Alexander Parkhomovsky, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Scotts Valley, Ca, Us

• Championed improvements in corporate quality management system (QMS) and managed Quality Assurance functional organization.• Led development and deployment of quality engineering processes (e.g., APQP, FAIR, Validations, PPAP, Control Plans, PFMEA, Inspection Plans, Source Inspection documentation, etc.) in support of business needs.• Identified and drove proactive risk reduction, failure analysis, root cause determination, devised permanent corrective actions and facilitated continuous process improvements.• Assured the interpretation of customer, regulatory, and internal requirements into program and product specific quality planning and procedures for use in design, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, test, inspection, and customer service.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Championed Design for Reliability (DFR) implementation within the Emerging Products and Ring Smart Home Product Integrity groups, led global teams in development of qualification test plans, reliability risk assessments and facilitated working sessions on DFR deliverables.• Identified high risk failure mechanism, determined the root cause of failures, drove implementation and verification of the corrective actions in the product design that resulted in an estimated 6x reduction in product failure rates.• Analyzed product field returns of smart home security products; provided technical recommendations resulting in an estimated reduction in annualized return rates by an estimated 2%. • Developed and implemented reliability requirements and qualification test plans for emerging products to meet company and industry standards, developed training presentations for global reliability teams.

Developed and implemented reliability test specifications and qualification test plans for new generation of AR/VR products, optical modules and transferred them to contract manufacturers.• Led collaboration between system reliability and optics development teams, determined high risk to reliability areas for VR laser module, advised on materials and process optimization that resulted in an estimated cost savings of $100K.• Identified high risk component failure mechanism for new generation of Portal products, led the cross-functional team on implementation of corrective actions to use derated components resulting in failure rate reduction by 30%.

San Jose, California, Us

Championed Commercial Laser qualification and reliability test programs, devised advanced reliability tests, recruited, and managed a group of 7 engineers and technicians in Commercial Lasers team.• Based on reliability test results developed reliability risk models to address customer concerns on new products that resulted in product de-risking by the customer and additional business opportunity of $5M.• Developed action plans for root cause analysis of product failures, analyzed findings and communicated results to senior management to inform product direction.

Los Gatos, California, Us

Established Xicato corporate quality and reliability program for LED-based luminaries, devised reliability test specifications and qualification test plans; recruited and managed a group of 6 engineers and technicians and a reliability test facility with over 500 test cells.• Developed and experimentally validated the first highly customized physics-based reliability model of color maintenance in Xicato LED-based luminaries, presented the results to senior management to inform product direction.• Used the reliability model results to co-champion development of the first-in-industry corporate warranty of color maintenance making Xicato LED luminaries best-in-class products while saving ~$2M in product development costs.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Served as a subject matter expert on design for reliability and physics of failure, developed and published technical recommendations and informed senior management of product risks.• Successfully led implementation of reliability test requirements and reliability practices into Silicon Systems, a newly acquired NAND flash company: proposed gap closure plans to ensure Silicon Systems team meets reliability requirements of WDC, provided regular updates to inform senior management on the status of product readiness.• Co-Authored and published a peer reviewed article titled “Physics based modeling and Life distribution of SSD” describing a novel approach to reliability modeling methodology for hybrid drives.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Built and Led cross-functional teams of scientists, engineers, and technicians in development and successful implementation of customized engineering models and stress tests that resulted in an over $10M savings in product development costs.• Initiated and led joint engineering development programs with industrial and academic technology centers to demonstrate new concepts (the component micromanufacturing technology) and to lead the development and acquisition of new capital equipment for Seagate. • Enhanced reliability laboratory test capacity by a factor of 10X within one year.• Negotiated consensus with major stake holders and successfully deployed new corporate reliability life test procedure for Seagate and its major global suppliers. • Organized and led product root cause of failure task teams, developed action plans, analyzed findings, and communicated results to senior management.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Developed and patented novel micro-manufacturing technology reducing manufacturing cost by 90%.• Organized and led a cross-functional team to successfully develop a suite of customized highly accelerated reliability (HALT, DVT) tests for new and existing products that saved 75% in product test time.• Organized task team and developed corporate reliability test procedures and implemented them at supplier factories worldwide.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Designed and conducted experiments, developed process control models for optimizing process tool and module performance for metal and dielectric thin films deposition. • Optimized process output of dielectric CVD deposited BloKTM and Black DiamondTM using design of experiments and advanced process control (APC) solutions. • Conducted new product and process deployment and customer training at customer sites in the US, Europe and Asia. • Provided customer accounts with real-time technical solutions.

Ph.D., Materials Science And Engineering

Certificartion, Engineering Management

M.Sc., Chemical Engineering