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Minnesota, United States

• Directed all budget, logistical, and reporting operations of department with two domestic offices and one international office. • Administered $2 million annual capital and $1 million annual spending budget. • Pioneered a departmental development roadmap process and led review sessions to monitor progress.• Coordinated with upstream and downstream development teams to shepherd technology projects from inception to implementation.

Minnesota, United States

• Developed a second-generation high performance/high capacity 7.2K RPM drive with 25% more capacity than the previous product.• Built and led a core team composed of design engineering, operations, reliability, materials, and marketing, to define architecture, development schedule, and budget to the market need date. • Defined new factory equipment need and schedule for qual builds and volume ramp in Asia.• Transferred program to sustaining group after achieving yield, cost, and profitability goals.

Shakopee, Minnesota, United States

• Developed and delivered next generation 10K RPM enterprise disc drive on time, under budget, and meeting all design and reliability requirements, and with 33% more capacity than the previous product. Product is in volume production with revenue more than $2B.• Built and led a core team composed of multiple engineering disciplines (firmware, ASIC, servo, magnetic recording, mechanics and PCBA design) as well as planning and sales, to determine development schedule, material needs, risks and mitigation strategies. • Implemented new mechanical design resulting in 5% product cost in response to changed market requirements. • Defined volume factory training and support plan as well as timing to start qualification in Asia. Also defined travel support and weekly teleconference communications to support.

United States

• Design engineering lead for a 2.5” 7.2K and a 15K RPM enterprise disc drives with volumes in excess of 10 million units and more than $1 billion in revenue.• Directed and brokered trade-offs of technical teams comprised of 10 professionals from all disciplines including mechanical, electrical, firmware, controls, and magnetic recording. • Defined and managed product development timeline, milestones, and closure plans; communicated technical program status to five major customers via design reviews and weekly updates.

Minnesota, United States

• Managed design sites in 2 states with 50 employees that developed advanced processes, tooling, and equipment for mobile, desktop, and enterprise disc drives and then transferred into volume production facilities in Thailand with record of on-time transfer of all 9 products to factories. • Championed 16 Six Sigma brown belt projects targeted at improving assembly capabilities/yields. • Led process roadmap meetings with 2 design centers in U.S. and 2 factories in Thailand on product and process design direction and strategy for capital equipment.• Administered $6 million annual capital and $2.4 million annual spending budget for 6 departments.

Thailand

• Led cross-functional operations team in Asia for a high-volume disc drive product line for desktop computers building more than 20 million drives and meeting all delivery, yield, cost, operation and quality requirements/goals.• Coordinated and facilitated daily team meetings to review output, yield, customer requests and issues, quality levels, critical material qualifications, factory inventory levels, and goal status. Traveled weekly to six plants to facilitate communication further.

Thailand

• Managed engineering operations for Korat, Thailand plant, that included process, test, tooling maintenance and industrial engineering for head-gimbal assemblies and head stacks for disc drives. Successful on time qualification of all 11 products.• Staffed and managed a new plant for managers, over 70 engineers, and over 100 technicians in process, test, tooling, and industrial engineering.• Used Six Sigma to implement changes in process and test to improve yields 10%. • Implemented Lean initiatives to reduce non-value-added activities time per unit by 10%.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.6