Kate Rutz, M.S. Eng. Email & Phone Number

Falls Church, Va, Us

Falls Church, Va, Us

Manages programs valuing >$50M for business operations, cost, schedule, and technical performance. Responsible for staffing forecasts, primary customer interface, and coordinating a cross-functional engineering team to produce launch vehicles through development and demonstration reporting to Program Director II for the whole family of programs related to Strike Vehicles.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Manages operations for various launch vehicles including production and development operations. Plans and manages the delivery of electronics, cables, thermal protection, ground support hardware and logistics support to program needs and specifications. Coordinates the integration and test team up to launch operations. Leverages 5S and Lean Agile principles throughout manufacturing readiness for continuous operational improvement.• Leading manufacturing and integration operations for launch vehicle programs • Leading cross-functional team to develop a new electrical test specialist certification program.• Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council for LV.• Led the shutdown for OmegA operations at Chandler and Michoud sites to limit termination liability and secure hardware for reuse, sale, or scrap. • Managed budget and scope for operations activities for > 100 charge accounts.• Worked plans for site start-up and activation for OmegA Michoud facility; and its shutdown post cancelation• Led the manufacturing and operations teams in supporting engineering for the debug and resolution of the Pegasus ICON fin actuator issue.• Deployed lean principles in I&T for Space Launch improving scores for metrics by 20% or more.• Led improvement team for various non-conformances around GMD staking to reduce touch time for inspection and improve staking consistency.• Guided the manufacturing team through root cause identification leading to new fixturing to reduce risks to hardware during assembly and soldering of GMD avionics boxes.• Developed a plan to reduce conformal coat time by 85% with a 7-month ROI; affects 100% of electronics product line and secured the capital request for the project.• Continuously empowers and champions team members to take ownership and engage for growth and visibility by providing opportunities and mentor partnerships.

Wilsonville, Or, Us

Having progressed through several highly technical roles within Galaxy Semiconductor and, through acquisition, Mentor Graphics, I served as the Product Director negotiating complex requirements from multiple sources to structure the roadmap. I executed within time and budgetary parameters with a global, cross-functional team.I also:• Fostered a highly-skilled agile team with knowledge and resources to increase velocity by 50%, and align business objectives by improving software capabilities.• Serve on the business unit's executive team to set overall direction balancing long-term business objectives with near-term customer deliverables. • Provide product owner leadership developing enterprise-level, semiconductor-specific software for yield monitoring and analysis, quality, and outlier removal.

Achieving successful enterprise-level software integrations through project and team management strengthened by incentive framework.• Engaged with sales facilitating seamless transition from sales to full engagement.• Provided subject matter expertise during implementation of new techniques, tools, and support procedures to increase Galaxy support performance, resulting in 40% increase of first-hour initial responses.• Established and engaged global team providing customers with 24x5 technical support, and customized specific 24x7 support contracts to generate new revenue streams.

Provide unique and proprietary enhancement specifications, and customized Galaxy yield database and analysis integrations. • Led Galaxy's first online help tool launch, and committed knowledge to customers through regular training sessions.• Collaborated with software developers to define features to integrate new enterprise-wide solutions. • Developed and presented insightful white papers using actual cases in part average testing at industry events.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

At Medtronic as the Senior Product Engineer for Development, I established product engineering communications forum and expanded participation to share knowledge and best practices from 2006 to 2010.• Spearheaded engineering projects that increased product yield by 30%, and implemented statistical post-processing for internal and subcontractor wafer probe operations.• Contributed to design and experiments for ultra-thin silicon substrates for ICs as part of team developing, attaining acceptance, and implemented first implantable-grade Stacked Chip Scale Packages.• Empowered global teams to successfully execute product development and implementation of geometries to 120nm, and supervised ESD team’s testing techniques that improved performance and industry viability.• Interfaced with design, manufacturing, and test to develop, qualify, and release new products. Leading teams for IC development; mixed signal, SRAM, flash, EEPROM, hall sensor, microprocessors.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

I guided bump reticle design and order automation team to improve design to delivery times for product development and eliminate rework thus reducing tooling costs. • Improved ESD performance using DOE and data analysis methods for ICs, and designed DOE for electrical performance of 100-micron thick wafers.• Achieved product cost reductions with in-depth DOE lead yield analysis for new mixed-signal IC that increased average yield by 42%.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

As an intern at ProTek, I worked with the lead engineer assisting in securing ISO 9000 certification and developed/implemented an R&D tracking process (decreasing time to market by as much as 8 months). In this role, I also: • Assisted in the development of an in-house solder bumping process.• Conducted product failure analysis and new product characterization.• Designed layouts for monolithic diode array chips and their bonding diagrams.

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As an assembly and repair technician, I assembled computer systems for timely shipment of orders. I also:• Received and triaged returned units.• Trouble shooted and repaired broken units.• Conducted burn-in and test procedures.This position gave me experience in electronics and inspired my career.

Mse, Electrical Engineering Control Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering