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Boulder, CO, US

San Jose, California, US

• Lead engineering team developing and maintaining manufacturing test software for fully custom electro-mechanical assemblies and OEM hardware solutions running on an integrated framework within international contract.
• Manage team performing New Product Introduction (NPI) related to all operation functions such as supply chain, planning, test, process, engineering changes pilot, launch, validation and monitoring.
• Collaborates with Engineering Product Architects to develop new product requirements.
• Sustain products through documentation and change management processes using using industry tools including Agile PLM, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint and others.
• Create an annual operating plan and budget with measured KPIs and goals.
• Develop and maintain analytics dashboards to run the business, provide business intelligence, and act as an early warning system for not meeting goals.

San Jose, California, US

• Leader of the team responsible for product quality for all Quantum offerings.
• Strategic ownership of the product quality initiatives.
• Support the highest-level customer Quality escalations to resolve issues in a positive and professional manner.
• Manage complex product quality investigations within AWS Glacier Storage Tier and Microsoft Azure.
• Manage supplier quality issues for HDD, SSD, and NVME server products and OEM tape automation from IBM, Dell, Seagate, SuperMicro, Celestica, Premio, Avnet, and Flextronics.
• Provides quality / field data KPIs for all of Quantum to enable business decisions.

San Jose, California, US

• Lead the world-wide service logistics business with 175 warehouses, $30M in inventory and $20M in spending.
• Managed a 3PL Warehouse with a fully integrated business flow.
• Developed automated customer reporting on service-level agreements.
• Managed transition from Oracle to Dynamics 365.
• Managed efforts to automate business processes through coordination with IT, Customer Service, and external partners to reduce demand on resources by 50%.
• Owned outsourced custom component repair operations.

San Jose, California, US

• Strategic ownership of the product quality and customer experience initiatives (NPS).
• Influenced cross functional teams to drive the right proactive improvements on both products and processes.
• Provided quality / field data for all of Quantum to enable business decisions.
• Accountable for customer experience and highest levels of customer escalations.
• Established quality and reliability standards by studying product and consumer requirements with Product Management, Engineering and Product Marketing.
• Provided analysis of SW bugs and related customer issues for root cause identification.

San Jose, California, US

• As the program leader for the entire software and disk-based data protection product line, my main objective is to provide leadership and organization to meet the objectives outlined on the product roadmap, including.
• Provided leadership and organization to meet the objectives outlined on the product roadmap, including solidification of requirements, identification and organization of resources, scheduling functional areas, phase.
• Managed NPI of DXi Product Series and Q-Cloud Protect for Amazon Web Services.
• Developed the plan of record with requirements, critical-path schedule, milestones and cost.
• Facilitated design reviews and feedback with functional stakeholders.
• Studied user stories to determine tasks and work items.

San Jose, California, US

• Drove contract manufacturing (CM) NPI of multiple data storage library products, including the Scalar® i500 and OEM versions for IBM and Dell.
• Developed the product Quality Management Plan.
• Communicated executive-level metrics for manufacturing and customer product quality.
• Provided tactical responsibility for engineering changes.
• Oversaw manufacturing and quality processes at our CM.
• Managed first-article inspections at CM and sub-tier supplier levels, R&R studies, yield controls, critical-parameter Statistical Process Controls, and Corrective Action Processes.

• Manufacturing/Tooling Engineering
• Managed five new product introductions in two years.
• Recommended changes for new products based on quantitative Design for Assembly (DFA) analysis tools, Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).
• Implemented and maintained tracking, maintenance, and reporting function for $3 million worldwide tool inventory. Tool families included plastic injection molding, mechanical and printed circuit assembly, metal.
• Supported contract manufacturer in Mexico with product launches, production builds, test equipment implementations, and defect analysis with surface mount technology and mechanical assembly lines.
• Developed test and mechanical assembly work instructions for CM.

• Circular Technologies manufactures precision metal pulleys, urethane rollers, and timing belts for the computer, printer, copier, and power tool industries. My accomplishments included:
• Managed inspection and drafting departments of up to twelve employees.
• Established Engineering Change Order (ECO) System and internal drafting standards.
• Performed engineering and quality field support for customer base including Xerox, HP, Makita, and Kodak.
• Implemented and maintained multiple aspects of the ISO9001:1994 quality system.