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)

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

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.

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.