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Roseville, California, United States

Worked in cooperation with corporate legal to meet product cyber security requirements of domestic and international corporate, government and military customers. Ensured that cyber security requirements imposed upon HPE products were flowed down through all levels of the supply chain.• Wrote/managed cyber security requirement documents for use by more than 100 external supply chain partners. Audited partners for compliance to requirements.• Ensured written compliance with DFARS 252.246-7007/7008, brokered parts, component source tracing, HPE standards & policies, ISO 9001:2015, NIST 800-53 & 800-171, etc.• Provided formal written response to customer cyber security inquiries. Worked with customers from early engagement through to securing contract.• Received non-compliant materials for defect analysis. Drove mitigation activities back into the supply chain to avoid repeat occurances.• Led Kaizen team to develop and refine supplier audit form. Reduced questions/confusion on part of suppliers by 50% over four months.• Developed and applied a product cyber security on-site audit for HPE company acquisitions.• Developed and managed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) product cyber security requirements used by internal hardware and software development teams.

Roseville, California, United States

Optimizing product data generated in all phases of hardware design and manufacturing including CAD and part data, transfer automation, and design and manufacturing documents.• Streamlined data flow from R&D CAD systems through to offshore manufacturing resulting in removal of five data handoffs leading to improved data quality and turnaround. This enabled design teams to perform testing using units representative of final product.• In two years alone, reduced mfg. and lab process steps from more than 400 to less than 200.• Led migration of engineering team to SAP product data management tools.

Managed manufacturing team moving print servers from R&D to global manufacturing. Managed relationship with offshore HPE and external manufacturing partner sites.• Led manufacturing product development team (test, procurement, quality, partner mgmt., mfg. line, etc.) during New Product Introductions (NPI). Represented mfg. team at project team mtgs. (with HW and SW labs, finance, support, marketing, safety/EMC, etc.).• Monitored quality reports of offshore, external manufacturing partners. Identified, managed and escalated issues as necessary.• Participated in multiple ready-to-ramp offshore builds immediately prior to product ramp.• Performed failure analysis on defective return materials (RMAs), reported progress/results/ outcome to management team, and drove corrective action as appropriate.• Facilitated cross-functional hardware design reviews during NPI of products.• Mentored multiple product engineering summer and new hires. Developed and used new hire checklist.