Mohan Loke

Recruited to start a software R&D center in India, to grow Sales and support local customers in Asia Pacific region. Managed the company in all aspects of ongoing operations including R&D, sales, finance, marketing, and staffing with a budget of $10M and 140 engineering team, 2 Development Directors and 2 Sales Directors in India and a sales staff of 15 in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. Negotiated land and building to start the development center

Designed and established procedures to integrate software between 3 design centers in India, one in US and in Israel
Created a new professional Services group and established deployment and support procedures for project deployments in APAC
Won Government Tenders

Semiconductor Services and Consulting investors approached in India to start the company to establish and lead the start-up and ongoing operations including R&D, sales, finance, marketing, and staffing.
Obtained venture capital to begin operations in India
Created company infrastructure and established all policies and procedures
Negotiated vendor partnerships in Asia Pacific and the USA for distribution of EDA tools in India
Recruited and developed staff to develop analog and mixed signal designs
Technologies Managed: Analog and Digital design Technique, C, SoC and VLSI design techniques - Synopsys, Financial Management and HR practices

Started operations in India to design MP3, 802.11x and Power chips for several OEM companies and implement new policies and procedures to focus company’s growth strategies on Analog design areas and started a new Group. Streamlined and designed new staffing strategy to attract subject matter experts partnering with local colleges to build a quality team. Drove company to profitability within 12 months
Restructured the company including streamlining R&D, sales, and marketing divisions. Implemented new management methodologies, and introduced new marketing tactics to increase sales in Asia Pacific and Europe
Implemented new financial management methodology to maintain cash flow and took full P&L responsibility to turnaround the company
Built the expert Analog design team to develop SoC, and mixed signal designs which resulted improvement in sales by 100%. The group later was acquired by a Japanese Semiconductor company
Built the design Center with 300 staff within 18months including the building construction and training the staff to develop embedded software for LCD TV line. Later the center was sold to a Japanese OEM at 33% margin above expenses
Technologies Managed: Analog and Digital design Techniques, C, VLSI design techniques, FPGA modeling, EDA design tools - Synopsys and Cadence, Financial Management and HR practices

Commissioned by the company to start a new software development in Singapore as HQ with development centers in China, Australia and India
Started operations in Asia Pacific and China; restructured and stabilized staff attrition, enhanced efficiency by 100%, and improved ROI within 4 months
Negotiated joint ventures and offshore development programs in China and India to manage billing software and hardware projects from major telecommunications companies in the region; achieved profitability within 6 months and generated revenues of $30 million within 18 months
Built teams and infrastructure for developing Billing software and Network Management Systems in Asia Pacific and China utilizing processes that cut resource expenditure by 25% and improved profit margins by 40%

USA for various parallel global deployments in Lucent technologies and improved customer satisfaction to 95% with defined support processes and change management techniques
Spearheaded a two-year business plan to fulfill customers’ integration needs by building and implementing new technologies; established support procedures that reduced field problems by 85%
Managed a five-year $125 million software delivery of 21 NMS applications to Saudi Telecom to create network management centers including methodology introductions, financial management, architecture, operational planning, and design of a Trouble Ticketing System for implementation enterprise-wide
Wrote Logical Architecture for Saudi Telecom’s Network Management centers and got it approved by the customer in first attempt and recognized revenue on time.
Delivered Network management applications to manage switching, Transmission and other telecoms functions to Verizon and create a business partnership between two companies which resulted in multi-Billion business over the years
Supported pre-sales teams worldwide with architecture and business planning with the noted Telecom customers
Implemented architectures for several Telecom service providers worldwide to generate revenue gains in excess of $125 million while cutting costs for service providers by more than $1 billion over seven years

Design and Development, Quality, Product Management and Manufacturing