Martin Kalberer

Mobile 408-***-****

Redwood City, CA adi3vv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Engineering and program leader with established tract record in using out of the box thinking and bringing that too life with focus on organizational tools and effective execution. Passion for taking big picture strategies and distilling them into an executable plan through collaboration and leadership.

I started in technical roles in both R&D and NPI roles. Moved into management roles in R&D and NPI to improve decision making processes, risk analysis and resource prioritization.

Ability to drive deep into the technical details, when necessary, understand root cause and help solve complex issues. Keen ability to build relationships with individuals and teams both within and outside the organization to lever strengths and reduce roadblocks. Clear and effective communications upwards, across and down the organization to identify key drivers and highlight risks in product development and ramping into production.

Technical background that spans lasers, optics, and aerospace engineering. Early adopter of Artificial Intellegience/Neural Networks technology use in laser applications. Founder of two technical start-ups with the lessons learned from being responsibile for P&L. Ability to learn and assimilate new fields and technologies quickly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INFINERA CORP, Sunnyvale, CA Jun 2019 – Current

Sr. Platform Program Manager

Platform manager of next generation long haul and sub-sea network transponders. Responsible for coordinating all elements for the product release including R&D, PLM, services and manufacturing. Role extends beyond traditional program management with focus on management of critical crossfunctional required to unblock teams and streamline peer to peer communications. Responsible for risk management cross functional organization and the critical deliverable dependencies between those teams.

Close involvement with PLM, architects and development engineers to clarify and accelerate scope definition. Collaborate with engineers to ensure comprehensive high level and detailed level details are clearly defined to accelerate program schedule and reduce risks that often occur late in the development process.

Key player in overhauling(due to acquisition of Coriant(formerly NSN/Siemens, Tellabs) PLM à R&D processes, including bottoms up engineering processes to support release scope definition, resource utilization and optimization, feature ownership and approvals of design documents to engineering and developed structure of teams to ensure accountability and traceability of deliverables to the product requirements.

Position reported initially to VP of PLM(the platform business head) and later to VP of PMO.

Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering/ODM Aug 2017 – Jun 2019

Anchor role in System Engineering as manager of outside design and manufacturing(ODM) to scale and define processes for accelerating product cadence and roll out using 3rd party engineering and mfg teams. Products include delivery of HW, lasers, optics, firmware and SW. Scope of the role covers product PM, Eng Manager and key technical supplier interactions.

Drive definition and details of procurement spec, manage engineering milestones, manage technical aspects of design reviews and helps define and review qualification testing of HW and SW gear. Key interface between: Network architecture, PLM, mfg, customer services, SW(Controls + NE + NM) and several functional engineering teams.

Products: Optical Line Systems, wavelength management and amplication, EDFA, AWG, Interleaver, GFF, VOA, Pump Lasers, MEMS, WSS, ROADM, Broadcast and Select, CDC, 1RU Chassis and Rackmount

FINISAR CORP, Fremont, CA Mar 2016 – Aug 2017

Sr. Manager, Program Management

Program Management: 7 direct reports

Reported: Sr. Director of PMO

Continued to grow Program Management for Finisar next gen data Datacom and Telecom products: CFP2/4 LR4, QSFP28 LR4, 100G ACO, QSFP28 PSM4, CFP8 LR8, 25G Wireless, and SFP 56G. Took tools already developed within the local PM team and adopted those globally into the newly formed PMO organization. Includes, weekly updates, project status, standardized milestones, NPI project database, streamlined equipment procurement process, On-line AVL process and resource expenditure tracking.

FINISAR CORP, Fremont, CA Oct 2013 – Mar 2016

Sr. Manager, Program Management and Product Engineering

6 direct reports, program managers and product engineers

Reported: VP of Optics R&D

Added 2 PMs to the staff to provide more comprehensive support of R&D projects.

Established US based product engineering team to accelerate ramp from R&D into production. PE team complimented the PM team in supporting R&D by providing tactical technical support and liason to the factory. Focus was on process QA, yield improvement and effective hand-off/hand shake of assembly and test gear to production teams.

FINISAR CORP, Fremont, CA Nov 2010 – Sep 2013

Sr. Manager, Optical Components

Established PM team to support and accelerate R&D projects. Coordinated PMO activities of 4 different sites in US and Asia. 2 direct reports, including off-shore report.

Specific areas of focus: streamlining communications and practices between the R&D team and supporting orgs(Planning, Forecasting, Supply Quality and Reliability) and most importantly with customer.

Collaboration tools: Designed, staffed and launched a number of global collaboration SW tools: 1) NPI project reporting, 2) Tracking offshore R&D/NPI and engineering builds for factory qualification and yield targeting, 3) Supply Chain AVL management tracking tool

FINISAR CORP, Fremont, CA May 2005 – Nov 2010

Sr. Optical Design Engineer

Delivered all aspects product requirements: performance, reliability, process, manufacturability, supplier management, test definition and development, yield, BOM cost structure, and ramp into production.

2008-10: Engineering lead and PM of 10G APD/PIN ROSA line for DWDM applications in 30 for Fixed WL and Tunable Transceivers(XFP, XFP Tunable, SFP+) market. Reduced cost of ROSA by 65%($130 à $43), resulting bottom line cost reduction of $5.3M and $11.5M in 2011 and 2012, respectively

2006-08: Principal for 2nd Gen 10G XFP/SFP+ TOSA leading to 65% cost reduction in TOSA. This product was one of the most successful products in Finisar history. Led to $2B+ in revenue and still runs in high volumes today.

2005-06: 10G XFP TOSA into production. Assigned this project that was stuck in late stage development for nearly 9 months and successfully released within 90 days.

Extensively worked with Asia teams, regular traveling to Contract Manufacturers, captive factories and key suppliers throughout Asia

Called in on various projects as subject matter expert in an advisory role for the various optical component groups within Finisar family: Texas, Malaysia, Singapore and Boston

FINISAR CORP, Sunnyvale, CA Sep 2003 – April 2005

Sr. Product Engineer

Responsible for product design improvements at late stage NPI and post-production. Charter of the role was to reduce costs, improve yields, improve manufacturability. This was done using data from production and experiments, prioritization of activities and analysis of all assembly, test and specification data.

FO PACK, Sunnyvale, CA July 2002 – Sept 2003

Founder

Start-up optical/hybrid packaging ODM house to support contract manufacturing of datacom and telecom customers in the Silicon Valley.

Recruited key roles including seasoned CEO and VP of Marketing. Also recruited technical staff in areas of optical design, EMS packaging and mechanical engineering

Customers included, Mellanox(formerly LightCross) and Neophotonics

Negotiate back-end loaded services agreement with Legal Counsel; Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, & Rosati

Engaged with VCs: Oak Investment Partners, Sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures, and Incubic

Developed Strategic Alliance with Chinese partner to off-shore volume mfg

CHAHAYA OPTRONICS, Fremont, CA Apr 2001 – May 2002

Sr. Photonics Packaging Engineer

Optical communications OEM/ODM start-up backed by $16M investment by Storm Ventures

Establish optical packaging capabilites: soldering, wirebonding, lid sealing, cap welding, hermetic sealing of fibers, and epoxy attach

Design engineer for precision fiber alignment and attach of a 1 x 4 waveguide using free space optics, customer Oclaro(formerly Pine Photonics)

FLUENCE SOLUTIONS, Woodinville, WA 1997 – Jan 2001

Founder

Start-up ODM house for photonic semiconductor laser devices. Specifically responsible for business side of the company(P&L, Assets, Financing) and supported technical activities.

Military: Developed high powered 532nm green laser pointer and Near IR illuminating system for night vision applications.

Medical: Portable, high density, blue dental curing light using state of the art Cree LEDs. Fiber pigtailed packages for high powered laser diodes.

Telecom: Redesigned customer Erbium doped waveguide optical amplifier (EDWA) 150mm x 300mm prototype into production ready, 25mm x 70mm version

EDGEWISE TOOLS, Seattle, WA 1996 - 1997

Laser Systems Engineer

Designed and built, first of its kind, laser cutting system for rigid and flexible sheet materials. Responsible for first system installation for cell phone mfg in Chicago. Resulted in the reducing customer’s COGS by over $100,000 per year and increased their flexibility to meet their Rapid prototyping and mfg needs.

CYGNUS LASER, Duvall, WA 1995 - 1996

Optical Engineer

Designed a higher performing polarizer Vanadate(YVO4) for a solid state LIDAR system for NASA supported SBIR. 10x improvement in transmission loss while maintaining maximum extinction ratio. Resulted in two NASA patent disclosures on the Vanadate polarizer design.

PATENTS

Header Assembly for Communications Module Patent 7,972,068

Apparatus and Technique for Determining Placement of Optical Components in Optical Communications Applications Patent 6,987,915

Header Assembly for Extended Temperature Optical Transmitter Patent 8,315,285

Resistive heating element for enabling laser operation 9,172,9

Transistor outline can with in-line electrical couplings 8,854,836

Low inductance optical transmitter submount assembly 8,447,153

DATABASE AND COLLABORATION SKILLS

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

Office 365: MS Suite(Sharepoint, Teams, Excel, Word, Power Point and Visio)

Oracle ERP

Agile

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1993

Major: Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Masters of Science, University of Tennessee, Tullahoma, TN 1995

Major: Engineering Science Laser and Optics

Thesis: Modeling the Depth of Penetration in Laser Welding Using Statistical and

Neural Network Approaches

MBA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2001

Partially completed, recruited to Silicon Valley after 2 quarters, GPA 3.85

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