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Richardson, TX, US

Houston, Texas, US

Responsible for all Reliability Engineering and Test related tasks by being the only Engineer supporting product reliability and availability needs at end use conditions. Work with several groups within the organization globally. Assisting pre-sales teams with reliability metric estimates for custom configured products. Manage and monitor wide supplier.

Further to Nuventix merger with Aavid Thermalloy, I continue to manage reliability engineering and test tasks as a subject matter expert based on customer requirements to various projects world wide, including the development of air moving devices. Integrated various design centers worldwide, by working with the several development teams concurrently.

• Manage Reliability Engineering, Test, Supply-Chain, ISO Certification & Regulatory approval activities worldwide to support product qualification and report Quality Metrics along with Key Performance Indicators and.
• Established Contract Manufacturer selection, evaluation and measurement process to monitor manufacturing efficiencies
• Established Quality Process and Quality System Audit checklist to select suppliers and monitor supplier efficiencies
• Established both internal Quality, Reliability, Operations metrics and Supply Chain metrics to monitor business objectives and reported Operations status, issues and recommendations to the Senior Staff on a monthly.
• Managed Operations planning tasks based on lead times, product development timelines and sales forecast
• Monitored field failure trends. Maintain ISO certification. Managed onsite customer audits. Integrated new reliability tests per industry standards with product development. Ensure all products meet the RoHS, REACH and.

San Jose, California, US

• Responsible for Risk & Vendor Management, component and sub-assembly qualification of Video conference products including displays, cameras, microphones, speakers, remotes and other networking hardware. Responsibility.
• Established multi-year goals and objectives for video conferencing products to assist Mfg. VP in negotiating agreements with various partner organizations based on several factors such as product complexity, volume.
• Managed diverse Supplier Quality Assurance, Product Quality Assurance, Reliability and Test Engineering teams in Thailand, Netherlands, and in China to monitor supply chain functionality
• Established design objectives and product specifications based on expected end use conditions or marketing requirements for various video conferencing products to develop Reliability Tests for validation and implement.
• Performed periodic onsite supplier audit to ensure compliance to Polycom requirements to the established Product Quality and Reliability Engineering requirements
• Reduced annualized field failure rate of a flagship product from over 14% to sub 1% within 18 months of implementing focused tasks related to Supplier Management and with the use of Reliability Engineering techniques

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Developed reliability initiatives to manage reliability activities of multiple technology partners worldwide for various handheld, mobile and stationary computing products, during design development, manufacturing.
• Enabled design centers across various countries, multiple ODM/OEM and third party labs as part of Globalization initiative. Assisted with hiring employees and training them along with technology partners and suppliers.
• Qualified lead free and halogen free products as part of corporate initiatives to have industry leading environmental friendly products. Represented Dell as a participant in iNEMI, an industry consortium established to.
• Engaged as a core team member with the internal development teams to identify long lead items for the SQEs and to qualify wide range of products from mobile, handheld computing devices to PCs, workstations and servers
• Co-authored a process to streamline various functional tasks with ‘Entrance/Exit’ criteria during product development, launch and sustaining cycles
• Worked with cross-functional teams beyond development and with Supply Chain to establish guidelines for predictive field replacement initiatives, and to revise reliability tests at the supplier sites

Zurich, ZH, CH

• Primary responsibilities are to design, develop, and monitor all Reliability Engineering activities for the oil, and gas division, at the western region operations by being the only reliability engineer in an advisory.
• Developed and established key initiatives and strategies to implement a phased Reliability program.
• Defined Reliability goals and objectives upon assessment and established clear timelines to achieve the same.
• As a technical steering committee member for API 17N, provided Reliability process guidelines, and developed recommended practice (RP) for sub sea oil and gas exploration equipment.
• Chaired Engineering Implementation Team on divisional process improvement including several DfR activities.
• Developed budget plan to establish reliability principles across the division, including personnel requirements.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• One of the five core technical competency team engineers for the corporation of 48,000 employees. Primary responsibilities are to design, develop, and monitor all reliability engineering activities for medication.
• Authored Corporate Design for Reliability Guidance document and modified various Quality documents to FDA / ISO13485 requirements.
• Validated software tools as per the FDA (21 CFR part 11) requirements which are used for Quality / Reliability engineering analyses.
• Revised Corrective and Preventative Action procedure and trained development teams on the updates.
• Developed detailed Reliability program plans, test processes, and Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs).
• Performed Reliability predictions, analyses, FMEAs, and FTAs.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed various aspects of Manufacturing Operations - Quality Assurance, and Supplier Management activities for the startup company. Demonstrated the ability to manufacture and market from design and development..
• Selected multiple Tier 1 Contract Manufacturers (CM) based on established supplier self-evaluation, onsite survey and capability to produce highly complex products and scale up in volume. Managed CMs through periodic.
• Established contracts with multiple suppliers including the Tier 1 CMs based on business objectives and company needs.
• Authored Quality Manual, wrote procedures and developed flowcharts as part of a comprehensive Quality Systems Plan.
• Developed device specific supplier audit matrices, to evaluate and manage suppliers as part of the Supplier Management Plan.
• Developed Quality metrics, collected Manufacturing Quality and supplier performance data and reported them to senior staff on a monthly basis.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Independently managed reliability engineering and test activities worldwide during design development, manufacturing phases and on products that are in field. Responsible for product quality, reliability, and design.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously to achieve and exceed Dell business objectives to have the most reliable desktop PCs in the market.
• Provided development feedback to design engineering, and test feedback to manufacturing operations.
• Planned and implemented a series of program related reliability test activities such as DFMEA, thermal evaluation tests, HALT, mechanical life tests and on-going reliability test for laptop, and desktop computers.
• Developed and implemented DfR activities.
• Hosted customer tours to promote positive customer relations with the organization.Product Assurance Engineer

Marlborough, MA, US

• Performed HALT on various consumer / corporate products to evaluate design weaknesses.
• Established reliability prediction processes and calculated reliability at various operating conditions.
• Established reliability processes and prepared reliability reports for customer and internal use.Quality Assurance Engineer
• Lead QA Engineer during the ISO 9001 certification and periodic audit process.
• Wrote ISO 9001 compliant procedures for various divisions of the corporation.
• Conducted internal audits of the manufacturing processes and supplier quality audits at vendor locations.

M.S. In General Engineering -, (Mechanical, Industrial And Electrical & Electronics Engineering)

B.E., Mechanical Engineering