Manager Quality Assurance
Resume:
Theodore Shankoff
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ******** *****
City: Rahway
State: NJ
Zip: 07065
Country: USA
Phone: 908-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $125,000
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Job History / Details:
Theodore A. Shankoff, Ph. D.
840 Kaminski Drive, Rahway, NJ 07065
****.***@*******.***
CURRENT OBJECTIVE
To provide balanced reliability assurance consultation from the perspective of the Telecommunications Industry's lead hardware selection, qualification and manufacturing manager at 1984 AT&T Divestiture.
SUMMARY
Materials, reliability, and quality technologist with fiber optics, electronics, and scientific expertise;
Broad telecommunications industry experience with a significant portfolio of patents and publications;
Highly qualified manager and hands-on expert for devices, manufacturing processes and quality control;
Pragmatic problem solver, team player, and skilled negotiator around difficult technical and cost issues
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1.Director of The Bellcore Department that published landmark post-AT&T divestiture device and
higher-level hardware requirements and managed broad industry compliance via audit and oversight.
2.Supervisor of AT&T Bell Labs Group responsible for the Quality and Reliability of Western Electric manufactured optical, electrical, interconnection, and mechanical components employed by AT&T.
1.Skilled in lean, maximized yield, manufacture of very high reliability electronics and optoelectronics.
2.Long track record of planning & delivering complex, leading-edge R&D Lab programs to timelines.
1.Hands-on expert chemist in Silicon and III-V Wafer Fab: Lithography, etching, cleaning and testing.
1.Career synthesis of >300 new chemicals; novel holographic photochemistry including discovery of
the most efficient phase-only hologram recording material which remains today's industry standard.
2.Significant publications & patents in basic and applied chemistry, materials, and chemical processes.
3.Engineer for all components in Tyco Telecommunications' manufacture of undersea optical repeater assemblies: Managed selection, vendor control, acceptance, manufacture, yields, and failure analyses.
1.Reliability and Quality Assurance Manager at Kodeos Communications and 4D Security Solutions; Established, then ran their hardware reliability and quality assurance, and documentation programs.
RELIABILITY ASSURANCE EMPLOYMENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ - Director 1984-1996
1.At AT&T Divestiture: Managed Department with 30 staff and an $8M annual budget, assuring U.S. telecommunications hardware performance, reliability, and manufacture from the customer view.
2.Led the development, publication and control of a dozen critical Bellcore hardware reliability
requirements documents used by the 7 newly formed RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies).
1.Controlled the entire United States Telecommunications Industry's high reliability and high quality manufacturing processes and yield improvement activities as delegated by Bellcore's RBOC clients.
2.Managed and supplied hands-on technical expertise, for over 500 large scope (>1 month) design,
factory, field performance and reliability analyses, and ISO 9000 quality audits, typically prior to
RBOC final product selection and field deployment, with over 50 International and U.S. suppliers.
1.Established the Bellcore Reliability Laboratory and managed its budgets (including $12M start-up).
2.Directed trend setting laboratory generic requirements studies and hardware failure analyses.
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RELIABILITY ASSURANCE EMPLOYMENT ACHIEVEMENTS (continued)
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany and Holmdel, NJ - Supervisor 1980-1983
1.Supervised Group managing quality and reliability of all key components manufactured by Western
Electric for use in its systems being deployed by AT&T's Bell Operating Companies: MOS and
bipolar integrated circuits, active and passive discrete devices, semiconductor lasers, LEDs, photo
detectors, relays, surge protectors, hybrid circuits, connectors, and bare and populated circuit boards.
1.Controlled all Western Electric component quality and reliability standards, managed field & factory
failure analyses and problem solutions among system/component manufacturers and AT&T customer.
Tyco Telecommunications, Clark, NJ - Optical Component Reliability Manager 1996 - 2002
1.Optical component engineer for Tyco Telecommunication's Clark undersea system assembly factory.
1.Managed all optical component R&Q and QC issues: Design, test, part selection, and vendor control.
1.Directed all failure and root cause analysis problems and studies associated with these devices.
2.During this period there wasn't a single undersea component failure requiring costly undersea repair.
1.Managed manufacturing for circuit assemblies used in undersea and terrestrial optical transport
Kodeos Communications, South Plainfield, NJ - Reliability & Quality Manager; 2002 - 2004
1.As Reliability & Quality Engineering manager, established: optical transponder qualification, device reliability prediction, failure analysis, reliability, QA, QC, and documentation programs.
4D Security Solutions, South Plainfield, NJ - Reliability & Quality Manager; 2004 - 2011
2.Projected all hardware failure rates with factory and field performance verifications; managed all
failure analyses and corrective actions for all company design, factory, and field R&Q efforts.
BASIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY ORIENTED WORK
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ - Member of Technical Staff
3.Basic Research in Holographic Recording Materials & Integrated Circuit Chemistry and Materials.
2.Applied Development of Integrated Circuit Technology & Manufacturing Processes and Reliability.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Inorganic Chemistry, Fordham University
M. S. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Mississippi
B. S. Chemistry, City College of New York
MILITARY SERVICE
United States Army Infantry Reserve; retired as Captain.
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
The list of 34 technical publications and 8 patents is available upon request.
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