Sisir Mohapatra

Developed high-performing teams from scratch by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for growth, and executed various initiatives with a high impact on revenue.

Operation-

• Joined as the 1st employee (Engineering Leader) in managed NAND to lead, HYD; grew the team from 1 to 200 (150 full-time and 50 contractors) in 3 years’ time and expanded to BLR. (Hyd 150+, BLR 60+)
• Built a 13,000 sq. ft. fab in HYD and manage both sites—BLR and HYD—for the Automotive, Embedded, and Mobile NAND business to bring up ASIC, SW, FW, validation, and verification.
• Managed the team directly, as well as through my leadership staff, directors, managers, technical leaders, and architects.
• Set up 8 functional groups: System Architecture [5], Firmware Development [45], Validation [70] - FW, Product, System/Platform Test, and NAND Verification [11]. ASIC System Engineering [21], Product Management [4], and Process & Methodology [11], contractors [50].
• Managed budgets, opex/capex, effectively. Proactively identified potential risks and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize negative impacts on projects or business operations.

Customer Success - Fostered a culture of innovation, encouraging the development of cutting-edge solutions. Contributed to and impacted revenue (Automotive, IoT, Mobile) from India—over $4 billion in the last six years.

• Transformed organizational culture to embrace continuous improvement, leading by example and mentoring teams.
• Enhanced stakeholder satisfaction with timely and transparent communication strategies. Drove significant market share growth with launch of innovative product lines.
• Implemented business strategies, increasing revenue, and effectively targeting new markets.

Execution of the last 6 years: strategic planning of products and projects, collaborated well across sites of different functional groups, and executed on time, end-to-end products aligned with business goals.

• 4 eMMC new products are delivered to market end-to-end: architecture, design, product management, development, validation, and verification.
• 10 sustaining products of automotive ownership.
• 5 UFS new products are delivered to market end-to-end: architecture, design, development, product management, validation, and verification.
• 5 ASIC tape-outs (UFS controller) - Vertical integration with ASIC and FW (pre-silicon FW, ROM, platform FW, post-silicon support).

Innovation: Implemented innovative solutions to solve complex problems, resulting in increased productivity and streamlined operations. The team made a record by filing over 100 disclosures and 60 patents in a year.

People cultivated a positive work environment that fostered employee engagement, increased retention rates, and boosted overall team morale.

• Job Rotation, Training, Development, Opportunity in New Diverse Work.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement by fostering open communication channels and empowering employees to voice their ideas.
• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.

Process: cross-functional collaboration for improved decision-making and quality processes within the organization. Automotive ASPICE, ISO, Audit.

• Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
• Established strong relationships with clients through excellent communication and a commitment to understanding their unique needs, fostering long-term partnerships, and led the technical team of the RAID Windows driver development team. Negotiated favorable contracts by working with purchasing, finance, and vendors for reduced costs and improved service quality.
• Strengthened financial health with rigorous cost control measures and revenue enhancement strategies. Adapted quickly to unforeseen circumstances or changes in the scope of work, ensuring minimal disruptions to overall site performance and project timelines. Conducted regular reviews of operations and identified areas for improvement.

• Product Development - SAS/SATA/PCIe HBA, RAID FW, ROC/RAID Driver, Option ROM-BIOS/UEFI, and Storage Management Apps development, configuration, and automation/test.
• Managed all engineering functional groups directly as the first lane manager for the year, Sr. Manager for two years and as Director for three years. S
• Set up all functions and grew the team from 1 to over 150, and owned over 1 billion USD in SMART/RAID/SmartHBA 12G customers and Adaptec HBA/Raid for the channel, data center, with 12G expander development and support for OEM and ODM.
• Key customer engagement – HP, Microsoft, SuperMicro, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Cavium, H3C, Inspur, etc.

• Technical lead to Manager- set up 1 to 200+ and managed directly SW and FW development with dotted lane to Test engineering with single handedly 18+ Dev projects for 5 years of making 3-generations (3G, 6G, 12G) of SAS product out first to the market. Product Development - SAS/SATA/PCIe HBA, ROC, IC, Expander, Storage Processor)- C, ARM, PowerPC, SAS, SATA, Embedded Linux, Protocol/Raid FW Development) - Key Customer Management (APAC/EMEA PoC). Supported in building Server/Storage Systems for Dell, IBM, HP, EMC, Hitachi, Huawei, NetApp, NEC, Xyratex, ORACLE, Quanta, Inventec, FoxConn, Fujitsu, Intel.

• Product Development - EMC CLARiiON FC SAN, Technical Lead Windows Storage (RAID) Device Driver Offshore Development Team, EMC Corporation USA.
• Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
• Established strong relationships with clients through excellent communication and a commitment to understanding their unique needs, fostering long-term partnerships, and led the technical team of the RAID Windows driver development team.
• Technically, lead helped management in setting up and expanding the EMC Storage ODC (Offshore Development Center) for Patni Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, from 10+-employees to 500 employees. Played a critical role from programmer to engineering lead for RAID sustenance and development team for EMC FC SAN-Clarion products.

• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - FINANCIAL - VC++ MFC, ATL COM, VB, JAVA/JSP, ORACLE - TECHNICAL LEAD, INVESTMENT BANKING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

• Product Development - Semiconductor Fabrication - Wafer Processing Yield analysis Tool - (SEMI, KLA/TENCOR) - C, C++, VC++, MFC ATL COM.

• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – VAMAN Core RDBMS Development – C, C++, VC++, MFC, ATL, COM, VB, JAVA.

• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - AIRLINES RESERVATION SYSTEM, RETAIL/ECOMMERCE - VB, JAVA, JSP, EJB, CRYSTAL REPORTS, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, MS ACCESS.