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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Managed a staff or Project Managers tasked with managing individual project milestones to ensure that overall project cycle times are in alignment with annual operating targets. Communicated project prioritization and escalated as required to ensure organizational resources were aligned with on-time delivery objective. • Provided senior leadership to managers and professional staff accountable for the performance and results of multiple sites and related teams. Developed business unit, department and sub-function plans, including business, production and organizational priorities. • Planed and evaluated optimal resource utilization and efficiency of operation to minimize costs and allow for on-time delivery of product to customers.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Executed key strategies, managed multiple prototype system builds by the volume manufacturing organization. Engaged stakeholders in the Business unit, Operations and Quality, setting up strategic communications based on critical path milestones. Exercised contingency options, piloted new software development approaches and leveraged available resources to deliver the systems on time to key customers.• Drove new business models to support profitability during challenging economic business conditions brought several outsourced ventures in-house. Established a core team of manufacturing engineers to develop and maintain manufacturing and test documentation. Actively managed stakeholder expectations to provide cost-effective product support with fewer personnel and increased supplier accountability. Reduced annual operating expenses quarter over quarter for the past two years.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Drove continual improvement in product management, overseeing 100,000-line item changes in $3B of engineering components annually. Sponsored projects whose resulting process efficiency gains reduced administrative cost per change over six consecutive quarters and reduced supply chain delays due to drawing errors by over 50%. Completed two DNV audits with no findings.• Established baseline performance of drawing inspectors. Developed and published key performance indicators used to set up reward and remedial programs with uniform standards for drafters in Austin, Texas and Bangalore, India. The resulting performance charts were instrumental in level loading and optimizing limited resources. Prompt feedback and natural competition produced measurable increases in productivity.• Faced with growing need to reduce blanket allocations for change management support, established value stream map for the process. The resulting chart supported assigning cost per part for change management and drawing review, scaled costs for rework and tied all chargeable activity back to established metrics. Gained wide acceptance of the new activity-based cost schedule and establishment of traceable integration into performance management tools, which in turn drove more critical strategic reviews of engineering design releases.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Responsible for the day to day operation of change management process across multiple product divisions influencing product transitions, manufacturing and cost control strategy. Extensive involvement in the development, implementation and management of multiple company wide business initiative integrating new change management, CAD and enterprise solutions.• Program management responsibility for multiple contract labor sources located domestically and overseas with an annual operating budget of 840K. Negotiated favorable terms with vendors that significantly improved headcount flexibility and lowered operational costs. Efforts resulted in annual cost savings on contract labor in excess of 200K per annum and increased billing accuracy to 100%. • Provided leadership for multiple cross functional project teams to capture, develop, and implement solutions to business opportunities in alignment with organizational objectives. Automated Customer Engineering Solutions process to provide increased customer service, availability, reduced cost and infrastructure compatibility. Project resulted in direct Organizational savings in excess of 300K per annum through: a reduction of 2 contract heads, elimination of an external consultant, and cycle time reduction of 90%. Managed the first Engineering SPC project for volume Operations exceeding all stated objectives to include but not limited to reducing SPS cycle time for Design Engineering from 13 days to 6, reduction of reassignments by 50% and site wide roll out to all Business Units.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Lead analyst responsible for account reconciliation, management and financial reporting between the Asian regions and Global Operations in support of cross product transactions, sales, and support. Managed day to day validation of sub-component and end-item financial transaction to include negotiation of account relief, payment and forecasting. • Develop and implement solutions for cost improvement projects, critical issues, and process weaknesses contributing to reduction of monthly close transactions by 10%.• Database administrator for Cost Accounting System, Materials Management system, and Vista Automation to include but not limited to user access maintenance, data accuracy, and system interface.• Identify significant opportunities for improvement regarding financial transactions supporting a global lean manufacturing operation.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Responsible for development of new product documentation, troubleshooting, and product revisions necessary to ensure smooth transition onto the manufacturing floor with focus on cycle time and first time right.• Provided technical support (Hot Shot) to Final Test work center to troubleshoot and repair complex electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and software system components.• Developed and released numerous work-agreements, testing and troubleshooting procedures, assembly procedures, and sequence of events documents for LEAN.• Calibration tested finished products and utilized software programs to run burn-in cycles.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Operations Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics