Demonstrated accomplishments in Global Supply Chain Management, Datacenter Infrastructure Engineering, Datacenter IT hardware planning, sourcing and deployment, Commodity Management, Materials, Manufacturing Operations, Revenue Management, and Finance. Employment characterized by 15+ years of participative and progressive experience.Specialties: Sourcing and supply chain management of internal designed and outsourced products, ODM products, commodity management, supply/purchase agreement negotiations with global suppliers, supplier performance management, manage RFQs and product awards, new supplier bring-up, new product introduction (NPI) to Ramp planning, development of demand forecasts and supply plans, developing product pricing and TCO models.
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Hyperscale OperationsPure Storage Aug 2024 - PresentSanta Clara, Ca, UsPrimary responsibility is to lead initiatives to scale Pure's hyperscale operations, drive quality, and ensure excellence in execution:▪Develop & Deploy Supply Chain: Spearheading the strategic development and deployment of the supply chain to support Pure Storage's hyper scale growth.▪ODM and Contract Manufacturer Onboarding & Management: Managing the onboarding and continuous performance of ODMs and contract manufacturers to ensure alignment with our operational goals and standards.▪Manufacturing Site Qualification: Leading the qualification of new manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance with industry standards and readiness for production.▪Manufacturing Quality Engineering: Overseeing quality engineering processes across manufacturing operations, ensuring top-tier product integrity and consistency.▪Manufacturing Test Engineering: Driving the development and optimization of test engineering protocols to validate the performance and reliability of our hyper scale solution -
Executive Decision Analysis, Cloud Infrastructure OperationsApple Jun 2023 - Aug 2024Cupertino, California, Us▪Managed cross-functional initiatives to deploy and scale Apple Silicon hardware across first-party data centers, working closely with engineering, operations, and infrastructure teams to facilitate a seamless migration of compute services. ▪Led the demand planning and deployment of GPU servers leveraging Apple Silicon which provides enhanced security and performance for Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (PCC) within Apple's data center ecosystem. Sized data center hardware and space capacity to support large language model (LLM) features across Apple devices, ensuring scalability and optimal resource allocation.▪Evaluate infrastructure optimizations and implementing solutions to enhance operational efficiency and scalability across Apple's data center ecosystem. -
Head Of Fleet Management, Apple Cloud ServicesApple Sep 2021 - Oct 2023Cupertino, California, UsLead a team that is responsible for first party compute and storage capacity planning and provisioningfor organic growth and hardware tech-refresh demand, and third-party cloud resource planning▪ Accountable for hardware provisioning program that includes shared services and bare metalprovisioning microservices to support organic growth and tech-refresh of legacy hardware andmigrations to and from public cloud to first party data centers▪ Provide cloud capacity forecasts to enable data center space and power planning, and demandsignals to supply chain (master production schedule planning)▪ Reduce cost-to-serve by diligent capacity planning and claw back of stranded compute, storage anddata center power/space. Reduced amount of time from asset receipt to service revenue generation -
Director, Data Center Hardware OperationsTwitter 2020 - Sep 2021San Francisco, Ca, UsLeading the Data Center Hardware Operation team consisting of,Hardware Design EngineeringSupply Chain & Sourcing Demand/Capacity PlanningData Center / Mission Critical EngineeringDirect a team of sixty hardware, supply chain, data center and capacity engineers responsible for design and qualification of white-box servers, vendor management, data center expansion projects, sourcing and deployment of hardware into data centers, and planning and provisioning of server capacity for cloud services. -
Director, Demand (Capacity) Planning, Supply Chain & SourcingTwitter 2017 - 2020San Francisco, Ca, Us -
Sr. Manager, Demand/Supply Planning, Supply Chain & SourcingTwitter 2011 - 2016San Francisco, Ca, UsLead a team responsible for developing and maintaining a complex demand (capacity plans) and supply chain ecosystem for Twitter’s growing data center hardware fleet. Responsibility includes planning Twitter's Network, Server & Storage sourcing, and Manufacturing Engineering to plan, schedule and deliver server and network systems and associated capacity to meet Twitter's capacity plan. Manage vendor selection, sourcing and deployment of network and server hardware platforms to build out large scale hardware infrastructure for data centers. Design and execute on sourcing decisions to support infrastructure capacity plans. Create and maintain strategic supplier strategies, including managing transition of hardware platforms from traditional OEMs to custom/white-box compute and storage server racks with ODMs, resulting in significant reduction in total cost of ownership. Lead strategic negotiations, including supply agreements. Drive/manage TCO targets, tech-refresh decommission strategies for capital spend. Manage capex/opex annual budgets for hardware requirements to populate the data centers. -
Supply Base Development Manager (Sr. Commodity Manager)Oracle, Inc. (Sun Microsystems) 2007 - 2011Palo Alto, Ca, UsResponsibility for supply chain management (commodity management) of FLASH memory devices (Solid State Drives/SSD, Flash Modules, Compact Flash) for servers and blades; new supplier bring-up, manage supplier performance on cost, quality, supply continuity, and time to market. Manage RFQ and product award process; lead cross-functional teams to define AVL for NPI programs. Negotiate master supply agreements and award letters, and responsibility for strategic price negotiations. Accountable for overall procurement strategy for the responsible commodities. Prior commodity experience in similar role included managing ASIC/ASSP, service processors and Graphics. -
Group Manager, Materials Program ManagementApple Jan 2006 - Sep 2006Cupertino, California, UsAccountable for overall materials readiness for new and sustaining products for the Mac Desktop line. Lead a global team of Materials Managers and Materials Program Managers that supported the procurement and execution of supply-chain activities from new product introductions through product ramp at various contract manufacturing sites. Managed supply allocation to balance constrained components across products to maximize revenue objectives. -
Sr. Manager, Demand And Supply PlanningSonicwall Jan 2004 - Dec 2005Milpitas, Ca, UsResponsible for demand and supply planning, supply chain execution management and assisting with outsourcing of product build operations to Asia. Develop supply plans and supply flexibility strategies in support of regional demand forecasts across all geographies. -
Supply Operations ManagerSun Microsystems Oct 2002 - Jan 2004Palo Alto, Ca, UsAccountable for overall supply chain execution activities for Sun's Volume Systems products. Managed the business to meet key metrics on on-time delivery, short predictable leadtimes, plan integrity and communication with the supply base on new product materials and factory build readiness. Responsible for quarterly scorecard of supplier performance. Managed a direct staff of Sr. Planners, product manager and dedicated program managers at contract manufacturers. -
Supply Chain Execution ManagerSun Microsystems 1999 - Oct 2002Palo Alto, Ca, UsManage contract manufacturers and a team of supply planners to optimize supply-demand requirements, commodity planning, and key supply chain metrics on on-time delivery, material velocity, and material readiness, including product EOL management. -
Business Manager, Americas/ApacSun Microsystems 1997 - 1999Palo Alto, Ca, UsSupport sales execution and revenue maximization requirements by coordinating product availability with operation teams. -
Finance Project Lead, ManufacturingSun Microsystems 1994 - 1997Palo Alto, Ca, UsManufacturing capacity planning; outsourcing of manufacturing to contract manufacturers in tax-advantaged regions.
Yogi Sharma Education Details
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Santa Clara UniversityFinance
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