategized investment areas into various target segments based on industry trends, innovation at startups, and customer needs.o Grew innovation pipeline by discovering, evaluating, and proposing startup investment targets in each target segment.o Built relationships with entrepreneurs and investors, including the venture community, and monitored startups in strategic areas relevant to Samsung.o Lead the development of strategic rationale and build consensus with key stakeholders.• 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐒 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐕𝐏 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐝-𝐡𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 o Explored many optical and other interfaces that would be needed over the next 5-10 years, distilled how it intersects with Samsung’s roadmap, and mapped out engagement strategy.o Drove NewBiz initiatives by leading ideation and brainstorming sessions with colleagues to formulate a strategy for high growth from Tier2 customers.o Investigated NFT and Private Equity as a potential option to fund new capital-intensive projects.• 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬o Brainstormed with execs and colleagues about various new markets to investigate and narrowed down on HealthTech, Crypto storage, and Secondary storage.o Built a thesis for opportunity by talking to internal/industry market experts and other secondary market data.o Leveraged my existing network and new connections to get industry expert validation on the thesis and iterated on the opportunity.o Built market models to quantify the size and timing of the opportunity in TAM/SAM graphs.o Built a business case with actionable recommendations & presented it to the executives for review and further action. -
Director Of Product Planning - GrowthSamsung Semiconductor Us Dec 2020 - Mar 2022• 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥o Leading a team of 5 to drive internal cross-functional alignment for EVP's special project (industry first for a storage provider) that would change the fundamental business model to capture new cloud opportunities.o Driving internal investigation to access wide impact and gather data points of this business model change to assist EVP in making go/no-go decisions.o Presented a new plan to benefit from emerging storage as a service market to the President, SVPs, and other executives and driving activities to make it a new business in the future.o Collaborating with a broad set of customer bases to identify synergy and initiate POCs to identify opportunities for collaboration and areas that need further development.• 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐫𝐞-𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦o Scouted for a broad range of emerging technologies, analyzed trends in system architectures and prioritized NVME-oF based composable disaggregated systems that increase storage performance by 10x. Drove deeply into various applications of this new architecture with key strategic cloud and OEM customers.o Initiated a pilot project to place Samsung's Ethernet SSD into OEM systems to iron out architectural bottlenecks to drive integration and interoperabilityo Led a cross-functional team of 20 to discover gaps, drive internal alignment and define product features to address these gaps, and identify synergies between customers and partners for the future generation products -
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Sr Manager - Segment Marketing For Cloud/Edge/TelcoWestern Digital Oct 2019 - Jul 2020San Jose, Ca, Us• 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝟐 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬o Analyzed 30+ Tier2 cloud customers and prioritized six key customers for piloting new incentives to target 50% revenue growth in this segment. o Built upon the ideas/drivers from brainstorming with these six key customers and input from the sales team, defined customized objectives for each to ensure successful execution of their growth strategy plano Created a single-source-of-truth document for these six key customers to streamline internal communication that speeds up decision-making (by 5x) and ensures timely execution of plans. -
Board Member - We.FuelWestern Digital Jan 2019 - Jul 2020San Jose, Ca, UsWe.FUEL is an employee resource group focused on career, professional and personal development -
Sr Manager - Product Marketing For Ww Channel And DistributionWestern Digital Jan 2019 - Oct 2019San Jose, Ca, Us• 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 o Simplified the value proposition of the most complex cloud SSD product in the company’s history by highlighting “customizability” to expand the target market by 2x and diversify the customer base by 5xo Evangelized the product as a subject matter expert by speaking at conferences, training a 200+ sales team, and presenting a roadmap to key strategic cloud customers.o Spearheaded the collateral creation internal process by collaborating with Marketing/Sales/Prod Management teams and instituted processes so it is easily accessible by anyone -
Sr Manager - Marketing Strategy Reporting Under Chief Of Staff To A Marketing ExecWestern Digital Jan 2018 - Jan 2019San Jose, Ca, Us• 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧o Led a cross-functional team of 4 and collaborated with McKinsey consultants to analyze trends in emerging technology and identify growth opportunities in the edge computing market.o Identified $20B worth of Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) as the initial beachhead market that would help diversify the customer base, create a new market, flatten out demand cycles and improve capacity utilization for manufacturingo Prepared a strategic roadmap and presented the plan to executives with various options to engage in this new market with its pros and cons.• 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠o Proactively participated in various recruitment and hiring drives that resulted in over ten new hireso Trained/coached the new hirees on product and market trendso Organized career enhancement and fun team-building activitieso Supervised and mentored junior employees to successfully complete their responsibilities and assist with career progression -
Sr Staff - Marketing Strategy And Business DevelopmentToshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Oct 2016 - Oct 2018Irvine, California, Us• 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 o Recognized thought leader, experienced with evangelizing emerging technologies and expert at scouting for growth and innovation.o Formalized the “innovation and growth pipeline” process and set criteria to make quick go/no-go decisions to systematically foster innovation pipeline and identify growth opportunities.o Spoke at conferences and meetups as an industry expert on storage needs in autonomous vehicles.o Designed keynote slides for VP on Automotive storage trends to establish Toshiba as a thought leader in this space. -
Sr Staff - Marketing @ The Office Of CtoToshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Feb 2013 - Oct 2016Irvine, California, Us• 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐂𝐈𝐞 𝐁𝐆𝐀 𝐒𝐒𝐃 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐒𝐃 @ ISSPI (Institute of Strategic Storage Planning and Investment) led by Toshiba CTOo Tracked and analyzed a broad range of market trends/emerging technologies to identify a market gap for smaller form factor SSD.o Led a global cross-functional team of 10 and collaborated with a wider cross-functional team of 50+ to build upon the ideas provided by stakeholders to envision a BGA SSD product. o Collaborated with an engineering group to prototype and eventually productize the world’s first BGA SSD (20x smaller than the prior smallest), which snatched the "Innovative Product of the Year" award at the Flash Memory Summit 2016 and, for the first time made Toshiba an industry leader.o Enabled our partner Microsoft to effectively compete with MacBook Air by bringing out its own ultrathin (9mm) longer battery life SurfacePro and created a $1B+ new storage market for Toshibao Became internal and external thought leader for BGA SSDs by speaking at conferences and continuing to scout for new markets in Enterprise and Automotive space -
Sr. Product Marketing ManagerSmart Modular Technologies May 2012 - Nov 2012Newark, Ca, UsSmart Modular is a manufacturer of custom and industrial memory/SSD products• 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 o Drove strategic customer/vendor relationships by understanding their pain point and designing a custom solution to address issues increasing revenues by over $10Mo Created MRDs by conducting global market research, building SWOT analysis, and analyzing feedback from existing customers/stakeholders.o Managed worldwide introduction of new products by creating thoughtful presentations, publishing white papers, and facilitating the creation of other creative marketing collateral o Bring value to the Customers by consulting product features tradeoffs and finding the right product without overspending.• 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭o Removed barriers to sales by providing timely first level support to the sales team and customerso Conducted quarterly webinars and training for 40+ sales teams on product positioning, optimized messaging, and competitive offerings to improve their sales effectivenesso Streamlined internal communication by facilitating the development of internal tools and improved response time to inquiries by 3x. -
Analyst - Electric Vehicles And BatteriesLux Research Aug 2011 - Apr 2012Boston, Ma, UsLux Research is a boutique Market Analysis/Consulting Firm focusing on Emerging Technologies• 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 o Consulted with Global2000 CXOs and connected dots for them in the rapidly evolving EV market and guided them to make strategic decisions on acquisition/investment/partnerships o Offered strategic guidance to startup co-founders on industry trends and mapped out potential customers, company direction, and exit strategies.• 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 o Interviewed startup founders, CEOs, and CTOs to extract the essence of their work and published reports highlighting their core values and added context by connecting it to wider industry trendso Built models from scratch for Electric Vehicles and Lithium-Ion batteries to distill trends, project market size, analyze scenarios, and derive insightso Evangelized the research reports to the news media as well as corporate executives by hosting webinars to gain publicity and expand the subscription baseo Presented market research at conferences such as “Advanced Energy” and “10x Advanced Battery R&D” as a subject matter expert on electric vehicles and energy storage-related technologieso Published weekly insights on current news items and provided additional insights based on industry trends -
Associate Investor And AnalystCalcef Angel Fund May 2011 - Aug 2011Founded in 2008 to help bridge a critical clean energy funding gap, the CalCEF Angel Fund invests in early-stage clean energy companies spanning the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors.• Analyzed over 40 business plans, validated claims in the plans, conducted due diligence and prepared recommendations for the VC partner to make go/no go investment decisions• Scouted for startups and socialized the Angel fund among attendees at various CleanTech conferences to increase the deal flow for this nascent highly dynamic emerging market -
Growth And Strategy ConsultantSelf Employed Jan 2008 - Aug 2011Marketing and Strategy consulting for various small and mid sized companies in the Technology space. Specifically Clean Technology. Check project list for additional details.
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Growth And Strategy ConsultantViola Systems Oy Jun 2010 - Dec 2010Viola Systems Oy is the leading real-time wireless telecommunications smart grid solution provider headquartered in Finland and targets distribution automation application• Conducted comprehensive market research by interviewing over 100 experts (most professionals interview <25), attending multiple conferences on the topic, and reading secondary research to map out the ecosystem, market segments, and the beachhead market.• Built a comprehensive US Market entry strategy based on the market opportunity, company’s strengths, and financial analysis to initially target municipal utilities.• Built an investment-grade Business Plan and pitched it to a panel of VCs and senior industry execs. Viola was eventually acquired by ABB (Europe's biggest energy automation company)
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Design Verification ManagerMicron Technology Inc Feb 2007 - Dec 2009Boise, Idaho, UsGlobal Semiconductor Memory and Storage Manufacturer• 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭o Build a high-performance software team of nine software engineers that supported 5 design teams through building new tools and automationo Partnered with my boss to set up a China branch office by traveling to Shanghai and interviewing local engineering candidates and assessing them for technical/behavioral fit and recommended to hire.o Build a training program and materials to ramp up the productivity of new employees in Asia.o Set North Star and guardrails for the US/Shanghai/India team, monitor the progress, and assess their work by setting up clear criteria to ensure the team is meeting or exceeding objectives.• 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭o Set the vision for new methodologies and tools, and socialized it among project leaders to ensure alignment.o Led a global engineering team to streamline testing methodology thereby improving hardware debugging time by 10xo Initiated and pitched new project plans to the senior executives and organized regular review meetings for all stakeholders for ongoing projects to ensure high productivityo Initiated and Championed a cross-functional project to move back end tests sooner to catch issues sooner and before the expensive fabrication process and eliminate duplicate work• 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧o Identified, initiated, and nurtured new methodologies and tools development that resulted in 2-3 new features/capabilities every quarter.o Focus on continuous improvement - refined current processes, and tools, while defining success criteria to further enhance user experience, improve effectiveness by 100x and save over $100Mo Partner with Division leaders to define and implement a verification plan for each chip and oversee its execution -
Sr Design And Verification EngineerMicron Technology Inc Oct 2005 - Feb 2007Boise, Idaho, Us• 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 o Streamlined/architected a new standardized verification environment by collaborating with all design groups to build automation and scale o Built a new smart command that automatically detected key inputs based on the verification environment & reduced command entry from over 20 words to a single word o Pioneered development of a new tool using HTML/PHP/javascript to build a unified report from globally dispersed log data in 5min compared to days of manual labor before• 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭-𝐨𝐟-𝐛𝐨𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 o Expanded the functional coverage by brainstorming with a wider engineering team & adding 8x legal vectors than before to discover a wider set of bugs earlier in the process o Built a new layer of abstraction to enable the reuse of test vectors across different chips & save over a week’s worth of grunt work for each new project o Built a new internal tool to replace ESP-CV software and saved $100,000/Yr in license o Created a new test suite with Illegal vectors to make Micron chips foolproof in diverse customer environments and immune to their mistakes o Challenged the status quo of manual waveforms checking of each test by building a new tool to automatically detect errors & use manual steps only when absolutely necessary• 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 o Designed a training program to streamline new team members' ramp-up in under a week (compared to months before) and also ensure productivity out of new temp remote team members o Pioneered creation of training collateral for new team members o Socialized the new GUI tool among Sr Design Managers with One on one training and showed how they save time and focus on higher-level goals o Trained engineers from other design teams to use new automation tools & improve their productivity -
Design EngineerMicron Technology Inc Jun 2000 - Oct 2005Boise, Idaho, Us• 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 o Architected and designed progressively bigger Digital design blocks to carry out key functions such as redundancy to create Micron’s first NAND based Flash Memory o Designed Analog blocks that supported other key analog parts of the chip design such as charge pumps o Created Standard cells (building block of any custom ASIC chip design process) library for new process node• 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥/𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧o Quickly mastered tools such as ESP-CV, Verilog, and HSIM, standardized test environment, and build automation around it to cut setup time for the entire team by 5xo Collaborated with test engineers to import their test vectors in design to identify and fix problems sooner and save millions in re-spins and cut down on the use of expensive production testerso Built and expanded a new CSV based protocol to quickly write and modify tests cutting the time to do write tests by 10xo Automated checking simulation results by learning software Perl coding, parsing log files to generate automated Pass/Fail html report which expedited narrowing down on problem areas by 5xo Mastered STL (Simulation and Test Language) to save engineers time to generate stimulus for HSPICE/Hsim by 5x• 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠o Setup a lab to test silicon wafers and identify issues in the San Jose office which speed up the time to identify root causes of failure by 5xo Expanded the test coverage from just first silicon to later spin-offs which drastically improved the time to identify failure modes in analog blocks by 10x -
Product EngineerMicron Technology Inc May 1999 - Jun 2000Boise, Idaho, UsProduct Engineers are the bridge across the entire semiconductor fabrication process that will identify and resolve issues gating the fabrication flow• 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝’𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 o Extracted various data points from the chip using a variety of tools such as micro-mate, small flexible testers to enable a root-cause analysis o Leveraged simulation techniques to understand design, use this knowledge to tweak chip performance and resolve bugs such as race conditions and set optimal parameters• 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 o Analyzed production test logs to identify steps impacting yield loss o Collaborated with engineers involved with every step of the fabrication process; ranging from design, layout, mask, process, probe, testing to Q&A to identify the root cause of a yield loss o Authored (usually done by Sr Engineers) internal manual for NOR and SyncFlash chips documented the secret sauce for each chip to facilitate technical communication among various engineering groups• 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 o Volunteered to help the design team by relocating offsite to help a team meet the aggressive deadline o Volunteered to help the layout team to meet their deadline too when I finished my design related tasks o Leveraged all the knowledge gained during the offsite assignment to identify bugs and their root causes 2x faster -
Co-ChairTrikone Jul 2005 - Jun 2007Trikone is a 501c(3) California nonprofit that develops 3000+ San Francisco BayArea based LGBTQ+ (South Asian) professionals in career, leadership development, and visibility.• Turned around a distressed non-profit by setting vision/goal/direction, and building a team of 10 to increase community participation from 300 to 1000+• Turned around organization from near bankruptcy to healthy funding level.• Set the goal to double the number of events annually from 10 to 20 by partnering with 10 LGBT non-profits • Created a win-win for 150+ LGBTQ worldwide activists by hosting and leading a DesiQ conference to cross-pollinate best practices among attendees and develop their organizations better.
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PublisherTrikone Jul 2003 - Jun 2005
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Research AssistantIowa State University Jun 1998 - May 1999Ames, Iowa, UsResearch work on manufacturing affordable amorphous Solar Cells technology -
Teaching AssistantIowa State University Aug 1997 - Jun 1998Ames, Iowa, UsTeaching Assistant for Engineering and Non-Engineering Physics 101 class
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Anglo Hindi High SchoolScience
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