Six Sigma Design

Tim McGrath

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City: St Petersburg

State: FL

Zip: 33702

Country: USA

Phone: 727-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $135,000

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Timothy J. McGrath

6439 Pine ST N.E.

St Petersburg, FL 33702

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Qualifications Summary

* 18 years experience forming and leading Design-Product Development, QA, Systems Engineering teams in the Smartgrid/AMI electric, gas and water meter industry and communications and datacom industry. ASQ certified training and Six Sigma Black Belt with 14 years of hands-on experience deploying & leading Quality & Six Sigma for design, manufacturing and supply chain. I have formed and led teams to strategically integrate Continual Improvement Practices into existing culture and processes to assure sustainable & best-in-class results.

Recent accomplishments as Director of QA / QC at Sensus Technology include:

* Greenfield creation of product SW QA / FW QA and HW QA quality organizations, including hiring, training of employees as well as designing and building test laboratories, developing processes, procedures and tools

* Successful Cross-Functional application of Design For Six Sigma resulting in optimized product features, manufacturing costs, and time to market

* Transformation of New Product Development & Design teams to integrate DFSS using Six Sigma DMAIC / DMADV process to eliminate waste and defects.

* Organizational Change Management using a friendly & collaborative approach

* Strategic Performance Excellence; Organizational Goal Achievement

* Integrating Regulatory Compliance with Product Development & Manufacturing Processes

* Led Sensus in obtaining first ever ISO 9001 certification for three Sensus North American facilities

* Led creation of customized framework for Design for Lean Sigma (DFLS) deployment including Needs Analysis, Curriculum Design, Course Development, Certification Plan and Governance Processes.

* Led development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Results.

* Drove development of project schedules, monitoring team progress, and meeting delivery schedules.

* Led writing and reviewing of system requirements and operational specifications.

* Led working with customers and marketing to clarify customer requirements for specific products.

* Developing release readiness reviews of Hardware, Software, Firmware and System level products based on defect tracking techniques and every day operations.

* Developing relationships with outside test laboratories worldwide to handle product testing due to schedule impact, lack of equipment in house and regulatory / compliance testing.

* I developed the first battery qualification, audit and the sampling plans for ESS (environmental stress screening) of Lithium Ion batteries with HLC (Hybrid Layer Capacitor) technology for Sensus. The battery life is warranted for 20 years in water and gas meters so this was critical to quality and warranty costs

* Drove Development of automated testing techniques to reduce test time throughout the process.

* Led Development of risk mitigation technique for field related issues reported through failure analysis (FA) and reliability testing.

* Developing strategies for multi-site development and testing projects.

10 years of quality control of manufacturing operations, product development and quality engineering experience.

NPI product development programs; manufacturing process troubleshooting; `lean` implementations and cost reductions; quality root cause/corrective actions; supplier relationships; Six Sigma; Kaizen; QS; TQM; APQP; FMEA; 5S, Poke Yoke, SMED, KANBAN, JIT, RoHS / WEEE.

* Author of many Market Requirements (MRD) and Product Requirements (PRD) including definition on several AMI projects including next-gen low cost Focus AX meter radio and metrology, Low-cost 100% electronic Mag-Flow water meter, low-cost electric meter remote disconnect, Whirlpool Zigbee product definition, Electrolux white goods RF recommendation papers

* Contributed several white papers on subjects such as Harmonic Frequency Surge Issues on Utility Transmission Lines, IP address management, security and RF solutions for Home Area Networks

* Specific design experience in products spanning all OSI layers using multiple protocols including: ATM, IP, Etherswitch technologies in L3/L2 switches, Routers, Voice integrated access device (IAD`s). Specific expertise in IP Video, IP Telephony and enterprise File, Print, Mail server products

Certificate Awards CCNP, Advanced Cisco Router Configuration, Router Internetworking, Internetworking with TCP/IP, SNMP and OpenView Network Management, Hands on T1/T3 Component and Applications and Implementing ATM.

Professional Experience

Sensus Technology Raleigh, NC

Director Quality/QA, Failure Analysis, Electric, Gas and Water products group 2007-Present

* Hired to help take Sensus to next level of growth to eventual $1B corporation

* Hired and created from ground-up team of sixty (60) Quality, SW QA, Failure Analysis and product quality engineers and technicians

* Managed outsourcing of tier 1-2 MFG with Jabil, Flextronics, Epic Technologies

* Instituted StageGate process for Product Lifecycle Management that did not previously exist

* Lead definition of lifecycle for Product Marketing, System Engineers, software, hardware and mechanical design architectures

* Instantiated QA group with four divisions including:

o Product System Test (end-to-end system testing)

o Product Sustaining Engineering Group

o Manufacturing Test Group

o Quality Assurance and ISO

o Reliability and FMEA

* Responsible for $5M+ P&L, business plans, resource management for entire QA group with locations in Raleigh (RTP), NC, Uniontown, PA, Goleta, CA.

* Improved product yields significantly with 99.999% yield goal

* Increased MFG test for 100% coverage of all products and all lines

* Instantiated first system test and sustaining engineering groups at Sensus which resulted in significant reduction in field failure rate

Jabil Circuit St Petersburg, FL

Director of Global QA/ Technology / Industrial Sector 2003-2007

* Lead WW team of system SQA/FQA, architects, lead software, hardware and mechanical design engineers

* Responsible for P&L, business plans, resource management for WW SW QA sector design teams (HisinChu, Taiwan, Shanghai, China, St Petersburg, Florida)

* Responsible for QA for Utility meters, white goods space, industrial controls, and infotainment displays (touch technology for white goods, STB, vending machines)

* Lead collaborative design with customers on complete AMI radio design and Zigbee RF for LAN on meter

* Lead design on remote disconnect using ultra-low cost DC motor disconnect. Removed 75% of cost of existing Service Disconnect Meter.

* Product Requirements definition and development support for team

* Go to Guy for support of Product Marketing group in defining emerging market technologies for ODM market model

* Lead HD display initiative for STB, touch technology

* Product definitions supported include: Cisco 7600 MPLS router cost reduction, Enterasys Chassis based and stackable router, Linksys home file server, print server, VPN Gateway and mail server based on embedded Linux OS.

Lucent / AT&T Paradyne Largo, FL - Red Bank, NJ

Manager of System Test / Network Architecture 1998-2003

Electrical and Software Design Engineer 1993-1998

* System Architect for IP Telephony User Agent (UA) and SIP Proxy server using call control/signaling protocols SIP / MGCP, Megaco, H.248 / H.323

* Led ASIC development team of eight Verilog design engineers.

* U.S. Patent awarded for ASIC development lead of -Router on a Chip- design

* System Architect for Paradyne`s L3 IP switch based VPN Security Server with multiple access and tunneling modes including standards based L2TP/IPSec client to Gateway, B-RAS PAP, CHAP, NAT (RFCs 3022, 2663 NAPT), DHCP security, PPoE (RFC 2516) and PPoA (RFC 2364) tunneling.

* System Architect for Paradyne`s Etherswitch based MxU stackable Access Gateway, which combines layer 2/3 switching, aggregation, element management and provisioning server, L3 routing, VPN (IPSec and L2TP) DES/MD5 Security Server and RADIUS Client Directory Support and User Authentication into one box

* Authored System Requirements and co-authored System Architecture Documents including products for AAA to control network attacks and provide security measures using secure proxy ARP, Mux Forwarding and security applications to control flooding, spamming, spoofing etc.

* Authored Several White Papers on Network Architectures for various customer applications

* Traveled with Sales team on several customer visits to provide technical presentations

* Led a team of Software and Hardware developers through the design life cycle for Etherswitch Access Gateway.

* Lead Architect and Designer for Paradyne's Flagship Hotwire DSL Product Line and ISO/OSI layer/network model senior member.

* Designer Paradyne`s PPP/MLPPP uplinks, ATM/IMA uplinks

* Lead role in defining Paradyne`s ATM, VLAN, TCP/IP network model architecture.

* Designer of device management system that included MIB - centric SNMP, Secure Web (SSL) with JAVA Applets and CLI accessible admin management

* Team member (one of four) commissioned to design Paradyne`s ATM Switch DSLAM

* Lead architect on Arm710 core based-hardware assist router ASIC (Patent granted in 2000)

ZSOFT Corporation Atlanta, GA

Software Analyst Contractor 1990-1993

Fuchs Systems Steel Casting and Melt Shop Salisbury, NC

Design Engineer 1986-1990

Responsible for leading the Electrical Engineering and R&D Departments with a total staff of ten. Developed steel casting control system for continuous steel caster.

Designed and coded High Voltage Analysis and Short Circuit Impedance calculation programs (written in C and Assembly Language).

Designed and supervised hardware and software implementation for a Process / Motion Control System for steel arc furnace. The department had a staff of approx. 10 people that included 4 Hardware Engineers, 4 - 6 Software Engineers and 2-3 Technicians.

Education

California Polytechnic Cogswell College campus, Cupertino, CA 1986

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

College of San Mateo 1985

Associate of Arts in Electronic Engineering Technology, Magna Cum Laude

Professional Associations

President's Honor List, 1983-1987

Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society

George Sandy and Cogswell Meritorious Scholarships

Cal Grant A meritorious Grant

Meritorious Citations from California Legislature and Senate

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Holder of three U.S. Patents

Designed Computer Graphics Software used for Vogue Magazine page layout

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