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Austin, Tx, Us

Leading Vorago Technology develop rad-hard IC for Aerospace and Industrial applications. Responsible for all aspects of the product development from marketing concept to mass production.

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Chandler, Az, Us

Chandler, Az, Us

Responsible for all aspects of leading global R&D teams in North America, Europe and Asia executing all stages of semiconductor (ASIC/SoC digital, analog and mixed signal) product development. Responsible for R&D team activities including IC architecture, digital and analog design, pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation. Supporting brining products to mass production and supporting them. Excellent cross functional/divisional bridge building to efficiently utilize all available company expertise and resources towards achieving the company’s goals. Establishing and adopting of well-defined processes for product development to ensure reliable high quality products with less than 1DPM rates. Knowledgeable in strengths and challenges of utilizing global teams from across different cultures and geographic locations.Responsible for complete semiconductor product life cycle development starting from customer interaction, formulating and executing product development plans, and supporting existing products. Propose and evaluate risk versus rewards of different problem solving approaches with their pros and consIn-depth experience in rigorous quality and reliability requirements for automotive products and standards. Broad experience and strong interest in automotive connectivity, infotainment, ADAS, security, and autonomous vehicle systems. Experience with several connectivity standards like Ethernet, MOST, USB, CAN, CANFD, LIN, and Multi-gigabit connectivity.Strong technical background with broad experience in the areas of product definition, IC chip architecture, systems design, IC design, network systems, audio, video, digital and analog signal processing. Responsible for bringing products from initial product definition to mass production while working with teams located in several different countries. Provide technical support and advice for marketing decisions for new and existing products.

Hauppage, New York, Us

As a contributing manager, responsible for managing a team of highly qualified IC designers for the development of multimedia products for automotive infotainment market. Responsible for management of three global teams in both technical and management capacities. Assignment of appropriate resources for the project’s success and manage good communication between the teams and with other stakeholders. Responsible for communicating and executing key results by the team and have appropriate communication with executive management.Technical role included all steps of IC development from architecture to post-silicon validation. Specific projects involved H264 video encoder/decoder, network interface controller, digital and analog signal processing, and chip integration. Role included tasks for IC tapeout such as guidance and assistance in timing closure, CTS, functional verification coverage, etc. Involved extensively in IC/system architecture, design and verification. Proposed chip architecture, regular discussion with remote firmware/software team and interfacing with the marketing team.Project management covered product definition to post-silicon validation. Responsibilities include, identifying milestones, assignment of resources, tracking progress and early identification of critical paths and appropriate corrective steps. This role included periodic status updates to executive management and other stake holders.Familiar with numerous standards: AEC-Q100, ISO26262, MOST, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), I2S, SPI, MediaLB, I2C, H264, LVDS, MIPI, USB

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Member of a small highly dedicated team for developing a JPEG2000 CODEC product. Responsibilities included in architecting the wavelet transform engine, audio interfaces and connection between them. Responsible for architecture, simulation and RTL implementation of these blocks.Member of a small team responsible for enhancing the Blackfin DSP core. Worked on enhancing several features of Blackfin DSP core, such as memory management unit, address translation unit. Responsible for architecting the solution, it’s simulation and implementation. Worked with other teams like verification and applications team to ensure high quality of the design

Worked on a wide range of chip and system design tasks. These included digital PLL design, audio codec design with sigma-delta modulators, MOST system on a chip design, DSP core design, Matlab and C simulations, RTL design, synthesis, silicon verification.

Phd, Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Be, Electronics

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