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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Successful delivery of a new multifunctional office printer range enabling $130M+ annual revenue for Xerox involving new mechanical, software, electrical design and integration. Leading 100+ project team members worldwide while working with Xerox’s manufacturing partners in Malaysia and AO (Asia Operations) in Singapore for the final product transition into production.After product launch, focus on sustaining activities working closely with service, test, software, design and… Show more Successful delivery of a new multifunctional office printer range enabling $130M+ annual revenue for Xerox involving new mechanical, software, electrical design and integration. Leading 100+ project team members worldwide while working with Xerox’s manufacturing partners in Malaysia and AO (Asia Operations) in Singapore for the final product transition into production.After product launch, focus on sustaining activities working closely with service, test, software, design and manufacturing groups for continuous product, reliability and cost improvement. Key Achievements: - Met product launch quality metrics, reliability, cost and delivery goals on schedule- Successful transition to product launch and production in Malaysia - No production line stop from launch to today due to potential manufacturing quality deviations, material shortages (including electronic components) and obsolescence - Successful implementation and deployment of a new software platform version into production and field products Key Skills gained:- Strategic thinking and decisions to enable a more reliable and predictable project schedule taking into consideration team’s culture and its potential benefit/impact to project risks- Making informed decisions based on facts- Defining, setting priorities, planning program objectives and milestones- Measuring, controlling and forecasting program deliverables within budget- Working at high pace in a complex, stressful and dynamic environments Show less

United Kingdom

Over $3.3M annual DMC (Direct Manufacturing Cost) savings achieved in product cost optimisation while keeping required levels of reliability performance and quality targets. Design, implementation and qualification of multiple cross functional projects. Leasing and interfacing with APO teams and Xerox’s manufacturing partners in Malaysia.Areas of savings opportunity:Design: Elimination of mechanical redundancy, combination of functional areas, optimal materials, software… Show more Over $3.3M annual DMC (Direct Manufacturing Cost) savings achieved in product cost optimisation while keeping required levels of reliability performance and quality targets. Design, implementation and qualification of multiple cross functional projects. Leasing and interfacing with APO teams and Xerox’s manufacturing partners in Malaysia.Areas of savings opportunity:Design: Elimination of mechanical redundancy, combination of functional areas, optimal materials, software solutions to replace hardware solutionsProduction: Assembly time reduction, increase first time yield via reliability improvements, process assembly sequence optimisationCommercial: Increasing parts commonality across programs for higher purchasing volumes, qualification test of new alternative part suppliers Show less

United Kingdom

Extended responsibilities managing fuser control delivery team on current Xerox project under development

United Kingdom

Energy and Power SME (Subject Matter Expert) within the proactive systems engineering group. Technical leader role on system power architecture design and power management strategies guiding worldwide Xerox delivery teams from concept to product launch.Responsible for accomplishing all environmental energy and power compliance goals for all UK based projects (near $2B annual revenue reported in 2010) Key Achievements:- All certifications achieved for all products (e.g… Show more Energy and Power SME (Subject Matter Expert) within the proactive systems engineering group. Technical leader role on system power architecture design and power management strategies guiding worldwide Xerox delivery teams from concept to product launch.Responsible for accomplishing all environmental energy and power compliance goals for all UK based projects (near $2B annual revenue reported in 2010) Key Achievements:- All certifications achieved for all products (e.g. Energy Star, Blue Angel, EPEAT and TuV) enabling winning bids and tenders contracts for Xerox on government and large account sales- Successful design and implementation of a new test equipment as well as a new lean six sigma process to enable automated night tests without increasing costs on human and computer stations resources- Early promotion to level 5 in 2006 and level 4 in 2008 taking extended responsibility over the all product development range at Xerox, UKKey Skills gained:- Team leadership as well as project management skills- Communication skills at all levels and disciplines, including suppliers, technical system experts, partners and senior management teams. Show less

Association For Project Management Professionals

Project Management Plan (Stakeholders analysis, Project Communication Plan, Project Strategy, Business Case, Financial Appraisal), Project.

Ucl - University College London, User Usage Profiles And Patterns Applied To Systems Design W/ Matlab/Simulink, Msc Systems Engineering Management

Black Belt, Energy Management Profiles, Black Belt

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is a separate and emerging business-process management methodology related to traditional Six Sigma..

Air Academy Associates, Green Belt

Lean Six Sigma is a managerial concept combining Lean and Six Sigma that results in the elimination of the seven kinds of wastes / muda.

Bsc Electronics Engineering

Project assignment: (Honors Qualification) Analogue optical smoke detector. Central panel server Coached by Dr. José María Rio Doval.