Program Management Technical

Mansoor Ahmed

San Jose, CA ***** 408-***-****

**********@*****.*** **********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mansoor-ahmed-98b064181/

SUMMARY

Accomplished professional with experience in leadership and technical program management for Quality and Reliability Engineering, Product Managment and Product Engineering. Expertise in channeling diverse teams and perspectives into clear business/technical goals. Proven success in leading cross functional teams to perform at the highest level by being a strong communicator between technical teams and business needs. Passionate about mentoring and guiding others. Adept at building strong relationships with management, personnel, and clients. Experience in leading projects in Fabless companies working with external Fabs like TSMC, UMC and others as well as worked with Joint Venture Fab companies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Product Managment Engineering Management Program Management Quality Employee Development Project Engineering Business Operations Budget Analyst Strategic Planning Risk Management Budgeting Plan and Scheduling Continuous improvement Experience in Semiconductor Fab equipments Experience in High Power and Distribution system Familiar with Fab Safety systems Experience in Mentoring, training and development new engineers Work with PCB design and debugging Experience in Programmable Logic Controllers and devices Strong Communication skills both verbal and written Experience is leading teams of experienced engineers Expert in regulation and safety standards. Experienced in highly matixes work environment FMEA leader.

HIGHLIGHTED DETAILS

•Led the developing SSD for enterprise customers.

•Worked with multiple teams across different organizations and across the world to lead

•Led Product and test engineering teans to develop 2D and 3D NAND and SLC, TLC and QLC.

•Led team of Subject Matter Experts in Enterprise SSD, NAND, and technical Marketing.

•Led the members of Product Line Core Team and Product Development Team for multiple projects and products.

•Led the Product marketing for Enterprise Business unit for key customers.

•Developed remnant die project from a concept to a big business.

•Led multiple cost reduction projects.

•Led Team Development: Developing leaders for tomorrow.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Western Digital

Program Manager and Technologist (Q&R), 2020 - 2023

•Lead program management for quality to develop new SSD for enterprise and retail customers.

•Lead qualification and development of major projects in to productions.

•Guideded manufacturing with best industry practices, better yield, better quality, better cost.

Marketing Product Manager, 2018 - 2020

•Developed project plans, cost analysis, market research for new business projects.

•Led Customer support to use WDC NAND into different usage model

•Provided Marketing demand roadmap with Cost and profit forcast.

SanDisk

Senior Engineering Manager, 2003-2018

•Represented leaders for product line core team and product development team for multiple products.

•Led Embedded NAND solution for key customer for development, and KPI improvements.

•Led the technology development from 2D NAND to 3D NAND

•Managed a NAND product line team to achieve high margin product, with very high quality and high profit margin.

•Led a team to deliver SSD and other NAND OEM in X3 NAND to drive the cost down and achieve high profit margins.

•Led the Retail Product Group deliver high profit margin products to the market.

•Achieved cost savings by recovering memory serving half the USB product line.

•Developed highly skilled team to achieve above and beyond the projected goals.

Silicon Image, Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Engineer 1999-2003

•Introduced, characterized, and sustained, high quality, high yield, and high profit margin products.

•Improved TSMC Fab process and production test programs, assembly processes, ATE and Bench characterization process and helped in failure analysis and customer issues.

•Designed the assembly plans for multi-chip modules (MCM) used in consumer electronic products.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Silicon Storage Technology, 1996-1999, Sunnyvale, CA, Senior Engineer

Cypress Semiconductor, 1993-1996, San Jose, CA, Engineer

Siemens AG, 1989-1990 Karachi, PK, Engineer

EDUCATION

Master of Science, M.S., in Electrical Engineering with research thesis published in IEEE

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (1991-1994)

Bachelor of Science, B.S., in Electrical Engineering

NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, PK (1984-1989)

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