Mudassar Saeed Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Developing category plans and leading sourcing strategies for semiconductors to support direct procurement for new and existing products in consultation with business stakeholders. • Conducting supplier business reviews to help meet and exceed business expectations and measuring performance for continuous improvement.• Account Management and growing B2B relationships with strategic suppliers.• Ensuring the supplier selection process is in support of the category strategies.• Leading and managing RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, including creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process.• Negotiating contracts, service agreements, NDAs as per business requirements.• Actively leading alternate sourcing and risk mitigation activities to unlock full sourcing potential.• Managing complex outsourcing projects which may require confidentiality and IP protection.• Leading projects and Stakeholders' engagement that drive price reduction, supplier consolidation and process improvement.• Liaising with Product Development, Supply planning, Legal, Finance and other cross-functional teams on suppliers and sourcing related matters.• Continuous improvements to the processes which supports procurement and business activities.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Developed and implemented strategic business sourcing for the category to ensure smooth supply of material.• Defined category management plan to carry out spend analysis, optimizing supplier base and executing sourcing savings.• Enhanced suppliers’ engagement through regular meetings, business reviews and technology days to keep them aligned with business goals and vice versa.• Liaised with engineering and product management for new product development by providing commercial insight on the integration of latest technology.• Highlighting and defining key constraints on the fulfillments of sales forecast through S&OP.• Executed and drove proactive lifecycle management of products by prompting products design refresh.• Onboarded local and overseas design/contract manufacturing partners to execute the outsourcing activities.• Promoted and established aggressive quick time to market parameters for new product development.• Maintained product profitability by initiating cost down activities through regular BoM reviews.

Sydney, Australia

• Managed category of Electronics and Electro-mechanical components as well as associated supplier base for procurement activities.• Developed strategic supplier partnerships for quality, supply chain and risk management.• Carried out price negotiation for end products profitability and margin enhancement.• Conducted business reviews and day to day meetings with suppliers to keep them updated with business needs.• Defined and implemented competitive sourcing strategies for the based on Lead Times and varying market trends.• Collaborated closely with other procurement team members to support the procurement and contract activities.• BoM cost calculations in consultation with production, engineering and marketing.• Tracked the new project timelines, ensuring the availability of material and supplier support. Planning procurement quantities for prototyping, pilot production and initial mass production.• Supported design engineers with component selection as well as new technology introduction. Providing insights on market trends related to technical and commercial aspects of semiconductor industry.• Interfaced with engineering and suppliers to find drop-in replacements as well as managing PCNs and obsolescence.• Managed NDAs and conducting RMAs with suppliers by ensuring smooth communication between internal and external stakeholders.• Implemented run-in/run-out of components based on engineering change orders (ECOs).• Coordinated with production and product management to avoid demand related issues.

Sydney, Australia

• Working on demand creation and liaising with suppliers to shape up strategy for promoting design solutions based on semiconductor components.• Technical support for assigned product lines and imparting complete product knowledge to customers relevant to their designs and products• Assisting design activities and resolving customer queries.• Carrying out component evaluation through development kits provided by the suppliers.• Partnering with the sales team across pre-and post-sales activities as well as providing technical support and consultation for design in and design win priorities.• Managing suppliers and customers expectations by building and developing relationships with decision makers, • Keeping stakeholders up-to-date on activities, plans, and initiatives.• Assisting customers in solving complex problems related to hardware and/or embedded software development.• Researching and keeping up to date with latest technologies being introduced by the semiconductor suppliers.

• Designed and delivered scores of electronics products, evaluation boards and prototypes consisting high end Application Processors, Microcontrollers, Xilinx FPGAs, DDR3/4 memory, Flash memory, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Combo ICs.• Specialized in capturing schematics and driving the PCB layout of high-speed boards.• Developed the hardware of High speed, low latency networking cards.• Hands on experience in working with cross functional engineering departments.• Verified and performed design improvements for increased reliability, manufacturability and testing of printed circuit boards.• Hands on expertise with communication protocols (I2C, SPI, I2S, UART and JTAG).• Carried out successful reduction of board development budgets by selecting cost efficient components and optimizing power envelopes for boards using DC/DC buck/boost converters, LDOs and PMICs.• Fulfilled RFQs from various multinational tech giants with utmost time to market considerations.• Concept to reality architecture of a design as per clients’ requirements.• Developed detailed System Block Diagrams based on product conceptualization.• Selection of cost effective ROHS compliant electronic components for schematics and PCB layout with respect to design space requirements and functionality.• Developed logical symbols of high pin count components such as microprocessors, FPGAs, and various types of connectors.• Running Design checklists and verification processes as per DFM/DFA rules.• Schematics and layout troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and cultivating corrective actions.• BOM Generation and final verification for procurement and mass production.• Providing ongoing engineering and technical support for high volume production. • Supporting client with respect to board specification, validation and schematic capture for PCB layout.• Establishing comprehensive product specifications to define all requirements up front, prior to design and development activities.

• PCB fault failure analysis and testing of Energy Meters.• Processing claims for under warranty products.• Energy meters sampling and testing for mass production as per IEC specifications.• Coordinating with production and assembly lines to resolve technical faults in energy meters.• Team up with the project managers and technicians to ensure the final procurement.

Bs Electrical Engineering (Bsee), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, A

F.Sc, Pre-Engineering

Activities and Societies: Fine Arts, Photography, MusicPre-Engineering

O Level, Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, Physics

O Level