Christopher Towle Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Function as primary TI contact for customer escalations on quality, engineering and operational issues
• Lead for annual pricing negotiations and development and implementation of long term supply agreements with customers
• Responsible for quarterly financial forecasting for wide spectrum of end equipment markets and customers for annual revenue > $400M
• Drive scope, schedule and resource alignment among management and multiple execution teams within the product lines
• Balanced demands of multiple development programs at an individual and organizational level
• Customers include: Abbott Diabetes Corp, Bosch, Continental Automotive, Sirius XM, Denso/Toyota

• Responsible for developing and executing the business strategy and product plans for custom ASIC portfolio with >$120M annual revenue
• Manage worldwide staff and provide operational oversight with full P&L accountability
• Conduct research and development and support rapid revenue growth and profitability for the Canon ASIC and DISP businesses
• Managed supplier relationships, contract negotiations and deliverables
• Financially managed product lines to ensure correct tradeoffs are made to improve profitability and TTM
• Customers include: Canon, Siemens, Apple, Olympus Medical, Intel

• Management of all aspects of customer programs from kick-off through ramp-to-production, including sustaining and production activities, with heavy emphasis on customer interaction and plan execution
• Lead interface with customer on technical matters in relation to design, process, and product level engineering decisions
• Manage and oversee all program deliverables, project schedule and budget
• Organize activities ensuring completion of the program on schedule and within budget constraints
• Assign and monitor work of multi-discipline engineering teams, providing technical support and direction through out project life cycle
• Manage the coordination of activities of multi-site teams with responsibility for results in terms of costs, methods, and deliverables

• Act as cross-functional technical team leader in the aligning of priorities and providing direction and focus of team to meet/exceed business level goals and customer deliverables
• Work closely with the other functional teams in the design, product, characterization, application, and completion of projects to meet market release schedules

• Design and implementation of various data collection tools to support manufacturing in process improvement, quality control, and cost reduction
• Drive quality improvement, process enhancement, and cost reduction initiatives utilizing DOE/SPC
• Direct and facilitate product qualification and reliability efforts for SPARC microprocessors
• Initiate and monitor process tracking, data analysis, electrical failure isolation, and debugging strategies
• Develop and implement wafer probe and electrical assembly test programs for SUN SPARC Microprocessors
• Initiate the functional debugging, electrical failure analysis, and fault isolation of SPARC microprocessors

79409, TX, US

* Collaborated with technical support team in the management of various project and team focal points.* Facilitated the troubleshooting, support, and enhancement of existing internal and client servers. * Performed general network and end user technical support.

Mba, Master Of Business Administration

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering