Engineering Manager
Resume:
Saeed Seyed PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Los Altos, CA ****2 • 408-***-**** • ac10j9@r.postjobfree.com Technical Lead
Passion for Fast Product Development through Vision & Effective Action
Effectively Engaging Cross Functional Teams
Keen Listening, Critical Thinking & Effective Execution
Technical Leadership
Cross-functional Team Management
Lead collaboration for innovation
Program management
Managed multidisciplinary functions
Engineering Management
End-to-End Product Development
Product Roadmap Execution
Business Development
Resource planning
Supply Chain engagement
Thought Leadership
Talent Acquisition & Retention
Customer focus
Product Design Innovator: Awarded 20 U.S. Patents. Noteworthy success in generating and driving innovation yielding up to 50 organizational patents while supporting 12 Business Units, con-currently. Conceive, design and manage launch of over 100 new products including many high-volume offerings valued near $15 billion in annual revenue.
Forge lasting partnerships with top industry ODM/CM and design firms, e.g. Solectron, Jabil, Flextronics, Sanmina, Celestica, Foxconn. Shipped first Cisco product to Foxconn for manufacture in China achieving 50% cost reduction. Persuasively guide and influence suppliers to invest in a local prototyping facility. Leverage vendor dependencies to fund extensive design R&D. Conduct successful engagements in the USA, India, China, Malaysia, Japan, the Middle East, U.K., Singapore, Taiwan, and Korea.
Work cross functionally with diverse, multi-disciplined, global engineering teams. Accomplish the successful integration of engineering disciplines gaining operational economies to serve across the scope and breadth of Cisco’s Business Units. Managing Multiple complex projects with focus on detail.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Head of Engineering BRITELAB, San Jose, CA
2015 – Present
Serve next generation inventors and visionaries. Lead engineering teams: Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Design, Stress Analysis, and work with User Interface (UX) and Industrial (ID). Ensure End-to-End customer support: concept, design, development, prototype, NPI, and low volume production manufacturing. Deliver products across numerous domains, e.g. automotive, networking, IOT agriculture, consumer, robotics, biotech, alternative energy.
Architect a comprehensive, full spectrum, new product delivery solution. Key characteristics: industry agnostic, one-stop, localized brick and mortar for swift, hands-on execution. Accomplish through M&A, hiring and partners. Invent and oversee company branding and physical facility design, development and installation. Currently serving customers in APAC and the Americas.
Key Performance Results
Garner funding from an external, foreign investment entity
Launch and foster a repeatable, comprehensive, new product creation, facility architecture
Attract best-of-breed talent: ME, Thermal, Stress Analysis, UX and ID
Engage in multiple customer projects
Senior Director of Engineering CISCO SYSTEMS INC, San Jose, CA
2008 – 2015
P&L accountable. Budget up to $15M annually. Create a cross-Enterprise, Integrated Innovation Center. Initiate and foster a vendor funded, annual design competition across Cisco. Recruit, hire, mentor employees and promote 10% of workforce annually. Oversee Program management, Industrial Design, Power, Mechanical, and Thermal Design, Stress Analysis, HALT, and Design Verification Test across the product family generating 60% of revenue. Deep knowledge in product development, and thermal and mechanical design. Lead product design across Switching, Routing, Data Center, Security, and IP Phone with innovative technologies and methodologies. Serve as international contract manufacturer interface for new product manufacturability. Develop tool automation for testing – aggregate individual Business Unit tools under a single tool, leverage tests as needed for application-based capabilities, eliminate redundancy. Serve as a Trusted Advisor to Executive Leadership across all Business Units. Serve on the patent committee.
Key Performance Results
For 7 years ranked in the top 10% of employees
Encourage new ideas and provide an environment allowing the achievement of 50 patents
Successful delivery of over 100 products to market
Reduce prototype delivery time and cost by 20% without compromising quality
Director of Engineering CISCO SYSTEMS INC, San Jose, CA
2004-2008
Serve as Trusted Advisor to senior technology leadership: develop new technologies and deliver innovative products to market. Key role in system architecture design for all Data Center and Switching, IP phone, and security products. Manage 6 Direct reports and 4 Ph.Ds., with a total organization of 40 engineers. Address all core Business Unit thermal issues. Manage highly specialized engineers in very high-speed connector technology, reporting to multi-functional organizations: Industrial Design, Mechanical, and Thermal Design, and Stress Analysis.
Key Performance Results
Establish in-house Industrial Design (ID) eliminate vendor dependency, save $1.2M per year
Create, develop and mentor Specialized Thermal Team
Standardize power breaks and power supplies: save millions in NRE, reduced part numbers by 50%
Enable tool aggregation programs: independent manufacturing audit reported millions of dollars’ cost saving
Collaborate with vendors for product roadmap realization: e.g. achieve cooling of 1000W products in same footprint as 500W products
Senior Manager of Engineering CISCO SYSTEMS INC, San Jose, CA
1999-2004
Lead product design across product line and security devices. Successfully lead development of Catalyst 6500 platform phase 2 from concept to market. Drive implementation of design and test processes improving design integrity and quality, e.g. tolerance analysis, simulations, and common tools. Resolve field and manufacturing issues, and cross-functional challenges within all Business Units.
Key Performance Results
Sanitization of all Engineering tools and processes
Successfully enhance Catalyst 6500 design - a best-selling Cisco switch with $4.5B annual revenue
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Mechanical Engineering, Masters
Santa Clara University, CA
Mechanical Engineering, BS
California State University, CA
Innovation Training
MIT (4month program)
Accounting, Graduate course work
Santa Clara University, CA
SOFTWARE & TOOLING Knowledge
Microsoft:
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook; OneNote
Enterprise:
Oracle, Atlassian Confluence
Other Applications & Tools:
Adobe, FloTHERM system level, FloTHERM Data center level, ANSYS simulation, SOLIDWORKS, Pro / Engineer, GUI, Tolerance Analysis Tools, SPICE
Languages:
C languages, Fortran, Pascal
Platforms:
PC, Apple
OS:
Windows, Unix, DOS
Communications:
WebEx, Telepresence, Citrix, zoom
DISTINCTIONS
Awarded 20 U.S. product design patents (filed as Saeed Seyedarab)
Recommendations
“I've had the privilege to work for Saeed for over 10 years. Saeed was the best manager I've ever worked for. . . a leader who will push and inspire you. . . he. . .genuinely shows care and concern for everyone. . . He is passionate about everything he does, especially when it comes to driving innovation. He started and led many [of] Cisco's first initiatives internally that drove innovation across the company . . .”
David Huynh, Sr. Mechanical Engineering Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc.
“. . .Saeed . . .inspired and grew me . . .a result of his leadership, vision and actual involvement. His knowledge of business, technical depth and interpersonal skills makes him solid leader of any organization.”
Milind Patel, Manager Design Validation at Arista Networks
“I have known Saeed for more than 15 years at Cisco . . . [he is] highly dependable and a great collaborator. His organizational skills are. . . exemplary and he has pioneered in chairing larger conferences . . .has …ability to run larger organizations and has shown great cross-functional collaborative skills . . .instrumental in helping resolve several critical customer issues over the years
Ramesh Kurnool, Vice President Quality Engineering and Product Operations at VMware
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