KUMAR AVALA
San Jose,CA
Summary
23 years of Experience in VLSI Design & Electronic Design Automation domain in the areas of custom circuit analysis, high-speed VLSI design, standard cell physical layout, power-grid extraction, timing analysis, power integrity and reliability analysis with various CAD tools to solve problems in complex System-on-Chip (SoC). Good experience in managing customer on-site engagements and work with them for successful deployment of ANSYS tools on customer projects. Train customers on the usage of Ansys simulation products to increase their proficiency, independence, and success; use technical excellence to show leadership to customers in the usage of Ansys products. Understand and review Design implementation, suggest and implement methods for improved QoR and design closure run-times. Know customer requirements and work with R&D to develop and validate new features in EDA software.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Application Engineer
ANSYS Inc.
San Jose, USA
04.2021 - Current
- Manage and lead all technical activities throughout the sales opportunity lifecycle, including technical discovery, define technical success criteria, as well as delivery of product presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations conducted by Junior application engineers
- Lead and mentor junior engineers who perform the day-to-day pre-sales and post-sales product support
- Contribute to the hiring, mentor, and lead junior application engineers
- Manage client relationships, and understand product design needs and their engineering design workflows and provide solutions
- Lead and guide the ANSYS Product Roadmap by Collaborating with Ansys development teams
- Manage consulting services and conduct advanced training classes in the usage of ANSYS products
- Participate in corporate initiatives to further enhance ANSYS technology.
Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS Inc.
San Jose, USA
07.2019 - 03.2021
- Responsible for providing pre-sales and post-sales support to customers and channel partners in the usage of Ansys Semiconductor products
- Apply knowledge and experience in the areas of custom circuit analysis, high-speed VLSI design, standard cell physical layout, power-grid extraction, timing analysis, noise analysis, and voltage drop effects with various CAD tools to solve problems in complex System-on-Chip (SoC)
- Understanding customer needs and identifying solutions to their challenges with Ansys EDA tools
- Perform methodology assessments, improve existing design methodologies, and develop new ones that leverage Ansys technology
- Create and conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations to customers
- Close collaboration with R&D on customer issues and enhancements, Communicate with customers on issue workarounds and new tool fixes.
Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS Software Private Limited
Bangalore, India
06.2011 - 07.2019
- Provide pre-sales and post-sales support for RedHawk and Totem product line, that includes following features: Early grid weakness analysis, Static and Dynamic voltage drop analysis, Power EM (electro-migration) and SignalEM analysis, Substrate Analysis
- Contribute to Product Engineering in which, closely collaborate with R&D to refine product spec and verify implementation
- Contribute to Application Engineering in which, work closely with customers to evaluate, qualify, & deploy RedHawk/Totem for leading customers
- Contribute to Product Engineering to develop and validate next generation SeaScape platform-based Totem-SC
- Support customers using PathFinder for Electro Static Discharge (ESD) Analysis
- Define test plan and validate Calibre Connectivity Interface (CCI) flow in Totem
- Validate RDSON measurement Flow for PMIC designs using Totem
- Work with R&D to develop and validate Open Access flow (OA flow)
- Validate Virtuoso integration flow in Totem.
Senior Application Engineer
Ansys-Apache Design Solutions
Noida, India
09.2009 - 05.2011
- Provide worldwide customer support for parasitic Extraction tool Columbus-AMS/Totem-EX
- Develop and Validate Calibre flow in Totem-EX
- Develop various process libraries for Totem-EX for foundries TSMC, GF, UMC etc
- Validate 3D field solver and integrate into Totem-EX extraction library builder engine
- Define Eval criteria and work with customers for successful deployment of Totem-EX.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Sequence Design Private Limited
Noida, India
09.2003 - 08.2009
- Collaborate with customers to understand their needs, defining product requirements and ensuring the successful roll out of new features
- Support pre-sales for Sequence Design extraction products (Columbus-AMS/Columbus-Turbo)
- Provide post-sale support for Sequence CoolTime product
- Provide post-Sale support for worldwide Columbus customers
- Train Columbus and CoolTime customers worldwide, and Train/cross-train FAEs
- Provide Foundry support for Customers using Sequence design products
- Create Columbus libraries/configurations for foundries: IBM, CHRT, ST, UMC, JAZZ others
- Evaluate EDA tool qualification at TSMC, Taiwan
- Development of Test Plans and Contribute to maintaining and enhancing the Columbus product line.
Design Engineer
QualCore Logic Private Limited
Hyderabad, India
02.2001 - 08.2003
- RTL synthesis using Design Compiler and Functional simulations on synthesis netlist
- SCAN insertion and ATPG vector Generation
- Columbus-AMS tool validation, that includes Capacitance and Resistance correlations, QA development.
Education
Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech) - Electronics & Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University(JNTU)
Hyderabad01-2001
Diploma in Electronics And Communications Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Government Polytechnic Collage
Hyderabad06-1996
Skills
- Power Integrity and Reliability
- Static & Dynamic EMIR
- 3DIC & Thermal analysis
- Electro Static Discharge(ESD) analysis
- Customer Support
- Technical leadership
- Training and mentoring
Timeline
Principal Application Engineer
ANSYS Inc.
04.2021 - Current
Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS Inc.
07.2019 - 03.2021
Lead Application Engineer
ANSYS Software Private Limited
06.2011 - 07.2019
Senior Application Engineer
Ansys-Apache Design Solutions
09.2009 - 05.2011
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Sequence Design Private Limited
09.2003 - 08.2009
Design Engineer
QualCore Logic Private Limited
02.2001 - 08.2003
Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech) - Electronics & Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University(JNTU)
Diploma in Electronics And Communications Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Government Polytechnic Collage
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