Technical Support Engineer

Z U B A I R S I M A B

DANVILLE, CA – 925-***-**** – ******.*****@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/zubairsimab

Professional Summary

Over 18 years of experience as Technical Manager / Senior Field Application Engineer with fortune 500 companies in computing, telecom, wireless, consumer electronics, embedded applications and semiconductor industries. 15 years in technical sales and business development experience resulting in 110% increase in sales with national and international components and systems companies. A major catalyst in driving business growth and profitability for high performance products. Proven expertise in client technical support, supply chain operations, development, implementation, quality management, OEM,CM and ODM engagements.

Key Accomplishments

Project Management Quality Assurance

• Product launch • Reduction of production failure

• NPI • Requirement delivery

• PSTART design wins • FAB/Factory Audit

Application Engineering Supply Chain

• Annual design wins of over $300M • Distribution & Rep support management

• Development, brand, and market • Contract Manufacturer extended support demand collaboration • Partnership establishment

• Enable client technical design • OEM/ODM relationship Key Products

Optical Touch Technology IBM CMOS Image Sensor (CIS)

• Large Format Display Touch • CIS Technology from product definition

• Desktop Touch to product launch

IBM Foundry Surge Protection

• CMOS, RFCMOS built on • Overvoltage and Overcurrent Transients 250nm – 45nm technologies • SPD & UPS Solutions

• Magnetic & Resistive product

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Comm Application/Technical Marketing Engineer

Bourns, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 2013 – Nov 2016

Supporting communication clients such as Cisco, Nokia, Commscope, Juniper Networks, Pace and Calix with surge protection components (TBU, TCS, TVS and GDT), SPD Modules, Magnetic chokes, filters, inductors, transformers, chip resistors, current sense resistors and UPS products. Providing surge protection support for Reference Design Partners like, Broadcom, Ikanos, MicroSemi and SiLab. Identify and define new products per client’s needs and market demands. Work closely with PLM and development team to deliver new products to key clients. Monitor and assess market trends in the field and make recommendation to PLM and PD teams.

IMPACT: Established technical support to communication clients. Major design wins with sensors and high current SPD products in LTE antenna application. Established new clients base for UPS 48V/12V products. Established new program to support silicon partners. ZUBAIR SIMAB Page 2

Technical Sales Manger / Sr. Field Application Engineer NextWindow (SMART Technologies), Pleasanton, CA 2009 – 2013 Technical Manager for NextWindow products in North America. Business development, pre and post sales with OEMs. Managed and supported OEM and ODM clients through collaborative engagements of new touch product introductions. Managed technical relationships with Microsoft for Win8 logo certifications. Developed new programs to collaborate with integrators and partners. Managed the development of Image Sensor Chip with foundry for Optical Touch products. Involved in production challenges with ODM to ensure high quality of product support for OEM partners. Planned and Trained Integrators for new products launch in North America.

IMPACT: Established technical support structure for North America clients. Created partner certification and qualification programs. Build a new Quality/Test lab for new products testing and verification of current products. Design win of $37 million annually for new desktop products. CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) Specialist / Senior Field Application Engineer (FAE) IBM Microelectronic, San Jose, CA 2000 – 2009

Chief design support for IBM Foundry Technologies and new business developments. Managed pre to post product lifecycles, market trends, new technology development/ implementation, and production support. Acted as a liaison between internal IBM technology teams and client design teams. Supported IPs for Embedded application, Graphic, Datacom, Telecom and Wireless SoC solution.

• Delivered cutting edge semiconductor technologies providing IBM’s core engineering services to Fabless Semiconductor companies and won new designs.

• Technical support of specialized high performance SRAM products to SUN Microsystems platform with annual revenue of $860M.

• Presented IBM technologies presentations to new clients.

• Technical contributor to IBM product brand and Product Development Teams, managing design obstacles and ensuring future client requirements and dependencies.

• Creatively identified client technical requirements (power, performance, reliability) by applying IBM tools and methodologies.

• Delivered technical solutions to Client's challenges (chip sizing, power calculation & EDA tool selections) and provided alternative options to design gaps utilizing existing IBM offerings.

• Worked with development in defining long term product roadmap based on analysis of market requirements and business opportunities.

• International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) government certification.

IMPACT: Annual design wins achievement of over $250M. Over $287M of new business with CIS technology. Year 2005 Image Sensor Specialist for CIMG technology in the US market. Recognized facilitator of new technologies in successful implementation of early-adapted client designs. ZUBAIR SIMAB Page 3

EDUCAT I ON

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose CA CMOS Technology, Rio College-New York

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Training, UltimateInSuccess- San Jose Power Supply Design Workshop / Ridley Engineering

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / CERTIFICATION

Annual IBM Technology Training on CMOS & CMOSRF 250nm – 45nm, CIMG7SF& CIMG7HY. SoC Encounter 4.1/ Cadance workshop, Hierarchical RTL-GDSII Physical Implementation Solution IBM InfiniBand technology workshop class

Network with InfiniBand / Tech

IBM Signature Selling Method

IBM Fiber Optic technology workshop class

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Improve Individual Negotiation Skills

Improve Customer Satisfactions through Better Communication Certified on ITAR and ECCN

PRODUCTS / QUALIFICATIONS

OverCurrent and Overvoltage suppressors,CMOS Technologies, CMOS Sensors, Optical Touch Technology, IoT,10/100/1000 Ethernet PHY/Tranceivers/Controler (OSI 7 layer), TCP/IP, HTML, WordPress, LAN, WAN, InfiniBand, ATM,T1/E1 Framer and LIU, Fiber OpticOC48, WiMax, UWB, RFID, ZigBee, VDSL, SRAM, DRAM, MEMS,1394, USB, G.Fast, VoIP, Video SerDes,RISC Processor, x86 architecture, BIOS, MRAM, Power supply, Transformers and Inductors, Overcurrent Transient Devices, Overvoltage Transient Devices, UPS, SPD, Windows OSs-including Win7 & Win8, Linux (Debian, SUES and Ubuntu distributions) and RTOS, MS Office & MS Project/WEB. SUPPORETED OEM CLIENTS

Calix, Commscope, Nokia, Greenwave, HP, Apple, Cisco (Globally), Microsoft, LSI, Broadcom, Brocade, Juniper Networks, Kodak, OmniVision, Dell, PMC Sierra, Marvell Semi, SiLab MicroSemi Fairchild Imaging, Teledyne, Altasens, Fujitsu, EchoStar, Commscope, SUN, SGI, and ODMs such as Flextronics, Compal, Wistron, Quanta, ASUSTEK and Qisda.

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