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Results driven Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Management, and Project Management expert for High Tech products (such as Telecommunications, HW Security Modules, Servers, Network Storage devices, RF products. Also including very high volume Consumer items like laptops and iPods, gFiber), Industrial Products, Custom Components, Medical Devices, Instruments and Test Equipment.Visionary who has a proven record of meeting objectives on schedule and under budget. Cost conscious team collaborator works effectively in highly matrixed organizations. An Out-of-the-Box thinker who develops unique solutions to diverse problems.Managing both Hardware and Software Development, Quality, and Operations Efforts in bringing highly reliable HW & SW to market. Expert in ISO 9000, TL9000, AS9100 , ISO-13485 and CMMi Quality Management Systems development, implemmentation and certification. Trained in ISO/TS-16949, FDA/GMP Quality and Lean SixSigma as well as TQM.Special emphasis in Product Quality, Supply Chain quality and recovering the Cost of Non-Quality and process optimization for small to large (multi location) team efforts and start up companies. Unique ability to do more with less. Project Management expert for new Product Development projects, Quality Systems implementation, and ODM/OEM/CEM external efforts. Professional Manager with complete understanding of the business cycle from inception to Customer Delivery and on to End of Life of the product. This includes having defined the Product Life Cycle for various companies, working with the design/NPI teams to transition products from engineering to volume production with ODM/OEM/CEM/JDM partners.Expert at sourcing product with first & second tier CEM partners both domestically in the US and externally across the Asia, Europe and Latin America.Specialties: Out Sourcing efforts (JDM, ODM, OEM, CEM & SW Dev), Quality Systems (ISO, TL, CMMi, FDA/GMP)

Listed skills include Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, and 40 others.