Michelle Beck - Palomar College

AKHILESH JAISWAL
1484 Kiner Avenue, San Jose, CA-95125
Home: 408-445-8316, Cell: 650-861-1543, Email: ajaiswal2012@kellogg.northwestern.edu
S UMMARY
Senior Executive with 17+ years of progressive leadership experience in Business Management, Information
Technology, Strategy & Leadership, Global Team Management, Senior-Level Operations, Program
Management, Project Turnarounds, Budget and Resource Planning, Cross Functional Team Building, Contract
Negotiations, Change Control Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, and Implementing
Enterprise Wide Solutions. Results-driven, innovative and business-savvy Senior Manager with track record of
goal-surpassing performance, delivering large-scale, complex, cross-functional and global projects on time and
on budget. Strategic Business Planner with Visionary Thinking who maximizes productivity and team spirit.
Outstanding leader with exceptional interpersonal, communication, project management and problem solving
skills and technical proficiency who builds effective working relationships resulting in top performance.
EDUCATION
KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, IL
MBA - Master of Business Administration - Strategy, Finance & Marketing - degree expected June, 2012
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN, Jaipur, India
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications Engineering, 1994
Honors (First Division) - Highest Level of Achievement in India
EXPERIENCE
SYNOPSYS INC, Mountain View, CA 2000 - Present
Synopsys, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide electronic design automation (EDA) software & related services for
semiconductor design companies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and has
annual revenue of US $1.5B. Synopsys is listed in Nasdaq as SNPS and has around 7000 employees globally.
Senior Manager, IT, May 2007 – Present
Lead 4 global functional teams - Data Centers, Business Applications Infrastructure (SAP), Core Infrastructure
(UNIX/Windows), and Electronic Design Automation Tools & Licenses Management. Manage a total of 18
employees including 4 direct & 14 skip-level employees and an annual budget responsibility of US $15M.
• Active Leadership role in the Contract Negotiations of Future Bay-Area Synopsys Data Center, a deal
of US $55M financial commitment, saving millions of dollars for Synopsys on proposed rates.
• Designed & managed various Data-Center builds including the build of 100+ high-density racks.
Achieved savings of US$1.5M over next 3 years by worldwide Data-Center Optimization.
• Led and managed a major global network transition roll-out to MPLS network spanning 53 worldwide
sites and achieved a savings of US $1M per year and an average of 21% performance improvement.
• Recommended SAP infrastructure roadmap for the company - Led the team by developing a 3 phase
implementation plan for SAP infrastructure upgrade and migrations to the new platform, improving
the SAP Business Applications’ performance by 10% globally.
• Relied upon as the go-to Project Manager to lead Mergers and Acquisitions for engineering
environments. Succeeded in bringing a lagging M&A project back on track within four weeks with
renewed sense of urgency and provided strong, decisive, technical, and judicious leadership.
• Chair and lead the Change Control Management Board of the organization.
• Led the Cloud Computing Initiative for Synopsys to support EDA tools in Amazon and other Clouds.
• Recruited, Trained, Directed, Motivated and Mentored more than 50 employees located at many sites
across the world – Established effective organizational and behavioral skills to manage a diverse team.
• Managed global email upgrade project touching around 6000 email boxes with 6TB of data-storage
and improved the global email performance by 25%.
• Recipient of Employee Excellence Award - 2009, given to less than 0.5% of the global employee base
to recognize key employees who embody company’s core values: Integrity, Customer Success through
Execution Excellence & Leadership – based on feedback and nomination from worldwide employees.
• Recipient of the Spirit of Excellence CFO Award - 2008, given to only one person from the Finance
organization based on executive management staff recommendations.