Niraj Kumar, Msee, Pmp, Csm, Agile Email & Phone Number

Chandler, AZ, US

• Managed New Product Development Life Cycle and New Product Introduction of FPGA ASIC/SoC’s including plastic and Hermetically sealed Ceramic packages for Commercial, Industrial, Military and Space Applications in 12nm.
• Leading Project Planning, Development, Verification, Prototyping, Validation and release to production with all the cross-functional stakeholders
• Managing products from concept to Mass-Production including SW/FW, Use case and Solutions development
• Working closely with the customers, cross-functional teams, Fabs, Vendors and Contract Manufacturers
• Using PACE (Product and Cycle-Time Excellence by Michael McGrath) Phase-Gate process.
• Presenting risks, Lessons Learned, Project tracking for all FPGA Projects at Cross-functional Weekly Core Team Meetings

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Managed development program for three Storage SSD/HDD SoC and Embedded ASIC in 12nm TSMC process
• Leading Project Planning, Schedule Compression sessions with all the stakeholders
• Managing products from concept to Mass-Production
• Working closely with the customers, cross-functional teams, Fabs, Vendors and Contract Manufacturers
• Using Product Life Cycle Planning Methodology and Project Success Method and Primavera tools
• Presenting risks, Weekly Out-of-Bound and Headcount status reports for all Storage Projects

Cupertino, California, US

• Managed New Product Development Life Cycle, starting from Physical/Mechanical Design to NPI and Manufacturing Release of Multi-devices Wireless Charging Mat including enclosure FATP (Final Assembly Test & Package) at.
• Managed requirement gathering, project planning and schedule compression from concept to mass-production
• Managed HW/FW and Embedded Systems level design, PCB layout, prototyping and migrating to production
• Worked with the cross-functional teams, Supply chain Vendors and Contract Manufacturers in US and China
• Worked with iPhone Team involving Human Computer Interaction consisting of Voice recognition – Siri, Touch screen, Face recognition, Spatial – body movement
• Managed material readiness to support Engineering development builds through DV phase. Included CTB, dock dates, Quantity tracking, supply risk management. Bubble up risks & issues to upper management. Produced.

San Jose, California, US

• Managed multiple IC development programs and New Product Introduction in low-cost energy-efficient AC-DC power conversion from architecture to production. Activities included defining program plan, product definition.
• Managed prototype builds by working with internal operation teams and external foundries, assembly and test vendors.
• Moved products to Mass Production, worked with operations to implement yield enhancement and cost reduction.
• Improved Product Development Methodology, performed retrospect analysis, identified processes to be improved, and implemented changes.

San Jose, CA, US

• Performed Program Management and New Product Introduction to support 3 Business Units. Successfully managed schedules and resources to release over 100 products in 3 years. Activities included Managing development of.
• Hands on IC design. Directed and guided definition & development of 10+ Mixed-Signal Microcontrollers and Signal Processors for Battery Monitoring.
• Led teams through Project Planning and schedule compression from concept to New Product Release accounting for inter-departmental and cross-functional dependencies and activities ranging from Architecture, RTL design.
• Responsible for Engineering Lab; EVB kit and application board design, layout, fabrication and evaluation. FW development and Integration.
• Worked with outside vendors for the development of compilers, device drivers, application software and compliance certification.

Huntsville, Alabama, US

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Msee, Semiconductor