Work experience
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Director, Operations
December 2008 - Present, Chelmsford, MA, US
Cadence is a leading provider of EDA (Electronic Design Automation) solutions for electronics and computer hardware designers and manufacturers, with annual revenues exceeding $1.4B.
- Operational Leadership
- Playing COO role across U.S., Israel, India and Serbia for the company’s fastest-growing business unit, managing 4 departments: program and release management, product validation, configuration management and technical publications
- Ensures high-quality product portfolio releases for > 100 unique products on an on-demand, daily basis (“pull” model) and on a monthly basis (“push” model)
- Increased predictability of 100% clean product releases from ad hoc to weekly to 2x/week over 18 months; plans on track to provide daily availability within 6 months
- Shortened code-freeze to release cycle for a $200M business unit from 21 to 7 days and reduced daily build/test/release cycle times for a $100M business unit by 25%
- Developed a product maturity model to match operations spend to R&D investment
- Created and managed business unit’s quarterly OpEx and annual CapEx budgets
- Rolled-out a career development process, templates and coaching aids which thwarted a potential retention problem in the competitive India job market
- Served as Chief of Staff for a 155-person Operations organization
- Strategic Initiative Support
- Creating closed-loop field-to-factory PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) system via Tableau, Salesforce.com, Atlassian Wiki and Jira for our 1,000 employee division
- Developed CXO-level dashboards, an R&D process improvement scorecard and ROI framework using the Balanced Scorecard approach
- Standardized development environments for 3 business units and 1 acquisition
- Partnered with IT and HR to recommend and deploy new HR, compensation management, and rewards and recognition systems and programs company-wide
- Agile Development Evangelism
- Led corporate initiative to transform traditional approach to an Agile/SCRUM methodology, personally serving as ScrumMaster, Product Owner or Coach on 8 projects
- Created an “Agile Quick Start” program and self-service wiki, providing education, training, professional certifications, software configuration, and coaching to all teams
- In < 1.5 years, trained/certified > 200 employees, and enabled > 100 employees on 24 Agile/SCRUM projects, by partnering with IT and outside training vendors
mediumBold, Inc., Managing Partner
June 2006 - November 2008, Boston, MA - Massachusetts, US
mediumBold is a boutique, interactive media consultancy, founded by former Razorfish leaders.
- Business Development
- Won key financial services client and helped grow it into the firm’s largest account
- Engagement Management and Billable Consulting
- Prioritized, planned and managed this client’s 50+ global website initiatives, involving 4 global vendors and 50+ team members, across 4 continents, and 12 languages
CenterStone, Inc., VP, Professional Services
December 2004 - June 2006, Hopkinton, MA - Massachusetts
CenterStone was a mid-stage SaaS company specializing in IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management Solutions) and was acquired by Manhattan Software in November 2006.
- Professional Services Leadership
- Reported to CEO and updated Board monthly
- Built department from the ground-up, managing P&L of all implementation, data migration and educational services provided by internal teams and global partnerships in the U.S., Argentina and India
- Converted an ad hoc delivery practice into a highly efficient team by introducing best practices around project estimation, planning, proposing, contracting and reporting
- Established and led company’s PMO for > 70 employees: introduced metrics to plan and manage project financials, resource utilization and project status across 20+ initiatives
- Business Development
- Profitably tripled annual services revenues, growing services from accounting for 1/3 to 2/3 of the company’s revenue
- Teamed with Sales, R&D and external partners to win 3 largest deals in firm’s 15-year history
Razorfish, Inc., Director Delivery Management and Client Partner
November 1997 - November 2004, Cambridge, MA - Massachusetts, US
Razorfish (now part of Publicis Group) is one of the world’s largest interactive marketing firms, and was an early innovator in user experience design and eBusiness consulting.
- Client Partnership and Business Development
- Led >20 accounts/projects on time, on budget for start-up to Fortune 50 clients
- Managed Microsoft partnership, developing 3 new relationships in only 6 months
- Delivery and Project Management
- Mentored 45 project managers, who managed 400 employees and $80M in annual revenue-under-management
- Standardized roles, responsibilities and methodologies to align delivery efforts and achieve cost-savings across 15 global offices
- Deployed a profitability tracking system to help boost margins by 8% within 2 quarters
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Project Leader, Software Engineer
January 1990 - October 2004, Chelmsford, MA, US
Served as a software engineer for the API and GUI for the flagship hardware simulator product. Transitioned into Operations as a project leader for configuration and release management. Was promoted 4 times in 7.5 years.
- Completely automated build, regression test and release procedures for the $75M annual revenue flagship product, to reduce the release cycle time from 3 weeks to 3 days and eliminate the need for a separate Software Porting group
- Helped specify Verilog hardware description language API, which subsequently became an IEEE standard