Quality Engineer

SONNY BANWARI

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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT: Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Planning

Two decades of US and international experience in leading integrated supply chain including

manufacturing operations, engineering, quality, sourcing, and planning across product lines

(automotive, embedded, medical, computing hardware, military and capital goods). Six Sigma/LEAN

management champion and mentored multiple black belts on projects with NPV > $500M. Multi-lingual

with Japanese, Spanish, and conversational Chinese. Multiple expat assignments (5 years) including

leadership of Intel’s first manufacturing startup in Latin America (Costa Rica) – within a year, achieved

operational metrics similar to other Intel global factories and ISO certification. Defined and deployed

operations, quality, safety, sourcing and organizational health metrics to drive best-of-breed P&L

performance. Transition / change management expert. Masters’ in Engineering and MBA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ANADIGICS INC, Warren, NJ, USA * June-2008 to June-2009

Vice President - Operations, Supply Chain, Quality and Sourcing – reporting to CEO.

Managed worldwide operations, quality, sourcing, planning, safety, and facilities for a public

wireless company ($250M revenues) with an organization of over 300 employees.

Major Contributions:

• Led transition from very unstable, unpredictable RF manufacturing operation to where we were

meeting delivery commitments to customers and regaining business across the board while

regaining quality certification with customers and auditors. Stock quadrupled in this timeframe.

• Drove LEAN/TPS and six sigma to cut cycle time down by over 60% and yield by 50% while the

field failure rate performance started from being up to 7x worse than competitors to actually

besting them. Regained ISO9002 Quality certification and launched on path to ISO14001.

• Interfaced with all the big-name handset OEM customers to help regain customer credibility.

INTEL CORPORATION, USA/Costa Rica/Japan • Mid-1988 to Mid-2008

Director, Component Outsourcing Operations (2005 – mid-2008)

Managed assembly and test operations accounting for $1B spends and nearly 100 employees.

Major Contributions:

• Turned around from an unhealthy organization with 30%+ attrition to <5% attrition – and

integrated the Asia/US teams into a global commodity structure (now 66% global).

• Achieved Intel’s highest award (only one in Intel’s history for the supplier management

organization) for leading Intel supply recovery from a $1B+ impact crisis at one of the subcons

through a total overhaul of the supplier sourcing strategy.

• Strong focus on quality paid off with 50% reduction in routine and major quality issues every year

– with 75% of the subcontracted supply base achieving Intel’s highest supplier recognition.

• Completed LEAN / Business Process re-engineering prior to SAP deployment in all aspects of the

business. Intel Six Sigma champion and mentored several projects with NPV of >$500M.

• Drove external benchmarking to help drive reduction in Intel bureaucracy, reduce cumbersome

processes and time-to-quality improvement – held up as a role model for other commodity teams.

• Provided leadership on supplier readiness for Intel’s famed Centrino® launch where collaborative

relationships were established almost overnight with new, industry leaders.

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Boards/systems outsourcing manager (2000 – 2003)

Led assembly and test manufacturing at several ODM providers including Digital Health group.

Major Contributions:

• Quality improved from 92 % of all “supplier-caused” customer issues (and a shocking one-third of

all Intel issues) in 1999 down to zero in 2003; Factory issues (>70% of all materials) declined to

<7% of all materials issues

• Resulted in strong customer satisfaction scores with divisions singling out for “best-in-class team”

as well as Dell giving maximum points. Represented Intel materials at several successful

customer visits at Dell and Gateway.

• Drove external benchmarking to help drive time-to-quality improvement by 75% and a new “low-

volume qualification” for Intel Communications Group.

• Defined and deployed the Intel manufacturing and quality systems methodology for delivering

Intel motherboards/systems thru an external EMS/DMS provider (Foxconn Honhai, Solectron).

Factory Startup Manager (1997 – 1999)

Major Contributions:

• Established the infrastructure for an “Intel quality” organization in a Greenfield site (Costa Rica)

which had no high-tech industry or exposure to Intel quality methodologies.

• Crowning success was turning around of the CR quality systems in 6 months from lowest to the

2nd best result at Intel for ISO9002

• Managed manufacturing quality and supplier quality performance for all Intel factories in Asia.

• Trained various cross-functional teams on the use of yield improvement methodologies and

structured technical problem solving.

• Defined the systems and business processes needed for successful ramp on each of the factory

functions (manufacturing, engineering, quality, facilities, EHS) and removed barriers to successful

deployment at the 2 factories in Costa Rica (and the warehouse building supporting them).

Product/Test Engineering Manager (1993 - 1996) Japan, Hiroshima, Fukuyama

Managed the teams responsible for process integration/yield, process/product qualification, and

improvement initiatives.

Major Contributions:

• Successfully developed and ramped to high-volume manufacturing Intel’s first 16-MB flash

memory on the 0.35 micron flash memory process transferred to 8” wafer fab Sharp by Intel.

• Managed a just-in-time program to transfer/re-engineer a new Intel process to the Sharp factory

to resolve a crisis situation. This was the fastest ramp in history of such a transfer.

Microprocessor Product Development/Test Engineer (1991 – 1993)

Microcontroller Product Development /Test/Quality Engineer (1988 -1991)

EDUCATION

Masters in Electrical Engineering

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Masters in Business Administration

University of Phoenix, Arizona (coursework completed)

Bachelor’s in Physics

Rajasthan University, India

LANGUAGES

Japanese (Level2 Proficiency), Hindi, English, intermediate Spanish, beginner Mandarin.

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Annual keynote address, Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, Taipei, Taiwan

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