Alice Baluni Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA

I lead Quality and Reliability continuous improvement initiatives in MEMS Sensor Business Group. I work with exceptionally talented engineers & developers to address all quality issues & concerns of global Tier 1 customers.My goal is to ensure application specific sensor performance & robustness requirements are met. I am inspired by the impact of.

Santa Clara, CA

Executive Customer Quality Advocate for Lenovo's Data Center Group responsible for driving customer quality objectives for the DCG Hyperscale Business

San Jose

• Developed Test Development and Design for Testability (DFT) Specifications working with Test and Design Engineering leadership teams. Procedures were essential for achieving Zero Defects Quality Goal for IDT’s analog.
• Defined Supplier Quality Strategy collaborating with Penang Quality, Global assembly and Test engineering teams.
• Addressed customer quality issues for many Tier 1 and Automotive customers (Huawei, Canon, Denso, Toshiba and others) working Global cross-functional engineering teams & suppliers using 6 sigma methodologies.
• Achieved Test Facility certification of Giga Solutions (GS) by Huawei and Automotive Test Facility qualification of Segurd and Global Test (GT) by Denso according to IATF16949 Automotive Standard.

San Jose, Bay Area

• Directed global customer quality management for LAN connectivity and networking, such as mobile, computing, wired / wireless infrastructure and networking products at Qualcomm Atheros. Recipient, quality awards from.
• Achieved closure of customer quality issues hardware (HW) & software (SW) working with Development, Sales, Product, Test and Applications engineering & supported strategic design wins at key customers, TP-Link, Apple.
• Realized safe product launch with Murata, Alps & Panasonic for automotive market, & XiaoMi4C Smartphone with 2x2 802.11ac and MU-MIMO products for mobile market. Supported NPI with built in quality for all products.

San Jose, Bay Area

• Director, Global Quality ImprovementBuilt reliability testing and failure analysis (FA) center within Asia Center of Excellence, Philippines. Constructed site from bottom up, recruiting and training engineering team..
• Reduced costs $3M and response time 3 days by interfacing with global, cross-functional teams in Europe, US and in Asia, leading Atmel Global Failure Analysis Labs in US, Germany, France and Philippines.
• Defined new product introduction process, and transferred Atmel flagship Touch product family technologies to foundries TSMC, MagnaChip, UMC, completing customer qualifications and addressing quality issues at Samsung.
• Enhanced test program release procedure and led final test transfer for NVM and MCU products, from San Jose to overseas subcontractors by interfacing with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Won acceptance by customer for Atmel flagship products by improving design of I/O cells for advanced technologies, in collaboration with design and technology engineering teams.
• Reduced returns by 4% by developing outgoing quality improvement programs at subcontractors ASE and Amkor.