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Round Rock, TX, US

San Jose, California, US

- Managing overall integrated program schedule- Communications with contact manufacturers- Design/product documentation release through agile to Contract Manufacturer- Communication of project status internal and external to Roku- Partner communication.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Driving solution development schedules including tracking issues, identifying risks, risk mitigation, resolving problems.
• Facilitate completion of projects on time and within budget.
• Collaborating and coordinating engineering activities with internal engineering teams, other functional teams, extended teams, core teams and partners.
• Create and maintain BOMs, sales enablement processes and assist with development of processes and steps to enable solution delivery.
• Vendor & Procurement Management.
• Translate marketing requirements to engineering requirements.

Worldwide, US

• Driving solution development schedules including tracking issues, identifying risks, risk mitigation, resolving problems.
• Facilitate completion of projects on time and within budget.
• Collaborating and coordinating engineering activities with internal engineering teams, other functional teams, extended teams, core teams and partners.
• Create and maintain BOMs, sales enablement processes and assist with development of processes and steps to enable solution delivery.
• Vendor & Procurement Management.
• Translate marketing requirements to engineering requirements.

Oklahoma City, OK, US

• Develop new support ticket workflow
• Quarterly Business Reviews with 3rd party vendors
• Setup in house BGA re-flow
• Complete test instructions for reworks and 1st articles for integration
• Track and report reworks load and status
• Work with design engineers for issue found in platforms causing issues

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsibilities:
• Set schedule for platform project from concept to bring-up
• Set weekly meeting to review progress and issues
• Cross led multiple engineering teams to insure everything is ready for bring-up
• Investigated and initiated methods to reduce platform build budgets
• Challenged team members with deadlines to meet compressed schedules

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsibilities
• Own relationship with the China contract manufactures (CM)
• Qualify potential new CMs, review sites for Lean and Six Sigma implementation
• Prepare and present Quarterly Business Reviews with CMs
• Review BOM cost and analyze for cost down actives
• Escalated issue to CM management when schedule is at risk to be missed

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsibilities
• Projected the cost-center budget for the validation team including travel, material, capital, and employee team building
• Directly managed team of 14 validation engineers
• Created cross-sites network for validation managers from Asia and North America
• Managed projects from global OEMs, channel partners, and internal platform design teams
• Tracked employee skills, goals, and development on biannual basis

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsibilities
• Developed relationships with global OEM partners for test strategy
• Combined engineering team efforts for global OEM partner programs
• Managed multiple projects for internal reference designs and OEM partners to ensure deadlines were met
• Reported issues in weekly report and calls
• Tracked and closed issues on all projects with debug teamAccomplishments:

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsibilities
• Validated OEM, channel, and internal designs to ensure they met silicon specifications
• Reported issues and performed regressions on issues found
• Worked with internal teams on issues found
• Helped debug duplicate issues and verify fixesAccomplishments:
• Led platform validation first workstation/server team

• Performed computer upgrades
• Built new computers
• Resolved issues on customer boards—small business and personal systems
• Provided onsite support for businesses and individuals

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Provided technical support for internal personnel of 500 people

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering