Expert Details
Semiconductor Industry: Engineering and General Management
ID: 723722
California, USA
He is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive with a proven ability to manage large teams and define, plan, develop, and bring to market complex projects. He has a proven track record in program management, engineering management, general management, operations, market penetration, and business development. He can deliver best in class SOC products, under tight timeframes, on time and within budget. He has fostered relationships with Far-east ODM and has an excellent knowledge of Asian business models. He has a portfolio of successes in leading start-ups and divisions of established companies for growth of diverse businesses within semiconductor and embedded space. He orchestrated fast revenue and profit growth at companies such as Chips and Technologies and Cirrus Logic, recognized as leaders in their fields. He has excellent communications skills at all levels including executive reporting.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1972 | Degree: MS | Subject: Electrical Engineering | Institution: University of California, Berkeley |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2005 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Consultant | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert is consulting on business strategies, go-to-market strategies, business plans, and technical consulting in the area of Mobile TV, ASICs, and Video. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Senior Vice President of Engineering | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:He developed all aspects of start-up’s engineering infrastructure including design tools and environment, verification strategy, system-level validation, and software development. Developed manufacturing strategy and relationships.• He created and implemented an engineering plan that delivered a 3+ mega-pixel image signal processor SOC within one year from start of the company. The SOC enables camera phones with quality comparable to current DSC on the market. • Team Building. Assembled a senior-level engineering team. Led and managed a team of 15 engineers. • He negotiated agreements with third parties (Cadence, Synopsys, ARM, and TSMC). • He had overall responsibility for chip’s architecture, product design strategy, verification strategy, RTL Model / C-model compliance strategy, logical and physical design, and systems engineering. • He led the develpment of camera control loop software (auto-focus, auto-exposure, auto white balance). • He developed Silicon bring-up/Debug strategy and debug / development system platform. Validated the silicon. • He led the development of a stacked multi-chip chip-scale-package at Amkor. • He created the manufacturing test program and completed chip burn-in to assure reliability. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2001 to 2003 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Senior Vice President of Business Development | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert was responsible for all third-party relationships that resulted in several design-wins for the company. Developed partnerships with Analog Devices, Inc., Microsoft, Infineon, ARM, Symbian, AsiaPac ODMs/OEMs (Acer, BenQ, Arima). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1997 to 2001 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Founder, President and CEO | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert was responsible for General Management and VC fund raising. He was also personally responsible for Engineering (Acting VP). Expert developed and implemented business and engineering strategy that resulted in several significant design wins. He developed relationships with ODMs in Taiwan (ASKEY, Arima, and Acer). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1993 to 1997 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Vice President of Engineering | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:He started a new division to diversify company’s product and customer base to consumer space. He achieved $15M divisional revenue with design wins at Apple, Motorola, Psion. He managed a staff of 30 (engineers & marketing).• He developed four SOC products and put them in production - ARM-based Network Computer N|C SOC, ARM-based Smart Cell Phone SOC, ARM-based PDA SOC, and ARM-based Asynchronous Transfer Mode SOC. • He developed the marketing strategy to get design-wins at Psion Plc. (PDA), Motorola (Smartphone), FoxLink (Set-top Box), ATM Ltd. (now Connexant) (ATM Communications), and Apple (PDA). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1985 to 1993 | Employer: Chips and Technologies, Inc. | Title: Undisclosed | Department: New Products Division |
Responsibilities:He had a distinguished 8+ years record of progressive advancement with this $190M division of the pioneer PC chipset company that enabled the worldwide PC clone market.VP/GM of the New Product Division and System Logic Division. P&L Responsibilities. • Developed a clean-room Intel 486 class CPU fully compatible with Intel instruction-set and Microsoft Windows 3.0 Applications Software. Led a team of 150: CPU architects, chip development, software & marketing staff. Division VP/GM, System Logic Division (PC core logic chip-set). P&L Responsibilities. • Expert ran the largest product line in Chips & Technologies with revenue of $190M and gross margin of ~ $100M. Led staff of 100, including Chip Development, Product/Test Engineering, Marketing, Applications, Compatibility testing, and others. 1985 - 1988: Director of Engineering, System Logic Division. Responsible for all IC device development. Expert developed four generations of core-logic chipset and graphics products that enabled the PC clone market. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1981 to 1985 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Engineering Manager | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:He was responsible for development of micro-controller IC chips with embedded EPROM and EEPROM. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 2000 to 2000 | Country / Region: India | Summary: Expert set up a Design Center for Chip design in India. |
| Years: 1998 to 2001 | Country / Region: Taiwan and Far East | Summary: Expert worked with several ODMs and OEMs for the design-in of his chips into system level products (smart phone, cell phone, PDA). The customers include Acer, BenQ, Arima, Toshiba, Sony etc. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Worked as an expert witness for a large law firm in case involving a large multi-national electronics company in 2006. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| He has worked in vendor selection for semiconductor foundries and assembly, packaging, and Test companies in Far-East. He has relationships at TSMC, UMC, AMKOR, etc. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Extensive experience in product marketing, strategic marketing, customer marketing, and sales rep network management. This experience is based on marketing system-on-chips (SOC) to the cell phone market and ODMs in Taiwan and China. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| He has extensive experience in Intellectual Property (IP) management, IP licensing, and IP licence negotiation. He has developed high level contacts at ARM. He is very familiar with the state-of-the-art EDA design tools for integrated circuit chip development. He has extensive experience in negotiating large EDA tools licensing with companies like Mentor, Synopsys, and Cadence. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| Hindi |
Fields of Expertise
custom integrated circuit, entrepreneurship, logic gate, project management, business development, business management, business startup, business strategy, management, market development, marketing, microprocessor, intellectual property, semiconductor device, semiconductor device analysis, semiconductor device failure mechanism, mentoring, patent infringement, project review, project assessment, digital logic simulation, semiconductor device package, proposal writing, microprocessor chip manufacturing, Microsoft Project Manager, semiconductor device failure, combinational circuit, gate, rapid product development, semiconductor device modeling, corporate strategic planning, logic circuit, memory element, new product development, monolithic integrated circuit design, semiconductor device manufacturing, integrated circuit selection, integrated-circuit design software, integrated-circuit design, active electronic element, patent law, new product development management, semiconductor chip, parasitic element, passive electronic element, patent, semiconductor material, project scheduling, project planning, planning, NOR gate, NAND gate, microprocessor circuit, microprocessor application, electronic logic circuit, integrated circuit