SUMMARY:

• Program and project management for semiconductor, networking and semiconductor equipment companies.
• Certified Project Manager (PMP Equivalent) with relationship management, influencing & collaboration skills.
• Drove global cross - functional teams during product development to achieve company business goals.
• Delivered system products with hardware, software, firmware, device drivers on time, within budget & scope.
• Established project deliverables, milestones and dependencies for the teams involved for multiple projects.
• Managed vendor & OEM negotiations, capital purchases, budgeting, staffing and organizational development.
• Top of Form
• Earned KLA-Tencor employee performance award for timely delivery of upgrades for customers deployments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Disciplines: Program Management, Project Management, Product Development, New Product Introduction

Computer Applications: MS Project, Clarity, Agile, Share point, Confluence, JIRA, Webex, Documentum

Computer Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, MFC, ATL, Active X, 80x86 assembly, OOP, COM+, UML

Computer O.S/Util.: Unix, Linux, Windows 7/8, SQL Server 2000, MS.Net, VSS, CVS, PVCS Tracker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technology Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, California

Responsibilities:

• Research and analysis on semiconductor, semiconductor equipment and networking equipment industry products, market trends, competitive landscape to top hedge funds, mutual funds and private equity firms.
• Providing due diligence on various technology companies during merger and acquisition activity to investment management firms and management consulting companies globally.
• Program management and consulting services to various technology and management consulting companies for product development and investment management.
• Led cross functional team for Synaptics Inc. touch pad semiconductor controller and sensing device (Software, Firmware and PCB) from concept to market and release to external customers OEM/ODM/CM.
• Coordinated prototype hardware builds, firmware and driver issues for CM in Taiwan and China for integration of touch pad with OEM partners Microsoft’s (tablet Surface Pro 3) and HP (laptop and tablet Olympia).
• Created and released ECO for touchpad and force pad products RTP using the PLC tool Agile.
• Program status, coordination and collaboration of deliverables with global teams using Cisco’s Webex.

Software Program Manager

Confidential, San Jose, California

• Delivered multiple embedded software SDK releases for various enterprise networking switching devices by driving cross-functional teams through all phases of product development lifecycle for optimal UX experience.
• Led Project Commit planning each quarter for software global x-functional team (16 members) for software and firmware releases to support all switching devices hardware and software new features for ING BU.
• Drove SDK and MDK (API’s) software development for L2/L3, MPLS, COSQ, QoS, VLAN, TRUNK, OSPF, BGP, RIP etc. switching protocols for control and configuration of multiple switching devices.
• Managed embedded firmware development for networking applications BFD, BHH and 1588 (Time Sync) features running on ARM processors within a switch. Created SDLC processes for software organization.
• Managed development and timely completion of software and firmware for Navigator and Polar IC devices for Cisco (IP phone) and BMW (Automobile). Coordinated product development with teams in USA and Taiwan.
• Development of PHY driver’s and their integration with SDK, PHY and HSIP drivers. This was cross business unit effort between switch and PHY teams of Infrastructure and Networking group.
• Managed customer program for OEM Ericsson deliverables 1st silicon Trident plus, Reference board, silicon/board bring up, characterization data, Software and firmware etc for the Microwave backhaul program.

Software Program Manager

Confidential, San Jose, California

• Provided consulting services to SUN Microsystems for development of project plan to manage the diagnostic software development and validation plan for a computer server.
• Prioritized feature requirements in collaboration with engineering, system test, technical support teams.
• Drove project execution of various phases in accordance with the product development life cycle.
• Created, tracked and monitored an integrated project schedule including dependencies with MS Project.
• Identified and managed project risks early on and created strategies of contingency planning for mitigation.

Engineering Program Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

• Managed 20 cross-functional teams for 3 programs of networking equipment routing, VOIP and Ethernet switching comprising hardware, software (JUNOS) and firmware worth $10 million, $15 million and $30m.
• Presented and collaborated for P0 (Business Case Phase) & P1 (Product Planning Phase) for 9 SKU’s of Ethernet switches and L2/L3 protocol software programs to senior executives of the switching business unit.
• Managed globally dispersed cross-functional product development teams in US, Israel, China and India.
• Developed and tracked budget/cost for programs in Clarity with Dir/VP Engineering and Controller of BU.
• Negotiated and reviewed contracts with outsourcing partners and vendors Marvell, Accton and Renesas.
• Planned, tracked and updated cross-functional team program schedule and dependencies using MS Project.
• Managed relationship with alliance partners and vendors Avaya, Marvell, Accton, Renesas, Ixia and Spirent.
• Worked and negotiated with opto-electronic transreceiver vendor Avago on pricing and delivery of modules.
• Tracked and monitored weekly project status of switching chip design and development by Marvell.
• Ensured engineering builds hardware readiness & BOM completeness into Product Lifecycle tool Agile.
• Ran and collaborated New Product Introduction (NPI) team meetings and resolved day to day issues.
• Ensured product documentation is in compliance with Product Dev. Life Cycle process using Documentum.

Software Project Manager

Confidential, Santa Clara, California

• Provided services to IBM Global Services at Hitachi Storage account on IT migration/deployment of 10 TAPS (tool automation programs) running semiconductor equipment in the fab from token ring to ethernet network.
• Planned, scheduled, specified, coded, tested and performed customer acceptance testing UAT of new software applications in VC++ and SECS/GEM and MS Project.
• Managed project team and TAPS migration project schedule at HGST along with IBM’s Sr. Project Manager.
• Successfully completed CMM requirements, CCB change control board and defect tracking processes.
• Collaborated with Hitachi’s IT cross-functional teams from Server delivery, Network services, Floor Automation, and Database applications for Tool automation programs and IT network migration.
• Provided services to OITA Olympus Integrated Tech America to manage a software engineering project for requirements analysis and design in UML and prototyping in VC++ under Win NT for different file format.

Senior Software Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, California

• Managed and motivated a group of 7 SW Engineers to develop control software for RS-100 resistivity system.
• Completed software process improvement initiative and the requirements to get projects to CMM-L2.
• Managed porting of application software from Borland C++ in win 3.11 to Microsoft Visual C++ in Win NT.
• Travelled extensively to resolve software and system issues of various semiconductor manufacturers e.g. IBM, Intel, TI, NSC, ST with KLA-Tencor installed base around the world with minimum down time.
• Wrote and reviewed annual performance and quarterly goals of the software engineers reporting to me.
• Planned and managed annual budgets for the group and participated in departmental meetings of the Division
• Completed product BOM and participated in CCB change control board and defect tracking review meetings.
• Prepared project plan including scope, schedule, detailed effort and size estimate, configuration management plan and system test plan which gave visibility to the project team involved and to the higher management.
• Designed, developed, debugged, coded, tested and reviewed different phases of the product. Control system software supports 200/300 mm wafers, SEMI E-84 etc. automation for GEM and HSMS tested at OEM.
• Led and managed 18 cross-functional teams of engineering, technical support and manufacturing.
• Managed Y2K compliance project for FaST Division and collaborated with customers on upgrade issues.
• Out-sourced and managed software changes for legacy products to a local consulting firm and negotiated contracts and thereby saving the company 100K dollars.
• Coordinated the testing and deployment of software application upgrades at factory and at the customer’s sites throughout the installed base in USA, Europe, Asia and Far East.
• Managed upgrade of the software and hardware for 12 KLA-Tencor products of FaST division. Software was written in C++, C, DOS, Win 3.11 and Win NT.