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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Santa Cruz, California, Us

Mar 2019 - June 2022: Manager, Product Reliability EngineeringJuly 2022 - Nov 2022: Senior Manager Product Reliability Engineering

San Jose, California, Us

2008 - 2011: Sr. Reliability Engineer - Practice Leader2011 - 2019: Product Reliability Engineering Manager, WW Operations• Perform hands-on reliability testing on Network Equipment, Wireless Handsets, Conference Equipment, Desk Phones, Video products and complex network end points. Testing included DMT, ORT, comprehensive HALT, HASS/HASA, PoS/SoS/PoE and numerous other testing methods.• Manage Quality/Reliability Engineers worldwide. Technical lead for several groups regarding product reliability including internal, ODM, JDM and OEM teams.• Proposed and drove companywide Product Quality and Reliability process to encompass all products.• Contributed to the reduction of field returns by > 90% on various complex network products using new reliability techniques.• Implemented FRACAS (Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System) integrated with the Product Lifecycle Management system (PLM). This helped ensure that issues were not propagated across product lines and complete failure analysis/corrective action was performed.• Proposed, designed and implemented product testing labs World Wide. These included HALT, HASS/HASA, ESS & ALT, DMT, ORT, Drop and other testing.• Frequently traveled globally to lead in hands-on product testing, laboratory design, perform “Best Practices” training for development engineers, contract manufacturers and other personnel.• Solely designed product specific automated control, measurement and load testing HW/Mech/SW/GUIs for use in Accelerated Testing.• Designed and developed innovative test fixturing that greatly reduced test setup times from over a day to less than an hour. Solely designed isolation test equipment (HW/Mech/SW GUIs) that significantly increased product testing effectiveness, test coverage and fault isolation during Accelerated testing on all products.• Significantly exceeded expectations on goals and objectives. Nominated for 2011 CEO Award and received Employee STAR award for 2010.

• Main activities were the design of radio controlled brushed DC motor controllers for harsh environments, robotics and educational use. • These designs included high current PWM DC motor control, Current limit and thermal protection, uC Firmware and Software design, circuit and PCB design for combined AtoD control feedback, uC and high current switching FET bridges with current sense feedback, redundant fail-over, telemetry, DFR / DFM / DFT and manufacturing. • Custom designed brushed DC motors from 0.5 to 100W and other robotic specific designs. Sponsored FIRST Robotics and other Robotic/Educational Organizations. • Offshore manufacturing of motors, mechanical gearboxes, wheels and other robotic items.

Denver, Co, Us

Contract Position:• Designed high power heating structures with efficient and innovative control systems for thermal test chambers exceeding 100kW, high power 1-2-3 phase systems and industrial controls, 110-480VAC >200A systems. • Designed cryogenic control, piping subsystems, delivery methods and safety.• Created and maintained simulation models and calculations for thermal, cryogenic flow and consumable usage / efficiency for systems based on material construction.• These systems are used by the DoD, aerospace and other industries for Highly Accelerated Stress Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS).

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Perform reliability testing on large scale Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Mission Critical Networks, Director Blades, Switches and Router Blades. Testing included HALT, source qualifications and performance validations and production screens such as HASS.• Solely conceived and designed a proprietary system to control and isolate devices during extreme environmental and accelerated testing. This design included PCB layout, analog/digital design, uC FW code in assembly language, and mechanical design.• Proposed a signal integrity test lab (Optical / fiber and electronic). This included selecting, specifying and purchasing all test and laboratory equipment.

San Jose, California, Us

Previously Confertech and Voyant Technologies1998 - 1999 Quality & Test Engineer1999 - 2000 Test Engineering Manager2000 - 2005 Test, Validation and Reliability Engineering Manager• Improved complex network system availability from 98% to 99.999% (5-nine) using redesign efforts and other listed below.• Successfully obtained NEBS-3 certification on a large scale network conferencing system. Redesigned and mitigated all testing issues in order to obtain certification. • Responsible for all HW reliability, Validation and Test engineering. This included calculating MTBF to MIL-217 and Telcordia TR-332 standards, Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS), Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), new and innovative production testing strategies, Design For Test (DFT) and Design For Manufacturing (DFM).• Responsible for all domestic and international electromagnetic compliance (EMC) and safety testing and EMC issue mitigation on all products.• Proposed, implemented and staffed the following departments: Compliance Engineering (Domestic and International); Test Engineering including ICT, DFM / DFT, HALT / HASS / ESS; Hardware Design Validation / Qualification and Import / Export Control.• Responsible for the redesign of the existing high availability conferencing bridge product to increase hardware reliability on the entire system. This included analog and high speed digital design for multiprocessor based circuits and custom redundant hot-swap (n+1) power supply design. • Perform in-depth failure analysis on all products and subassemblies. Responsible for all test fixtures and new product transition into manufacturing. Including ICT, Environmental production screens, etc.• Mentor, train and provide technical leadership for HW development engineers, test engineers and technicians.• Perform reliability and quality presentations to key customers. Compile and maintain KPI and reliability metrics.

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