Brent R. Solman

Berthoud, CO ***** 303-***-**** ad0355@r.postjobfree.com

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Program/Project Manager

Accomplished Program/Project Manager with extensive hard drive technical and business experience. Proven history of developing and bringing to market business critical drives for enterprise computer and cloud ISP companies. A strong leader with exceptional collaboration and communication skills.

Program Management Skills

Customer Communications

Technical Qualifications/Planning

Agile Project Management

Technical Team Leadership

Configuration Management

O365 / Winchill PLM

Business Reviews

Operation Requirements

Customer Relations Management

Operational Excellence

Project Planning

Supplier Procurement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Seagate Corporation Jan 2005 – June 2023

Director of Engineering / Working Program Manager

Manage worldwide Customer Test Unit (CTU) engineering teams in Thailand, China and Singapore while working on development teams to release new hard drives.

Program Manager for core team development of HDD products.

oMeet with customers to understand their drive requirements (security, performance, quality and software) and present new product details with engineering teams. Using that information work with the development core team to enable customer compliance/satisfaction with Seagate products.

Focus on configuration management/BOM and delivery of drives for all customer qualifications including HDD and SSD.

oEnabled on-time customer product qualifications to allow sales to realize revenue goals.

Oversee budget and worldwide shipments of development and test units, working with qualification teams and product development teams to qualify Seagate drives.

oMaintained budget requirements while shipping customer required qualifications drives for product qualifications.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Contract Manufacturing: Dovatron Electronics Manufacturing and Hi-Tech Manufacturing

Account Manager

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communications- The University of Iowa

Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Electronic Engineering- Des Moines Area Community College

CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Winchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software.

Citizen Data Scientist Certification: Business Intelligence.

SF Data School: Data Analytics.

Thayer Leadership

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