Dave VandenHoek, BSEE, ASCS

**** **** ***** **., ****** Valley, CA 95066, ac2gp2@r.postjobfree.com, cell 831-***-****

EMPLOYMENT

Dec. 1982 to June 2015 Seagate Technology, Scotts Valley & Cupertino, CA

Broad experience in key roles in Test Engineering / Process Development, Quality, Reliability Corporate Development / M&A, Executive Staff, Materials, Marketing and PLM. Six Sigma Brown Belt

Jan. 2015 to Jun. 2015: Director of Market Strategy, PLM - Tracking of the enterprise data storage market landscape, key customers, competitors, architectural innovations, inflections and other influences. Identification of shifts and pain point solution opportunities to feed into our product roadmap to ensure execution for value addition and extension.

Oct. 2013 to Jan. 2015: Director of Advanced Technology Enablement, PLM - Joint engagement and development collaboration liaison with certain key strategic customers for mutual value identification and delivery.

Dec. 2012 to Sept. 2013: Principal Program Manager, Supplier Quality Engineering - Short term special project for the creation of a cross site and cross functional streamlined business process with supporting data system development for the leveraged evaluation and disposition of supplier process or material charge proposals.

Jan. 2009 to Nov. 2012: Exec Director, Chief of Staff Office of the CEO & President - Executive staff meeting administration and agenda, BOD liaison and quarterly meeting agenda & content coordination. Company execution monitoring and reporting. Some technical due diligence for M&A, investments and partnerships. Dotted line to Operations Exec. VP administrative & technical support and special projects.

Apr. 2008 to Jan. 2009: Exec Director, Chief of Staff Office of the President - Executive Staff Meeting administration, support for BOD content, and Analyst call creation. Six Sigma Business process improvement for quality, efficiency, cost reduction. Monthly product cost improvement and departmental budget rollup consolidation. Special projects.

May 2001 to Mar. 2008: Sr Director Corporate Development and Strategic Planning - Technical due diligence evaluation of M&A, Investments, Joint ventures or collaboration and Licensing opportunities. Cross functional internal strategic planning committee member for new business evaluation and development. Storage and consumer electronics industry landscape opportunity research and analysis. Management of the externally originated unsolicited proposal process. NAND Flash memory design & manufacturing architecture & SSD/HDD technology contrasting, benchmarking and opportunity analysis. External collaboration and relationship facilitation for in-house next generation solid state memory, RRAM and Spin Torque RAM development.

Jul. 2000 to Apr. 2001: Director Staff to CFO - Company execution monitoring, reporting, improvement recommendation and implementation tracking, special project management.

Jul. 1998 to Jun. 2000: Director Materials - Established and administered the monthly product cost tracking process for commodity management teams for cost reduction take down targeting, forecasting adn tracking. Developed a database to automate and feed to the corporate finance product cost systems. Drove for the establishment of cross design center product architectural platform teams (electronics, firmware, head/media, R/W channel, mechanical/motor, mfg process) to start reconciliation of R&D OpEx and material cost bloat resulting from the delay of integration of Seagate HDD consolidation acquisitions including CDC/Imprimis (TCO, OKC, Simi), Connor Peripherals and Seagate Scotts Valley which resulted in seven disparate legacy platforms.

Apr. 1995 to Jun. 1998: Sr. Manager of Competitive Analysis - Established the first group within Seagate with the competitive analysis charter and established the processes, reporting content and databases to perform the tasks in collaboration with the internal technical stakeholders to assist with and leverage the analysis. Legal procurement and competitive G2 compilation. Benchmarking analysis of industry hard drive competitor product offerings. Empirical benchmark testing of data throughput, IOPS, power consumption, acoustics, shock and vibration robustness, etc. Cost contrasting and some architectural design analysis, performance forecasting and component evaluation coordination. Reporting for design and product target setting and marketing collateral.

Nov, 1993 to Mar. 1995: Manager Reliability, Product Design Maturity Testing - Internal product design qualification testing as a member of the product Core Teams. Test suite design, testing oversite, failure analysis and corrective action verification. Report generation. Key Customer Qualification interfacing. BellCore analysis for reliability prediction modeling. DPPM, MTBF and ARR. H.A.L.T. and H.A.S.T. implementation for product design margin measurement and robustness improvement.

Jul. 1991 to Oct. 1993: Sr. Director Test Process and Software Development - Directed the test process design and architecture group, including the test process flow, test hardware design and test software script development. Implemented the first Seagate hard drive self-test and the first test floor real time data collection system and report generation database during this time

May 1987 to Jun. 1991 - Manager Quality Engineering - Implemented the first Statistical Process Control into Seagate’s manufacturing process, including: assembly tooling /component tolerance studies, capability studies, quality audit stations for continuous sampling plans and control charting. Also managed the test process failure analysis and corrective action for yield improvement team.

Dec. 1982 to Apr. 1987 - Manager Test Engineering Support - Hired as an Assoc. Engineer writing final test code. I soon identified a test equipment design problem resulting in artificially low yield. Was promoted to supervisor then of a large group of technicians for repairing and calibration of test systems. Then went on to become Manager Test Engineering Replication for a group of engineers, technicians and assemblers doing volume replication of thousands of pieces of test equipment with documentation for outfitting of our newly opened factories in Singapore and Thailand.

May 1981 to Nov. 1982 Andtek Inc., Scotts Valley, CA

Diagnostic Engineer on contract as a consultant for the generation of a software based interactive diagnostic model for novice in-house repair of a Harris Farinon digital microwave radio system for a wireless telephony installation at Montana Power Company.

Nov. 1979 to April 1981 Watkins Johnson Company, Scotts Valley, CA

Junior Engineer,bench level manual final assembly of microwave cavity oscillators for radar applications including hand tuning of the frequency, band and power parameters to spec. Secret security clearance

Aug. 1972 to Apr. 1979 General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Grand Rapids, MI

Electrical Engineer for facilities maintenance and new equipment installation after being an engineering co-op student with various department and project assignment during work sessions.

EDUCATION

BSEE, Kettering Institute (previously know as General Motors Institute), Flint, MI graduated 1977

Standard electrical engineering discipline curriculum with electronics, computer science and programming, fields, optics, acoustics, physics, calculus, differential equations, vector and matrices, probability & statistics, inorganic and organic chemistry, materials, mechanics, statics & dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, etc. and including management & organizational systems.

Thesis: "Peak Electrical demand Reduction"

AS in Computer Science, Cabrillo College, Soquel, CA completed summer 2017

Java 1 & 2, C++, Computer Organization and Design (w/ Arduino assembly coding), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Data Structures and Algorithms, Discrete Math w/ Python, Mobile Games Development (C# in Unity w/ Eclipse), Games and Simulation Programming

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