Darren Rees Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Austin, Texas, Us

Senior Director of Engineering at Hiller Measurements. Lead teams of System, Electrical, Mechanical & Software Engineering through the design and implementation lifecycle for custom Test Equipment developed for assurance of numerous technologies across various industries.Executive level position at fast growing (~100% YoY) design & manufacturing hardware company primarily serving DoD & Aerospace industries. Charged with all aspects of development & design of products.Directed the product design engineering organization. Dozens of engineers such as of architectural design & system engineers as well as cross-functional integrated engineering teams comprised of electrical, mechanical, software and DFM engineers.Products made up of various assemblies such as test systems (Similar to data center racks with test equipment mounted) and chassis assemblies with various RF, PCBA, machined & 3D printed parts, as well as cables & harnesses. Requirement development, specification definition, simulations, analysis & calculations, modelling, design and manufacturing artifacts generation, design verification & product assurance, defined work breakdown structures, and allocations and scheduling of resources.Developed Product Lifecycle Design Processes to scale Engineering >300% within 12 months. This included numerous initiatives and undertakings such as following and mapping design activities, developing a basic Agile Project Management Tool from ground up to support development and design processes, performing an entire Re-Organization of Engineers in the business, defining new roles and responsibilities, rolled out Hybrid Agile methods for Hardware Design.

Austin, Texas, Us

Edge Services and Infrastructure for Data Centers, Network Transport, Telemetry, Compute, Virtualization, Core, Applications, Private Network. Ultra low latency workloads relating to 5G, IoT, Industry 4.0, Automation. Systems Integration for end to end use cases and solutions.Program management for all partner and customer engagements relating to edge services & infrastructure hosted on fiber backbones and geo-distributed edge data centers, delivering highest-performance edge-to-edge automated and intelligent colocation, networking, and interconnection services tightly integrated with the first and last mile networks.Systems integration and solutions engineering program management such as standing up compute, virtualization, 5G core, CPE devices, radio units, applications for end-to-end use cases such as “ Computer Vision ” as a service. Hardware deployment. Fiber Transport procurement. First/last mile network deployment. Cross-functional resource management. Delivering functional private wireless networks at edge with infrastructure end-to-end including full systems integration of devices, 5G Core and applications. Managing numerous different partners/customers/suppliers and directing internal functions such as Software, Network and Field Deployment Engineering to accomplish.Delivering multi-cloud high availability private networks. Integrating telemetry with partners such that virtualized workloads can be orchestrated between geo-distributed data centers on dedicated network transport.Vapor IO is building the foundation for the next-generation internet. Today’s internet was built from the core out. We are now rearchitecting it from the edge in.

Houston, Texas, Us

Based at Schlumberger’s Sugar Land Electronics Center of Excellence my role as Product Line Manager of New Product Introduction (NPI) involved a combination of engineering product development and manufacturing operations management where I was responsible for product delivery of electronic printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA) with primary focus on rapid prototyping production and development of initial electronics assemblies typically used in high reliability applications under extreme environments for NPD service introduction for the business.As the head of department operating with several million dollars of P&L, I typically managed 20-30 individuals directly at any given time of numerous functions including Manufacturing Engineers, Manufacturing Planners, Production Supervisors and Leads, Technicians, Assemblers, Quality Inspectors, and Material Handlers. I also directed various other functions outside of my main reporting lines funded partially by my P&L such as Supply Chain Procurement, Sourcing, Customer Service Specialists, and often other resources were utilized such as internationally located technical professionals as needed.The role involved project management responsibilities such as optimizing timelines through various aspects including but not limited to examples of capacity planning, managing healthy relationships with internal customers such as engineering project managers to identify opportunities to align and reduce risk, and externally such as engagement with key suppliers to expedite or translate mutually beneficial opportunities.The product line had numerous equipment items to manage such as SMT line equipment and Automated Test equipment and due to the nature of the product designs and associated mix there was also a great deal of hand assembly work and associated management related scope to the role.

Houston, Texas, Us

I worked remotely located near to a major contract electronics manufacturer based in Austin. I was the leader for the project transition for hundreds of high reliability electronics products being resourced into a new contract electronics manufacturer and the role involved managing vast supplier related activities as well as project management and associated coordination with internal project teams performing product technical validation and verifications as well as supporting business continuity by accelerating product delivery of critical assemblies.My duties heavily involved directing the manufacturer with regards to various aspects of the project such as bill of material (BOM) setup in their MRP system, arbitrating priorities, facilitating transfer of product specifications, and working directly with the team of sourcing, procurement, planning and operations professionals. My technical background also enabled me seamlessly direct and support process, manufacturing, test, and quality engineering functions at the manufacturer to setup processes or resolve problems dynamically as they arose.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

I was the EDS Circuit Design & Delivery Manager for all vehicles under development at Jaguar Land Rover and responsible for managing a large team of engineers designing the Electrical Distribution System Circuits across all of the Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles which equates to approximately 30-40 projects concurrently at varying life-cycle phases and each with their individual challenges. On time delivery of the EDS Circuit Designs to a master timing plan was integral to my role to ensure vehicle model year changes got to the market on time.Vehicle model year designs would be updated to add or change features altering the complexity and options of the vehicle and updated to comply with legal requirements or for cost down initiatives. Design changes would involve typically hundreds to thousands of engineering change request items to process on a highly complex system, and as such I would plan and assign engineering resources to implement according to the scope of each project. Upon initial completion of a project, I arranged and facilitated audits with dozens of engineers to assure correct implementation of all system and component integration into the Electrical Distribution System design.Some examples of my key achievements in this role included: Completion of a critical engineering redesign project expected to take 6 months was delivered within 2 months. Implementation of quality protocol to reduce systemic design issue production line-down events saving millions of dollars year on year from recurring quality issues. Developed a new engineering life-cycle design process that significantly reduced engineering project time and recurring quality related issues which greatly improved total cost of ownership.

Company Director contracted to manage Program Management responsibilities for Jaguar, Land Rover, Range Rover. Automotive Project Management of Electrical Distribution Circuit Design & Delivery

Houston, Texas, Us

Electronics hardware design engineering of printed circuit board (PCBA) products designed for high reliability applications in oil and gas industry extreme environments. Actively managed various lifecycle phases for electronics product development including designing and layout of PCB (Altium), component package selection and placement, designing for thermal relief, creating custom component mountings techniques, housed transformer wiring assemblies and stacked capacitor wiring assemblies for optimum manufacturability, quality and reliability. Enhanced product files, managed obsolescence, process compatibility, compliance and process variation reduction, bill of material consolidation and cost reductions. Reduced BOM and processing costs by ~25% during design and revision changes for key products. Successfully commercialized several products by implementing technical requirements for product and supplier qualifications. Oversaw NPI for in-house prototyping as well as at contract electronics manufacturers internationally. Managed and resolved manufacturability and technical issues associated with designs and processes dynamically.

Houston, Texas, Us

▪ Manufacturing engineering, product and supplier quality engineering for electronics products. ▪ Managed failure analysis department and lab for all warranted product returns of electrical products.▪ Failure analysis experience included non-destructive testing, optical inspection, electrical measurements, energizing and functional testing, thermal imaging, X-ray analysis, spectroscopy, destructive testing, component de-lidding, managing 3rd party specialists (example of progressive micro-sectioning). ▪ Managed containment activities related to product recall events and further preventive and corrective measures. ▪ Lead design change implementation, process improvements, audits at suppliers internationally. ▪ Used data analytics and prognostics skills. Increased product rolled throughput yield (RTY) from the baseline of 28% to 53% within 12 months for a high complexity product improving cost ~$1M annually, quality and on time delivery. ▪ Increased meantime between failures (MTBF) of a product from 700hrs to over 1,000hrs by redesigning hardware and firmware preventing systemic failure modes. Project savings estimated at ~$4M annually. ▪ Successfully negotiated supplier liability for ~$1M of defective inventory for separate incidents with different suppliers. ▪ Resolved a ~$10M per month revenue line-down situation involving root cause analysis down to an integrated circuit die level and worked with suppliers globally to coordinate recovery. ▪ Routinely completed several lean six-sigma projects with associated multimillion-dollar year on year impact. ▪ Received several recognitions, awards, and stock for significant successful key projects which ultimately provided me with excellent professional visibility which lead to international opportunities.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Electronic Engineering, High Frequency Measurements

Electronic Engineering, Failure Analysis And Prevention In Electronic Circuits