Kevin Kimma Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, NV, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Responsible for all regulatory compliance, aka homologation, aka global market access, for all Veritas products worldwide. This includes real-time experience with BIS, CCC, KCC, BSMI, UL, FCC, NOM, InMetro, IRAM, SII, CE, PVoC, SABER, ZICTA, RSM, EAC, and other homologation requirements.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Perform NEBS regulatory testing of Juniper products at local regulatory compliance labs

San Jose, CA, US

Western Digital bought SanDisk and terminated our storage product - and we were no more

Milpitas, CA, US

• Manage regulatory and homologation plans and customer facing compliance docs
• Safety, EMC, Homologation, RoHS, REACH, WEEE
• Supporting multiple flash storage system product development programs
• Responsible for all product structuring (Agile), eng design changes, and dev finance planning
• Regular interface with OEM external partner
• Western Digital bought SanDisk

San Jose, California, US

• Sr. Manager of engineering product business unit development program management office
• Responsible for all storage product and cluster switch product releases HW & SW
• Ran ten concurrent development programs to successful launch with zero variance
• This success resulted in added responsibilities as Chief of Staff for business unit SVP
• Drove improvement program to reduce field returns to save $15M per year YOY
• Program managing initiative to reduce product life cycle duration by one third increasing revenue by $600M YOY

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for all compliance / regulatory engineering design, testing, and certification / homologation
• Includes Reliability, Safety, NEBS, Telecom, EMI / EMC, PCN, CLEI, import / export Homologation
• Established effective communication conduit with critical Asian accounts resulting in repeat visit invitations
• Customer support manager for PacRim carrier customers and critical accounts
• Create scorecards and provide in-depth analysis of areas for improvement using root cause analysis techniques
• Program manager for Juniper’s product realization (NPI) process improvement project

Fremont, California, US

• Led NET's Engineering Services team of Regulatory Compliance, NEBS, Homologations, Document Control, Technical Publications, Systems Administration, Development Tools, and Lab Administration
• Directed all Regulatory Compliance, NEBS and Homologation projects for all products worldwide
• Completed NEBS Level III certification on newest product line in a record 11 weeks; repeated two years later
• Responsible for leading a successful ISO 9001-2000 and TL9000 certification for Engineering
• Authored corporate Product Development Life Cycle Model and instituted Engineering Program Management Office
• Reduced Release ECO turn-around from 5 week avg to one day max – repeated for every release for next 30 months

• Managed international regulatory compliance design, testing and approvals for all products
• Program manager for Bellcore’s (now Telcordia) CSQP registration
• Responsible for Product Development Life Cycle process and associated improvements
• Program managed Octel’s first ISO 9001 registration
• Created internal and supplier quality audit capability at Octel
• Personally visited Telecom NZ, Telstra, Singtel, NTT, JATE

CA

• International regulatory approvals for Meridian 1 PABX product line
• Regulatory testing, report generation, and direct approval agency interface
• Approvals Liaison Engineer (ALE) for BABT 340
• First BABT 340 (ISO 9002) quality registration of NT Santa Clara manufacturing facility
• Created and managed the first FCC Part 68 telecom test function for division
• Managed the development and implementation of the first ESD test program for NTI MCS division

Washington, DC, US

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Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Technology Management

A.S. In Electronics / Microcomputers, Electronics / Microcomputers

Bs Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General