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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Driving innovation in the design, development and manufacture of surface mount “Open-type” ultrasonic transducers for the mid-air haptics market.Leading the team covering all aspects of Transducer NPI from design concept through to scalable offshore volume manufacturing.Delivering manufacturing, quality and operations excellence for the Ultraleap group for Haptics & Hand-tracking products.Developing our people to enable them to reach their potential and drive our commitment to the… Show more Driving innovation in the design, development and manufacture of surface mount “Open-type” ultrasonic transducers for the mid-air haptics market.Leading the team covering all aspects of Transducer NPI from design concept through to scalable offshore volume manufacturing.Delivering manufacturing, quality and operations excellence for the Ultraleap group for Haptics & Hand-tracking products.Developing our people to enable them to reach their potential and drive our commitment to the creation & development of high performing teams and products Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

Following the successful acquisition of Gennum Products by Semtech corporation.Responsible for Product, Test and characterisation engineering for all signal integrity product groups products including teams based in Burlington, Ottawa and Irvine (USA) in addition to responsibility for Validation Engineering for Bristol based optical products and management of the Bristol R&D site.Streamlining ATE platform selection at a business unit level, bringing mixed signal multisite test into the… Show more Following the successful acquisition of Gennum Products by Semtech corporation.Responsible for Product, Test and characterisation engineering for all signal integrity product groups products including teams based in Burlington, Ottawa and Irvine (USA) in addition to responsibility for Validation Engineering for Bristol based optical products and management of the Bristol R&D site.Streamlining ATE platform selection at a business unit level, bringing mixed signal multisite test into the fore.Working in collaboration with SVP Operations to streamline offshore test and assembly partners.Integrating test and product engineers from three distinctly different companies / cultures.Working with non-semiconductor specific contract manufacturers on various optical sub assembly products, including ROSA's and Silicon Photonics. Show less

Bristol

Following the successful acquisition of the Nanotech Semiconductor business by Gennum Products. Overseeing the daily management of the R&D centre whilst continuing to maintain responsibility for Supply Chain management, Product Engineering, Test Development, Evaluation and Charactersation engineering of all Bristol designed Gennum Optical Products.

Responsible for Supply Chain management, Production Test Development, Health and safety, Evaluation and Charactersation of new products and Quality. Working from scratch implemented complete quality system - achieved ISO9001 certification, developed and built direct partnerships with the top wafer foundries, assembly and test houses. Took the business from producing thousands to volumes in the tens of millions and into successful acquisition.

Responsible for Test, Evaluation, Prod Eng, Characterisation, QA & SCM.Defining the company's ATE strategy, assembly and test house partnership and creating a world class evaluation and test team.Working with leading OSAT in the development of a flip-chip package for a 10Gbps mixed signal EDC IC.Creating the companies NPI process and securing ISO9001 accreditation.

Responsible for QA, Test, Charactersation and Product Engineering - initially also responsible for SCM. Took the company from an IC design capability into a volume producer of IC's. Introducing all the relevant processes & procedures plus recruiting a back-end team from scratch. Once aquired by Conexant Systems additionally became responsible for a team of 50 Test and Product Engineering personnel in the US.

Test Program / multi-site test development on microcontroller products.Foundry interface between Motorola & Newport Wafer Fab responsible for bring-up of microcontroller IC fabrication in the foundry.Qualification of local ASAT assembly facility for Motorola products.

Responsible for mature Transputer products.All aspects of product engineering including offshore test transfer,yield & failure analysis, test time reduction, cycle time improvement, test development, burn-in removal etc

Responsible for technicians supporting the final test process. Specific responsibility for Linear and Telecom IC's. Debug and modification of test programs, failure, yield analysis, cost and throughput improvement.