OBJECTIVE: Seeking position as a Director of Quality

SUMMARY:Over 20 years of experience in all aspects of Quality Assurance/Reliability and Manufacturing in the Networking, Semiconductor & Computer industries with strong technical, interpersonal, and management skills.

• ISO 9001:2000 Certified Lead Auditor, QS 9000
• Manufacturing Quality Management
• RoHS Certified Lead Assessor
• Leader and facilitator cross functional teams
• Supply Chain Management
• Quality procedure implementation globally

EXPERIENCE:

• RoHS Compliance Project: Converting all components: Active, I.C.’s, Discretes, Passive, Inductors, Power Supplies, and OEM parts for all Divisions and met the deadline July 1, 2006
• Managed Alternate sources for all components, AVL (Agile) and supply chain management, Provided on-going manufacturing support to contract manufacturers for all Field failures, sustaining issues, and qualification of new parts, resulting in Savings of $2 million/year
• Provided support to purchasing and commodity management for negotiating price for all Product lines leveraging strategic and critical commodities resulting in adequate supply for upside potential
• Managed transfer of products between contract manufacturers with full support for component shortages, second sourcing, and new part qualifications resulting in savings of $5 million/year

• Provided consulting services to companies in Quality Assurance, Component Engineering including ROHS compliance components, alternate sources for supply chain and Manufacturing areas.
• Provided ISO 9001:2000 certification audits and employee awareness training, gap analysis and corrective action and continuous process improvement
• Taught several technical and quality courses at local Universities (UOP & National U) as an Adjunct Faculty

• Developed quality management system based on IS0-9001 standards which resulted in passing the quality systems audit and gaining new business
• Managed department of 8 people with full staffing, budgeting, reviews responsibility
• Trained employees for ISO-9000 awareness and formed internal audit team
• Optimized critical component suppliers which resulted in $1M cost savings
• Supported Design Engineering for critical optical components to accelerate Time-to-Market strategy
• Managed production line to transfer new products from design into manufacturing phase
• Managed and leveraged supply base to ensure capability and control for new products
• and processes at CM’S and ASIC foundries
• Coordinate with customers and plants to ensure customers' procedural requirements are fully implemented consistently in operations and to ensure processes are fully capable of achieving customer requirements

• Managed ASICs, VLSI (Protocol) chips and Programmable Devices for new product qualification and Design Engineering support DFT, DFM, Foundry and assembly qualifications
• Saved Nortel Networks $15M per year by qualifying new ASICs and FPGA conversions over 5 years
• Responsible for worldwide supplier selection, qualification, Score card, rating and ranking in QBRs
• Worked with new acquisitions to resolve all product transition to new contract manufacturers
• Managed turnkey suppliers through NPI process to transfer new products into manufacturing
• Commodity Team leader for new products working closely with CM’s for price, performance,technical support and delivery
• Trained new Engineers, provided ISO awareness training to employees and formed a qualified team of auditors
• Team leader for ISO-9001:2000 certification for Ottawa plant

• Managed ASICs, Linear and Digital I.C.'s, Crystal Oscillators and other electrical passive components to support Design Engineering & Manufacturing operations.
• Participated in ISO-9001 Certification of Hardware Division
• Responsible for assembly & foundry qualifications and AVL

• Worldwide supplier certifications; and qualifications of ASICs, I.C.'s, Crystal Oscillators
• Responsible for First Article approval, AVL, Failure Analysis and Corrective Action
• Conducted quality systems audits at vendors per mil-Q-9858A and Mil-Std-883

• Performed component qualifications of I.C.'s, ASICs, and Passive Components.
• Conducted quality systems audits for I.C. foundries and assemblies in Europe and Asia
• Derived failure analysis and corrective action from suppliers

• Executed Corporate Reliability Monitor Program for all packages and technologies
• Managed failure analysis of field returns and qualification of Military Products.
• Qualified offshore assemblies and wafer foundries for complex SMD packages

• Managed product engineering group to improve yields on disc drive products, processes and qualified surface mount packages at offshore assemblies
• Responsible for transferring new products into manufacturing with consistent yields

• Managed product engineering functions for telecommunications products
• Improved product performance and product yields by design/process verification
• Qualified Die shrinks and new process technologies to improve profitability

• Managed Linear Hi-Reliability Engineering Operations and manufacturing support
• Managed JAN product qualifications and accomplished highest QPL
• Chairman of the JC-41 committee that was responsible for generating JAN linear product specifications for the I.C. industry

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