Timothy Thurston Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Global Product Engineering Program Manager for server memory and microprocessors; ($3.5B+ in spend), across five suppliers, (Intel, AMD, Samsung, Hynix and Micron) and eight manufacturing locations world-wide. Accountable for the management of multiple related business processes producing consistently high quality HPE servers.  Work cross-functionally with Supply-Chain, Marketing, R&D, Customer Experience, Mfg Test, Quality organization and our suppliers to introduce new products to the marketplace and modernize our manufacturing processes with Lean processes.  Perform business problem analyses using exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, data transformation, data mining, and modeling with SQL, Excel, Python, RStudio and Mini-tab Re-located the Memory Qualification Laboratory from Houston to the China and Taiwan Manage the multi-national Memory Qualification Lab, technology, strategy, financials, contract development Chair the HPE server test council, responsible for Memory, Processor and Process Manufacturing Test Requirements Led project to change DIMM qualification and data model results: $50,000,000 annual reduction in excess and obsolescence

Houston, Texas, Us

 Program Manager Enterprise Implementation: Led business organizations to implement Pan-HP Supply Chain IT solutions. Managed 7 project managers, 70+ staff, and consultants in redefining and developing HP-wide Procurement processes and software requirements for Ariba/SAP’s Contract development, Supplier Selection, Supplier Performance Management, and Supplier Information Management BPM suite as well as HP’s Cost Management, Assurance of Supply, and Procurement Quality applications. Redefined the information technology strategy of the ISS Global Procurement Organization. Simultaneously directed the Pan-HP Supply Chain Execution Management program and Pan-HP Procurement Contract development and contract migration project, managed offshore development resources.  Database Development: Project managed for the web-based Quote Management Tool; MS VB and MS SQL $10M savings  Risk Management/Predictive Analytics: Partnered with HP Fellow of Risk Management and introduced HP's proprietary Risk Management/Predictive analytics and techniques that became the basis of the strategic procurement for the memory supply base. Partnered with Supply chain, Finance and Treasury to structure strategic purchases, achieved over $150 million in savings. Portfolio Management: Developed a software project portfolio. Served as a liaison between Global Procurement Organization and the software development community.  Business Process Re-Engineering: Successfully decreased a two-week planning effort into a two day effort through development and implementation of an MRP application.

Houston, Texas, Us

Governed the global manufacturing test strategy, software application and network architecture, and development and deployment calendar/timeline/schedule for the world’s largest server product line. Led a team of software engineers, software project managers, and procurement engineers. Visualized and implemented a Project Portfolio Management System aligning proposed projects’ financial impact to resources Spearheaded the software engineering organization in coordinating and maintaining software tools and web-based test monitoring technology in Linux and Windows environments Supervised the procurement of more than $4 million of test and productivity equipment annually Designed and developed world-wide manufacturing test network infrastructure strategy for all of HP’s internal factories producing industry standard servers Modeled international manufacturing capacity and recommended expenditures to senior management to establish factory networks and test infrastructure in support of a multi-billion dollar server revenue stream Defined and implemented Manufacturing Execution Systems and middleware at HP’s server manufacturing facilities globally to facilitate production plans Efficiently migrated manufacturing test servers’ production environment from NT 4.0 to Win2003 in eight sites globally

Houston, Texas, Us

Earned an assignment as the leader in managing the newly created ISS Server Manufacturing Software organization. Constructed server manufacturing software, process automation, and systems integration on an international basis for Hewlett-Packard's ProLiant Servers and storage products. Developed two teams of system integrators and one team of software engineers. Solely handled the hardware, software, training, and travel budget for the ISS Server Manufacturing Software team. Tracked effectiveness and efficiency of the server manufacturing software team through the development of metrics.Career Highlights: Created and implemented software engineering standards and processes to strengthen the quality and maintainability of the team's software development process Coordinated a cross-functional effort to successfully replace the server test and software download infrastructure, which includes servers, networking equipment, and software in HP/Compaq's Server factories globally Conceptualized, produced, and updated an annual business plan for the ISS manufacturing diagnostics team in collaboration with various colleagues Generated the first continuous process improvement team to heighten manufacturing diagnostic quality while governing the first "diagnostic-centric" process improvement team to minimize First Pass Fallout in the factory, which resulted in establishing more than 6% reduction in first pass fallout and saving seventy thousand dollars

Mba, Business Administration And Management

Data Science And Machine Learning: Making Data Driven Decisions.

M.S., Computer Science And Engineering

B.S., Computer Engineering