Ron Hatch Email & Phone Number

Retired

Salt Lake City Area, Utah

Vice President of Engineering and Operations

Managed a group of engineers involved with software testing of Internet browser applications.

Supervised a group of engineers and techs who were testing web browsers for stability and functionality.

This was initially the Signetics facility in Albuquerque, NM. Philips Semiconductors (Eindhoven, Holland) took over world-wide management of all semiconductor operations in Philips in about 1995-6, and later was renamed to become NXP. In 1992 I directed the move of the Product, Characterization and Test Engineering groups from the Orem plant to the Albuquerque plant, and some to Caen, France, as well as Bangkok, Thailand. I subsequently became the Quality & Reliability Manager for the Programmable Products Group, helping the group qualify for PQA-90 Quality Award and ISO-9001 certification. I also coordinated sub-contractor customer quality and reliability support for European customers.

Managed all aspects of the Quality Program at both the Orem, UT facility (1982-1992 and the Albuquerque, NM facility (1992-1998). Supervised Quality inspectors and assembly quality activities in Production, including dealing with Customer Source Inspectors, ISO, Bladridge and other quality endorsements; Traveled to various other Signetics and Philips Semiconductors sites in UK, France, Germany, Holland, Thailand and Korea to coordinate quality programs and interface with corporate Quality Management in Eindhoven, Holland.

Directed activities of a team of engineers and technicians for the Standard Products Group in the Orem,UT facility. Project Leader for several product transfers, including SB and ECL processes to other facilities. Managed on-going production and customer support for established product lines, addressing customer quality concerns and production test issues and equipment.

Managed the characterization and release activities of the new and redesigned products, and the qualification of process transfers from one fabrication area to another. Also had responsibility for test program generation (team of programmers) and specification writers.

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