Wajih Dalal

About Wajih Dalal

Dynamic Business Leader offering strong business acumen with solid engineering technical background.• Over fifteen years in Semiconductor Industry, with extensive experience in Operations, Planning and Strategy.• Process Improvement – Established new processes to enhance organizational performance and increase visibility over project risks while maintaining tighter budget controls.• Financial Analysis – Established departmental budgets, tracked spending monthly and ensured adherence to guidance. Modeled project ROI and enabled prioritization for highest return at optimal cost.• Strategy Planning – Collaborated with business unit executives to create multi-year business plans, and generate effective portfolio views showing the company’s investment and its alignment to market trends. Analyzed markets, customer data, investment portfolio and generated executive presentations.• Program Management – Led Cross-functional teams from various disciplines to include engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers, across multiple continents to deliver projects on time and in budget. • Customer Engagement – Interfaced directly with customers and drove technical sales campaigns that yielded in major design wins and multi-million dollar revenue in consumer and communication segments.

Experience

1. Director, Planning and Strategy

   SK hynix memory solutions America Inc.

   Jul 2014 — Present · San-Jose, CA, US

   Responsible for managing and improving key processes in the Enterprise SSD Solutions Group, • Collaborate with division’s leaders to generate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for tracking performance. Tracked progress and presented to company executives monthly. • Lead organizational change that enables tighter budget controls while providing better project spending visibility through collaboration with cross-functional teams to include finance, engineering, operations and marketing leadership. Enabled 30% reduction in capital spending, while increasing equipment utilization.• Partnered with customers, engineering leaders, applications and industry analysts to create Market Requirement Document (MRD) and detailed Product Requirement Document (PRD) for next generation storage solutions. • Coordinated university collaboration initiatives to promote the company, and lead adoption of lower cost storage solutions. Led to co-finding the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software. • Defined and led adoption of a new process for tracking assets in the company from concept to complete implementation. Selected suppliers and managed deployment of a new IoT based solution. Reduced due-diligence speed by four weeks (75%), and raised reporting accuracy to over 95%.

Education

• Stanford University

  Certificate, Strategic Decisions and Risk Management

  2009 — 2010

• Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  B.Sc, Electricial Engineering

  1987 — 1991

• HEC Paris

  Master in Business Administration (MBA), Innovation and Entreprenuership

  2012 — 2013

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Competitive Analysis
• Manufacturing
• Business Development
• Product Management
• Financial Modeling
• Semiconductors
• Strategic Planning
• Data Analysis
• Program Management
• Budgets
• Market Research
• Business Strategy
• Product Marketing