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Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Dunfermline, Scotland, Gb

Responsible for strategic objectives linked to product quality, product cost, production and supplier continuous improvement. Also responsible for facilities management and environmental, health & safety

Dunfermline, Scotland, Gb

Responsible for global manufacturing, facilities management, health & safety, operations engineering and continuous improvement

Dunfermline, Scotland, Gb

Responsible for new product introduction into manufacture, sustaining engineering, value engineering and continuous improvement

Dunfermline, Scotland, Gb

Responsible for development and commercialisation of leading technology medical devices. Leading a multi disciplined hardware and software design team comprising optics, electronics, mechanical, software embedded, applications and algorithm.

Dunfermline, Scotland, Gb

Responsible for the commercialisation of global R&D projects.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Project managed a team of technical professionals based in the USA, Holland and Scotland, to establish high volume, rapid configurability and final test process capability in Sun's new Xdock Integration facilities (in Holland and USA) within a 4 month period, employing Lean manufacturing principles.Managed cross-functional team to bring up 2 product families simultaneously from design, in both sites, on schedule and to required quality standards; utilising previously unskilled contract labour. Reduced product lead-time from 14 days to 1 day by driving continuous improvement and Lean principles.Team also managed successful UL, ISO, China and internal compliance audits during the product bring-up period.Received Systems Group Collaborator Award for exceptional performance.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed Process, Quality, Test and Factory Engineering functions in support of EMEA product and solutions integration manufacturing operations.Responsible for engineering programme management and strategic initiatives including:- process development, continuous improvement and change program delivery to drive a culture of operational excellence.Prime responsibility also included global management of capital engineering, product quality and continuous improvement projects.

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Managed all test aspects within customer-focused teams, providing customised test solutions to a 'blue chip' customer base. Also responsible for providing expertise on design for test (DFT) and design for manufacture (DFM), as well as program management, regular customer liaison and evaluating requirements for new business.

Harlow, Gb

Managed test facility for a range of products within electronics manufacturing services department.Responsibilities included development of automated test solutions for telecommunications, automotive and defence products; in-circuit, functional, static and dynamic environmental stress screening solutions for printed circuit boards and systems; production of process performance metrics and capability studies and driving continuous improvements.

Responsible for development and factory commissioning of test applications for automated test equipment (ATE), including testing techniques such as analogue, digital, in-circuit, telecoms, emulation, reverse trace, simulation and self test, in addition to customer benchmark presentations, pre-sales/post-sales support on ATE products and test programming expertise, training and troubleshooting around the globe.

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