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Thyagaraj C

Bengaluru

Summary

An Enterprising, Talented and business-focused leader with a natural ability for building new business and forging loyalty with clients, vendors and external business partners. Experienced in identifying and capitalizing on emerging business ventures to propel an organization to the top-tier in the industry. Passionate about building companies from within by attracting intelligent and productive professionals. Quality-driven leader focused on growth and experienced in fundraising, customer acquisition and executive management. Innovative company designer with 17 years of experience solving chronic deficiencies and driving growth.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SoC Validation Engineer

Intel India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Engaged in all phases of validation cycle, bug hunts in multiple environments to ensure silicon readiness

Worked on GNR/SRF and SPREEMCC and SPREELCC FV content validation for Virtualization, RAS and SAF domains using frameworks like Rocket

Worked on test plan reviews with external and internal teams.

Worked on FV Content validation on N-1 and further debug readiness tasks for Display, WiFi/Bluetooth domains for BTLS program.

Published 7 papers pertaining to topics on extended coverage, enhanced debug scenarios for domains in the year 2023 - 2024



Cofounder

V5semiconductors
05.2015 - 08.2021
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.
  • Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
  • Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
  • Developed sales presentations and promotion initiatives to key accounts to drive product sales and increase brand awareness.
  • Spearheaded overseas Principals contract negotiations to obtain favorable pricing and scheduling parameters.
  • Shaped solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
  • Led team of 11 member
  • Managed divisional marketing, advertising and new product development.
  • Interviewed, supervised and motivated staff members to achieve optimal productivity.
  • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth in technical designs and sales & marketing

Sr Applications Engineer

Silicon Laboratories
02.2013 - 05.2015
  • Introduced new products and gained customer acceptance by demonstrating and presenting latest technology offerings helping cost reductions and operations improvements across multiple product domains.
  • Attended trade shows and seminars in US, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia to promote products and network with industry contacts.
  • Developed and implemented pursuit plans for all opportunities within assigned top key accounts majorly Cisco, Tejas Networks, CDOT, Honeywell, BEL, Infinera for Clock and Timing products.
  • Managed technical integration, systems engineering program management, customer support and program management pan India for various market verticals and applications including smart metering, IoT, Industrial, consumer, medical.
  • Prepared and Presented periodical opportunities pipelines for Design wins and sales forecasts for all products including sensors, BLE, ZigBee, 8 & 32 bit Microcontrollers, Isolators, Broadcast
  • Identified sales opportunities by assessing environment and devising and implementing winning strategy.
  • Provided technical troubleshooting and problem solving for clients with installed equipment or system issues.
  • Recommended changes, improvements or enhancements in products to product development team based on customer feedback.
  • Reviewed all customer inquiries to understand project scope while managing internal delivery mechanisms.
  • Periodically assessing distributors performance on set targets with quarterly reviews with respective Product managers.
  • Hand holding Distributor FAEs by providing hands on training using eval kits and dev boards and technical trainings on products.
  • Arranged day long seminars and roadshows at regional level across major cities includes comprehensive hands on training and product presentations.
  • Submitted monthly reports, including booking forecasts, monthly highlights and CRM entries handling a overall Silicon Labs business of USD 3 million

Applications Engineer

Atmel
02.2011 - 04.2013
  • Partnered with development team on product development, application support plans and prototype programs for some of the potential customers.
  • Exhibited strong technical aptitude and application expertise in ATMEL propreitary AVR studio platform resulting in optimized performance in the tech support and customer handholding in the design phase, continuous improvement recommendations and product innovation.
  • Identified potential sales opportunities by assessing environment and devising and implementing winning strategy against the competition.
  • Contributes to sales engineering effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues and recommending courses of action.
  • Analyzed marketing data, including market trends, competitor performance and product strengths.

Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics
04.2008 - 08.2011
  • Partnered with development team on product development, application support plans and prototype programs.
  • Resolved product design, acquisition and launch concerns to achieve customer's targeted business goals.
  • Generated target accounts sales objectives, opportunities, and projection reports to prioritize work and presented reports to principles during reviews on potential Design and production wins.
  • Traveled to key account locations to train and provide technical direction for successful completion of product launches.
  • Worked with customers for needs analysis, proposal development and vendor costs to produce competitive estimates.
  • Developed and created reference design applications for various applications majorly on industrial, consumer, lighting and defense segments.

Education

Bachelors in Engineer - Electronics & Communication

KSIT Vishweshwaraiaha Technological University

Pursuing Masters in Technology - Embedded Systems

BITS PILANI
WILP

Skills

  • Ul >AI and Data science fundamentals
  • CPU Architecture
  • Validation and Debug
  • P>Team building
  • P > Analytical skills
  • P > Teamwork
  • P > Responsible
  • P > Interpersonal Communication
  • P>Written Communication
  • P>Training & Development
  • P>ESDM market knowledge
  • P>Embedded Technology
  • P>Supply chain management
  • P>Product marketing
  • P>Collaboration
  • P>Self-motivated professional
  • P>Critical thinking

Accomplishments

  • Scaled the startup company to positive growth momentum with a collateral free funding from the startup hub of India
  • Launched in house designed smallest and power efficient BLE 4.2module with minimum resources during the year 2015 for the IoT & Industrial applications with a industries smallest form factor.
  • Signed MoU and NDA with multiple Indian based and overseas companies for alignment and technology transfer to India Market.
  • Handled and supervised and mentored branches offices in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad.
  • Introduced and Implemented the ecommerce portal for electronic components and design services that helped grow business 3 times month on month.
  • Represented India during the Electronica expo in Germany twice successfully. and collaborated over 15 promising product lines for the start up

Additional Information

  • Technical product marketing and Business Development.
  • Preparing training material for Hands on trainings.
  • Providing Hands on training to Distributor FAEs,sales teams and customers and sales on the product lines.
  • Providing technical trainings,
  • Event Hosting. Hosted multiple events across various platforms.
  • Visited Munich for the Business tie ups with companies like Fischer, Advanced Interconnect, Golledge etc.
  • Visited Taiwan for the Technical expos and alignments for technology transfer and product line promotion
  • Attended product training in the US, Munich Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong.
  • US Business visa active till 2025
  • Editor of the park talk magazine - A quarterly community magazine which speaks about the social cause & activities.

Certification

  • IIMB Entrepreneurship program CERTIFICATE ID 8bfb9b6aa3f2478bba4a3dd851c0598c

  • Finance Management Cluster program from Essae Chandran Institute

Soft skills

Soft skills - Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Technical Presentations, demonstrations.

Preparing Organizational Budget annually, capital management, structuring MIS( Management Information System)

Reading and Understanding - Balance Sheets, Financial P&L, cash flow statements and Ratio Analysis.

Personal Information

Title: Entrepreneur

Certifications

Apr 2019,2020-11

Hobbies and Interests

  • Cricket - attended KSCA umpire training

  • Biking - clocked over 50K kms across the country

  • Cycling - Clock close to 200 kms every week

  • Trekking - trekked to Himalayas and other destinations

  • Reading Books -Majorly Business, Technical, Spiritual and self help

Technical skills

Microcontrollers 8 bit architectures- AVR, C8051, silicon Labs, S08 Freescale.

32bit ARM Microcontrollers - ARM M0+, M3, M4, AVR32, Coldfire series from Freescale

32bit ARM Processors - ARM9, ARM A5, ARM11 from ATMEL, FREESCALE

Embedded Platforms - Code worriror, Kiel, AVR Studio, IAR systems.

Coding - Embedded C, Assembly language programming.

Timing and Frequency control Products - Jitter attenuators from Silicon Labs, OCXOs, VCXOs, Oscillators from Golledge

Wireless and SoC - BLE, 2.4GHz(802.15.4), ZigBee, Thread, Proprietary RF

Thermal management ( Fischer Elektronik)

Component Engineering and critical BOM sourcing overseas from US, UK, Singapore, Germany.

Embedded Circuit design, Firmware, Trouble shooting and debug.

Headed Turnkey support- PCB design, PCB fabrication, Component sourcing, PCB assembly and testing.

Technical writeups and product articles .

Timeline

SoC Validation Engineer

Intel India Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Cofounder

V5semiconductors
05.2015 - 08.2021

Sr Applications Engineer

Silicon Laboratories
02.2013 - 05.2015

Applications Engineer

Atmel
02.2011 - 04.2013

Field Application Engineer

Arrow Electronics
04.2008 - 08.2011

Bachelors in Engineer - Electronics & Communication

KSIT Vishweshwaraiaha Technological University

Pursuing Masters in Technology - Embedded Systems

BITS PILANI
Thyagaraj C