Hemanth Chender S
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategic leader in power electronics and semiconductor product planning, design, development, and applications, leveraging over 18 years of experience and an M.Tech in power electronics from IIT Delhi.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Applications Manager
Texas Instruments (India) Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
05.2024 - Current
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead a 9-11 member cross-functional team, converting business goals into weekly priorities while mentoring engineers and expanding lab capabilities.
- Technical Excellence & Resolution: Drive engineering excellence for AC-DC/DC-DC customer designs, ensuring flawless implementation through advanced schematic audits, board-level debugging, and hands-on site visits.
- Product Strategy & Execution: Spearheaded hardware roadmap execution by delivering reference designs, evaluation platforms, and technical training to accelerate customer adoption.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered across R&D, systems engineering, and marketing to eliminate execution roadblocks, keeping product launches and revenue commitments on track.
Senior Manager, Product Definition & Applications
Analog Devices (formerly Maxim)
Bengaluru, India
01.2017 - 05.2024
- Lead 15+ product definition, validation and applications function that develops switching regulators, battery chargers and port protection monolithic IC products.
- Defined, drove and created outbound product collateral such as datasheets, evaluation kits, SIMPLIS/EE-Sim simulation models to enable business generation for FAEs and attract broad market customers.
- Collaborated with business manager, sales and field engineers to support customer design-in activities to add to top line and bottom line growth.
Senior Technical Lead
Collins Aerospace (formerly UTC AS)
Bengaluru, India
08.2014 - 01.2017
- Lead product development team that designs, engineers aerospace power electronics products.
Assistant Design Manager
Delta Electronics Group
Bengaluru, Bangkok, India, Thailand
06.2008 - 08.2014
- Designed, developed and introduced (NPI) 7+ AC/DC, DC/DC Converters, Inverters for Networking, Server, Telecom, Industrial Power Supplies working with multi-cultural design and global cross-functional teams.
- Developed specialized designs viz. planar magnetics, cold plate design including open & closed frame, convection & fan cooled systems for high efficiency, synchronous, resonant AC-DC and DC-DC converters.
Education
M.Tech (CGPA 8.6/10) - Power Electronics
IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi
New Delhi, India01-2008
Skills
- Power Electronics, Semiconductors
- Coaching / Mentoring
- Roadmap, Strategy, Planning
- AC-DC, DC-DC Switching Converters & Controllers Design & Development
- Product Life Cycle
- IC Definition and NPI
- Power Converters Design
- Buck, Flyback, PFC Boost, Bridge
- Supercap, Battery Chargers
- High Frequency Magnetics
- MOSFETs / IGBTs
- Hands-on Hardware
- Validation / Testing / Evaluation
- Qualification, Compliance
- EMI / EMC, Safety (IEC / EN) Certification
- DFMEA, DFx, Tolerance Analysis
- Schematic, PCB
- Converter / Circuit Modeling
- SIMPLIS, MathCAD, SPICE
- Algorithms
- Scripting
- Product Collateral Development
OTHER INFORMATION
- Published Two international technical transactions in leading journals (IEEE and IET) and a paper in IEEE EMC+SIPI 2023 and presented quite a few internal technical conference papers.
- Member – SAE India, IEEE, IEEE- Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics, Industry Applications, Biometrics.
- Secured All India Rank - 115 (~99.4 percentile) in GATE-2006.
Timeline
Applications Manager
Texas Instruments (India) Pvt Ltd
05.2024 - Current
Senior Manager, Product Definition & Applications
Analog Devices (formerly Maxim)
01.2017 - 05.2024
Senior Technical Lead
Collins Aerospace (formerly UTC AS)
08.2014 - 01.2017
Assistant Design Manager
Delta Electronics Group
06.2008 - 08.2014
M.Tech (CGPA 8.6/10) - Power Electronics
IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi