Project Management Customer Service

Mark S. Varno P.E.

www.linkedin.com/in/markvarno 916 797 - 0234 *********@*******.***

TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

Results-driven technical professional and licensed engineer offering deep knowledge in design, manufacturing and information technology. Blends engineering and business management/analysis skills to improve processes, enable revenue enhancement, and control multi-million dollar assets.

EXPERIENCE High Tech leader in the Design, IT, Supplier Management, Manufacturing, Equipment & Thermal Engineering working with global and diverse and cross-functional teams.

EXPERTISE Renewable Energy, Engineering, Data Mining and Data Analytics, Budgeting, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Cost Analysis and Reduction

SOFTWARE Data Management: JIRA, JMP, Rapid Miner, Advanced Excel; Budgeting and Project Management: Enterprise MS Project

AREAS OF IMPACT Software Automation, Big Data, Competitive Analysis, Supplier Management, Conference Management

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Implemented a simplified system to track an extremely complex design system schedule comprised of 10 different design areas, 600+ tools, and used by 30+ design projects.

Created a simplified tracking and reporting system that allowed all users to update their project information and have all scheduling info for the entire tool in one easy-to-understand view. Reduced weekly review to 80%, to just 30 minutes.

Managed and delivered four unique projects entailing cutting edge chip design, contributing up to 80% of company’s revenue.

Implement a red-green- yellow heat map to keep the projects on schedule.

Developed and implemented a corporate program management system for conversion to Window platform. This system was viewed as key to the program success.

Deployed/developed a customized global project scheduling software which coordinated and drove an integrated project scheduling effort for all Planning and Logistics Systems information projects. Trained over 800 people worldwide in project management tools and techniques. Developed standards and indices to measure project schedules performance and effectiveness.

Designed systems that helped bring overheated nuclear disasters to safe shutdown.

DATA ANALYSIS

Investigated and measured competitor design/manufacturing metrics.

Forecasted product/equipment roadmaps for competitors.

Summarized and delivered analysis to senior management that resulted in product roadmap adjustments.

Developed unique databases and tools to analyze competitor's design cost and manufacturing capability facilitating forecast of competitive advances well ahead of other industry sources.

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT, DESIGN

Managed strategic supplier accounts to improve the delivery and availability of all silicon debug design tools across all design sites.

Evaluated the strategic risk of equipment and defined the business relationship with the suppliers. Managed equipment delivery, and insured post-delivery performance. Coordinated this effort with technical user community and procurement.

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Efforts resulted in significantly improving the design tool reliability & field service performance. Field Service level support improved from .7/4 to 3.6/4. Uptime and Mean time to failure improves significantly resulting in $1M annual saving.

Consolidated silicon debug navigation software purchases to enable product releases that saved $4 annually

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT, PRODUCTION FACILITY

Managed ($90 Million Budget) for all front end manufacturing equipment managing tooling and startup of manufacturing.

Increased equipment utilization as much as 30% and increased plant output by developing and implementing a computerized budget tracking and capital equipment forecasting tool.

Developed strategic equipment partnership programs through contract negotiation with equipment supplier using these same tools.

Establishing a-state-of-art database decision manufacturing system which reduced cycle time, cut work in progress and increased customer service. Saved $30 million on silicon die procurement program involving multiple manufacturing plants.

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

Summarized and delivered analysis of Renewable Energies to senior management that resulted in 2-year roadmap planning.

Feasibility studies: solar roads, solar walkways, solar floors; solar glass.

Feasibility study: water conservation, rain water harvesting.

TECHNOLOGY EVENT PRODUCTION AND LAUNCH

Spearheaded bi-annual conference, establishing a world class conference as measured by survey results (4.4/5).

Managed $2.5M annual conference budget, through contract negotiation and tracking.

Solicited/graded/selected the design content for presentation, overseeing the efforts of 2500 engineers that enabled a successful conference.

Reduced conference effort by 41% to 67.4 person years.

Managed logistic coordination involving facility/AV/catering selection, network bandwidth sizing, implementing Mobil App., and budget control/creation.

Transformed and redesigned software to manage the conference, automating the process and creating a smoother process for selecting presented content.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA

Engineering Consultant, Northern California

GE, San Jose, CA

Bechtel, San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Bachelor Studies - Marketing/Business, San Jose State University - San Jose, California

REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, (State Of California, Mechanical ME - 19062)

PGE Solar Energy Program, (over 300 classroom hours with 20+ certificates)

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