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Richardson, Tx, Us

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 base. Design and develop reliability qualification and validation tests. Engage with Customer and field issue resolution. Estimate last time buys to assist spares planning are few of many functional responsibilities that lets me to scale through the ranks of the organization. Additional responsibilities include managing development program schedule of Network products by working with various cross functional teams to ensure that tasks are completed per road map and business goals at various stages and levels.

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 through a centralized common development process and monitor the efficiencies through periodic updates to KPIs. Manage failure analysis of air moving products.

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 Closed loop corrective action updates to the Sr. Executive Staff.• 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, quarterly and annual basis• 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 Regulatory compliance requirements and obtain UL, FCC, and CCC certifications. Developed CE design files for new products• Developed tests / procedures, based on industry standards and responsible for product Quality and Reliability from conception to stay ahead of the sales cycle and to meet customer needs / industry standards• Established component life and reliability requirements of a various vendors. Engaged with vendors worldwide to define product life and on how to meet end use needs through unique test activities• Responsible for reliability engineering evaluation through FMEAs, FTA, RBDs and reliability tests. Maintain and calibrate test equipment to ISO17025 standard.• Responsible for customer returns through timely failure analysis and evaluation process. Feed information promptly to other functional teams to make changes quickly and as necessary

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 spans from early development to EOL (end-of-life) on all video products that are designed at Polycom and purchased from other vendors.• 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, location, metrics, etc.• 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 DfR tasks.• 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• Established renewed field data collection process and refined the data reporting process.• Trained several OEM partners, vendors and Polycom Design and Operations teams on critical Reliability Engineering best practices – availability, design qualification and process validation, HALT / HASS, FMEA, and on Derating Analysis.• Ensured implementation of DfR (Design for Reliability), DfM (Design for Manufacturability), and DfS (Design for Serviceability) by working with various cross functional teams worldwide.• Performed FMEA on products designed by Polycom and reviewed Supplier FMEAs

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 phases and for products in field. Responsible for overall product reliability. Design core team member. Managed projects of the highest volume products (> 14 million units).• 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 to meet Dell requirements.• 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 guide the computer industry and ensure that everyone in the industry follows a streamlined product qualification process to have ‘Halogen Free’ products• 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• Developed a unique process to contain field failures during product launch and entire product life cycle in-line with the FMEA process to fit the fast paced product development cycle.• Developed On-going Reliability Tests (ORT) to monitor and evaluate component and device level reliability and trained suppliers to implement and report ORT results on a periodic basis prior to lot release for production.

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 and technology leadership role.• 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.• Developed FMEA standard operating procedure, training modules, and trained design engineers and managers.• Taught reliability elements of Design for Six Sigma to divisional employees as part of their training fulfillment.• Performed FMEAs and Fault Tree Analyses (FTA) on floating product platform equipment.• Established key design engineering metrics and reported weekly / monthly on design engineering performance.

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 delivery division that is responsible for several dialysis, purification and invasive class III devices.• 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.• Developed Reliability Engineering field failure metrics and worked with service and data analyses personnel to implement renewed data collection and report process.• Developed Reliability Engineering training modules for the division and trained design engineers and managers on Reliability Engineering activities.• Provided Quality/Reliability Engineering guidance to other divisions of the corporation by being a Member of technical staff

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. Developed and managed cross-functional tasks within the company, with suppliers and potential customers.• 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 assessments/audits.• 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.• Developed New Products Release package as part of NPI process prior to production ramp up.• Coordinated prototype-build activities as a key liaison between the Contract Manufacturer and Design Engineering teams.• Established product specification based on information from development teams, suppliers and customer requirements.• Defined product configuration, service and product support requirements during and after warranty.• Developed a comprehensive reliability test plan, and test procedures to validate prototype designs and Manufacturing Plans by working with contract manufacturer’s NPI teams.

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 validation. Active member of the design review team. Performed FMEAs, MTBF predictions, product qualification, and implementation tests and system level failure analyses. Worked with Field Service personnel to monitor failure trends, and to implement appropriate corrective actions.Lead Reliability Engineer• 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• Established corporate quality goals worldwide for new products.• Led weekly-extended team meetings across various regions and groups to ensure the Dell business practices were implemented correctly on new and existing products.• Responsible for worldwide quality / continuous improvement of products, prior to launch.• Conducted project analysis to identify all program risks based on the field/test data.• Performed field failure data analysis and fed forward information to initiate corrective actions.

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.• Resolved customer concerns from field failure issues by working closely with customer service organization.

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

B.E., Mechanical Engineering