San Jose State University

San Jose, California

Develop, drive and facilitate change programs across SIG's functional teams which enable the business group to meet its financial and strategic initiatives.  Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in a variety of disciplines including Product Lifecycle Management, Product Export Classification, Business Operations, and Sales Training.

Synopsys Inc

Business Transformation Program Manager

Head of Corporate Mergers & Acquisition Integration* Formally established corporate integration processes* Provide training to Business Unit integration captains* Lead & manage multi-BU acquisition integrations* Facilitated integration of $1B-plus acquisition spending for 10+ acquisitions in one year* Assist Business Unit in risk identification & management* Create & deliver regular CEO/COO/CFO updates for each acquisition for a period of one year* Report quarterly deal performance to Board of DirectorsHead of Corporate Product Lifecycle Management* Facilitate review of product lifecycle events across Synopsys' entire product portfolio across all functional teams* Ensure corporate compliance for all new business models & go-to-market proposals* Assess proposed product lifecycle event plans, new business models, OEM / 3rd party agreementsTechnology Roadmap Team, Core MemberThe Team is tasked with identifying which electronics design challenges will impact the company in the next 3-5 years. Team membership is comprised of ~12 of Synopsys' Fellows & Scientists, selected by their respective General Managers.* Responsible for distilling technical content into a comprehensive message for Corporate Staff review* Led a sub-team responsible for identifying technical opportunities adjacent to semiconductor designThe Product Lifecycle and Roadmap Team roles demonstrate a proven capacity to contribute from a broad point of view, to a highly detailed place of execution.

Senior Staff, Strategy & Corporate Development

- Rebuilt the market presence of a previously $65M per year revenue product which suffered from zero strategic relationships and an eroding customer base* Stabilized customer base through extensive customer communication, re-establishment of strategic relationships* Identified & prioritized technical requirements for future capabilities, including an ‘in-design’ capability whose eventual deployment won the EDN 2009 Innovation

Senior Technical Marketing Manager

Sequence Design

Applications Engineering Manager

Contributing technical member, extensively involved with the successful acquisition of several funded entities.  Responsibilities ranged from due diligence of design team capabilities, assessing burn rate scenarios for different product implementation scenarios, and being a contributing design team member.Note: Raza Foundries became RMI Corporation, which was acquired by NetLogic in 2008.

Raza Foundries

Engineering Manager

- Managed 15 applications engineers responsible for winning new business & supporting existing customers in a dedicated Silicon Valley sales region* Represented Avant! in its technology deployment with LSI Logic, requiring weekly meetings with VP of Design Technology* Trained a number of new college graduates, who have become influential leaders in companies such as NVIDIA & Broadcom

Avant! Corporation

- Demonstrate product superiority through hands-on benchmarks for all products including IC implementation and circuit simulation* Assist sales teams in product positioning* Provide dedicated customer to support for Intel* Coordinate support efforts among other team members for all products

Integrated Silicon Systems / Avant!

Applications Engineer

- Develop & perform reliability test plans for LED based motion detectors through the use of statistically designed experiments* Transfer products from development and prototyping stages to full-volume production in overseas manufacturing facilities* Coordinate yield improvement and cost reduction projects with manufacturing engineer counterparts* Assess customer exposure in the event of product failures* Qualify product component, component manufacturer, and design changes* Track manufacturing quality indexes for process robustness & product reliability* Manage build of materials & engineering change orders, particularly in the area of customer specials* Perform failure analysis on LED devices through the use of different chemical & mechanical tests, whose results were used to prevent future failures

Marilyn Adan