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Responsible for development, design, engineering and transfer of wafer manufacturing tools and new facilities for advance 300mm microprocessor products. Includes transfer of advanced manufacturing technologies from Technical Development to high volume manufacturing facilities world wide. Functions include driving Copy Exactly practices, standards and guidelines, development and delivery of standard design applications to support engineering and construiction. Oversight of several teams that… Show more Responsible for development, design, engineering and transfer of wafer manufacturing tools and new facilities for advance 300mm microprocessor products. Includes transfer of advanced manufacturing technologies from Technical Development to high volume manufacturing facilities world wide. Functions include driving Copy Exactly practices, standards and guidelines, development and delivery of standard design applications to support engineering and construiction. Oversight of several teams that work within cross company organizations to identify program and engineering quality issues, develop improvement plans, and drive execution to measurable improvements. Worked with individual contributors and managers up through the VP level to ensure on time program deliveries Show less

responsibilities include the facility transfer of all advanced flash based process technologies from Technical Development to high volume manufacturing facilities world wide. Functions include measuring and adjusting process transfers and production ramps to meet customer demand predictions, collaboratively developing and driving the adoption of company-wide design and engineering practices, standards, guidelines and tools. The development and delivery of standard design applications to support… Show more responsibilities include the facility transfer of all advanced flash based process technologies from Technical Development to high volume manufacturing facilities world wide. Functions include measuring and adjusting process transfers and production ramps to meet customer demand predictions, collaboratively developing and driving the adoption of company-wide design and engineering practices, standards, guidelines and tools. The development and delivery of standard design applications to support facilities engineering and support technologies. Management of several teams that work with cross company organizations to identify program and engineering quality issues, develop improvement plans, and drive execution to make measurable improvements. Develop process metrics, implement measurement systems, monitor leading and lagging indicators and make necessary adjustments to ensure delivery of committed product lines. with a 17% decrease in resource requirements. Show less

Managed a team of about 45 engineering and administrative personnel within the Corporate Services Construction Division in support of a manufacturing facility conversion and ramp of State-of–the-Art Flash product lines. Brought in by management to help recover failing $300M project by driving project planning, contracting and execution for engineering and design to manufacturing product final delivery. Key accomplishments included implementation of programs to improve engineering and design… Show more Managed a team of about 45 engineering and administrative personnel within the Corporate Services Construction Division in support of a manufacturing facility conversion and ramp of State-of–the-Art Flash product lines. Brought in by management to help recover failing $300M project by driving project planning, contracting and execution for engineering and design to manufacturing product final delivery. Key accomplishments included implementation of programs to improve engineering and design quality by 43%, optimize advance technologies with maximum reuse of existing infrastructure with 8% realized savings, and successful product transfer and factory ramp from the Flash technology development facility at record yields. Recovered 15% of design & engineering project contract value through aggressive claims and dispute resolution from predecessor actions. Show less

Team Leader of network and system engineers in the design, development, implementation and support of manufacturing and Technical Development network systems for Intel’s first 300mm manufacturing facility. Responsibilities included implementation of advance network technologies, system reliability studies and testing, system data convergence with capacity analysis, prototype system installation, configuration and testing, and application compatibility and implementation support ($28M budget).… Show more Team Leader of network and system engineers in the design, development, implementation and support of manufacturing and Technical Development network systems for Intel’s first 300mm manufacturing facility. Responsibilities included implementation of advance network technologies, system reliability studies and testing, system data convergence with capacity analysis, prototype system installation, configuration and testing, and application compatibility and implementation support ($28M budget). Project demanded rigorous testing and failure path analysis of residing application communications to include scaled system environment implementations. Team achieved a 22% reduction in network systems failures to world-class levels of greater than 387 days of continuous network system and factory up time receiving several development recognitions Show less

Supported three successive factory technology ramps of Intel’s advance microprocessor technologies progressing from Functional Area Manager of several areas to Project Design Manager. Responsible for teams of 5 to 56 engineers and designers supporting engineering, installation and qualification of advance manufacturing process equipment (average project budget of $70M). Achievements included a 14% decrease in project cost, development and implementation of streamlined engineering and design… Show more Supported three successive factory technology ramps of Intel’s advance microprocessor technologies progressing from Functional Area Manager of several areas to Project Design Manager. Responsible for teams of 5 to 56 engineers and designers supporting engineering, installation and qualification of advance manufacturing process equipment (average project budget of $70M). Achievements included a 14% decrease in project cost, development and implementation of streamlined engineering and design processes, identification and application of process metrics and feedback systems for productivity and quality improvements, development and implementation of design and engineering software applications for increased communications accuracy and data improvement for management information reporting and decision systems Show less

Oversight of 16 Trident submarine divisions in operation, maintenance and repair of the Trident Submarine Command & Control Systems ($20M budget). Responsibilities included coordination of Naval Sea Systems R&D projects with John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, coordination of system operation, maintenance, repair, major overhauls and retrofits. Accomplishments include overhaul of noise reduction program and increased operational performance and availability of 15%