Project Manager Engineer

**** ****** ***** *** . ****** Acres, FL*****

Phone 239-***-**** . E-mail ab8ws8@r.postjobfree.com

PHILIP PHAN

Education

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Seattle, Washington

Master Degree in Business Administration (Technology

Management MBA)

1984 - 1986 University of Minnesota Minneapolis,

Minnesota

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

1982 - 1984 Northwestern Electronic College

Columbia Height, MN.

Associate Degree in Industrial/Computer Electronics

Technology (AA)

Certification: Six Sigma - Green Belt from General

Electric company in 2003

Professional experience

18 years experiences in Business, Technology and

Manufacturing management that includes instrument

system designs and troubleshooting. Total of 21 years

experiences in Electronic Instrument Manufacturing.

6/2006-Present ( 6 years) Self-employment, Naples

Florida

General Manager

Providing high level business consultation for

Daithanh Corp. the overseas parent company managing a

chain of Electronics/Consumer Goods superstores

nationwide. The highlight of the project was cutting

the overall expenses to 36% in the first year to

generate a respectable profit level and laying out

the strong foundation for greater business management

as the followings:

Developed highly sounded business plans with

innovative concepts and business practices utilizing

Six Sigma DMAIC.

Built multi-levels management teams and operating

systems with check & balance concept.

Initiated the ERP systems (SQL database w/ Visual

Basic software interface) with embedded process

controlling and generating crucial business data for

improvement analytical purposes.

Leading Purchasing department with Material

procurement controls to support Just-in-time (JIT)

and Lean Manufacturing concepts.

Implemented ISO-9000 for Quality Controls and

utilized Six Sigma for business developments and

process improvements.

Continuously, tightening up the process controls to

minimize the product and service defects in-turn

effectively increasing customer satisfaction level

with J.I.T and Lean MFG system controls.

Adhering to the Profit & Loss plans

(Monthly/Annually) to drive the business (Growth) and

controlling all of the expenses accordingly.

Global business operating and managing diverse

employees.

9/1995-6/2006 (11 years) Olympus-NDT - Waltham,

Massachusetts

With various positions as the followings:

Instrument Manufacturing Manager/ Project Manager

position:

As an Instrument Manufacturing Manager, I provided

the management for Manufacturing division that

producing Ultrasonic Flaw Detectors,

Thickness/Corrosion Gages, Magna-Mikes (Hall Effect

gages) and Scientific Ultrasonic Instrumentations for

Universities and Research Centers worldwide. My

responsibility included:

Managing many Manufacturing departments such as

Electronics/Mechanical Engineering, Board/Module and

Instrument Testing, Electronic/Mechanical Assembling,

and Quality Control.

Worked with multi-nations suppliers to provide

technical supports for all processing levels from

Multi-layers PCB fabrications to populating super

high density Surface Mount (SMT) and Ball Grid Arrays

(BGA's) components Printing Circuit Assemblies

(PCA's). Applying quality control inspections on

these PCA's using IPC and Military Standards.

Writing and administrated the ECO's (Engineering

Change Order)

Initiated and Setting for the ERP system with process

flows and multi-levels auto reporting systems.

Implementing ISO-9000 for Quality Control,

Just-In-Time (JIT) for great Material and Process

Controls (Lean Manufacturing) concepts and Six Sigma

for greater operating controls and minimizing product

and Process defects.

Managing and providing technical support to the Field

Return Service Department with Instrument NIST

calibrations and Repairs.

Global business operating and managing diverse

employees.

As a Project Manager: my responsibility included

Oversaw company's Ultrasonic Instrument designs with

Software and Hardware design concepts (using Intel

DSP and Motorola 68000 series for microprocessor

cores).

Writing project roadmap with design timelines and

project milestones using New Product Development

(NPD) method.

Controlled the progress of software, hardware and

mechanical development against the NPD milestones.

Performed many project reviews using original project

definitions

Releasing projects to Manufacturing for mass

productions.

Provided technical supports after the products

released to Manufacturing.

2002-2004 (2 years) same company under General

Electric (GE) management, Waltham, Massachusetts

Ultrasonic Instrumentation Laboratory Manager/

Product Engineer Position

Revised the major project (Flaw Detector model

Epoch3) with previously high return rate (almost

100%) to .2% with performing the Operating Software

(O/S) analytical works down to routine and command

levels; For hardware, analyzing the Field

Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's) down to gate level

to rewriting the processing flow and the Logic

controls for the O/S.

I was the first one in the world successfully

developed signal processing and the operating

software concepts that made possible to produce the

first functioning Ultrasonic Digital Flaw Detector.

Managing Test Engineering group and the Field Return

group with technical support, resource planning and

general laboratory management tasks.

Performing technical evaluation for all Ultrasonic

instruments Manufacturing releasing with

electronic/mechanical design review, approving

assembly procedures, test procedures and

electronic/mechanical part selections.

Setup, technical supporting and production managing

multiple board houses (Printing circuit board

assembly manufacturing's) within the US and overseas.

1995-2002 (7 years) same company under Panametrics

Inc. management, Waltham Massachusetts

Product Engineer position

Worked with Multiple PCB vendors to manufacture high

quality up to 17 layers PCB's with microvias and

blind vias against IPC standards.

Technical supports multiple Printing Circuit Assembly

houses to populated super high density 2 sided PCB's

to pass our board level tests up to 99% at their

facilities.

Directly, providing Ultrasonic Instrumentation

technical supports for the Test, Calibration and

Repair group.

Trained repair technicians

Wrote Test and NIST Calibration Procedures.

Wrote Engineering Change Orders (ECO's) to further

improving the product designs and manufacturing.

Performed instrument Failure Analysis at various

temperatures, humidity and vibration conditions

utilizing Diagnostics test software with test data

outputs and Thermotron Environmental chambers.

Interfaced among Design Engineering teams,

Manufacturing division, Field Service Technicians as

well as Sales and Customers.

4/1994 -9/1995 (1 year) Microwave Radio Corp.

Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Test Group Leader

Troubleshot, tested RF, Digital, Analog, Microwave in

digital Microwave Radio technology including 22-40

GHz GUNN oscillators, microwave VCO's, Harmonic

Frequency Controls (AGC), Down Converters, IF/DEMOD,

MUX, MODEM, Switching Power Supplies and etc..

Providing technical training for more than 20

technicians and responsible for developing the

corrective action within the group.

Managing high-paced Module Test Group with bench

testing, troubleshooting and scheduling.

11/1991 -4/1994 (3 years) Microcomputer Electronics

Corp. Kirkland, Washington

Senior Electronics Technician

Tested and troubleshot radio frequency, analog,

digital, microwave circuitry's for microprocessor

based systems (680000 family, HC11, Z8000, etc..) for

aircraft instruments such as: Cockpit Voice Recorders

(Black Boxes), Radio Reference Sensors (RRS) that

included Distance Measurement Equipments (DME), VHF

Omni-ranges (VOR) Global Positioning Sensors (GPS)

and Loran-C sensors (LCS).

Performed system testing and troubleshooting down to

component level.

Thoroughly, designed and built TEST SETS for all

system aforementioned and completed with electronic

assembly, machining, sheet metal works and

multi-level testing.

Evaluated the reliability of the newly system designs

and performed the failure analysis.

8/1990 -7/1991 (1 years) Pacific Communication Inc.,

Santa Ana, California

Senior Test Engineer

Designed, tested, tuned, programmed and troubleshot

the surface mounted digital transmitters for Heart

Monitors. Also modified, made new revisions in radio

frequency, digital, analog, Micro-controller unit

circuitries (HC11E9) of the high technology digital

transmitters.

7/1986 - 8/1990 (4 years) Gould Inc., El Monte,

California

Electronics Technician III

Tested, Troubleshot radio frequency, digital/analog

circuitries from system down to component level.

Worked with all of the sub-assembly modules of the

followings systems that including synthesizers,

receivers, power amplifiers, detectors, control

boxes, computer ranges, bearing ranges, wire chassis,

and etc.. such as Tactical Air Navigating System

(TACAN) including ARN84 (Air Borne), URN25 (Ship

Borne) for Navy and Air Force; Mobile Subscriber

Equipments (MSE) for US Army and NATO; also worked

with JTIDS (testing, troubleshooting the microwave

frequency circuits in the synthesizers and detectors)

for NAVY, AIRFORCE, ARMY and SUBMARINE.

Reference:

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