Project Manager Engineer

Steven Averyt

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Carmel, IN *****

Phone 317-***-****

E-mail *******@*****.***

Professional experience

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Quality Engineer

* After Sales quality. Track and facilitate the after sales service of electronic consumer products.

* For newly released products, coordinate the diagnosis of the first 100 failures to find root cause analysis. Report findings back to customer.

* Conduct special project analysis for high percentage failures. Write presentations of Failure Mode Analysis to customer.

* Write and communicate Engineering Changes to the service centers.

* Write and send special instructions documentation to the service centers.

* Specified test equipment for the service centers.

2004-2008 Thomson Inc. Indianapolis, IN

Project Coordinator

* New Product Introduction Coordinate electronic consumer products from R&D to Mass Production.

* Organize, implement, and distribute model builds.

* Manage schematic and PCB layout changes.

* Organized and led R&D meetings to: specify new product, review layouts and schematics, and track overall project progress.

* Responsible for obtaining regulatory compliance (FCC/UL test and certification).

* Ensure new product meets safety and reliability requirements (internal standards and customer specified).

* Managed initial factory builds to prepare product for mass production.

2001-2003 Salient Systems Dublin, OH

Product Development Engineer

* New product development

* Specify, select, and test components for Bluetooth product.

* Designed Bluetooth antenna matching circuit.

1995-2001 Lucent Technologies Columbus, OH

Team Leader/ Factory Product Engineer/Project Manager

* New Product Introduction of cellular radios [TDMA, CDMA]. Oversaw and managed new product development from conception to mass production.

* Managed Bills of Material.

* Maintain Mass Production (Current Production Operations).

* Investigate, negotiate, and implement cost reduction opportunities.

* Confer with suppliers to ensure on-time parts deliveries.

* Eight years factory experience in Lean manufacturing, high volume-high speed automated production.

* Project Manager for mass production issues. Managed project timelines and product costs. Reported status to product development team.

* Team Leader of Cross Functional Team.

* Planned and executed many model builds.

* Led DFM meetings. Recommended and implemented manufacturing improvements.

* Managed many material phase-in/phase-out cases.

* Planned and implemented product transfers to International locations.

* Prepared and delivered many presentations. Served as chief spokesman for Product Team.

* Managed BOM cost.

* Managed Quality issues on products. FMAs. Answered Quality discrepancies. Held vendors accountable for components quality.

* Established and improved manufacturing processes. Responsible for continuous improvement of products.

* Qualified many new components to replace discontinued parts or alternate parts for cost reductions. One case alone led to cost savings of over $900,000 in one year.

* Team Leader of Test Yield Improvement team. Improved test yields and reduced test time which led to cost savings exceeding $500,000.

1993-1995 AT&T Columbus, OH

Methods and Procedures Engineer

* Process owner New and Changed Design.

* Prepared and delivered training of process steps required to implement a changed design or introduce a new design.

* Set up and distributed quarterly metrics to measure process improvement.

* Chaired several Quality Improvement Teams to establish new procedures or improve old ones.

* Technical Writer in charge of process handbook.

Education

University of Colorado Boulder, CO

Master of Science, Telecommunications

Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

* Graduated with honor (Cum Laude)

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