Syed Waqar Hamid Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for development of a new WiFi Direct based game controller:• Driving Hardware, Mechanical, Industrial Design, Software, and Operation teams (ChipOps, EngOps, Quickturn and MP) in product development and manufacturing readiness and keeping everyone aligned on the POR and on the go to market schedule• Performing periodic BOM reviews, keeping total hardware cost in check to meet target margins and to ensure that the long lead time items are purchased for the product ramp• Performing competitive analysis to ensure the product has the needed features to provide customers’ a far better value than the other competing products• Finalizing the worldwide launch plans as a direct product

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed the go to market activities for a set of professional products for Enterprise segment• Collaborated with Engineering and Operation teams to ensure the successful product development • Enabled customers’ product qualification by providing product samples and collateral at various development stages• Launched Quadro® and NVS® products for professional business applications featuring four display supports – ideal for driving large scale visualization solutions (quarterly revenues US $4.5 million)• Launched Grid K1/K2 products for virtual desktop infrastructure market

Santa Clara, Ca

Managed the go to market activities for consumer products offered in “mainstream” segment• Collaborated with Engineering and Operation teams to ensure the successful product development • Extensively worked with sales, public relations, engineering, and operations to ensure timely product development, customer sampling to OEMs at various stages in design cycle, and preparation of marketing collateral• In collaboration with add-in-card partners, launched three desktop graphic cards – GeForce® GTX 660, GeForce® GTX 650 Ti, and GeForce® GTX 650 Ti Boost – packed with features that delivers the ideal fusion of power, performance, and affordability to gamers in the “mainstream” segment (quarterly revenues US $12 million)

San Jose

Responsible for design, manufacture, qualification, test, and delivery of industry’s largest (72x55mm) FCRAM and RLDRAM based “System in Packages (SiP)”, enabling the Business Units to achieve multi-million dollar revenues by selling 10GE line cards for Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 switchesIn this role, I led a x-functional team comprised of hardware design, layout, manufacturing, test, and NPIE and worked with substrate vendors (Kyocera, NTK), packaging & assembly vendors (Amkor, Jabil, Renesas, Molex, ISU-Petasys), and internal groups (Engineering, Procurement, Test, Manufacturing, NPI, Finance & Accounting, etc.) to ensure the on-budget and on-schedule delivery of modules

San Francisco Bay Area

I was responsible for development of software applications, mainly written in C and Java, to automate the hardware design process as well as ASIC ball-out optimization. I worked on the package design and ball-out for 18 ASICs that defined the hardware architecture of Catalyst 6500 switch. The ASICs performed Layer 2 / Layer 3 functions, such as address look-up, packet forwarding, packet inspection, etcI also developed software and process for the ASIC ball-out optimization, web applications to manage databases for ASIC and IBIS models

Responsible for capital expenditure at the company's two facilities in Karachi (Pakistan). During three years at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline), I was involved in projects including capacity enhancement for the production of antibiotics (Augmentin), toothpaste (Macleans) as well as storage capacity enhancement of warehouse facilities by 125%.

Mba, Marketing, Finance

Cumulative GPA: 3.615, Academic achievement awards (Dean’s List, SCU), Fall ’07, Winter ’08, Fall ’08, Spring ‘10

Ms, Computer Science

Cumulative GPA: 3.6

Be, Mechanical Engineering