Engineer Quality
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Advisory Supplier Quality Engineer in Memory Procurement Engineering within the Integrated Supply Chain. With 40 year in Component Engineering with diverse areas of expertise from High level complete products assemblies (Display both CRTand LCDs and test equipment) to component level products currently specializing in Memory Technologies and Supplier Quality Management and reporting.
Providing Supplier Quality Leadership and Leading Edge Memory technology direction to Lenovo ThinkSystem / EBG X86 Server developers and providing the Brand with engineering and Quality support to the Memory Supplier. Development of Training Material for Anti-counterfeiting and Identification of Counterfeit Memory. Providing and Managing Quality activity in support of Lenovo and Memory Suppliers.
Managing Core memory suppliers, responsible for Quality, Reliability and Participate in core brand teams and provide Quality audit and leadership to these team.
Provided Function leadership in ISO9000 certification for 10 year and Procurement Leadership for PSG for 3 years. Recognized by Lenovo Procurement for outstanding work on ROHS and Explore and PM database.
Career History
06/1977 - To date Lenovo, Morrisville, NC, 27650, US 919-***-**** Office, Cell 919-***-****)
ADV Engineer Lenovo
10/1/2015 to 8/31/2017 (Voluntary Transition Program)
Supplier Quality Engineer
Providing End to End Quality for Lenovo memory and Supplier Quality, Monthly Manufacturing Quality Performances, Field, Customer issues, and End of life concerns.
Memory Supplier Factory Auditor
ADV Engineer IBM
• 10/1995 – 10/1/2014
• Position: ADV Engineer / Scientist Component Engineering (ISC, RTP, NC)
• Development of IBM Server Brand Road Maps and Technologies directions.
Development and training of Anti Counterfeit Measures
• Providing Engineering support for Part number release, Supplier quality / Reliability and Supplier interactions. Providing direction to IBM Server Brand and supplier to converge on industry common memory devices. Provided ISO 9000 internal Auditor and PSG Procurement ISO 9000 Representative for all compliance audits. ROHS compliance team
• 06/1981 – 10/1995
• Position: Lead Technician in Component Engineering (RTP, NC)
• Senior Lab technician with oversight and Training of other technician and Co-op. Providing ISO 9000 oversight and leadership in Equipment calibration and tracking. Lead in the Development and implementation of Monitor Development and testing procedures. Published technical papers on Monitor testing and Laser ARC testing for circuit hardness. Provided leadship in the testing of the IBM Fiber Optic Cabling Systems
• 06/1977– 06/1981
• Position: Lead Test and Assemble Technician (RTP, NC.)
• Responsibilities included Test and MFG of Unannounced Monitor Products. Work with Development and MFG to bring IBM First color Monitor into MFG in RTP, NC. Train Mfg, test and Quality personal to produce the new 3279 color monitor. Provide Upper management training on Functional ability of this new and unique product.
• Prior - 07/1977
• Multiple MFG jobs (Garment Mfg, Mobile Home Mfg and Seafood industry)
Key Skills
Key Courses and Training
• ISO 9000 Auditor Certification, IBM, 04/2005
• Optical Fiber Communications ETI, 1983
• Photometry and Colorimetry For Displays UCLA, 1984
Quality and Statistical analysis.
Project Management
Education
Qualifications
BA in Economics
North Carolina State University, US
BA in Business Management
North Carolina State University, US
Technical Degree in Electronic Technology
DeVry Institute of Technology, US
Languages
English Fluent
Spanish Basic
Japanese Basic
Other relevant information
Publications
:Color CRT Testing Technique / PSG Component Engineering / IBM Publications/ 1980’s, in: IBM, IBM, 1980
:Laser Arc Testing for Circuit Hardness/ IBM Publications / 1980’s, in: IBM, IBM, 1980
:Cathode Ray Tube Laser ARC Testing Techniques, in: Technical Report TR29.1197, IBM, 1991
Other job-related
activities
Durham Technical Institute Development council (1980 -1982).
Participant in outreach activity in Durham Area and Johannesburg South Africa.
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