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Boston, Ma, Us

North Reading, Ma, Us

* Achieve 4X volume increase, 60% field retrofit reduction, and 25% product quality improvement in four years through automation and process simplification.* Reduce New Product Introduction (NPI) from 36 to 18 months by left-shifting organization, embedding with design and leveraging building blocks and standardized cores.* Enable 1-day shipping and 70+% of item picking via improved systems.* Design, qualify, deploy, and custom test solutions to ensure 98+% First Pass Yield of robotic solutions.* Develop advanced test automation methods for quality, cost and reliability, reducing DOA from 1% to 0.1%.* Lead diverse team (local/remote) of 30 FTE mechanical, electrical, test development, quality and software engineers.* Execute DFx, Material Acceptance Process, and NPI for make-to-specification components/systems to ensure component multi-sourcing, rapid manufacturing ramp to volume while meeting quality targets.* Resolve customer problems via containment, root cause analysis and positive corrective action.* Blueprint and develop advanced automation methods and solutions for step function improvements in quality, cost and reliability to maximize customer experience.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Delivered global $60M+ annual cost savings by providing test-as-a-service with hardware abstraction.* Led 70 FTE in global software development in China, IRE and US to deliver automation solutions.* Championed cloud SaaS test capabilities and a quality platform to digitize and transform operations by developing global product test software platform as the corporate standard.* Deployed test platform to internal plants and contract manufacturers scale with data integration services.* Instituted Agile processes to improve solution on-time delivery/quality via self-organizing teams.* Advocated for KPIs/CI methods to eliminate waste, reduce variation and critical-to-customer measures.* Partnered with internal IT department for managed service, PaaS and corporate security practice.* Realized hardware quality, cost, availability, and SC flexibility benefits via real time analytic insight.* Achieved >96% throughput yield for complex circuit cards, power supplies, SSD and HDDs.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Embedded self-test into products to enable low-cost region manufacturing of complex circuit boards for:o 10% higher quality improvement with high failure isolation to mitigate cost of debug/repair.o $25M recurring production savings (e.g., quality, supply chain flexibility, skill to repair and carry cost).* Transformed development team mindset from tested-in to designed-in quality and reliability by:o Instituting design tools/process - Component DeRating, Stress Analysis, and Test Coverage Analysis.o Achieving $15M Y1 quality cost savings by detecting latent defects within three manufacturing plants.* Introduced sampling program to improve leverage and efficiency while ensuring product requirements for $2M capital avoidance by improving subassembly quality to enable direct fulfillment.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Mobilized NPI organization ($40M budget/200 FTE) for all global product qualification and NPI to achieve $200M annual rev impact, 6 month time-to-market improvement, and $40M field quality savings.* Managed test/process/systems engineering and DL teams to develop and deliver turn-key products.* Developed manufacturing strategy, specs and processes for seamless global introduction and volume ramp.* Performed RCA during design and qualification phases to ensure reliability and customer experience by addressing hardware, diagnostics, firmware, equipment and manufacturing/supply chain process.* Transitioned processes to Electronic Manufacturing Service firms and Tier-1 contract manufacturers.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

* Coached Test Equipment Development organization (60 FTE) to design, qualify, and maintain solutions.* Guided electrical, software and mechanical designs for internal/external product test equipment.* Defined requirements and executing electrical design, schematic capture and PCB layout and* Executed software development, mechanical fixture design, procurement and cost accounting.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Manager, Advanced Manufacturing Development (1997 – 1999)* Instituted storage product focused board test and system test teams to qualify products.* Integrated acquired business lines (tape, and midrange storage arrays), personnel and equipment.* Developed internal design tools and ECO system to improve configuration management.Manufacturing Program Manager (1996 – 1997)* Managed product line NPI from design into global manufacturing by delivering technical and business processes, built bill-of-material and managed prototype inventory. * Matured NPI playbooks, managed program operations activities and tracked progress for senior management.* Ensured readiness and alignment through MRP load, training, planning, product roadmap, and technical teams. Senior/Principle Engineer (1993 – 1996)* Refined manufacturing processes, test specifications, procedures and manufacturing product documentation. * Accomplished product line support (e.g., Symmetrix MF/OS, AS400 block and Celerra NAS storage lines).* Defined processes, automation and data analysis to improve product and process quality.

Falls Church, Va, Us

* Provided inertial navigation assembly technical direction, qualified products, and developed test cases.

* Reviewed contractor specs/change proposals, managed schedules, and directed field tech support/upgrades.

* Tested ground/RF troposcatter high power amplifier and military modems and multiplexers.

High Technology Mba

Master Of Management Science, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

Executive Education, Sustaining High Performance

Leadership Development - Self, Teams And Systems