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Santa Rosa, California, United States

Santa Rosa, California, United States

Santa Rosa, Ca

• Leading team of 4 people managers, an L&D Coordinator, and 171 production employees.• Built production team from 13 up to 175 employees over three-year period, supporting business growth goals.• Achieved 300% growth in production, year-over-year.• Managed scheduling, resource management, engineering requests, and purchase order requests for production site.• Supply chain management and procurement activities for 2.5 years

San Francisco Bay Area

• Supervised team of 9 direct reports and 12 contract employees in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.• Managed scheduling, maintenance, resource management, engineering requests, and purchase order requests for three operations areas. Balanced the scheduling demands of production and NPI.• Saved $500K in cost avoidance and $200K annually in manufacturing overhead, creating mini-MES status board tool to improve communication and process accuracy for multiple areas, creating other intangible efficiencies as well. This tool has been leveraged by four teams, consisting of over 50 employees, and is the focal point of daily operations.• Led project to move into a purchased-PC program for all mission-critical test controllers, instead of leasing, reducing downtime and associated losses in absorption recovery.• Investigated and implemented hardware improvements, as well as ongoing Lean and 5S assessments to improve efficiency and ergonomics.• Spearheaded projects to implement more robust process documentation for multiple operations, including reliability lab, integrated circuit testing, package testing, and bonding services areas. All are ISO 9000 compliant operations. • Collaborated with Industrial Engineers to build multiple demand-based sequencer models for ideal WIP selection, providing the bridge between technical and business elements.• Built custom, semi-automated weekly and monthly production metrics packages for integration manager’s staff.

United States

• Co-founded company with a promise to provide clean, affordable hourly rehearsal and recording facilities to local musicians in Sonoma County.• Developed comprehensive business plan and executed self-financed start-up with grand opening in September 2007.• Managed permit process/application and tax licensing with State of California, Sonoma County, and the City of Santa Rosa.• Engaged in capital and expense budgeting, financial and asset management.• Utilized Quick Books and Microsoft Office applications.• Sold partnership stake in January of 2012.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Area ESD coordinator and auditor performing monthly area measurements and cross-area audits.• Business Asset Coordinator (BAC) performing yearly audits.• Interfaced with reliability engineering to run simulated operating lifetime experiments using heat and electrical stress.• Designed modular rack system for reliability test fixtures, improving ergonomics.• Created Excel-based tracking systems for multiple operations areas.Operational experience in:• Reliability lab operations.• Wafer-form integrated circuit testing.• Precision saw room separation operations.• Manual sorting of both dedicated and prototype mask sets.• Packaged IC test operations and handling.• Discrete diode test system operation.• Thermocouple heat treat and testing.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration, Management And Operations, 3.96

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Associate Of Arts (Aa), General Studies, 3.52

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Lambda