Pavithra Kannan

Experience

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  IBM

  Jul 2011 - Nov 2017

  1. Facilitated creation of work breakdown structures, developed and updated project schedules/plans with actual and forecasted deliverables.2. Developed an end-to-end verification plan with timelines and impact analysis along with resource utilization planning.3. Interfaced with multiple teams across the enterprise, to translate requirements into a detailed execution plan, set up verification environment, defined test case suite, and verified the logic across multiple units in IBM’s server systems.4. Collaborated with a cross functional team of stakeholders, to track project progress and delivered the feature verification ahead of schedule, resulting in a bug free hardware.5. Mentored junior verification engineers in the team and helped on-board them into IBM. Show less 1. Spearheaded the process of CPU performance analysis, automated result collection, maintained documentation throughout the development cycle and disseminated project information to global stakeholders, customers and partners.2. Identified and communicated program risks to stakeholders, defined risk mitigation strategies and facilitated appropriate hardware & software engineering solutions.3. Defined success metrics, led meetings amongst stakeholders to triage server workload performance metrics and to debug failures. 4. Interfaced and collaborated with cross functional teams to develop a power performance analysis framework for pre-silicon verification of IBM’s enterprise server processors. Assigned owners for erroneous workloads and supported debugging sessions to ensure bugs are fixed on time. 5. Worked as an internship POC to collate university research project proposals and drove the team’s internship recruitment process. Show less

  • Logic Verification Lead

    Feb 2014 - Nov 2017

  • Logic & Performance Verification Engineer

    Jul 2011 - Feb 2014
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  MicroVision Inc.

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

  ASIC Verification

  1. Developed and managed end-to-end ASIC verification program from requirements planning, resource allocation, scheduling, execution to delivery.2. On-boarded and managed an offshore team of 3 contractors. Trained them in the new verification process and framework. Assigned tasks, led weekly program scrum meetings to communicate updates, tracked project progress and ensured that the program is on track to meet deliverables, using the Gemini Agile project tracker. 3. Worked closely with architecture and design teams to successfully translate product specifications to program deliverables, in an Agile environment.4. Defined appropriate goals for program completion, developed key performance metric and burndown charts to track project progress and help management take important decisions regarding chip design scope and chip release schedule.5. Reported status of all tasks tracking milestones to the leadership team including scheduling and resource allocation.6. Performed chip level verification of Microvision’s ASIC hardware, by creating verification test regression framework in an open-source Python based environment7. Drove the recruitment process for the team by defining team needs, writing job descriptions and interviewing candidates. Show less

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  ZT Systems

  Aug 2020 - May 2024

  Staff Technical Program Manager

  1. Managed multiple generations of hyperscale cloud hardware development programs, specializing in GPU Compute Server HW. Oversaw all phases of the product lifecycle, from product definition and planning to production, release, and end-of-life, driving design and development initiatives. 2. Led task forces focused on identifying and addressing key quality issues, by collaborating with GPU vendors, internal engineering teams, and customers to debug, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and perform failure analysis (FA) on hardware issues affecting global data centres. 3. Defined and delivered operational measures of success for Sustainability of Hyperscale serves through the entirety of its lifetime in Data Centres. 4. Led cross-functional teams in executing strategic projects, ensuring successful delivery through proactive risk management, metric tracking, and roadblock resolution. 5. Implemented an end-to-end process to streamline RMA replacement turnaround time for hardware commodities in data centres. Developed internal material management process, resulting in significant reduction of matrerial transfer times from weeks to days. 6. Support customer & internal engineering teams to maintain the Bill of material (BOM) and Firmware release cadence for seamless functionality of server hardware in customer DCs Show less

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  Microsoft

  Aug 2024 - now

  Senior Quality Engineer