Subramanian Sankaran

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Acton, MA 01720

Ph: 781-***-****

Email: acumtz@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

To seek a challenging role in the areas of Program/Project management.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Over 15 years of experience in the areas of hardware/software design and management. Proven ability to apply technology and professionalism towards solution for complex problems. Provide overall management and support for concurrent projects across multiple products. Serve as a conduit between customers, management and the development team. Apply best practices to ensure projects run consistently and that risks are communicated. Innovative and effective project coordination skills such as optimistic schedule budgeting and effective resource allocation demonstrated while interfacing with senior management. Strong communication and developmental skills toward the entire Product Development Lifecycle and towards business process improvements. Work with VP of Development to define and plan new projects and roll out group wide initiatives. Exceptional soft skills developed via sustained interaction on a daily basis with cross-functional teams incorporating support role in order to develop cost-effective high quality and high performance products. Possess strong understanding of various business verticals and its process and technology.

EDUCATION:

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, AZ

M.B.A – Business administration (August 2011 – 2015)

Recipient of Delta Mu Delta Honor for Outstanding academic achievement

Mastery in Project management

Qualcomm/IPS, (August 2005)

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, NY

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, (1997-1999)

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, INDIA

B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, (1993-1997)

STATUS:

US citizen

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

June 2013 - Present

Program manager: Advanced Micro Devices, Boxboro, MA

Successfully managed a $25 million program and provided strategic ideas in order to bridge the gap between customer expectations and engineering decisions by communicating effectively with both.

Implemented and managed the entire cost program and provided regular updates to senior executive management.

Strong P&L experience through various unique ideas were implemented in making the program profitable

Strong negotiation skills with customers and business development on NRE to increase ROI/profit margin

Implemented plans on leveraging solutions across other programs in such a way that cost can be shared.

Created unique ideas to restructure resource alignment based on negotiations with customer on their schedule

Maintained attention to detail and follow up which resulted in on time deliveries with no missed deadlines, prioritizing on customer satisfaction.

Successful in maintaining relationships with stakeholders inside the company and providing best ongoing practices towards improving the overall customer experience.

Managed Outlook and SharePoint customer relationships for any product issues/gaps.

Strategic management of the company's IP licensing and IP support efforts

Managed the design center, including schedule and execution towards performance and area targets for the product

Created and maintained the NRE cost, budgets and headcount as part of resource planning for the scope of the entire project

Work with legal management, including updates to contracts and statements of work (SOW) during device developmental work.

Strong focus on exceptional customer service/support, quality and meeting organizational objectives.

February 2011 – June 2013

Program manager: ST Microelectronics, Phoenix, AZ

Responsible for managing a complex design which includes interfacing with several teams in Europe and US. Responsible for implementing few unique ideas to reduce time to market.

Define & initiate requirements for projects and assign personnel to manage schedule, performance and cost while working to ensure the success of the project in a short period of time.

Recommended several strategic process improvement initiatives based on the business/design flow needs.

Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.

Maintain continuous alignment of the scope of the project with business objectives, through strategic planning and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.

Adopted Agile methodology for Project management that focuses on customer value.

Guided the team to work on delivering quality results on monthly deliverables to customer.

Worked with the team to implement Agile methodologies to respond and adapt and to correct any deviations from project plans

Proposed aggressive and practical schemes that had huge cost savings by 10% during all phases of a design.

Clear understanding of product development processes, cycles, and timelines.

Implemented change management techniques in both design and implementation.

Strong customer interfacing and communication skills with effectiveness in being able to gain confidence of Project stakeholders.

Possess a strong understanding of the business growth of the hardware industry and have been involved in discussions on investments and the corresponding ROI

Worked in several leadership roles from inception/SOW of a product until the parts were tested, ensuring that the product works in the expected manner.

Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs and rolling-up to senior management.

Implemented Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) techniques thereby ensuring reliability and risk mitigation.

Created and enhanced various unique charts/plans for tracking major objectives along with significant path actions.

Mitigated risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple groups including, design, library etc.

Researched and implemented methodologies to enhance productivity & reduce turn-around time of a product.

Maintained communication, built credibility and established deep relationships with all stakeholders of the project and with the Client organization.

Built strong cross-functional relationships across teams in Asia and Europe.

Presented some of the critical aspects of the design on few occasions to senior executives and get the buy in based on my technical decisions before presenting to customers.

February 2008– February 2011

Integration (Technology): IBM CORPORATION, Littleton, MA (Contract)

Instrumental in following up to completion on issues related to project scope, tool and flow methodology, risks, requirements, and executed successfully to completion for Xbox processor by keeping time, performance and other metrics/constraints under control dynamically(Contracted)

Proposed and executed effectively a new tracking plan during various stages of implementation cycle across different design releases, thereby reduced overall turn-around-time by 10-12%.

Implemented methodologies targeted towards efficient power-checks in an ASIC core. Reduced the turn-around time for chip tapeouts by at least 2 weeks or less.

Collaborated with design teams and initiated to come up with mechanisms for robust power-grid, recommendations for early checks in the database – thereby increasing the quality of chip-tapeout and also reducing the turn-around time.

Analyzed high-risk areas in the development efforts and executed contingency plans.

Proactively managed the developmental process and reduce the total number of methodology/flow related bugs by 20% by improving the product quality comprehensively by testing, inspections, and streamlined approach of the entire product development process.

Developed several key software scripts (Awk, Perl, Shell, and UNIX) for product development and automation for faster turn-around of product development.

Strong working knowledge on AIX and Solaris working environments and proficient in working under various platforms such as UNIX and Windows.

October 2004 – February 2008

Senior ASIC Engineer: QUALCOMM, Inc. San Diego, CA

Proposed aggressive and practical schemes which had a tremendous positive impact saving power and cost by 10-15% overall in the design

Led the full-chip Static/EM and Dynamic IR drop analysis on 65nm technology flip-chips.

Identified and tracked high-risk areas by implementing risk-mitigation early.

Developed several ASIC design planning initiatives upfront by working closely with logic designers to enable physical synthesis based on the floorplan.

Successfully completed “Mastery in Project Management” sponsored by Qualcomm and earned its certification.

Successfully proposed several methodologies for smooth handoff of deliverables among several internal teams within the organization.

Earned QUALSTAR award twice within Qualcomm for the outstanding contribution. Also earned this award for the most organized data, ever maintained. (References available upon request for the above award)

November 1999 – June 2004

ASIC Physical Design Engineer, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Inc., Burlington, MA

Achieved major reduction in gate count growth (between 10-15%) by means of defining a new methodology flow for re-optimization.

Responsible for key design on the placement and route of a Switch chip that went into an 8-way rack mountable V-880 server (powered by Ultrasparc 3, which topped the server-market for its revenues).

Responsible for timing closure on this chip with a very less turnaround time and delivered with high quality.

HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Earned QUALSTAR award twice in 2 years within Qualcomm for excellence in leadership roles. Also earned this award for the most organized data, ever maintained in several years of digital production chip tapeout at Qualcomm. (References available upon request for the above award)

Recognized for Outstanding Work and achieved "BEST OF THE BEST AWARD" from Sun Microsystems, Inc. based on performance.

Played a successful role as a part of the IEEE technical review committee and had reviewed several transactions/papers for IEEE journals/posters, etc.

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