Narendra N

About Narendra N

With 20+ years of experience in semiconductor industry, I established myself as an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and semiconductor executive building and leading product and engineering teams on technology innovation, customer success, and business growth. I am a results-focused problem solver who guides teams to build strong solutions and advocate customer success. I am a collaborative professional with experience working in large corporate and start-up environments to strategize product direction and agile execution.Specialties- Ideation, Product planning, and execution for end to end customer flows- Excellent communication skills (written/verbal/presentation)- Comfortable with ambiguity and change- Lead large teams with varied experience across domains- Mentored junior folks and built training modules to groom in-house talent - People and Program Management experience with a focus on customer experience- Manage large SOC implementations with customer interaction and issue tracking - Learnt and built strong process and organisational maturity while dealing with multiple customersENGINEERING- ASIC Physical Design of multi million gate SOCs and high frequency IP cores from netlist to GDS- Implementation and Signoff closure in lower tech nodes- Reference Methodology development to drive and implement signoff flows to aid faster TAT- P&R Product development and validation

Experience

1. Senior Director R & d

   新思科技股份有限公司

   Mar 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Heading India DRI and CE organizations for Google, Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, QCOM & NXP accounts.• Directly responsible for un-gating top 10 critical issues for each of the accounts on a regular basis.• Be a voice of customer within R&D organization to help prioritize the issues within R&D based on each customer and project needs.• Responsible for increasing Synopsys SoU through competition displacement and winning key benchmarks.• Build customer confidence through various roadmap presentations and successful MRM, TRM and ERMs.• Work with AE and PE organizations to spec out key differentiating features to be implemented by R&D which when deployed can help influence SoU.• Work with AE teams to decide deployment strategy for key features at various customers.• Migration of all India Customers to latest software and have latest and best PPA features enabled.

Education

• Nagpur University

  BTech in Electrical Engineering, VLSI and Embedded

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Asic
• Product Development
• Perl
• Eda
• Product Engineering
• Software Quality Assurance
• Debugging
• Physical Design
• Static Timing Analysis
• Soc
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Tcl
• Project Management
• Vlsi