Francisco Martinez Acevedo Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Lead a team of high performing engineers globally to drive manufacturing and quality improvements across all Matterport product lines; attracting talent and significantly growing my team within 19 months.• Led, planned, and launched a global quality program for hardware products, resulting in a reduction of defect rates within 12 months, improving customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.• Designed and led the launched a global RMA program within 15 months that increased regional capacity across North America, EMEA, and South America and decreasing hardware downtime for customers.• Work with Managers, Directors, VPs, and C-Suite executives to align and set short and long term product strategy.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Manage manufacturing quality for RGB, IR, and LiDAR hardware products (Axis, Pro 2, Pro 3) through collaboration with in-house and overseas engineering teams located in Taiwan and China.• Conducted root cause analysis and failure investigations using tools such as 8D, 5-Whys, etc... to minimize production downtime and improve over product quality.• Drove design and manufacturing improvements by utilizing tools such as APQP, FMEA, and DOE, resulting in production volume increase and on-time product launches.• Managed quality metrics and reporting using tools such as Jira, ReDash, Minitab, and Google Sheets.• Coordinated with cross-functional teams (Mechanical Design, Firmware, Electrical, Product, Supply Chain, Customer Support) to support quality initiatives and testing processes.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

• Established and managed active Human Error Management program; company wide program with the goal to reduce defects 30% by EOY. Program developed and launched ahead of schedule.• Collaborated with cross-functional management teams, company wide, and brokered agreements on implementing improvement efforts to reduce non-conformance and waste at the manufacturing and engineering design level.• Applied Lean Six Sigma methodologies to drive improvement initiatives via CAR and RCA processes; and to develop custom made tools for the quality engineering organization using SPC, Pareto and Control charts.• Successfully Lead quality improvement project with goal of reducing, by 100%, the number of NCRs generated from missed manufacturing operations by applying DMAIC methodology.• Created visually impactful dashboards in Excel and PowerBI for data and performance reporting, by using XML, SQL, and Access. Extracted, interpreted, analyzed data to identify key metrics and transformed manufacturing data into meaningful, actionable information, to drive continuous improvement efforts.• Collected, cleansed and provided analysis of structured data used for data modeling, SPC, trending and bench-marking; also used for driving decisions for high-priority, enterprise initiatives involving product development and process improvements.• Reviewed and approved manufacturing work orders for multiple manufacturing sub-subsystems; reviewed and authored structural and composites engineering processes and procedures.• Managed major FRBs for cross program mechanical products, driving key decisions, leading to improvements in manufacturing and testing procedures.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Responsible for overseas engineering support, while based in Spain, for all European suppliers spread across 7 countries and totaling $30+ million in hardware. • Supported the development, delivery and management of plans and requirements ensuring provisions for quality were addressed and resolved throughout all product development stages at multiple suppliers.• Supported supply chain organizations providing engineering and quality planning to bring suppliers' products to production with integrated risk management.• Responsible for ensuring supplier base delivered on-time, reliable, and high-performance hardware by managing supplier performance through analysis of delivery status, scorecards, non-compliance issues and failure review boards; Key decision maker in allowing a hardware to proceed with manufacturing and delivery.• Participated and contributed to supplier selection process, design verification, design validation, design reviews, and product qualification process.• Performed supplier audits to ensure compliance to industry (AS9100) and company standards.• Lead Material Review Board (MRB) and Failure Review Board (FRB) for supplier products.• Influence and leverage improvement and corrective action governance boards to recommend and implement prevention actions and/or corrective actions as necessary.• Collaborated on a variety of cost reduction, quality improvement, and schedule reduction improvement projects from ideation through closure, utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodology, as appropriate.• Maintained supplier product assurance requirements for various classes of products and customer’s requirements

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Write technical design specifications for procurement of new RF hardware.• Negotiate parameter values and required testing with suppliers and Payload Engineering group.• Responsible for securing acceptance and approvals of deliverable products from suppliers.• Support formal presentations to the Program Office and Customers, i.e. PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR.• Review hardware performance data to ensure all contractual requirements are met.• Prepare Non-Conformance Reports for non-conforming hardware• Participate in MRBs and FRBs to resolve technical issues.• Maintain historical data of delivered hardware for use in proposals and procurement of future business.• Managed multiple program payload block diagrams and EBOMs through all stages of the design process, working with design teams from Payload Systems to define designs.• Worked with PLM and internal design/management systems to audit and review payload designs vs BOMs.• Collaborated with hardware engineers and payload design engineer to ensure an efficient front end procurement process, and supported engineering design meetings.• Reviewed active and passive hardware drawings, ICDs, ensuring payload design requirements were met.

San José, California, Us

• Performed the role of liaison and helpdesk lead for schools in the delivery of technology services.• Lead the evaluation of software and hardware procurement for K-12 schools by collaborating with educators and multidisciplinary teams while also developing strategies with educators for technology deployment and integration into the classroom.• Managed onsite servers, networks, VoIP, and software deployment to hundreds of devices primarily using JAMF, GSuite, Apple for Education services. • Lead software and hardware troubleshooting efforts onsite and remotely.

Us

• QA Lead focused on developing testing strategies for multiple projects in media and educational content software.• Worked closely with a multidisciplinary team of designers, software engineers, writers, and educators to coordinate and develop and execute system level tests across web applications, mobile applications, and web services.• Supported weekly design reviews my focus was to develop, improve and implement tests with emphasis in using agile methodology.• Responsible for the review of bug descriptions, functional requirements and design documents, incorporating this information into test plans and test cases.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Engineering

Mechanical Design