Walter Keene Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California

Responsible for a world wide team of Failure analysis directors, managers, and engineers that provide HDD failure root cause and corrective action for failures occurring at OEM, ODM customer sites and Datacenters. Closely partner with Customer Technical Support teams to ensure customer feedback is accurate and timely.Direct Contributions: Managed a cross functional team of engineers and FA experts to identify key issues with high performance products that impacted key accounts. Provided solutions and implemented new manufacturing designs that prevented future product failure and warranty returns, reducing warranty costs and reserves by over $25M, annually.Cross-functional Leader | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | | Quality Assurance | Big Data | Data Driven / Analytical | Failure Analysis - 8D

Irvine, California

Managed a team of Enterprise HDD Program Directors developing & releasing multiple HDD designs using the latest technology. Coached solutions for program issues encountered during the development and early product introduction phases and mentored new program managers for success. Communicated/presented weekly HDD development status to CEO using well polished presentation and verbal communication skills.Direct Achievements: Identified and provided solutions for major design flaws in flagship products and provided leadership that fixed those issues in subsequent design iterations, saving and preventing over $20M in reliability and customer return costs.Program Management | Cross-functional Leader | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Failure Analysis - 8D | Data Driven / Analytical

Irvine, California

Managed a team of 100+ engineers and managers, specifically responsible for supporting development integration of the Recording Subsystem - Channel with Heads & Media designs during Development phases and Early Product introduction. Reported product status to CTO and HDD Development teams.Direct Contributions: Launched new recording margin forecasting models that improved technology predictions and processes, allowing to pull in schedules by a full quarter, beating time to market goals and enabling early market penetration, resulting in $30 M revenue generation earlier than planned.Technical Engineering Leader | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Failure Analysis - 8D | Big Data | Data Driven / Analytical

Irvine, California

Director Program Management : Cross-functionally lead teams of engineers and support staff to develop new HDD products and to release them to high volume production. Ensured products met timeline schedules, product specification requirements, yield, quality and reliability demands, customer qualification expectations, and cost projections. Direct Accomplishments: Pulled in product portfolio release by 6months enabling time to market, time to quality, and time to cost by enabling full distribution components through creative design and software applications, leading to product shipments and high volume manufacturing of over 20 Million units and $2Billion in Revenue. Managed 3rd party software application design and release which reached out to over 50 Million consumers enabling key advancements in the corporation's technology.Program Management | Cross-functional Leader | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Failure Analysis - 8D | Big Data | Data Driven / Analytical

Irvine, California

Operations focused, cross functionally managed teams of operations engineers and supporting staff to construct and manage HDD development plans. These plans included HDD builds with multisourced suppliers, HDD product testing - Engineering Verification Testing (EVTs), Quality validation, and Customer Sample Shipments. Once released into production, responsible for ensuring smooth transition into manufacturing, with acceptable yields, quality, supplier sources, and scalable assembly and testing tooling.Program Management | Cross-functional Leader | Operations and New Product Introduction | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Failure Analysis - 8D | Quality Assurance | Lean Manufacturing/6 Sigma | Big Data | Data Driven / Analytical

Irvine, Ca

Cross functionally managed multiple product qualifications using expanded supplier sources to ensure continuity of supply and enable cost reductions. Focused on issues identified during qualifications by coordinating engineering actions to address yield impacts and quality deficiencies.Cross-functional Leader | Operations and New Product Introduction | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Failure Analysis - 8D

San Jose, California

Planned and coordinated HDD development builds to support multiphase product development. Cross functionally lead teams to ensure builds occurred as planned and communicated where gaps occurred during the execution. Provided detailed yield reports and worked closely with engineering teams to address failures to improve product manufacturing yields and quality.Cross-functional Leader | Operations and New Product Introduction | Issue Resolution/Trouble Shooting | Lean Manufacturing/6 Sigma

San Jose, California

Developed new processes to manufacture HDD component designs, working closely with multiple suppliers world wide.

San Jose, California

Developed new processes for Advanced Head Manufacturing and managed qualifications for customers using the latest designed heads