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San Francisco Bay Area

Mountain View, California

Leading cross-functional teams to drive the successful launch and continuous improvement of Project Taara, a free-space optical communication technology.Key Responsibilities & Achievements:Software & Production: Collaborated with software engineers, ensuring 25 successful releases, and acted as liaison between the contract manufacturer and engineering, resolving 150+ bugs/issues and facilitating 245 feature requests.Test & Quality: Led the development of comprehensive test protocols, resulting in an 85% increase in product quality. Spearheaded quality assurance for P1-P4 launches, achieving a 100% closure rate on identified issues for P3.Cost Reduction & Vendor Management: Led cost reduction initiatives, resulting in a 45% BOM cost reduction and $375K per-unit savings. Managed a vendor transition project, achieving substantial cost savings.Lead Time & Logistics: Reduced lead times by two weeks for a V2 product launch. Coordinated the timely delivery of 100+ components across international borders.Contract Manufacturer Management: Successfully transitioned product version 1.1 to a contract manufacturer, achieving 85% first pass yield. Oversaw line establishment, training, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.Communication & Reporting: Developed and implemented a weekly operations reporting process adopted by multiple teams for increased transparency.Problem Solving & Collaboration: Consistently resolved complex issues, ensuring project timelines and quality standards were met.Key Skills & Expertise:Technical program managementCross-functional team leadershipVendor management and negotiationRisk mitigation and quality assuranceProcess optimization and efficiency improvementCommunication and stakeholder managementProblem-solving and decision-making

Mountain View, California, United States

This project is bringing high-speed internet to the developing world via beams of infrared lightThe latest invention from Alphabet’s moonshot factory are giant towers that use light to send data, like a fiber-optic cable without the cable.

San Jose

• Leading manufacturing technician/ engineers in various NPI projects, line set ups, improvements projects & daily activities• Quoting and estimating manufacturing cost for new process and product development• Leading cross functional team to improve shared mechanical using A3 methodology• Transferring new products to Jabil factories worldwide for mass production• Interacting directly with customer engineers and program managers to identify risks through failure mode and affect analysis• Tulip (interacted work instruction application) subject matter expert, drive improvements with Tulip as our supplier• Supporting Shared mechanical line on variety of products by creating work instructions and live dashboards• Developing process for new product introduction during different phases prototype, Pre pilot & pilot • Implementing new technologies to reduce production cost • Investigating, developing and implementing new technology for low cost and better manufacturability•Developing Fixture and tooling concept to fabrication, evaluation and implementation to increase manufacturing accuracy by % 30 and increase manufacturing yield by %5•Improving labor efficiency and throughput by changing line layout and eliminating reducing unnecessary over-production and transportation in the production line by %15•Leading engineering team to improve product packaging and reduce cost by %35•Implementing Lean concepts in multiple production lines aiming to reduce Non Value Added processes and decreasingproduction Cycle Time by implementing a one piece flow and reducing unnecessary batching (waiting)•Implementing Six Sigma methodologies such as DOEs, risk assessment, process FMEAs, cause and effect studies to successfully troubleshoot factory failure and drive design changes• Capturing and documenting manufacturing issue and drive action plans in NPI phase in order to achieve higher quality to enable delivery of a mature manufacturing process into Mass Production

San Jose

• Develop Incoming Quality Control process based on AQL sampling method• Improve quality control plan process for incoming parts inspection• Manage IQC team and set priorities for daily part inspection based on MFG build requirements• Review non-confirming material with Material Review Board and managing the parts disposition process• Train IQC team using best practices measurement technique, review customer cosmetic specification, parts drawing ST dimensions with IQC team as an on going basis and drive continuous improvements • Analyze supplier measurement data and OQC report to correlate with IQC data• Work with cross functional teams, MFG, Material, ME and Quality to meet their requirements

San Jose, California, United States

• Administered front-end supply chain activities which include sourcing of components, order management, material deployment and inventory control• Recognized by team creating more completed and preferred data base to research the market and evaluation for new products• Established the first method of inventory control and saving the company valuable time and revenue• Set up and manage Bill of Materials (BOM), outsourcing parts and reduced the overall production cost by 20%• Used company proprietary MRP software to input parts inventory, distributors, and manufacturers• Tracked purchase orders and expedite at appropriate intervals to ensure on time receipt of materials

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Materials Engineering