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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Report directly the Senior Vice President of Technology responsible for ensuring that product released to customers conformed to the highest quality levels.
• Led vision, strategy, and execution for multiple teams responsible for ensuring quality and reliability across different phases of the product life cycle. Developed strategic plans to improve processes and coordinated.
• Effectively managed a $2.4 million budget and led a team of 30 engineers and technicians across 3 sites to meet and exceed business objectives
• Championed Weibull analysis on existing products to validate financial impact from legacy products, validate reliability models used in product development, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Provide proactive, diligent, and fact-based communications to executive leadership, peers, and team members. Establish KPIs and metrics for all teams, and report on overall performance monthly, quarterly, and annually.
• Ensure that staff has the skills and behavior to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Report to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Consumer Technologies Group, a multi-billion-dollar division of Flex. Accountable for executing consumer electronics programs successfully by aligning global.
• Drive early engagement with Customer, Business Development and Adv. Architecture teams to close on solution architecture, technical scope and business/contractual terms and conditions.
• Work directly with Customer, Design Center, Account, Factory and Quote teams to lock down pricing, NRE, timelines, resources and risks; prepare project budget for customer proposal.
• Use Flex Design Center and/or engage value-add 3rd party design partners to align HW, FW, SW and Validation to deliver cost-effective solutions meeting product requirements, quality objectives and delivery timeline.
• Align Engineering, Manufacturing and Customer to facilitate a smooth transition from prototypes to Mass production.
• Responsible for ensuring all activities are completed on time and within the approved budget.

Norcross, Georgia

• Led a global team of 30 engineers (direct and indirect reports) responsible for design and productization of RAID Storage Adapter supporting a $400M product line. Disciplines included Engineering Program Management.
• Successfully launched the MegaRAID SAS 12G storage portfolio for all major OEMs, securing revenue for the next 5 years.
• Worked closely with original design manufacturer (ODM) partners in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) to align design and validation resources and ensure all 12G products met the quality objectives for an enterprise class.
• Initiated design quality and schedule fidelity processes. Defined CTQ (Critical to Quality) metrics to measure success and identify areas for improvement.
• Strategically aligned board design and IC development teams on the next generation of storage products. Reduced redundancies and time to market by 20% by streamlining development processes and improving quality.
• Increased performance, reduced defects and improved customer satisfaction by introducing battery emulation into HW and FW validation testing to uncover issues arising on aging product.

Norcross, Georgia

• Led a team of 20 engineers across multiple geographies in the implementation of customer critical enhancements and fixes which impacted revenue. Disciplines included Logic Design, Firmware, BIOS, Drivers and Utilities.
• Partnered with Product Management, Marketing and Product Test teams to establish LSS (Lean Six Sigma) processes which proactively addressed customer defects and ensured issues were tracked from initial customer.
• Partnered with Operations/Quality to perform root-cause analysis on field failures and drive closed-loop corrective action (CLCA) with HW, ME, SW and manufacturing teams.
• Initiated quarterly review of strategic customer accounts with Development, Product Management, Sales and Support teams. Identified key customer issues and facilitated plans to proactively address pain points and.
• Improved processes and procedures, yielding a 50% reduction in turn-around time (TAT) for addressing customer issues and a 4% reduction in the overall number of issues active at any time.
• Identified key CTQ (Critical to Quality) metrics for success. Implemented automated process for generating backlog, TAT and aging data used to prioritize workload and increase customer satisfaction. Won return business.

Norcross, Georgia

• Worked directly for the General Manager of the Storage Components Division (SCD) business unit. Tasked with aligning resources globally (China, Taiwan, India and the US) to ensure the smooth launch of the industry’s.
• Scope of influence encompassed early silicon definition through final production launch.
• Reduced inefficiencies and redundancies across multiple business units ensuring teams collaborated and complemented each other to coordinate and streamline deliverables.
• Successfully transitioned a major OEM from a competitive product to the LSI standard solution, securing $20M in incremental revenue.

Norcross, Georgia

• Led a team of 15 engineers in the physical design of hardware supporting a $200M RAID Adapter business. Disciplines included Logic Design, CAD/CAM and Simulations.
• Secured several consecutive generations of design wins spanning multiple storage technologies (IDE, SATA, and SCSI & SAS).
• Collaborated with Operations, Commodity Management, and Manufacturing Test teams to institute a weekly new product introduction (NPI) interlock meeting. Provided visibility to project in development to ensure smooth.
• Worked with Commodity Management and Manufacturing Test teams to implement design / layout guidelines for low cost, high volume manufacturing.
• Partnered with Operations team to establish DFx (Design for Manufacturability / Design for Testability) process. Focused on enhancements to facilitate transition from on-shore low volume prototype manufacturing to.
• Established and implemented ISO2000 process across hardware development for increased efficiencies and productivity.

Norcross, Georgia

• Delivered industry leading technology targeting intelligent RAID solutions.
• Facilitated development of new products encompassing concept, schematic entry, CAD/CAM, release to manufacturing, validation and customer acceptance.
• Secured several consecutive generations of design wins spanning multiple storage technologies (IDE, SATA, SCSI & SAS).
• Created a PCI arbitrator using Altera AHDL tools for an external storage controller proof of concept project.

Norcross, Georgia

• Design engineer working with a team of exceptionally skilled hardware and software engineers to deliver innovative automation solutions to the newspaper and magazine industry.
• Designed industrial control panels used to interface between computer terminal and industrial machinery.
• Designed computer based hardware to implement high speed printing on various types of industrial paper handling equipment.

Shark River, New Jersey & Portsmith, New Hampshire

Honorable Discharge