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Boston, Ma, Us

Grafton, Ma, Us

Plano, Tx

* Responsible for ensuring product compliance with regulatory requirements for product safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility.* Plan and manage all compliance work.* Work with design teams to provide guidance, evaluate designs and test for compliance.* Provide interpretations of requirements to design teams and evaluate product designs to ensure compliance.* Work with agencies and 3rd party test laboratories for the purposes of obtaining test and evaluation services.* Obtain international product approvals.* Created & currently maintain corporate global approvals database.* Generate statement of work for customer specific regulatory & approval requirements.* Manage or perform the investigation of internal compliance issues.* Disseminate written policies and procedures related to compliance activities.* Consult with corporate attorneys as necessary to address difficult legal compliance issues.* Discuss emerging compliance issues with management or employees.* Advise internal management or business partners on the implementation or operation of compliance programs.* Provide employee training on compliance related topics, policies, or procedures.* Support safety compliance for the factory and audits.* Provide input during the budget planning process on all expected regulatory related expenses.

Allen, Tx

* EMC Laboratory Assessor for the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), a governmental agency within the National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST), which is under the US Department of Commerce. * Visit labs to review quality systems, interview personnel, view testing, examine equipment, and investigate calibration procedures. Ensure that the laboratory is operating in accordance with the guidelines of ISO 17025 and that they have appropriate technical capabilities for performing the testing listed on their scope of accreditation. Verify that any previous deficiencies have been corrected and verify any newly acquired capabilities where accreditation is sought.

Lewisville, Tx

* Developed business plan to add MIL standard testing service to include capital expenditures, revenue and cost forecasts resulting in over $400k in revenue.* Started market access group for wireless & telecom products resulting in one million in revenue.* The MIL standard testing service and market access group is now 50% of total laboratory revenue.* Generated a five-year business plan to physically move the laboratory to efficiently increase capacity and services offered in order to improve operating profit. Implementation delayed until 2015.

Lewisville, Tx

* Executed MIL standard testing service creating 40% of the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) department's revenue.* Developed and implemented new online quality system, for IEC/ISO 17025 for National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) accreditation. This resulted in better tracking of test equipment assets and calibrations, providing predictability of expenses for better budgeting.* The online quality system has made the quality manual and associated policies and procedures easily accessible to staff, been significantly reducing the time required for audit preparation, resulting in an increase of six man-weeks of available billable hours.

Lewisville, Tx

* Rebuilt sales commission structure to set focus on monthly billable hours rather than the previous focus of order intake which improved lab utilization by 50%.* Added 3rd sales representative after several years of no growth, increasing the number of new customers by 12%.

Richardson, Tx

* Increased revenues in the ITE and NEBS segments by a factor of eight times.* Sell testing and certification services for Information Technology Equipment (ITE) for global regulatory compliance.* Generate Network Equipment Building Systems (NEBS) proposals and test plans for numerous telecommunications companies.* Assist clients with logistics management, scheduling, and budgeting for large test programs.

Youngsville, Nc

* Expanded laboratory facility in North Carolina to include complete GR-1089 services. This included equipment design, facility construction, and staff training.* This laboratory is now a part of TÜV Rheinland, a testing and certification agency located in Germany, with multiple offices in the United States.

Plano, Tx

* Supported all design centers during technical proposals. Delivered expertise to designers across North America and Europe. Responsible for quoting all regulatory compliance activities for all proposals; generated project schedules, dependencies, and logistical support issues to proposal team.* Managed SEMI-S2 safety design and testing for PDF Solutions. Was also a part of the advertising campaign that brought PDF Solutions to Flextronics and participated in initial sales meetings to win the design contract.

Plano, Tx

* Started RheinTexas, an EMC engineering and testing laboratory. Built the entire operation from an empty building into a million dollar company. Constructed laboratory to perform all testing for CE marking.* Began upgrading the laboratory to include NEBS test services, which was then sold to NTS in Nov ‘99. Supervised construction for additional compact immunity chamber and new immunity laboratory. Planned initial facility upgrade to enable the addition of environmental test services for GR-63. * Competent Body for Europe and signatory for all Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) related activities for the laboratory.* Provide consulting services, both on and off site, for numerous clients regarding NEBS, ITE, Telecom, and ISM equipment design and compliance issues.* Manage all aspects of international submittals and approvals for clients regarding wireless transmitters and other apparatus.

Cambridge, Ma

* Install process for managing product compliance. Support several products to obtain the newly required CE Mark for the European Union (EU).* Company produced multiple chemical analysis products such as spectrometers and gas chromatographs,

Stow, Ma

* Provide support for product developers including regulatory compliance, signal integrity, and high-speed backplane design.* Consulting firm founded by Dr. Edward P. Sayre, a well-known key contributor to high-speed digital design.

Salem, Nh

* Design power supplies and power systems in Littleton and Acton facilities.* EMC engineer in the Salem, NH facility.* Company developed multiple mid-range systems, the architecture of which was a fundamental building block of the computer industry prior to personal computers.

Medway, Ma

* Design power supplies for fire alarm panels.* Gamewell was a 130 year-old company that fabricated the often-seen fire alarm pull-boxes. Purchased by Cerberus, a Swedish fire alarm company.

Lowell, Ma

* Evaluate and design power supplies for monitors and other word-processing equipment.* Company known for developing magnetic core memory and for introducing the world's first word-processing machines.

Northboro, Ma

* Tested GaAs wafers for doping, electron mobility, and other parameters.* Location was the Special Microwave Devices Operations (SMDO).