Program Manager Technical

DAVID OLSON, MBA, PMP, CSM

San Francisco, CA *********@*****.*** 623-***-**** Linkedin.com/in/teamteamteam SENIOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

Innovative Sr Technical Program Manager with experience overseeing technical programs and projects and leading teams for solution delivery within requirements, timelines, and budgets. Well-versed in managing projects for the design and development of hardware and embedded software and introducing new products to market within compliance standards. Expert in developing program plans and processes while communicating project status, progress, launches, and retrospectives across all stakeholders. Core Competencies

Technical Program Oversight

Software and Hardware Projects

Product Lifecycle Management

Quality Control and Failure Analysis

Project Execution and Delivery

Hardware/Software Development

Budget, Risk, and Change Mgmt.

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Program Scope, Schedule, and Plans

New Product Introduction

Software Verification and Validation

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lam Research, Freemont, CA Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

NPI Program Manager, Deposition Platforms

Managed multiple projects in the commercialization stage of New Product Introduction. Created and tracked change orders. Maintained BOMs. Handled customer problem reports from the field and tracked investigation and resolution. Interfaced with design, finance, quality, product management and production.

Closed out design activities and released to high volume manufacturing.

Chaired the Cross Functional Team for planning and oversight of all project activities. Worked with management, engineering, product management, finance and configuration management.

SYNAPTICS, San Jose, CA 2022 – 2023

Senior Technical Program Manager, Video Interface ICs Directed global teams in the execution and delivery of hardware/software development projects and programs in accordance with established requirements, timelines, and within budget. Partnered with stakeholders for planning, tracking, reporting, and business cases. Oversaw cross-functional teams of Analog Design, Embedded Software, Digital Design, Physical Design, FPGA, Packaging, Verification, Validation, Test, and Product Engineers. Managed external subcontractors, SoWs, and contracts.

Prevented major project impact and delays by leading investigation and resolution of several tough technical issues that involved identifying and resolving root cause using a diverse team of engineers.

Employed best-in-class project management methodologies and tools while managing schedule, status, and issues, and overseeing Silicon and package qualification, package development, and OSAT transfer.

Drove the development of products with protocols such as DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.0 USB4, and HDCP while creating PM automation tools using Python to control Jira, Jama, Confluence, Excel, and Outlook.

META, Sunnyvale, CA 2021 – 2022

Technical Program Manager, Virtual and Augmented Reality Display ICs, Reality Labs Headed teams of engineers in the execution and delivery of technology projects and programs for IC development with simultaneous display technology development within deadlines and allocated resources. Partnered with engineering, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to create project plans and designs. Advanced wafer processing/packaging processes.

Produced 2 tapeouts by spearheading a key backplane development project along with project for timing controllers for new display pixel architectures.

Guided teams of engineers in developing new VR/AR technologies along with the creation of designs with sophisticated image processing and ambitious performance targets. DAVID OLSON Page 2 *********@*****.*** 623-***-****

APPLE, Cupertino, CA 2018 – 2021

Engineering Program Manager, Display Driver ICs

Oversaw teams of engineers across engineering programs and multiple software/hardware development projects while managing project tracking and weekly status reporting to internal and external stakeholders and partners.

Championed projects for FPGA prototyping, embedded control, and embedded software while leading the creation of designs with robust approaches to power and signal integrity.

Administered process development for next generation display technology while keeping timelines and deliverables on track and adapting to COVID work from home restrictions.

ON SEMICONDUCTOR, San Jose, CA 2017 – 2018

Principal Technical Program Manager, Image Sensors and Processors Steered multiple simultaneous software/hardware development projects in Image Sensors Group that included embedded software in addition to the unique challenges of image sensing and processing.

Guided an engineering team in the leading-edge image sensing technology area while scheduling and tracking teams in multiple locations and interfacing with manufacturing plants in US and Asia.

Facilitated the adoption of automotive safety compliance standards/regulations, including ISO-26262, ASIL A, B, and C.

MICROSEMI, San Jose, CA 2016 – 2017

Principal Technical Program Manager, ASIC, Sensors Managed technical programs and projects for IC development in Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) group and sensors product line with budgets of $300k to $1M. Created dashboards for design, simulation, and testing. Contributed to adopting automotive safety compliance, including ISO-26262, ASIL A, B, and C.

Improved time to market 30% while reducing specification / design iterations by developing products with dedicated cross- functional teams, intensifying resource commitment, and improving workflow.

Enabled capacity planning and scenario planning by creating graphical at-a-glance system, showing assignments by engineer and project over time.

Optimized resource allocation by identifying and addressing gaps in EPM execution efficiency such as in resource management and allocation.

NXP, Tempe, AZ 2008 – 2015

Senior Technical Program Manager

Planned and executed IC development projects for temperature sensing and high-speed video, including DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, and VGA. Managed new product development on 2 to 4 concurrent projects with budgets of $50k to $5M.

Established and strengthened new PMO, developing tools for planning and tracking across multiple product lines, including cost, resource, test, qualification, milestones, actions, risks, and deliverables.

Refined project portfolio management system for better project selection and designed and implemented SharePoint structure.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, AZ Bachelor of Science (BS) of Mechanical Engineering University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

MS Project, Confluence, Tableau, SharePoint, Jira, Jama, Oracle PLM, SAP, Python, VBA, C++, C#

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