ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ

**** *** ****** • Mission, Texas, 78572

Telephone: 956-***-**** • Mobile: 956-***-**** • Email: vww1gg@r.postjobfree.com

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER, LEAN SS BB, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT BB

Bilingual (English & Spanish) engineer with 20+ years of electronics manufacturing experience and a proven ability to apply Lean Six Sigma principles to improve quality, efficiency and productivity. Direct engineering teams, optimizing processes to increase capacity, eliminate expenses and improve results. Create consensus around shared goals, persuasively presenting business case for change to diverse groups operating worldwide. Implement new programs and standards to support operations. Key skills:

Leadership • Lean Six Sigma • Manufacturing Engineering Testing Process • Poka Yoke • Kaizen • Continuous Improvement • Metrics/Scorecards • Certification Standards (TL9000 & UL) • Cost Controls • Process / Product Validation • Cross-Functional Teams • RF Communication • Broadband Transmission

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MOTOROLA EMS, McAllen, TX & Reynosa, Tamaulipas, MX • 2009-2010

Enterprise Mobility Solutions (EMS) division of Motorola producing a variety of advanced business products, including mobile and radio-frequency identification devices; staff in 65 countries worldwide.

NPI Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Global Test: Directed Global NPI GB test projects to secure Motorola’s GB certification in 5 locations worldwide. Achieved best-in-class status for Global NPI test team, leveraging Black Belt training to educate group, provide support and design and oversee metrics and scorecards. Deployed Lean Six Sigma metrics for new products. Designed and implemented a test process to identify and resolve issues at the manufacturing site. Created process to capture lessons learned and utilized them to improve procedures going forward. Managed manufacturing test process and tool change to support Lean transformation worldwide. Orchestrated Poka Yoke and Kaizen events across all EMS sites.

• Played a key role in garnering $3.6M in hard/soft savings by spearheading certification of Global NPI Test GB projects and saved $1.2M by applying DMAIC process at 5 manufacturing sites.

• Utilized Site Manager experience and Lean Six Sigma expertise to successfully manage 20 projects.

• Improved test process by developing a maturity model to assess competency of all EMS sites.

• Delivered 75% of Lean and Six Sigma worldwide training, for instance, SPC, Basic Statistics, 8 Ds, FMEA, 5 Whys, Process Control Plan, MSA, Value Stream Mapping, etc.

• Managed annual test meeting that brought testing leaders from all EMS sites and major suppliers (Agilent, Rohde & Schwarz and Tektronix) together to review initiatives and plans.

• A LSS project was presented in a worldwide Quality event in Chicago, NY, and Penang.

MOTOROLA H&NM, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, MX • 2008-2009

Home & Network Mobility (H&NM) division manufacturing items for Government and Public Safety such as RF devices, scanners, 2-way radios, radio-frequency identification, CaTV video and other products.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Test Manager: Led a group of 12 engineers and technicians engaged in deploying Lean tactics to improve front-end and back-end testing processes and support production lines. Automated procedures. Created and implemented corrective and preventive maintenance strategies. Met regularly with quality teams to improve operations. Supported calibration lab and promoted standardization, efficiency and audit efforts. Coordinated training. Facilitated meetings. Increased capacity.

• Reduced test development and equipment costs $800K from $2M forecasts for year.

• Deployed Poka Yoke and Kaizen strategies on test process, increasing coverage from 85% to 95%.

• Developed test strategy to manage TL9000/UL audit for calibration lab mechanical/electrical processes, successfully preparing team that subsequently received 0 findings.

• Spearheaded LSS in the department as a Certified BB and sponsored 3 GB certifications.

• Developed and deployed hardware and software test, eliminating necessity of $60K investment and garnering annual $55K savings.

• “Presidents Quality Award” was received in recognition of several Poka-Yokes implemented.

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MOTOROLA CONNECTED HOME SOLUTIONS (CHS), Nogales, Sonora, MX • 2007-2008

NPI / MOL Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Test Site Manager: Led team of 43 engineers and technicians and oversaw MX site transfers to locations worldwide. Front End equipment like ICT, X-Ray, AOI, and Flying probe were supported.

• Created testing strategy that eliminated need for $300K equipment expenditure.

• Improved FTY to 95% (from ~75%) and avoided $100K equipment expense by applying LSS concept.

• A LSS project was presented worldwide on the Motorola Lean Manufacturing Showcase in Chicago.

MOTOROLA EMBEDDED COMMUNICATION COMPUTING (ECC), Nogales, Sonora, MX • 2006-2007

NPI / MOL Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Test Site Manager: Directed 20-person engineering team. Consolidated and standardized test architecture, reducing testing resource requirements and achieving 33% improvement in results. Deployed automated test procedures to significantly reduce errors and deliver superior test capacity.

MOTOROLA CHS & ECC, Nogales, Sonora, MX • 2004-2006

Lean Six Sigma Test Manager: Managed 62 engineers, leading initiative to double testing capacity for optical network terminal and reduce expenses by 66%+.

• Increased some product lines test capacity 80%.

• Integration of test stations in order to test 2 units instead of 1 and improve productivity by 40%+.

MOTOROLA HOME (Formerly GENERAL INSTRUMENT), Nogales, Sonora, MX • 1999-2004

Design/Software and Firmware Test Development Engineer:

• Evaluated standard component instead of military to improve the manufacturing cost.

• Test stations were consolidated: an annual saving of ~$400K dollars, down time was reduced 80%, FTY was incremented from 85% to 93%, bone pile down 30% and throughput was 40%+.

C&D TECHNOLOGIES, Nogales, Sonora, MX • 1995-1999

It manufactures and distributes AC/DC power supplies, DC/DC converters, and magnetic. Their customers are primarily OEM providers in the telecommunications, networking, office equipment, industrial automation, and test instrumentation industry.

Production Control Leader: Managed the daily production of the feeders area like SMT, cables, pre-assembly, and coils in order to keep the final assembly line running without any interruption due to lack of feeders. Moreover, on the cables area, I verified the functional test, the proper visual aid for each harness, the right AWG and crimp tools, the right fixture for the routing of each part number, the equipment for continuity test (calibration and setting), and the integrity of the high-voltage AC primary wire insulation (Hi-Pot) in order to meet UL and ISO9000 requirement.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

MA of Finance (2003 - 2005) Technological Institute of Monterrey, Nogales, Sonora, MX

MS of Computer Science (1993 – 1995) Technological Institute of Nogales, Nogales, Sonora, MX

BS of Industrial in Electronics (1988 – 1992) Technological Institute of Nogales, Nogales, Sonora, MX

Six Sigma GB/BB/MBB • Advanced Master in Lean Six Sigma • Lean Management • Situational Leadership • FMEA • 8D • SPC • Basic Statistic • Monte Carlo Simulation • Project Management • MSA • VSM • Process Control Plan • Digital HE Operations • MC6833X Microcontroller • Design Basic

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

GPIB • IEEE • NI • TCP/IP • Ethernet • RS232 • Parallel Port • Microcontrollers • MS Office • Visio • MS Project • AutoCAD • Clear Case • MiniTab • ANSI C • C++ • Visual Basic • Assembler • SQL

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