Muru Yogathasan

About Muru Yogathasan

An energetic engineering and business professional with extensive semiconductor experience spanning a broad spectrum of functions spanning manufacturing operations, supply chain, sourcing & procurement, sales, and business operation. Managed business portfolios driving annual spends of ~$1B, by effectively driving resources and stakeholder alignment to deliver and exceed the metrics. Successfully built and led teams in engineering, operations, sourcing & procurement, and business development. Highly competent in engineering, manufacturing systems, quality systems, equipment maintenance, productivity, and utilization improvement. Experience in international cross-cultural leadership with successful results in challenging environment and dynamic organizations with extensive job-related travels around the globe.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Test Sourcing and Procurement

   Qualcomm

   Nov 2022 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Joined Qualcomm as a Senior Manager in Sourcing, managing OSATs and promoted to Senior Director, and currently Managing the sourcing and procurement teams, with annual spends of ~$1.5B, while driving to achieve optimal cost, through business model innovations and maintaining assurance of supply and supplier relations.• • Led the implementation of a Test Hub; working with Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, and Finance teams, driving the strategy around ATE Test consolidation to significantly reduce cost; with projected savings of over $500M.• Negotiated and managed the cost of test at SATs and foundries.• Negotiated purchase of capital equipment.• Worked with Engineering, Supply chain, and program management to develop and roll-out plans to address test capacity need at SAT/Foundry.• Developed long-term capacity planning/strategy models and drove short-term execution.• Validated test capacity model with SATs. • Supported and drove tester config strategy and tester road maps. • Drove business model and process improvements to reduce cost.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

  1990 — 1994

• Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  Master of Science, Computer Integrated Manufacturing

  1999 — 2002

• Asian Institute of Technology

  Master of Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management

  1995 — 1996

Skills

• Semiconductors
• Product Engineering
• Ic
• Test Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Six Sigma
• Electronics
• Process Engineering
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Mixed Signal
• Spc
• Analog
• Failure Analysis
• Testing
• Semiconductor Industry
• Manufacturing