Apr 2025 – Nov 2025 · 7 mos

• Driving high-impact global team delivering cutting edge design and verification platforms solutions in support of Arm’s various Line of Businesses.

Apr 2021 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs

• Head of Design Services department supporting all products of Arm's IP, CSS and SoC. Member of Arm Senior Leadership Group with leadership accountability for :
• Emulation & FPGA teams : Lead central company-wide Emulation and FPGA services teams to provide HW capacity, platforms, methodology, tools and support to Arm Engineering. Industry expert, strong interaction with key actors/providers in this area, promoting my vision across conferences and marketing events. Have strong engineering knowledge to understand verification/validation & pre silicon technical challenges in order to propose suitable solutions (tools, flow, methodology) for Arm engineering. Define and deploy Shift-left strategy.
• Silicon boards: Silicon Boards team: bring up, installed and support Silicon boards farm to enable software development.
• Manage Arm EDA inbound. Driving complex EDA relationship and partnership to achieve Arm roadmap. Own Arm EDA Budget - consolidate/negotiate/procure EDA tools interacting closely with stakeholders such as Arm Engineering/Enterprise Functions (procurement, legal, IT)/external EDA ecosystem. Define Arm EDA Strategy, take strategic decision and judgement on EDA tools roadmap to influence them to be aligned with Arm products strategy with a maximum impact on the global ecosystem.
• "Arm On Arm" based engineering enablement : Lead Arm based Engineering team to enable engineering tools/flow to run on Aarch64 architecture within Arm and for the Arm Ecosystem, working closely with EDA partners and Arm's Infra Line of Business.
• Design Services' teams are located in UK - Cambridge/Manchester, India - Bangalore, USA - Austin, Norway - Trondheim, Sweden - Lund.

Nov 2019 – Jul 2020 · 8 mos

• DESIGN SERVICES:
• Accountable for providing Design Services to all arm products groups, owning below area:
• EDA
• Budget owner for company-wide hardware and software tools investment and operations management : Front end design, Back end implementation, SW communities.
• Define Arm EDA strategy / investment / partnerships
• Contracts negotiations with procurement/legal.
• Design services and support:
• Drive strategy for steering board / steering groups, TRM/MRM/ERM setup/review/follow up with EDA Vendors
• HW Acceleration strategy to all arm products groups for verification, validation, benchmarks activities:
• Emulation, FPGAs capacity and services : build, support and maintain infra / automation flow to provide services to Arm engineering products group
• ARM on ARM : Arm Aarch64 enablement.
• Collaborate with partners (EDA, Clouds providers) to enable tools and flows on Arm architecture servers.
• DATA-CENTRIC ENGINEERING (interim position to built this newly created group)
• Newly created group to enable Arm Engineering to make high quality technical decisions in all aspects of engineering and exploit data science to optimise many engineering workflows, exploiting engineering data sources.
• My accountability is to temporarily setup VMS, to build and lead a team of data scientists/engineers/analysts/developers/
• operations engineers who will, research/design/code/integrate and test the sw components of key focus area:
• Data Science and Machine Learning algorithms to automate and optimize the engineering workflows
• Telemetry enabling platform intelligence
• Data engineering analytics platforms: define big data lake strategy to be able to operate both on premise and on the cloud (hybrid) with full se services stack
• Member of the Management/Senior Leadership team
• Design Service and Data-Centric Engineering teams are located in Bangalore/India, Cambridge-Manchester/UK, Austin/US, Trondheim/Norway, Lund/Sweden

Jun 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Accountable for providing Design Services to all arm products groups, including:
• EDA :
• Budget owner for company-wide hardware and software tools investment and operations management : Front end design, Back end implementation, SW communities.
• Define Arm EDA strategy / investment / partnerships /
• Contracts negotiations with procurement/legal.
• Design services and support:
• Drive strategy for steering board / steering groups, TRM/MRM/ERM setup/review/follow up with EDA Vendors
• Hardware Acceleration services: manage company-wide Emulation and FPGA capacity providing services, strategy and investment.
• Arm On Arm: enablement of Arm based engineering
• EDA on Arm: work with EDA partners to enable their tools on Aarch64.
• Work with clouds providers to enable engineering workloads in the clouds on Graviton2.
• Member of the Leadership team
• Design Service teams are located in Bangalore/India, Cambridge-Manchester/UK, Austin/US, Trondheim/Norway, Lund/Sweden

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 · 9 mos

• Head of a central group providing hardware assisted verification solutions:
• Emulation, FPGAs capacity and services
• build, support and maintain infrastructure / automation flow for HW technology.
• HW Acceleration strategy to all arm products groups for verification, validation, benchmarks activities.
• Hardware Acceleration teams are located in Bangalore/India, Cambridge/UK, Austin/US, Trondheim/Norway, Lund/Sweden

Sep 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Accountable for providing emulation services to all Arm products group:
• Successfully ramped up from scratch central teams based in USA, India, Europe to proactively and locally support various design centres.
• Setup and define HW/SW infrastructure strategy to enable the best throughput and efficient utilisation of the current HW assets
• Chair of RTL Hardware Acceleration Steering Group with a mission is to drive stakeholders / EDA technology roadmap and to define short/medium/long term Emulation/FPGA strategy for the company.

Jun 2016 – Jan 2025 · 8 yrs 7 mos · Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

• Smart Design Labs Vietnam is a Hanoi‑based company specialising and pioneering in 3D technology services and equipment, with a focus on 3D scanning, reverse engineering, 3D printing, and related training services. Offers 3D printing services and develops or supplies 3D printers, including large‑format and customized 3D printers under the 3DShop/Smart Design Labs branding.
• Acts as a local 3D solutions provider and equipment supplier, collaborating with various domestic and international partners in manufacturing and design. Targets applications such as product design, prototyping, education/training, and industrial part reproduction using 3D scanning and printing workflows.

Aug 1997 – Jun 2016 · 18 yrs 10 mos · Grenoble Area, France

• Various positions design and management positions on Design, SoC verification, validation:
• Design engineer, Verification engineer
• Worked on various projects In STB, Automotive, Imaging, Mobile, internal CPU processors family STxx/SHxx and the Chameleon project, an advanced 64 but dual processor.
• Central functional verification group manager and head of company-wide central hardware assisted solutions group by providing and deploying advanced emulation/prototyping system platforms to products divisions to enable full pre-silicon activities: architecture exploration, verification, validation, software / firmware development & post silicon debug based on advanced environment such as virtual platforms SystemC, fast models, hybrid platforms, transactional methodology co-emulation/co-fpga..
• Interface for EDA, Legal, Procurement to get the best tools/deals.
• Ramped up from scratch outstanding teams in important STM design centres such as India, Morocco, UK, France to better support business requirements.