Ila Pal Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

My responsibilities include managing organizational departments, sales visit, establishing metrics & reviews, budgeting, planning and accountable for company’s financial performance.• Established cross functional teams, schedules and resources to complete mission-critical projects on time.• Establishing distribution channel partners and managing actively.• Reviewing day to day operations with KPI, analyzing trends and setting goals.

My responsibilities included managing sales team for quarterly and yearly goal, establishing a growth opportunity for Ironwood via Digital Marketing strategy, researching market needs and enabling R&D to release new product within appropriate market window.• Established yearly marketing and sales plan, lead nurturing procedure, RFQ metrics, RFQ conversion metrics, Quote metrics and Quote conversion metrics.• Planned and implemented a SEO and SMO methodologies that specifically helped the company strengthen its competitive position in the internet space.• Established and monitored metrics for effectiveness of print advertisements versus digital advertisements.• Enabled R&D to release new stamped spring socket and new elastomer button technology socket which expanded market share for socket products.• Managed the project “eCommerce website for Ironwood Electronics”. This project enabled the product to be sold without human intervention.• Developed and managed a database for “package specific product cross-reference”. This project helped customers to select their solution in shortest time.• Worked with R&D and developed micro etched contact technology for interconnection need in Automotive & Communication industry.• Developed socket with smart features such as counter, bluetooth temperature monitor, etc.

My responsibilities include technical paper review and workshop coordination.

My responsibilities included converting the concept projects into commercial product, managing engineering operations team, pin development team and supporting product manager, sales/application engineers and marketing manager. Implemented standard processes and procedures for prioritization, work initiation, project definition, scheduling, and management reporting and project closure. Planned and implemented a interconnect development roadmap for test socket division. Evaluated risk assessment of the development projects and established business proposal. Enabled a system for tracking and executing lab experiments, purchased equipments and improved lab capabilities. Hired and integrated engineering resources in key missing areas. Refined engineering product portfolio. • Developed and deployed new product development process. This project aligned business needs to engineering projects and optimized use of limited resources.• Spring probe characterization and cavity design project. This is a continuing project which helped sales/application engineers to sell our product on a day-to-day basis.• Deployed elastomer based test socket to address high speed digital market. This project allowed us to expand market share by serving new customer base.• Established strategy for intellectual property and managed IP portfolio. This helped our company to be a leader in test consumables market.• Developed and deployed impedance matched socket for RF test market. This project was driven by consumer electronics industry demand. This helped us to play in untouched territories.• Spring Probe Portfolio – cost reduction project. Deployed spring probe portfolio that consists of 25 probes. By focused on 20% of product and optimization helped us to serve 80% of customer with reduced cost.• Successfully commercialized photolithography technology based product for test socket. This project addressed the need of specific customer segment such as power management and analog market.

Six Sigma Black Belt, Dfss, Monte Carlo Simulation, Doe, Fmea

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Ms, Mechanical Engineering