Milton Cobo Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, Nc

• Manage a diverse team of young and experienced engineers through all phases of board design, from initial concept through test.• Coordinate operations between worldwide marketing, project management and cross-functional teams to provide schedule, development expense sizing and deliver a quality product that is time-to-market.• Provide regular updates to management on operational developments, offering comprehensive solutions to potential critical issues to proactively prevent or mitigate any schedule impacts.• Customer Engagements: Identify and resolve customer pain points to gain their confidence and secure a strong partnership with Lenovo.• Mentor young engineers and interns by conducting personalized performance evaluations and facilitating bi-weekly patent meetings to encourage growth and drive innovation.

Morrisville, Nc

• Traveled extensively to Mexico and China, visiting customer sites and manufacturing plants to resolve product manufacturing issues. Built strong relationships with customers, by addressing their concerns and relaying the solutions found throughout all test phases of the product. • Established a productive working rapport with personnel at manufacturing sites in Mexico, China and the US, by adapting to different cultures and establishing an effective bridge of communication between all 3 sites, to train engineers, testers and manufacturing staff.• Drove naming convention design commonality across entire Lenovo server portfolio to facilitate cross-team collaboration when debugging potential issues.• Led hardware development for the customization of Lenovo’s 8-socket server for tier one customers, from initial concept through test and post-release maintenance.

Rtp, Nc

• Managed a team of 15-25 members, consistently meeting and exceeding sales targets of 15% growth year over year.• Drove B2B negotiations with key stakeholders, meeting customers’ expectations and our sales goals, while fostering the company’s growth in 17 US states and over 20 countries worldwide.• Qualified leads and conducted research to identify potential prospects to grow the sales pipeline.• Developed and implemented customer retention and growth strategies that resulted in 85% repeat business and 15% yearly growth in our customer base.• Researched trends in our local market to accurately predict quarterly expenses necessary to maximize revenue and increase market share.• Built partnerships with venue owners and event coordinators, gaining their trust, to expand the brand of our local events and the brand of the company worldwide.• Identified the pain points of customers and partners alike, to better understand customers during a sale and effectively approach potential partners with business proposals.

Research Triangle Park, Nc

• System Lead on a 4-socket server upgrade design from initial concept to post-release maintenance.• Led hardware development of high-speed backplanes, network adapters, 2-socket processor subsystems and 2-socket processor mezzanine cards.• Reassessed high speed backplane designs and validated support for future technologies, extending the life of product by 200% over initial estimates.

Research Triangle Park, Nc

• Developed complex programmable logic design and high-speed adapter cards.