Project Manager Engineer

Ed Montantes

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OBJECTIVE

A challenging and rewarding position in Product, Quality Engineering or

Project Management that will

allow me to utilize my experience, skills, and education.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Strong background in Product, Quality Engineering Management with

emphasis on new product releases and ensuring that production products

meet performance, reliability, yield and cost standards.

. Experienced as being the main customer interface in addressing

customer requirements in quality, change management, and new product

releases

. Extensive Project Management experience with new product releases

responsible specifically in the development and maintenance of the

project schedule and coordination of the product release team

activities for the successful transfer of a product from design to

production.

SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Provided NPI product and quality engineering support in the successful

release of Link-A-Media production products with multiple package

designs.

. As Quality Engineering customer interface successfully supported

Infineon's communication product chip set used in Apple's iPhone,

meeting Apple's high volume production demands.

. As Quality Engineering customer interface addressed Infineon's Wire

Lined and Wireless Communication product customer quality issues and

inquires achieving 100% total cycle time requirements, responding to

customer returns and earning high customer scorecard grades.

. Released PortalPlayer's first Customer Owned Tooled product into

production.

. Managed production release of PortalPlayer's Personal Media Player

controller device for the Apple Nano and supported production volumes

of over 2 million units per week.

. Developed and successfully verified Portal Player's initial stacked

die package design.

. Recruited and established PortalPlayer's first Product Test

Engineering group to support their Customer Owned Tooled products.

SKILL SUMMARY

. Able to support customer after sales service requirements in areas of

quality inquires, complaint management, audit support, quality

planning, delivery release contracts, spec reviews and performance

improvement.

. For new product introduction develop and manage product release plans.

. Develop qualification plans which conform to JEDEC standards and

oversee qualification testing for new product, process, package and

manufacturing site releases.

. Manage hardware and software development for product manufacturing and

reliability testing.

. Direct electrical test characterization to guarantee device

conformance to yield and performance standards.

. Work with package vendors for new product package designs.

. Work with external vendors to support product assembly, production

testing, reliability qualification testing, failure analysis, and

manufacturing transfers.

. Support Marketing prototype shipment requirements.

. Manage material flow for engineering prototype and characterization

lots.

. Analyze customer RMAs and implement corrective actions.

. Drive product yield and cost improvements.

. Support product environmental requirements (RoHS, Pb-free, etc.).

. Good team player, experienced in working for both a start up and large

semiconductor manufacturer.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Link-A-Media Devices, Santa Clara, California

NPI Product Engineer August 2010 -

October 2011

Manage and support all Link-A-Media new product introductions.

Develop and implement New Product Introduction process, procedures and

specs.

Provide product and quality engineering support to meet product

reliability, qualification requirements and work with customer to meet

prototype and production introduction milestones

Manage and provide product and quality engineering support for all

failure analysis work relating to product qualification test failures.

Work with design engineering and vendor package engineering in the

development and release of new package designs.

Provide after sales product engineering support in meeting production

shipment schedules.

Infineon Technologies, Milpitas, California

Customer Quality Engineer February 2008 -

Dec. 2009

Support product quality management requirements in quality planning,

qualification, verification, and production life cycle monitoring.

Provide customer quality support in quality planning, after sales

support, and serve as customer quality champion.

LSI CORP., Milpitas, California

Customer Quality Engineer January, 2007 -

June 2007

Manage all reliability and quality issues for assigned Major/Strategic

customer accounts.

Respond to and resolve all customer issues dealing with new product,

process, and package introductions.

For new product introductions ensure that the product meets

performance, reliability, qualification, requirements and work with

customer to meet prototype and production introduction milestones.

Respond to and resolve all issues with customer production products,

provide PCN, RMA support.

Provide product, test, package engineering support and consultation to

meet customer requirements.

PORTALPLAYER INC., San Jose, California

Product Test Engineering Manager September 2004 -

June 2006

Managed Product Test Engineering group responsible for supporting all

PPI product designs.

. For ASIC third party designs, defined manufacturing product

requirements and worked with third party on product verification,

characterization, qualification and manufacturing release.

. For COT product designs managed package, test, qualification hardware

and software development. Worked with external vendors in product

verification, qualification, characterization and manufacturing

release.

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORP., Santa Clara, California

Product Engineering Manager September 1991-

February 2003

Managed Information Appliance and Super I/O Product Engineering group.

. As Project Manager coordinated and directed a cross-functional, multi-

site domestic and international project team in releasing a new

products into production.

Senior Staff Product Engineer May 1986

-September 1991

. For National's 32000 Microprocessor family coordinated and directed

the characterization and reliability qualification testing to

successfully transfer products to Mil Aero group.

. For NS32000 product family provided product and test engineering

support to successfully satisfy "end of life" product shipments to

customers.

EDUCATION

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California

B.S., Electrical Engineering Computer Science

REFERENCES

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