Ranjana Godse is a Staff Memory Engineer in the Supply Chain Engineering team of IBM Systems, focusing on Semiconductor Technologies used across all IBM Systems and products. She is responsible for Memory Supplier Qualification of Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies for IBM Server and Storage systems. Ranjana has over five years of industry experience with Larsen and Toubro ltd (L&T), India in the field of Low Voltage electrical switchgear and two years at International Business Machine (IBM), USA in semiconductor technology. She holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and a B-Tech in Electrical and Power Engineering from Govt. College of Engineering, India.
In her current role at IBM, she is responsible for providing technical expertise in Flash and Emerging Memory commodities to insure alignment of supplier’s capabilities with IBM’s strategic product offerings and future direction. Her new technical interest areas include new initiatives like IoT/Blockchain for supply chain and AI for IBM servers. She has co-authored publications for the Flash Memory Summit 2018 and 2017 and also holds several US patents. During her master’s at RIT she focused on graduate research work on ‘High-k dielectric materials’ and studied various topics related to semiconductor fabrication. During her tenure as an ‘Assistant Manager’ at Larsen and Toubro ltd. she was responsible for design and development of new products from brainstorming to prototyping. She was also involved in activities like Voice of Customer (VoC), Design for Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing etc.
Ranjana likes to volunteer for social causes. She was a mathematics tutor for three years providing free education to the underprivileged kids residing in slums. She also volunteered for e-week and looks forward to being a part of the IBM P-Tech mentorship program. She is associated with several NGOs working for women and child development in India. She was a women’s representative during her last year of her B-Tech program. Ranjana likes to read and write articles and poems in her mother tongue, Marathi.