Sharon Devoie Email & Phone Number

United States

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Nashville, Tn

Senior Program Manager•• Manage programmatic and engineering activities for USAF programs using AGILE software development environment ($2.5M)• Conduct customer-facing meetings and negotiations for technical deliverables, schedule, and financial needs• Utilize AGILE process for SW development, test, and rapid delivery, meeting daily with engineering resources for tasking• Conduct weekly resource allocation meetings with engineering stakeholders to allocate personnel support across the engineering community for R&D• Proven ownership and dedication for technical schedules and overall team deliverySenior Program Manager (International Programs) • • Managed program activities for International defense agencies (FMS/DCS) ($40M)• Provided work breakdown structures, milestones, financial metrics, technical specifications, supply chain performance, manufacturing, installation and deployment• Incorporated Earned Value Metrics and PMBOK principles including CPI, SPI, and Risk Management• Secured customer approval for military articles: technical, contractual and financial • Led strategic team to improve sales in international business, focusing on customer inputs and feedback, including proposal team lead for a major international defense proposal - $700K improvement

Field Engineer

Western Digital Corporation (March 2008 – September 2013)Senior Principal Engineer (Product Quality/Field Quality) • Served as quality representative for individual Enterprise Class and Mobile east coast and Asian OEMs• Established quality goals for channel customers and established initiatives to meet goals• Trained/tasked newly assigned engineers in hard drive technology and team activity• Monitored corporate quality gauges, including turn-around-time and factory response• Defined Failure Analysis needs and presented findings to customers as part of quality/sustaining activity• Provide consistent feedback to the factory process for manufacturing changes as defined by data parametrics• Coordinated changes for customers with the factory and account teams, including formal factory (line) audits in Asia

Northampton , Ma

• Coordinated program development and management activities for 2 major international customers• Developed and maintained complex program schedules for engineering and pre-production planning• Managed the activities of development teams to complete tasks and assignments on-time, given quality and financial goals• Delivered financial reports for monthly management reviews, including Earned Value calculations

Shrewsbury, Ma

Program Director (2005-2007) • Co-directed cross-functional teams, reviewing technical progress, issues, schedules, and contingencies as needed• Presented weekly to all stake holders, including executive staff. Worked with international team for manufacturing launch• Interfaced with purchasing and materials to insure parts availability (long lead time) for products in development• Defined and implemented life-cycle processes for corporate ISO 9001 requirements• Worked with Sales Ops (post-launch) and presented to customers on program status and product capability

Shrewsbury, Ma

Senior Eng Manager/Director Product Test and Configuration (1999 – 2004)• As a member of the development team, worked with all engineering areas to implement manufacturing test processes to meet product quality goals.• Coordinated program goals for the design, including functional specifications, customer requirements, and engineering deliverables. Worked with international team for manufacturing launch.• Authored extensive test plans outlining areas of manufacturing test: PCBA Functional Test, Head Disk Assembly Test, FW Flash, In-drive diagnostics, Data archival, and Configuration Test.• Facilitated failure analysis and corrective actions in the factory and with suppliers, communicating cut-in dates and factory capability.• Executed parametric queries on internal software, analyzing manufacturing failures. Resolved manufacturing issues and provided details to other responsible engineering areas as needed: read/write, servo, firmware. • Coordinated testing to meet program goals for program launch.• Staffed and managed production test team to define and develop enterprise-class test platforms including software, hardware, and mechanical, promoting cost-reduction and time-saving strategies.• Worked cross-functionally to support programs in development as well as quality issues in the field, often in time/revenue critical situations.• Defined and implemented life-cycle processes for corporate ISO 9001 requirements.• Program manager of first RoHS program - meeting program goals.• Presented detailed presentations to customers, executive management, and manufacturing partners (Japan and Singapore). • Managed on-site configuration operation and lab setup, processing up to 600 drives per day for customer qualifications and revenue shipments. • Traveled to manufacturing sites as a member of corporate “swat team” for yield improvement and revenue shipments.

Shrewsbury, Ma

Senior Manufacturing Process Development Engineer (May 1997 to August 1999)• As part of the New Product Introduction team, provided leadership in the development and implementation of new test architectures for manufacturing. • Provided process definition for the development and implementation of new test architectures for manufacturing. Architecture written in C and developed cross-site. • Launched Windows-based/SQL architecture and hardware at Asian manufacturing partner. • Provided training to manufacturing and configuration sites. • Authored test plans outlining FW Flash, Data archival, and OEM Configuration Test.• Incorporated DFT into product life cycle.• Performed “design of experiments” to determine validity of new firmware and manufacturing tests. • Defined SPC criteria for quality monitoring in the factory.