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Santa Clara, California, Us

Lead Operations & PMO team responsible for executing AMD Server roadmap programsOperations responsibilities: • Develop and adhere to the AOP (Annual Operating Plan) budget • Supply chain and partner management for Server platforms, components, and equipment • Reporting metrics for quarterly costs, deliveries, shortages, and mitigationsProgram Management Office responsibilities: • Drive an NPI process that is collaborative, accountable, and actively manages critical path • Deliver EPYC products to market with generational TTM (Time-To-Market) improvement • Reporting metrics to track input & output quality, schedule, and risk managementPeople Manager responsibilities for each direct report: • 2x per year formal reviews with manager and peer feedback • Mentoring, coaching, encouraging, and leading on a daily basis • Yearly merit raise, bonus, and RSU allocation based on performance

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Lead a cross function matrix engineering team to develop and bring to market new technology• Define/Deliver program objectives, scope, cost, and schedule and obtain executive approval• Remove organization barriers, manage conflicts, and promote morale to achieve productivity • Optimize program results by coordinating proper trade-offs between functional groups • Manage change to overcome obstacles and maintain program time-to-market commitments • Facilitate discussions to make difficult decisions with limited information• Develop platform solutions to validate new silicon products within a system environment• Represent the platform organization within a multi-discipline product development team• Provide regular status to executives on program health, budget, risks, and mitigationsKey Accomplishment: Led the platform team responsible for validating and enabling AMD’s next generation Bulldozer core architecture that went to market in 2011.

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Defined requirements, schedules, and resource allocations for overlapping software projects• Created functional requirements specification documents based on input from customers• Coordinated meetings for project kickoff, release readiness, and post-mortem analysis• Communicated with stakeholders to review requirements and assure timely deliveries• Performed risk analysis and implemented processes for software quality improvementKey accomplishment: Led a project that increased SoloMio’s cluster offering from a two server solution to an N+1 solution enabling increased traffic capabilities for telecom providers.

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Managed all aspects of product quality including test planning, configuration management, release engineering, and software lifecycle management.• Led a group of quality assurance engineers and provided work assignments weekly• Developed test plans that maximized the effectiveness of limited personnel and resourcesKey Accomplishment: Led the testing effort that resulted in the integration of SoloMio’s software with that of Comverse to provide a full call management solution to telecom providers.

Mba, Business Management

Bachelors, Computer Science