Hubert Noguera
415-***-****, ******@*****.***
Professional Summary
Many years experience taking new and next generation new hardware products to market in the field of Semi-Conductor, Analytical and Medical Devices. Demonstrated ability to lead group(s) and work within a team framework to provide customer and product support, technical documentation, and meet budget requirements. Strengths include:
Product Support
Customer Interface
Supervisor/Manager
Analytical and problem-solving
skills
Technical Documentation
Electron Beam Systems
High-Vacuum Systems
Project Leader
Feasibility testing
SAP
Product redesign
Process mapping
Vibration Analysis
Cost Reduction
Warrenty spending
ECO’s review
Foreign Languages
Professional Experience
R.W.STEARNS, Inc. San Francisco, CA 12/2009-Present
Manager
Manage company’s business operation, approval of budgets, payroll, cost control, financial analysis, business planning.
Manage month-end close processes, including preparing and reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations.
Technology consultant to maintain and develop new business opportunities within many sectors of business.
VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, Palo Alto, CA 11/2005-11/2009
Product Support Engineer
Key member of a small team to reduce cost to Manufacturing of about 2.5Million per year.
Manage interdepartmental communication with Manufacturing, Marketing, and Field Support to funnel appropriate inputs and deliverables to appropriate cost reduction. Identified waste within Spare Parts Kits and Tools shipped and reconfigured drawing structures without impacting customer satisfaction and achieving a cut costs by 25%.
Manage product engineering support and improvement activities to ensure proper documentation is prepared. Review of ECO’s.
Act as technical liaison between factory and field personnel:
Performed process mapping, Pareto analysis, and corrective and preventative actions as related to product installation, and reduced warranty costs by 5%.
Provided technical assistance to engineer design team and manufacturing for customer service field personnel to maintain optimal performance of equipment.
Structured problem analysis documentation, email support, phone support, that provided basis of installation and service documentation.
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VARIAN VACUUM TECHNOLOGIES, Palo Alto, CA 10/2001-9/2005
Application Engineer
Participate in and/or conduct product development phase review meetings with Engineering and Manufacturing.
Interfaced with Customers’ engineering teams to assess emerging needs, identify any performance problems, and provide possible solutions with collaboration with our Engineering group.
Collaborating with Sales and Marketing to provided pre- and post-sales product support to customers domestically and internationally that generated repeat and referral new business
Conducted vibration analysis and helped in the development of products for vibration sensitive systems including Metrology and Inspection SEM tools.
Redesigned vacuum performance in analytical systems that made it cost effective to produce.
KLA-TENCOR, San Jose, CA 5/97-10/2001
Product Support Supervisor & Engineering Technicians Lead
Supervised Engineering Technicians and maintain the Engineering Lab.
Assign, delegate and assist in the completion of engineering tasks or projects. Performed testing and product maintenance in the R&D lab for New Product Introduction (NPI), installation and procedures
Support the improvement of current product and provided first level of support for manufacturing, and field support at customers’ sites with system performance related issues.
Serve as mentor to entry-level engineers
Technical Expertise
Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP); Optical Lithography
Fundamentals of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD); Courses on Sputter Deposition in Manufacturing & onto Flexible Substrates; Fundamentals for Mask Making
Analytical Problem Solving; UNIX introduction; Oracle Navigation; Electron Microscopes;
Basic and Advanced Vacuum Courses, LC and TOF Mass Spectrometers Course
Data Physics ACE Vibration Analysis Course
Education / Relevant Training
B.S. Chemical Engineering; Minor: Chemistry, U. C. Berkeley
License: Engineering-In-Training (E.I.T.) No XE094156
Training in Radiation. Training on FDA requirements for QSR (Quality System
Requirements).