Summary

Professional Partner/Program/Platform Manager with over 20 years experience

at a fortune 500 company, with demonstrated skills in management,

negotiations, and training with strong relationship building and strategic

planning skill including:

. Motivated and self starter with 8 years university study in,

Architectural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical

Engineering, and Business.

. Managed multiple platforms/projects from initial concept, to

design, into product launch, to EOL.

. Experience managing people as well as business partners.

. Experience working to budgets, P & L.

. Holder of multiple design awards, patent awards, and white paper

articles.

. Proficient at working across cultural borders, having successfully

lived in Taiwan for 2 years to set up, hire, and train the new

Program Management team in Taipei.

. Talent for quickly mastering technology - proficient in MS office

applications, CAD tools.

. Skilled at working with extremely tight deadlines, multi-tasking

and working with a wide variety of teams inside as well as outside

the company and across the world.

. Extremely adept at working independently as well as in a team,

both as a team member as well as the team leader/motivator.

. Demonstrated ability of working with senior staff and legal,

providing data, recommendations, reports and updates on regular

basis. Excellent listening and communications skills.

. Effective presentation skills with Senior staff and Legal.

. Skilled at contract negotiations.

Skills Summary

Project Management Scheduling/Budgeting Computer/MS proficient

Oral and written Six Sigma

presentations to Senior Working and Creative Problem Solving

staff/Legal Communicating

Nationally and Factory/Supp;lier

Internationally Audits.

Professional Experience

Senior Partner Manager/factory manager - Sepio designs - 2 years

o Working closely with customers and potential customers to understand

their requirements and share our expertise. Working closely with R&D

and customers during the design phase, ensuring customer expectations,

cost and quality are on track.

o When product nearing launching, work with factories ensuring

materials, procedures, people resources are in place. Review agreed

upon quality requirements and ongoing inspection process.

o Working to resolve any issues during manufacture (materials, quality,

shipments, etc) to ensure parts are delivered on schedule.

Senior Program Manager Hewlett-Packard (15 years - 1.5 Years in Taiwan)

o Moved to Taiwan on a 2-year transfer to set up a Notebook Program

Management team and was responsible for interviewing, hiring,

training, and managing the team.

o Created all training documentation for PM team.

o Responsible for allocation of project assignments.

o Provided performance evaluations and feedback.

o Factory audits in USA-Japan-Taiwan-China

additional responsibilities

o Worked closely with following teams:

o R & D (HW-ME-SW)

o Industrial design

o Supply Chain

o Marketing

o Service

o Call Centers

o Factories

o Legal

o Responsibilities included

o Industrial Design reviews

o Request for Quote reviews with R&D and OEM/ODM partners.

o Awarding of contracts to successful partners.

o CNC design review prior to tooling lockdown.

o Weekly/daily meetings as required with above teams to resolve

issues/changes/schedule/costing.

o Provide design solutions and/or changes to improve customer

satisfaction, assembly, and/or service.

Key Communications included

o Reports and presentations to Senior Staff on monthly basis

(minimum) or as needed if there are any impacting issues

(project or legal)

o Managed weekly meetings with each program/platform team to

provide recommendations, updates, concerns, questions.

o Managed weekly meetings with World Wide Service channels and

call center channels to provide updates and solutions to any

customer facing issues.

o Weekly Program Manager Team meetings for overall

platform/program updates across all business.

o Set up, organize, and lead calls/meetings with Legal departments

for all major issues.

o Primary voice to Senior staff, R&D, Service for any and all

issues that may effect

. Design

. Customer

. Service

. Factories

Hardware Quality (Hewlett-Packard 5 years)

o Manage all aspects of Hardware Quality testing of Notebook Computers:

o Development and creation of all HW test plans (including

HALT/HASS).

o Training OEM/ODM partners in policies and procedures of test

plans.

o Travelling to factories in Japan-Taiwan-China to audit and

review the test equipment and testing.

o Working with R&D on any test failures- providing updates and

design changes.

o Compliance with all company documentation standards.

o Ensuring all corrective actions are properly documented and

communicated into the field(service and phone support)

Supply Chain - Buyer (Hewlett-Packard 5 years)

o Manage all aspects of supplier selection, price negotiations, and TAT

for:

o PC boards

o Integrated Circuits

o LCD's

o Auditing factories to ensure compliance of company standards and

policies.

Education

Oregon State University - Corvallis, Or

Electrical / Mechanical Engineering, Architectural Engineering

Linefield University - McMinnville, Or

Business

(ongoing- Senior)

References

Randy hergett - director World Wide service ( abmy1y@r.postjobfree.com )

Phone: 970-***-****

Dave Smith - Mechanical Engineer ( abmy1y@r.postjobfree.com )

Phone: 541-***-****

Memphis Yin - Senior Industrial Engineer ( abmy1y@r.postjobfree.com )

Phone: 832-***-****

Contact info

Cary Hoffer - abmy1y@r.postjobfree.com (phone) 541-***-****

alternate -- abmy1y@r.postjobfree.com

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