Program Manager Resume Santa Clara, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Program Manager with diverse experience in engineering, new product introduction and supplier partner management. Key strengths include a technical background and experience running cross - functional teams, managing external sites and supplier partners, releasing products and refining processes for increased teamwork and improved products.
New Product Introduction and Sustaining
Test and Release
PC, Server and Data Storage knowledge, mechanical, electrical, firmware and software
Supplier Management, Contract Management and Value Engineering
Project Management Professional certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Manager

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

Managed new product introductions including planning, materials, BOMS, test development and pilot builds.
Managed on-time General Availability of high volume storage server into two factory sites

Program Manager, New Product Introduction

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Responsibilities:

Handled New Product Introduction duties for backup appliance products comprised of Intel or Confidential servers and JBOD or RAID storage subsystems.
Managed project team that defined a complete suite of hardware and software Design Validation Tests

Product Lifecycle Program Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

Led tiger teams for field issue resolution of technical problems with routers and subsystem modules
Led Value Engineering teams to deliver increasing savings in each fiscal year

Operations Program Manager

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

Negotiated numerous award letters and a contract update
Facilitated this group’s first quarterly business reviews with suppliers. Developed materials with stakeholders
Received Vice President’s Award for exceptional service

Lead Product Engineer

Confidential, Newark, CA

Responsibilities:

Led an engineering group of four engineers that evaluated, recommended, tested and supported OEM backup and restore products.
Enhanced predictability of release schedules by developing a spreadsheet tool for planning and tracking actuals

Senior Software Product Marketing Manager

Confidential, Newark, CA

Responsibilities:

Managed four software product lines of VERITAS and Legato backup and data management products with total annual revenue of $150 million.
Created releases for media kits, documentation and licenses.
Preserved revenue by creating and managing over 10 product launches

Engineering Program Manager

Confidential, Newark, CA

Responsibilities:

Led a cross-functional 17-member project team from initiation to production release of a major storage product with a new in-bound OEM supplier.
Supplier qualification duties for an expanding product line.
My Project Plan was the Example Plan in the new release process training manual
Evaluated, recommended, released and supported many tape drive and tape libraries

Product Engineer / Senior Product Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Tested and released increasingly complex OEM tape library products.
Led advanced development projects and evaluated potential suppliers and products.
Participated in supply factory audits and quality reviews.
Led group that developed an OEM product qualification test plan.
Managed test and release activities with internal teams and vendors to enhance time to market.

Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Performed system integration testing of new Unix workstations including hardware configuration testing and software testing.
Tested system configurations of hardware components of servers and workstations.