Test/Tools Engineering Manager

Roman F. Rycerz

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Mettawa, IL **048

847-***-**** (Home)

224-***-**** (Mobile)

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Key Professional Motivators

• Corporate Profitability.

• Technology as applied to Innovative Product Design

• Strong Team Development

Summary of Qualifications

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.

• 35 Years of diverse experience in design engineering, project management, test systems design and applications

• Extensive Embedded Systems Architecture and Systems Design and Development.

Education

BSEE Marquette University 1973

Professional Experience

05/1994 – Present: Continental Automotive Systems (previously Motorola Automotive 6/2006)

Engineering Test/Tools Manager

• Created and presented program proposal & status to customers

• Develop and lead execution of the prototype and end of line test program development.

• Development and implementation of Continental Engine Systems Test Process

• Alignment of resources to critical product development projects.

• Execute projects focusing on time performance, quality and continuous improvement

• Coach, mentor, challenge and train senior and junior engineers in test and product development

• Managed systems engineering, hardware, and software development teams developing electronic test systems

• Establish scope, schedule, and cost criteria. Developed detailed project plans including work breakdown, project milestones, and assignment of resources to project teams.

• Management of annual department budget, including capital investment planning, project resource allocation, monthly forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Daily supervisory responsibility of hardware engineers, embedded software engineers.

• Individual and team goal setting, coaching, performance evaluations, salary and promotion planning.

• Implemented improvements in manufacturing test coverage analysis to predict defect escapes.

• Establish milestones and monitor adherence to master plans and schedules.

• Direct all phases of the software development program from inception through completion.

• Led formal reviews of all phase-gate deliverables to ensure scope, schedule, and cost requirements were met.

• Traveled to customer locations and corporate engineering departments in Regensburg, Germany and Toulouse, France.

• Architected and directed the development of production, field and product reliability test systems. Based on a common hardware/software platform. Test systems proactively identified test escapes which reduced the number of vehicle failures at customer body and assembly plants from a 50ppm to a 0ppm level for over 2 yrs.

• Experienced in embedded systems at a product and system levels. Worked with eCos (ported MPC55xx), WinCe, and UNIX systems. Developed software in C, Visual C, Visual Basic, C++, x86 and 68xx assembly language, for a variety of applications from Access, MS project, Excel and product and test systems

8/1989 – 05/1994: Eagle Test Systems Mundelein, Illinois (currently a Division of Teradyne Inc)

Operations and Test Engineering Manager

• Direct all phases of test systems manufacturing from inventory, materials and personnel resource planning, document control, drafting and PCB design, vendor and supplier interface.

• Directed development of board and system level debug processes and procedures

• Managed the development of a 50mhz mixed signal semiconductor test system

• Responsible hiring and training of new engineers and production personnel

• Developed inventory and purchasing critical component expediting reports

• Developed SMD and ECL pcb design rules

1/1976 – 6/1989: Megatest Corp, San Jose, California (currently a Division of Teradyne Inc)

Manufacturing Systems Design Manager, Design Project Manager.

• One of 3 founders and a member of the Board of Directors

• Instrumental in corporate growth from 20k/yr sales to over 100million/yr

• Key contributor to 2 extremely profitable semiconductor test systems (over 30% AFTER tax profit)

• Managed all aspects manufacturing automated systems development and support.

• SMD assembly robots, Board Level robotic measurement and calibrations systems

• Automation software and support for robotic cad and manufacturing processes

• System, Board and Thick/Thin hybrid temperature cycling systems

• Developed continuous flow production assembly systems

• Managed Thick and Thin Film Hybrid assembly, laser trim group

• Developed SMD Design Rules

7/1973 – 12/1975: Intel Corp, Santa Clara, California

IC Design Engineer

• Design Engineer, responsible for logic and circuit design and characterization of 8080 support chips

o 8212, 8214, 8216/26, 8224

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