Quality Engineering

Bheemaraj Allaka

**** **** ****** ******* ** Phoenix, AZ 85044 480-***-****

*********@*******.***

Objective: To obtain a career position that will utilize my experience and education, and offers the opportunity for advancement.

Summary of Qualifications:

Professionally trained and experienced in designing, developing, and implementing plans and programs for a company those are cost-effective & timely, Strong leadership and communication skills; effective team builder; proven capability in strategic work; successful deliverer of profitable growth and cash; tactically astute in managing a complex supply chain; innovative sales and marketing skills; pragmatic; hard working; approachable.

Education:

Bachelor of Science: Major in Physics and Chemistry.

National College, Bangalore University, India.

Work Experience:

Director of Engineering Hallmark Circuits, Poway, CA. May 2011- Present.

• Lead daily engineering activities in all areas of manufacturing.

• In charge of strategizing plans to effectively run the day-to-day operations and developing current and future business plans.

• Interact with Customers at design stage and offer possible solutions for manufacturability without sacrificing the reliability and functionality of the product.

• Train Process and Quality engineers as needed for flow down to technician and operator level.

• Cost saving projects throughout the factory.

• Use lean manufacturing tools to improve process flow, capacity & yields.

• Working knowledge of ISO9001 and AS9100.

• Perform QMS and process audits to ensure compliance to Customer’s specification.

• Perform incoming inspection. Receive RMAs and disposition after destructive or nondestructive analysis to scrap or stock.

• Lead and participate in MRB activities.

Director of Engineering & Quality Sierra Microelectronics, Sunnyvale, CA. Sept 2008- April 2011.

• Lead, Engineering, Project engineering and Quality teams.

• Design, develop, manufacture and implement manufacturing methods for microelectronics technology.

• In charge of strategizing plans to effectively run the day-to-day operations, including managing committee meetings, staff, and developing current and future business plans.

• Responsible for business development and expand customer through quality service provided to customer.

• Interact with Customers at design stage and offer possible solutions for manufacturability without sacrificing the reliability and functionality of the product.

• Cost saving projects throughout the factory.

• Oversee PWB manufacturing, SMT and through hole assembly.

• Use of six sigma tools i.e. FMEA, control plan, mistake proofing, Ishikawa diagram, CAPA (root cause analysis), etc. Lead MRB and disposition product.

• Working knowledge of ISO9001 and ISO13485. I was part of recertification and re-writing QMS systems. Perform QMS and process audits to ensure compliance to Customer’s specification.

Quality Engineer Honeywell Aerospace Deer Valley, AZ. May 2008- August 2008.

• Attend Quality Engineering team meeting.

• Trouble shoot processes to find root cause analysis assist in answering corrective actions.

• Assist with AS9102 FAIR report full and partial.

• Use of six sigma tools i.e. FMEA, control plan, mistake proofing, Ishikawa diagram, CAPA (root cause analysis), etc.

• Working knowledge of ISO9001 and AS9100 QMS systems.

• Perform process audits to ensure compliance to Customer’s specification.

• Lead and be part of MRB disposition.

• Analyze day to day data to prioritize my day and follow through previous action items.

Director of Engineering Sierra Microelectronics, Sunnyvale, CA. Oct 2007- April 2008.

• Lead, Engineering, Project engineering and Quality teams.

• Design, develop, manufacture and implement manufacturing methods for microelectronics technology.

• In charge of strategizing plans to effectively run the day-to-day operations, including managing committee meetings, staff, and developing current and future business plans.

• Responsible for business development and expand customer through quality service provided to customer.

• Work on day to day issues in plating, imaging and drilling depending on complexity of technology.

• R&D in lithography: liquid resist application, imaging, etching and laser drilling on material for e.g. FR4, wafers, roger RF, polyimide, etc.

• Use of six sigma tools i.e. FMEA, control plan, mistake proofing, Ishikawa diagram, CAPA (root cause analysis), etc.

Director of Engineering. Aspocomp, Thailand. Oct 2006- Sept 2007.

• Responsibilities include designing, developing, and integrating sophisticated controls and communications systems for international customers.

• Interact with Customers on DFM and quality issues. Provide innovative solutions to customer needs.

• Visit Customers for marketing our present and future product by showing and explaining technical presentations of our company in different parts of the world.

• Improve processes in Imaging, I/L and O/L etching Sn & Cu, Cu plating, mechanical and laser drilling, lamination, soldermask and surface finishes.

• Coordinated customer projects from conception to completion interfacing with customer, engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing.

Senior Engineering Manager. Tyco Electronics. Dallas, Oregon. Sept 05- Sept 06.

• Interaction with Customers on designs and constructions, suggest alternate methods.

• Attend Customer and company offered quality training programs.

• Assisted in designing and building a HDI, high speed, and high layer count prototype factory.

• Help in getting our shop to next level in technology by improving our capabilities.

• Provided leadership and coordinate the activities of process engineering, manufacturing, R&D, customer service, and other functional areas continual improvement efforts. Activities include the use of corrective and preventive actions, FMEAs, process control plans, SPC, six sigma techniques, lean manufacturing, 5S, and problem solving.

• Coordinate management review in order for top management to focus on and assess the effectiveness of the quality management system, to address business needs, and to achieve the quality objectives. Ensure process owners in the organization assess and improve the effectiveness of their processes.

• Led the Material Review Board (MRB) efforts to determine the disposition of non-conforming materials.

• Led & coordinated the investigation of intra-plant involved customer complaints (using proven problem solving application and experience – 8 D problem solving) and had the key accountability to obtain acceptable corrective and preventive responses and actions from other plants and entities when there was a customer rejection.

• Planned and prepared engineering department budget including the planning of purchases of machines and maintenance of equipment so as to maintain an acceptable level of replacement parts at all times.

• Provided leadership, coordinated and controlled the engineering department in maintaining an efficient and effective technical team.

• Responsible for the planning and overseeing the work and technical operation of the entire chemical, mechanical and electrical systems including proper preventive maintenance and repair programs of equipment to ensure their work efficiency and optimum utilization.

Project Engineering/Process Engineering Sanmina-SCI Corp. Phoenix, AZ. Aug 95- Aug 05.

• Ensure the quality management system complied with commercial, government, and customer requirements as well as ISO 9001 requirements.

• Developed and maintained effectiveness measures for the quality management system processes assigned to quality.

• Drive innovation and a focus on new products and technologies for the division. Provide strategic guidance to general management in areas of business growth and customer care.

• Establish current and long-range objectives, project plans, policies, ensure engineering systems used are the best possible to guarantee product integrity and reliability.

• Quality tools to solve problems Gage R&R, DOE, SPC, FMEA and Lean manufacturing.

• Quality systems, product qualification processes, supplier quality control, process / product audits, technical program management, international multi-cultural communication.

• Familiar with ISO9001, Mil Spec 55110, AS 9100 and IPC class III performance specifications.

• R & D projects include: Process microvias using laser & mechanical, high speed low loss, CAF resistant, Bromine free materials, liquid photo-resist inner layers, high aspect ratio back planes 0.225” thick 20:1, control depth/back drilling, buried capacitors, resistors & inductors and technology transfers to our sister shops.

• Custom design of tools to fit our machines/processes.

• Managed capital equipment $100,000 to 500,000 dollars per project: justify, purchase, install, debug, train and release to improve capacity & capability to eliminate bottlenecks, and also automate equipment to be leader in cutting edge technology.

Other Education & Employment:

• Six sigma black belt certification. 2006

• Private Pilot Certificate, Galvin Flying Service, Seattle, Washington.

• Instrument Pilot Rating, Galvin Flying Service, Seattle, Washington.

• Commercial Pilot Certificate, Galvin Flying Service, Seattle, Washington.

• Certified Flight Instructor Certificate, Wings Aloft, Seattle, Washington.

Flight Instructor:

Part-time independent flight instructor from Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.

FAA certified to teach students from novice to advanced skill level in flight and ground.

Proficient in software: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, AutoCAD and statistical software Minitab.

References available upon request

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