SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated, introspective, ardent leader/manager with 15+ years of effective project/program management, organizational, and analytical skills with verifiable evidence of delivering high quality learning experiences on schedule and within cost constraints, adhering to program management scope, planning and cost to include fiscal management and staffing requirements.
• Technically strong, engineer with increasingly progressive, broad-based, sales and business knowledge responsible for the overall management of several disparate projects concurrently with an average budget of $2.5 million for 7+ consecutive years.
• An effective communicator with key leadership at all levels regarding the status and projections of specific projects or functions related to training objectives.
• Strong interpersonal/persuasive skills, to energize reasonable solutions for planning, scope and cost of facilitation and design practices with interdepartmental leaders using clear, concise language for situational understanding.
• Demonstrated program management and lean methodologies to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of the knowledge management plan, requirements elicitation and performance measures of success, aligning program management with market needs and performance measurement standards, digital development requirements, and reporting those requirements.
• Persuaded leadership on best practices for knowledge management requirements using blended learning approaches; simplified the decision calculus for design optimization using competency maps as a definitive performance-based outcome predictor.
• Extensive experience aligning individual day-to-day operations to strategic initiatives based on formative assessments and earned value management to measure project performance based on controlling cost and schedule
• Directed data-driven decision-making to afford feedback, visibility and clarifying accountability related to performance-based expectations of the team and each of the respective department heads on master schedules.
• Considerable experience energizing effective project management framework processes centered on lean and six sigma to evaluate and measure performance of specific projects.
• Managed detailed plans for budgeting, trend analysis, forecasting and baseline metrics using various instructional design that included identifying variances in projects to control costs and schedules.
• Developed a cross-functional team to design and validate user-interface content design using a model of concurrent components and data interactions using performance metrics to explore performance tradeoffs versus complexity for customers.
• Directed the strategy for executive management team resource planning, current program management and processes for architecture of creating and improving electronic design automation tools for effective system design facilitation adhering to program management scope, planning and cost to include fiscal management and staffing requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

 Program Manager/ Manager

• Directed and evaluated development team(s), identified strengths, problem areas, and developed plans for improving performance measurement across multiple instructional delivery modalities for high-quality learning experiences. Planned, developed, coordinated, and directed the work of a staff engaged in performing service, departmental fiscal and administrative tasks; established and maintained and effective working relationship with team members, leaders and executives.
• Designed a standard operating procedure for interdepartmental leaders/managers with similar experiences and expertise to interact with others performing similar projects, setting milestones for large-scale iterative programs, defining subsystem project tasks and establishing cohesive program policies and project management processes.
• Directed information flow and coordinating management activities for systems design internally, vertically and horizontal, to actively engage strategic thought leaders and managers to improve/extend the current program management metrics, using customized reporting tools to develop leaderboards/dashboards and roadmaps.
• Deciphered strategic issues w/ senior management about the lack of information flow and knowledge reuse to sense and respond to key problems or opportunities; and, proactively drove the program management framework and cost execution for emergent innovation and nurture value-creating assessment development.
• Organized and led complex design projects through the design lifecycle from scoping, research and project analysis based on various design, development of workspace collaboration for teaching and product development.
• Directed large-scale iterative test development based on a set of standards to continuously develop assessment programs of instruction and selected an appropriate, research-based measurement theory for successful implementation of assessments.
• Developed alternative program tasks and schedules, milestones and processes to resolve known conflicts between stakeholders and provided clear timelines, ensuring effective and efficient attainment of objectives through all phases of the project.
• Established educational and performance metrics and benchmarking measurements, defining market needs, requirements and expectations for performance success regularly to key partners, leaders and management concurrently while aligning budgets, metrics and risk to schedules.
• Solved problems in a dynamic information environment after identifying learning objectives, assessing learners, and their performance outcomes, and evaluative strategies to deliver cohesive instruction.
• Consulted with interdepartmental program owners, self-organized team of developers and subject matter experts to identify performance gaps and learning objectives to independently decide which tools and processes to use, include testing.
• Socialized and leveraged simulation-based training, assessments, and web-based meeting tools for key leaders, ensuring the efficacy to develop and deliver on-time, effective product solutions for the team.
• Recommended and codified best practices for skill building of future program/project planning, customer trend analysis and baseline metrics.
• Managed several appropriate simulations/scenario planning as a definitive outcome predictor to simplify the decision calculus for risk mitigation and conducting quality analysis reviews of instructional materials.

Sr. Sales Technical Leader/ Technical Director/ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed a strategic/technical account base and built multiple strong customer relationships concurrently throughout all aspects of the VLSI development cycle to include debugging, while accountable to Sales Directors/Account Managers to provide the technical architecture for customers, commitments and quotas to drive revenue streams.
• Proactively directed and led several ASIC customer accounts ranging from $3-6 million w/ key decisionmakers to negotiate and solve problems to success using active account planning/forecasting/predictive pricing to manage and close sales opportunities and for future sales.
• Developed the solutions to customer problems to include design, library, verification and IP licensing, bringing the technical understanding of customer needs and issues as an account strategy and planning of ASIC designs as a part of the larger team; proactively identified new opportunities requiring cross departmental collaboration that focuses on building on customer successes.
• Directed the application engineering/architect teams concerning embedded software, design methodology, debug technique, and customizable IP/software development and managed procurement suppliers.
• Deftly provided consultative analysis on pre- and post-verification silicon test benches to prospective customers to influence the automated design methodology for cross-functional teams.
• Made intelligent recommendations about how Cadence’s design portfolio complements the customer’s overall subsystem design requirements, while managing technical risks and opportunities; made key software design and implementation strategic decisions with cross-functional development teams, scheduled tasks including tracking dependencies, managed change requests, and guaranteed quality of deliveries for account resource allocation.
• Strategized and engaged in scenario planning/system simulation based on best practices to capture complex customer requirements, including intangible factors to demonstrate feasibility of their design (s); and, to deploy/improve decision-making based on data analysis.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

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Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Sr. Field Applications Engineer/Member of Technical Staff, Confidential, Los Altos, California 

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Confidential, Beaverton, Oregon

Sr. Digital Applications Engineer, Confidential, Calabasas, California

Mixed-Signal Applications Engineer, Confidential, Santa Clara, California

Engineering Intern, Confidential, Moffett Field, California