Sameer Bhola

About Sameer Bhola

Dynamic and influential leader with 20+ years of proven expertise in building and ramping talented technical teams, defining and executing product quality strategies to deliver customer satisfaction for major automotive accounts as well as fast ramping vertical cell phone manufacturers. Broad technical knowledge of semiconductor processes and well-rounded hands-on expertise in most quality functions and processes. Unique combination of experiences spanning Manufacturing, Business units and Customers to understand differing perspectives and make balanced decisionsStrategy deployment and visibility for Power Product & Test engineering backend operations team of 5 managers, 40 engineers in 6 different Assembly/test sites in Asia; Enable the team to clearly articulate their mission and execution impact to BU in terms of yield improvements, capacity expansion, cost reduction and resolving production disruptions.Led global Customer Quality Engineering (CQE) team of 6 managers, 35 engineers focused on excursion management, quality improvement, efficient complaint resolution and customer service for TI’s vast Analog Power Product portfolio as well as the Silicon Valley Analog business (ppm to ppb quality improvements)Architected transformation of broadly skilled Customer Quality (CQE) teams into highly technical Product Quality Engineering (PQE) teams to sharpen focus on resolving TI’s biggest Product Quality opportunities 1. Delivering “World Class” Excursion response and 2. Driving quality (ppm) entitlement for the worst offending and ramping products.Oversee 3 directors and 50 engineers responsible for entire TI portfolio – Analog Power, Analog Signal Chain, Embedded Products and DLP Extensive experience in helping teams navigate through major changes such as during the TI’s acquisition of National Semiconductor, including transforming organization culture, benchmarking QMS best practices and executing innovative ideas to efficiently integrate the Quality systems while minimizing customer disruptions.Skilled at building relationships, influencing and collaborating across organizational boundaries and driving goal alignment to deliver business results. Highly passionate about coaching and mentoring talent with a track record for promoting and developing 1st time managers and technical ladder, thereby enabling a strong followership.

Experience

1. Sr Director Product Quality Engineering

   Texas Instruments

   Mar 2022 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Product Quality Engineering for Power (APP), Signal Chain(ASC), Embedded Processors and DLP (EPD) products.Responsible for leading an expert team of crisis managers and technical problem solvers to provide World-Class Excursion response and drive resolution of the most critical product quality issues impacting TI and our customers. Influence TI-wide systemic improvements to prevent repeat issues.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  B.E., Electronics and Telecommmunications

  1995 — 1998

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  MS, Electrical Engineering

  1999 — 2001

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  MBA

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Characterization
• Test Engineering
• Quality Management
• Cmos
• Bicmos
• Analog
• Mixed Signal
• Spectre
• Dmaic
• Failure Analysis
• Semiconductors
• Semiconductor Industry
• Engineering Management
• Yield
• Asic
• Reliability
• Microelectronics
• Ic
• Engineering
• Design of Experiments
• Six Sigma
• Spc
• Silicon
• Soc
• Lean Manufacturing
• Power Management
• Analog Circuit Design
• Electronics
• Product Development
• Physics
• Product Engineering
• Wireless