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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• Install Windows OS, update firmware, read schematics and assembly drawings

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• Keep projects on schedule despite unexpected delays due to pull-ins or late dependencies• Cross-managed teams to ensure a smooth platform/silicon bring-up• Ordered silicon samples for cross-functional teams during design cycle through initial productionAccomplishments:• Successfully rolled out new platform for customer with a 66% reduced schedule to meet customer demand.• Led first customer-owned platform design in China• Established an external customer ECO (engineering change order) rollout process• Completed through bring up five different platforms concurrently

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• Locate local component venders in China for cost down actives• Managed local team that owned all client platform buildsAccomplishments:• Grew team from one individual to a group of six• Built on site rework lab including reflow, ovens, and soldering stations within two months to meet customer expectations and project bring-up.• Expanded contract manufacturers to start system integration (box builds)• Set up multiple local contract manufacturers to build test platforms for AMD silicon• Located and enabled local vendors for material procurement and reworks for platform builds

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• Established goals with upper management on business direction and applied to team • Administered status history and forecasting for project loads and typesAccomplishments:• Built validation lab and team at new Shanghai R&D center• Hired 25 validation engineers across different functions• Created and validation all equipment for lab including expensed and capital equipment

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:• Transferred ownership of OEM projects to Taipei lab from North America• Reviewed and updated test plans for more efficiency to meet customer expectations

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