SUMMARY

• Program and engineering management professional of wide breadth of high tech industry.
• Highly adaptive to and welcome new technology/engineering environments with shirt sleeve rolled up attitude.
• Execute programs within scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Driven leader operating strategic while hands on with tactical details.
• Software & Hardware new product development
• Manufacturing & product engineering of HW products.
• HW & SW test platforms and systems development for new products
• Test engineering & diagnostics SW application development
• eCommerce & Telecom SW development
• Semiconductor IC/ASIC test & characterization
• New product introduction (NPI) of Hardware & software products.
• Design & deployment of IT HW infrastructure & applications (ERP, MRP, MIS)
• Products management - semiconductor packaging products.
• Data center builds, telecom wireless & cellular deployment.
• Hardware (HW) & Software (SW) development(SDLC). Waterfall, Agile & SCRUM
• Academic experience in Python, Perl, and C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, and assembly.
• Technical leadership of development life cycle in distributed team environment.
• HW Product proto type build, test, design verification & characterization.
• On/off shore OEM & ODM vendors and contract manufactures management.
• Stakeholders management. Executive program reviews and reporting
• Cross functional work with engineering, QA, operations, supply chain, marketing, manufacturing.
• Staff recruitment and supervisionfostering team productively & creativity
• Requirements gathering and business process analysis & development
• Project plan executions within scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives
• Resource and budget management. Issue & conflict resolution. Risk & change management
• Business development and customer management
• Thrive in ambiguity, focused under pressure and multitasking
• Abstract and articulate complex technical topics to business stakeholders.
• Great analytic and organizational disposition. Business financial savvy. TEMPEffective written & verbal communications, negotiation, and presentations
• PC, Mac, Unix, Linux platforms. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, Wiki (confluence)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and deployed HW and SW application systems automating product selection, and shipment at multiple plants with @ 25% productively increase ~ $200K savings per plant.
• Deployed HW infrastructure & SW applications to MFG plants and supporting data centers including server systems, networking, telecom wireless and cellular LTE.
• Lead building & validation of disaster recovery infrastructures securing data center operation & business continuity.

Senior Technical Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Improved existing infrastructure systems’ SW build cycle time as short term initiative.
• Led longer term infrastructure re-architect efforts towards SW build cycle time improvements ( target 20%) and increased user capacity.
• Coordinated data center HW and applications migration/upgrade/consolidation.
• Provided tactical support of issues resolutions towards 24x7 systems availability.
• Developed and deployed diagnostics SW for TEMPeffective test coverage/ fault isolation.
• Collaborated with engineering during product design and pro-typing on design for testability ( DFT/DFM/DFX) and design characterization via available SW diagnostics & HW test platforms.
• Designed HW test platform for testing high volume networking I/O cards.
• Developed/procured/deployed test infrastructure & SW diagnostics to contract manufactures.
• Qualified OEM/ODMs’ product test/quality process per Cisco standards.
• Implemented product licensing /security certificate X.509 setup & installation.

Sr. Engineering Program Manager

Confidential, Brisbane, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created technical product requirements document serving as design reference.
• Provided technical leadership to teams of product management, SW engineering, QA, and operations from definition, design, test, integration and release.
• Implemented 3rd party application integration.
• Insured technical reviews of design, code, user interface, and QA test plans.
• Managed data center build involving design, procurement, installations and validation of server clusters, network gears, SW applications, databases, and enterprise security.
• Finalized marketing requirements via orchestrating business and engineering review & analysis.
• Managed development life cycle from requirements, design, proto typing, design verifications and release including pertinent technical reviews
• Led timely issues /risk resolutions, executive project reviews and change & scope management.
• Developed processes enhancing product development & release work flow.
• Engaged offshore OEMs /CMs during product design and product test engineering.

Software Engineering Manager

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed development cycle from content definition, design/code, integrations, QA & release.
• Created product enhancements roadmap of test coverage & usability improvements.
• Supported and sustained product quality via timely resolving SW bugs and issues.Recruited and managed technical staff.
• Designed & deployed diagnostic SW and test infrastructure HW to contract manufactures.
• Worked with engineering on DFT/DFM & product design verification & characterization.
• Engaged with HW ODMs on development of applicable test tools.