Experience

BVA

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operating Partner

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  BVA is a deep tech consultancy that uniquely combines venture capital, advisory services, and team building to help great people build great companies. See: www.bva.com Identifying the emerging tech companies in areas of Semiconductors, Cognitive systems & Metaverse. Enabling our portfolio companies to expand the reach, network and provide domain and subject matter expertise. 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: ➤ CAVRNUS (Multi-device, multi-cloud Collaboration Platform; Series Seed) ➤ TetraMem (In-Memory AI Computing; Series Seed) ➤ Passio (On-the-edge Machine Learning; Series Seed) ➤ ViewMagic (Virtual Light field Engine; Series A) 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: ⌦ Bitfusion (acquired by VMware) ⌦ FRAME (acquired by Nutanix) Show less



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Director, Worldwide Cognitive Systems Server Product Support

  • Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

  Led WW IBM Power Systems business product support. Directed critical issue resolution for premium clients and partners for both On- Prem & Cloud. Matrix collaboration across brand / dev / supply chain / sales / client experience. Evangelist for next generation Cloud technologies, Ansible, fueling revenue growth.Champion for moving clients forward with best practices, improving Infrastructure, IT and Salesforce adoption.Delivered product support for entire stack of software and hardware for IBM Power systems server business, driving highest client satisfaction scores among all IBM products. Significant automation in improving turn around time for customers. Show less

• Corporate Director, Enterprise Systems Development, IBM India Systems Development Lab

  • Oct 2008 - Oct 2018

  Directed high impact, collaborating teams in development of Silicon to Systems for IBM Power & Z Systems server business. Processor Chip development, EDA & Technology Software development, Enterprise Systems Engineering, Enterprise Systems Firmware development, AIX OS & Platform Solutions development.



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager, SOC Enabling Group

  • 2005 - 2008

  Managed teams across mobile Chipset I/O Design, Pre Silicon validation, Post Silicon validation, Power estimation & Validation. Drove new skills and ODC capability. Delivered 65 nm Chipset development. Set up chipset Electrical Validation capability, $3M lab set-up and execution of cost reduction derivatives. DDR3 1st time in industry, TRNG 1st time in Graphics Mem Controller. Directed pre-silicon validation capability, delivering high quality design / process without test chip, power estimation / correlation capability, influencing low power in chipset design. Developed an online dashboard of dev status – future standard in development. Great Place to Work India task force driver: defining structure / roadmap, working with HR / Ops / Vendor teams, resulting in > 40% increase in Org health scores. Received Intel India site award for driving effort. Show less



Lattice Semiconductor

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Product Development Engineer

  • 1994 - 2004

  Research & Development of Complex PLD & FPGA Product designs in varying process technologies. Lead new products with new technologies working with numerous Foundries - UMC, Seiko, Chartered Semi etc Chief Architect for DFX methodology shift in CPLD/FPGA development - led cross functional team to reduce Time to Market (TTM) in product lifecycle Research & Development of Complex PLD & FPGA Product designs in varying process technologies. Lead new products with new technologies working with numerous Foundries - UMC, Seiko, Chartered Semi etc Chief Architect for DFX methodology shift in CPLD/FPGA development - led cross functional team to reduce Time to Market (TTM) in product lifecycle