Karla Zimmerman Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

Build and execute D&I strategies aligned to global business plan and achieve goals, provide programs and initiatives that enable organization to be inclusive.~ Coordinated Intel presence at the Fall Diversity Conferences including setup and train recruiting teams, created booths posted Intel jobs reqs on conference organizations web sites and managed.

Portland, Oregon Area

Work closely with development, manufacturing and finance to implement capital planning process, engineering resource development model analysis and ensure business compliance with corporate policies Created key business metrics dashboard providing guidance for quicker decision making by senior management Led capital and operational budget forecast.

Completed projects across factories and departments - capacity analysis, forecasting, planning, strategic space planning. Proactively worked with tool owners on optimizing conveyor speed and other tool settings to improve processing time and utilization by 17-27% in package substrate factory lithography and wet etch areas Created and optimized data.

• Led team of product hardware engineers and test technicians to coordinate requests, implement tests and complete data analysis from three different R&D labs for a multifunction copier platform
• Supervised daily activities of the Reliability Test Laboratory (RTL), and optimized processes and resources to meet schedule and budget
• HP Green Belt, who led the efficiency project to improve test lab operations, ($400K savings)

• Established Reliability Program to meet division’s quality initiative by developing hardware test strategy, including designing physical layout of new test lab, managing logistics, creating test procedures and.
• Managed global cross-disciple and cross-divisional teams including a reliability program team, manufacturing transfer team and a multi-site defect tracking system setup team
• Delivered tools such as Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), goal setting and using a single issue tracking system to monitor impact of hardware and software problems for the R&D labs during development, as well as.
• HP College campus recruiting team manager at North Carolina A&T State University to recruit and mentor talented students, work with Engineering departments chairs on curriculum feedback, as well as equipment needs and.

• Led industrial engineering group to resolve schedule and design issues relating to print cartridge product development and production across multiple engineering teams and sites including manufacturing line layouts.
• Designed and optimized three manufacturing high volume line layouts simultaneously while meeting safety and ergonomic guidelines
• Designed manufacturing tooling, improved product line processes to deliver better uptime, output, and operator utilization, developed schedules, tools and procedures enabling faster development of inkjet technology.
• Developed technology life cycle enabling improved communication and coordination of technology transfer between R&D, Manufacturing and Supply Chain teams, including a prototype build process that reduced build time by.
• Led a HP design team and supplier to complete a production line buy-off three weeks ahead of schedule, by setting up and training supplier on process control tool and methods to track key variables and help validate.

Bs, Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, American Indian Science and Engineering.

Ms, Engineering & Technology Management

Activities and Societies: Courses include: - Classes include: Project Management, Theory of Constraints/Critical Chain Project Management.