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Santa Clara, California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

-Defined and implemented program management methodologies and tools to scale operations in a high-growth startup environment.-Spearheaded the transition from a prototype R&D environment to pilot line production, ensuring seamless integration of new processes.-Managed and achieved initial IATF 16949 certification, a key quality management standard in the automotive industry, driving continual improvement, defect prevention, and waste reduction.-Developed and led cross-functional teams to execute complex programs on time and within budget, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability.-Optimized resource allocation and project prioritization, resulting in improved program delivery timelines.-Introduced risk management frameworks to mitigate potential disruptions in production and supply chain processes.-Enhanced customer engagement by aligning program deliverables with client expectations.-Leading weekly executive staff meetings. Reporting quarterly to the board.-Rolled out and managed Jira and Confluence collaboration platforms.

Palo Alto, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Manage worldwide system development team. Lead a cross-functional product team including Product Management, Operations, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, Logistics, and External Partners. Drive key decisions and manage program-constraints. Oversee productivity tooling to enable global team collaboration and review status reports. Generate updates on progress, risks, and issues through presentations and written reports to stakeholders and executive management.➢ Harmoniously integrated the cultures of 2 Bay Area start-ups (Asian) into the parent company (Dutch) by the discovery of changes needed, aligning local and parent management on a strategy to initiate changes, and knowledge transfer, by bringing in managers and engineers from the parent company➢ Grew acquired organizations from in 2-years’ time; delivered predictability in product releases via project management methodologies in a start-up culture such as matrixed organization, a project management plan, risk management, and triple-constraint management.➢ Established and managed a program of 400+ employees from scratch on 3 continents, and strategic partner in Germany by creating a structure to deliver transparency, control the budget and monitor each development site deliverables under a coherent system.➢ Inaugurated processes, methodologies, transparency, and cost-benefit metrics for an acquired start-up; metrics included development cost, NPV, and gross margins to allow trade-offs between design decisions and ROI.➢ Influenced executive management to take a different tact to introduce the product to market sooner by reducing the scope of the initial product, by collecting data on market requirements, development costs and time, to compare NPV, sales opportunities, and margin scenarios.➢ Decreased product to market time by introducing concurrent engineering methodologies

San Francisco Bay Area

Manage software development project product breakthrough system. Project management tasks including develop project plans and scheduling, rally software engineering teams, identifying risks, communicate on status. Hands-on experience with productivity tools like JIRA and Confluence.➢ Singular manager in company history to deliver software on-time to the customer, by transitioning team to Agile processes, bringing in an Agile coach, and self-study through one-on-one crash course sessions and online learning courses.➢ Lifted Client Satisfaction 30% by hiring UX expert, collected usability requirements from internal and external super users and delegating 20-30% of scope to the next release for usability improvements; "Now I do not need to put a Ph.D. on your simulation software anymore. The software can be run by operators." Manager of a Key Customer

San Francisco Bay Area

Drove software modeling product roadmap and initiated research/feasibility studies for innovative technologies and set strategy and vision for new products. Managed field support team located in Belgium. Coordinated research projects collaborating with academic and industrial partners.➢ Attained major new client producing in revenue and received an executive award; increased client base with the win by leading a global in-house/external engineering team, to conduct data analysis and modeling and compile results to present a feasibility study to customer.− 1st vendor in niche simulation market to receive PO with major ship manufacturer.➢ Secured the largest company software deal of by acting as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for advanced product features to the field support team to work with colleagues and customer senior engineers to apply company products to customer use cases and demonstrate the company’s product performance.− Won contract and displaced existing vendor by fostering an “Evaluation Contract” and delivering a customized software solution to support customer’s R&D and volume production activities➢ Manage projects $2.2M/year, 14 FTE feasibility, and proof book studies.➢ Provided new insight on ways to improve model prediction and owned documenting product requirements to the product engineering team and application testing.➢ Awarded three key company patents

Greater New York City Area

➢ Increased the competitiveness of product portfolio by working closely with the key senior engineers and solving problems they could not solve themselves➢ Provided class and 1:1 advanced level product trainings➢ Delivered customized solutions to support customer’s R&D and volume production activities

Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for on-site customer support for ASML’s computational lithography products.Hands on EDA experience.

Brussels Area, Belgium

➢ Led and contributed to joint development projects between IMEC, ASML and Zeiss on optical imaging➢ Defined and executed simulation and wafer validation experiments in imec’s 300 mm clean room. ➢ Hands on experience on litho cluster, CD-SEM, scatterometry, wafer data analyses, EDA software

Leuven, Belgium

I studied magnetic phenomena in nanostructures via scattering and probe techniques, taught laboratory courses on optical and acoustic waves, mentored bachelor and master theses students, supervised experimental laboratory. During my PhD. work I had the opportunity to travel to many beautiful places in the world like Chicago, Grenoble, Madrid, Krakow, Geneva and pick up my passion to work with global teams. One of the highlights during this time was working at the European Synchrotron and Radiation Facility and Argonne National Lab, two out of the 3 places in the world where one can experiment at 3th generation synchrotron facilities.

Doctor, Science - Physics

Activities and Societies: Council Department of Physics and Astronomy POC Physics

Master, Physics

Participation in Erasmus student exchange program

Master, Physics

Activities and Societies: Permanente onderwijs commissie (POC natuurkunde)Participant in the Erasmus student exchange program: Uppsala.

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