Thomas Maclean Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Determine ways of further leveraging our investments in engineering services and products.Design and document the policies and procedures required to successfully outsource engineering services.Identify and evaluate new engineering service suppliers.Benchmark our test development processes against Best-In-Class.

Ottawa, Ontario

• Responsible for developing and implementing test strategy for multiple manufacturing test development teams located in North America and Europe, with the objective to harmonize the tools and practices used by these teams.• Deployed Averna Proligent Enterprise Test Platform. Expert Proligent Integrator: designed and built “ProductionTools” to give Proligent MES-like features.• Outsourced development of required components; managed vendor relationship.• Managed a remote “dotted-line” team

Ottawa, Canada Area

Responsible for the transfer of test technology from Tropic Networks manufacturing to Alcatel-Lucent personnel.

Provided Technical Leadership to Manufacturing Test team: set standards, defined development process, audited work performed. Worked with Team Leader to establish development schedules. Worked with hardware team to include features in the product to improve testability and manufacturability.• Architect of Test Tools and Infrastructure: designed TTE, an embedded test executive system; and TPM, a Manufacturing Execution System to ensure product quality and provide traceability using a mix of proprietary and open source components.• Managed manufacturing test at contract manufacturer.• Managed transfer of development technology to Alcatel-Lucent

Ottawa, Canada Area

Led the discovery, diagnosis and solution of customer problems with Alcatel (former Newbridge Networks) ADSL and related products.Responsible for the development of product hardening strategy for ADSL and IDSL products.Conducted training of regional staff and customers in areas such as ADSL Technology, ADSL Internetworking and features and operation of Alcatel equipment.

Team Leader for xDSL Test Development, overseeing the test development for ADSL, SDSL, HDSL-2, IDSL products.• Responsible for the design and implementation of the test strategy for prototype and production circuit boards and systems manufactured by Newbridge. The responsibilities include documenting test procedures and providing training for operations and repair personnel.• Also responsible for the development of MDL-C (a test executive), and assisting and training other TE personnel in C/C++ Tcl/Tk, Expect, MDL-C, test design strategy, process cost analysis