Taru (Sara) Madaan, PhD

Technical Program Manager

Mountain View, California, United States14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Grew Google ERG 8-fold impacting 4K+ employees.
Led teams of up to 50 for proof-of-concept development.
Licensed technology to a leading microscopy company.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Hardware Engineering expert with a focus on optics and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam ManagementOptics EngineeringBiomedical Engineering

Other Skills

PresentationsAnalytical SkillsImaging ScienceOpticsHardware EngineeringCommunicationProject LeadershipDisplay/Optics Test EngineeringCross-product StandardizationManufacturing Cost OptimizationMatlabMicroscopyCell CultureOptical MicroscopyOptical Coherence Tomography

About

Tech lead with multiple years of cross-functional experience and history of delivering critical HW/SW projects across global engineering organizations. Grew a Google ERG 8-fold in 2 years impacting 4K+ employees and 5M+ customers globally. Looking for an opportunity to expand on project and team management skills at a fast-paced, growing hardware-focused company. Skilled in project scoping, planning, prioritization, scheduling, risk management, identifying OKRs and KPIs, cross functional alignment, vendor management and customer analysis. Technical skills include developing end to end optical test solutions for laser based and display based systemsm designing software algorithms and hardware for large scale manufacturing, test coverage optimization, test cost reduction and cross-product standardization. I enjoy ideation, IP creation, proof-of-concept development, team leading. I have lead teams of up to 50 people for proof-of-concept development, scaling from 1-to-many and have licensed my technology to a leading microscopy company.

Experience

Google

4 roles

Senior Technical Program Manager

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Factory SW/OS, Factory Test, Security lead for Google Beam (Starline)

Project ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

Senior Test Engineer (Optics Hardware)

Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr

𝗣𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘁 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯)
Led a team of engineers to land module/FATP level automated solutions for display/LED
calibration and metrology.
Aligned cross functional teams across display engineering, quality, SDE, UX, display software and
color-pipeline to resolve NPI build issues and develop monitoring and mitigation strategies for
future builds.

Project ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

Global Lead, Google Employee Resource Group

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

One of two global leads responsible for increasing accessibility and inclusivity of all Google products and services.
Managed global org of 8 teams, focused on design, communication, and execution of 20+ initiatives for internal/external customers.
Personally recruited 20+ Googlers to different ERGregional teams and working groups.
Created and led the ERG Regional Steering Committee, a 10-person focused on the Americas
Developed executive (SVP/VP) engagement strategy on long term changes in healthcare, recruiting, product and YouTube policy, including inclusivity of Google Suite of Products and Google Meet.
Developed yearly OKRs and led bi-annual executive (C-level) reviews, presented to Susan Wojcicki (CEO, Youtube) and Lorraine Twohill (CMO, Google)

PresentationsAnalytical SkillsProject ManagementTeam Management

Test Engineer (Optics Hardware)

Dec 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭)
Scoped and executed a multi-year project, to develop a standardized and modularized display tester
for use across all Google hardware products including Pixel phones and tablets, Pixel-books and
Nest hub displays.
Led a team of 2 in-house engineers, 2 vendor engineers, and 2 external TPMs for development,
prototyping, testing and validation.
Gathered feedback from major stakeholders and lead engineers across 10+ product lines.
Delivered $2M/year savings by reducing station retrofit cost by 75% for several display programs.
Reduced engineering time for test station design by 30% saving ~250K/year.
Reduced retrofit time by 8x.
Improved repeatability, reliability and longevity over current state-of-art test stations.
Developed launch strategy and risk management strategy without negatively affecting build
timelines.
Launched test station on Pixel phone by aligning leads and managers from across engineering, TPM
and quality.
Prepared results for presentations to Google Hardware COO, Ana Corrales.
𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯 (𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗻) - 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬)
Developed module and FATP level automated test solutions including test methodology, test • •
software and test/calibration algorithms.
Aligned cross functional team of 15 across 3 time-zones to resolve NPI build issues and develop
monitoring and mitigation strategies for future builds.
𝗣𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗹 𝟰/𝟰𝗫𝗟 - 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵)
Developed module/FATP level automated test solutions for Pixel4/4XL face unlock optics.
Developed test methodology, test software, test algorithms and test-station ERS

Imaging SciencePresentationsOptics EngineeringProject Management

Spie, the international society for optics and photonics

Member, Diversity and Inclusion Ad Hoc Committee

Jan 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

University of southern california

2 roles

Research Assistant

Promoted

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

PresentationsImaging ScienceBiomedical EngineeringOptics Engineering

Provost Fellow

Aug 2012 – Jan 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos

𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱-𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴)
Conducted customer research to identify needs for imaging for drug development and
neuroscience research (eg. neuronal and blood flow imaging in zebrafish/fruitfly).
Developed a novel Light Field Microscopy (LFM) technology (called SVI) that provides higher
contrast than conventional LFM to provide rapid, synchronous 3D imaging.
Scoped personnel/capital requirements for developing a prototype. Sourced off-the-shelf and
custom parts for prototype.
Led a team of 8 PhD/MS students to design/build a SVI microscope and imaging software as a
prototype and showcased use cases.
Patented technology and showcased prototype at research conferences. Patent licensed to Carl
Zeiss Microscopy LLC.