Manager Engineering
Resume:
FRANK SPAGNUOLO
*******@******.*** 416-***-****
ACCOMPLISHED SENIOR MANAGER ENGINEERING/PROGRAM MANAGER Meets Deadlines with Emphasis on Results and Quality Known for being a dedicated, proactive and engaging leader, focusing on results and deliverables to meet the company’s business goals. Inspire teams by encouraging individual creativity and team resourcefulness to deliver on time. Exceptional interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. Comprehensive experience developing plans with successful deployment and execution. Experience with hands-on NPI development and launches. Diligent and detailed for managing multiple corporate budgets.
Core competencies:
People Management Project Management Leadership Lab Manager Outsource Management Validation Testing NPI/Manufacturing Process Quality Assurance Test Plans
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CUI CANADA INC., Toronto, ON
Program Manager, Engineering NPI Programs, CUI Inc. 2016 – Present Supply project direction to project primes in the following areas:
- Project Engineer - Mechanical
- PCB Layout - Qualification
- Procurement - Regulatory & Approval
- Production Test - Manufacturing Engineer
Development/Maintenance of project timeline
Prime point of contact within CUI for assigned NPI development status. Also prime point of contact for internal and external Customers.
Ensure project team remains focused on delivery and activities are managed across the business both within and outside engineering. Maintain focus even in the face of conflicting priorities, short-term objectives, or limited resources, to introduce new products into production.
Hold weekly meetings, or as needed, to ensure NPI programs are adhering to schedule and to action items, a schedule and progress reports to management. ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, Markham, ON
Senior Manager, Engineering Services Group, Advanced Micro Devices 2011 – 2015 Developed, planned and executed the HW and SW product definition process for all NPI graphics products. Managed, motivated and trained a team of 7 to 22 engineers.
Chaired AMD Markham Lab Committee, resulting in lab consolidation to save real estate space and share common practices for lab infrastructure.
Responsible to manage department expense budgets to align with corporate parameters.
Managed day to day activities to allocate resources to prioritize and optimize the product test coverage.
Served on the Joint Health and Safety Committee for Markham.
Engaged with HR and local universities to recruit resources required to fill in identified department gaps.
Defined the product parameters for mass production, delivered product specs and performance data to senior management and senior executive for review.
Validated all NPI graphics products to comply with Microsoft software certification programs. FRANK SPAGNUOLO *******@******.*** PAGE TWO
Manager, Engineering Services Group, ATI (Purchased by Advanced Micro Devices) 2000 – 2011 Managed, motivated and trained a team of 10 Engineers.
Developed validation test plans for AMD graphic products, ensuring the product which included SW drivers and test tools were fully tested and met product quality standards for mass production, garnering millions of dollars in revenue per quarter.
Validated and debugged all NPI graphics HW and SW features for new products, assuring all design engineering teams that new feature operated reliably under stress conditions.
Assisting engineering in the debug process so that fixes could be found quickly to meet launch schedule.
Completed stress testing on all new and legacy features, meeting reliability standards, including: o Environmental stress: Temperature variations from 0C to 55C. o Cycle stress: Repeated cycles for reliability.
o Duration stress: Long-term functionality.
o Electrical parameter stress.
Deployed test plans and test SW to 3rd party partners globally, outsourcing testing of legacy and non-critical functional testing for cost savings and efficiency test coverage.
Executed validation testing on OEM customer platforms for OEM Quality Acceptance and mass production acceptance, ensuring customer confidence.
Developed and managed automated HW and SW test tools for efficiencies in graphic validation, contributing to Quality acceptance validation coverage to meet launch schedules. Project Team Leader, Product Samples Group, ATI Technologies Inc. 1997 – 2000 Managed team of 4 Engineers.
Planned, built and distributed engineering prototype board samples which included SW internally for R&D development as well to customers for future product sales.
Managed engineering sample budget of $3.5M annually, consistently managing under budget.
Sampled customers on a timely schedule to align with customer product launches, generating new ideas to meet schedules.
Senior Technologist, Hardware System Group, ATI Technologies Inc. 1993 – 1997 Managed the main ATI R&D Engineering lab. Debugged and resolved issues for ATI new product sampling.
Worked closely with the founders, conducting experiments for future products.
Issued builds for engineering sample boards for internal and external customers ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
LITTON SYSTEMS CANADA LTD., Rexdale, ON
Senior Test Technician
Test Technician
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Workplace Safety & Prevention Services Certification, Parts One and Two, Ontario Ministry of Labour Course, 2015
License to Lead, Executive Edge Inc.
Leading Through Organization Change, DBM Inc.
Leader as Coach, PDI
Active Leadership Training, Gilmore
2001 Performance Planning, DDI
SAP Training, ATI Technologies Inc.,
Computer Information Systems, Seneca College, Rexdale, ON
Total Quality Management Course, Litton Systems Canada Ltd.
Electronic Engineering Technology Diploma, Humber College, Rexdale, ON
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