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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Montreal, Canada Area

Ownership of all aspects of manufacturing through Asian EMS partners including the transition between conception & prototyping to full volume manufacturing with a focus on meeting target product costs and margins.

Guelph

Led a team that was responsible for the planning, manufacturing, life cycle management, maintenance support and distribution of all of BlackBerry's production test fixtures as well as all outsourced test development. In the peak days of BlackBerry, I managed a budget that exceeded $50 Million dollars and included teams with responsibilities for global test.

• Determined global test capacity requirements to ensure test capacity never impeded product demand
• Planned and managed the execution and roll out of the plan through in-house test fixture builds, as well as through third party replication providers
• Managed third party replication providers, constantly driving improvements in delivery, quality, and cost
• Reviewed 2 year business growth and geographical forecasts, and aligned replication team, replication partners, and replication plans to meet customer requirements
• Provided forecasting to equipment and component manufacturers to ensure that the supply chain of critical items was appropriately aligned
• Drove equipment, fixture, and component re-use and supported ISO 14001 initiatives

• Managed a 4 crew 30 person team of Test Engineering Technicians which operated on a 24/7 basis and supported performance, maintenance, and calibration of 200+ test stations across multiple product families
• Accountable for hiring, training, motivating, and when necessary disciplining the team
• Managed the cost centre, including forecasting and budgeting
• Maintained test station maintenance database, as well as maintaining/editing test support product specific and process documentation
• Oversaw debugging of poorly performing test stations
• Partnered with Product Engineering, Test Development, and Test Integration on new product launches

• Manage complete production line (SMT through final assembly and test) for multiple products for one shift.
• Owned management including performance reviews, hiring, firing for approx. 50 line workers

• Managed a failure analysis team that supported 7 major global customers
• Led initiatives to improve cost,quality, repair effectiveness, repair cycle time
• Determined team priorities, managed team training and resource requirements