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Sunnyvale, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for marketing joint solutions with top semiconductor IP provider to enable ecosystem partners build & verify their SoCs more efficiently.

San Jose, California, Us

Technical Account Management: Driving strategic initiatives with top tier partners in the semiconductor industry. Successfully managing the adoption of Cadence's Integrated Circuit (IC) Design tools at key customers, and enabling them to optimize their IC design design cycles. Creating strategic relationships between leadership teams of Cadence and customer to foster joint collaborations for new products. Partnering with cross-client and cross-functional stakeholders for on-time and on-budget project deliverables. Averting escalations by addressing swiftly high priority customer issues. All actions contributing to keeping Cadence the primary IC design software vendor at the partner.Engineering Operations Management: Responsible for sourcing required Semiconductor IP’s (CPU, GPU, Physical IPs) and Foundry Process Design Kits to Cadence teams to develop design flows for Integrated Circuits (IC). Collaborating closely with all Semiconductor ecosystem partners including Foundries, Semiconductor IP providers, and customers. Implemented a standardized process for requesting, procuring, distributing Semiconductor IP components that allowed on-time completion of IC design projects.

San Jose, California, Us

Ensured high quality support is provided to strategic customer by working with regional leaders to assign technical resources to support customer projects. Improved efficiency in delivery of licenses and new software releases to customer.

San Jose, California, Us

Led the development of new software features from concept, to development, to release to strategic customers. New software features allowed customers to design Integrated Circuits for cutting-edge manufacturing processes and be leaders in their markets. Worked with cross-functional team members from Software developers, to Field Application Engineers to Product Validation engineers, to Marketing operations to deliver high-value solutions to customers.

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Took lead role in technical sales campaigns. Scoped customer needs, delivered presentations and demonstrations about the company's Semiconductor IP products, proposed technical solutions to existing and prospective customers, developed and managed product evaluation plans. Helped increase sales revenues by 15% in Northwest region.Worked with Sales Managers to demonstrate the company’s Semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) products to existing and prospective customers. Helped identify new sales opportunities and prioritize & develop winning sales strategies.

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for pre-sales and post-sales activities for Cadence’s Custom IC design tools. Provided technical expertise to the Sales teams throughout their sales campaigns. Communicated and demonstrated the technical merits of the company’s Custom IC design tools to customers through product presentations and demos. Communicated customer requirements for new features to product teams.Developed strategies with sales teams to qualify and win new customers, and proliferate product usage within customer base. Contributed to closing sales agreements with major customers.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked in the software applications team to develop new capabilities for trading and managing the back-end operations for Fixed-Income financial products (Government and Corporate Bonds). Ensured traders had access to accurate and on-time trade reports on a daily basis. New features allowed traders to increase their daily number of trades by 20%. Participated in all aspects of the systems development process, from product specifications, to coding, testing and deployment, leading to timely deliveries of new software features to end-users. New software applications allowed traders to execute their trades more efficiently and gain market share.

Responsible for the design of CMOS Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for the company's professional video systems. ASICs reduced the company's product development and production costs by 25% Developed ASICs functional specifications, architecture and HDL descriptions (Verilog). Performed logic synthesis, timing & fault simulations, place & route and prototype validation tasks for the ASICs.Developed the company’s relationships with major ASIC foundries and EDA tool vendors. Evaluated technical options for ASICs, submitted requests for proposals (RFPs), negotiated pricing schemes and product delivery timetables with ASIC vendors.Worked closely with the corporate R&D, Manufacturing and procurement departments of Thomson to coordinate the integration of the ASICs into the company’s large-scale video systems.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Accounting

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering - Semiconductor Physics, Vlsi Systems Design

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Mechanical Engineering