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ENGINEERING PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with >10 years of proven abilities in engineering program management on the deliveries of new products (SW/HW/test) in telecommunication/networking/computer industry.
• Proven abilities in program office operations, cross-functional core team leadership, led & implemented “best practices” in product life cycle in telecom/networking/computer companies to achieve high quality on -time delivery with high customer satisfaction.
• Proven ability to lead teams in multi site development (JDM, partner/alliance-joint development model with off-shore teams) through product life cycle. Led JDM-partner/alliance development best practices & through supplier strategies/supply chain management. Led BU level vendor negotiation in technology/component decisions.
• Proven abilities in managing: matrix organization up to 100, product life cycles, teams that achieve objectives, risk management, post project assessment, new starts/planning (wireless phone, low-cost VoIP phones, SMB routers), other program managers and 15 engineers/staff (direct report).
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware/software product life cycle (design, testing and integration), networking, server/storage, wireless (served in standards committee), telephony end-points/PBX/voip systems (design, test & management), EECS background with designs for mass production.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA 12/2007 – 11/2009
Senior Program Manager
Engineering program management (HW & SW), engineering operations and managed JDM (partner-joint development model) off-shore partner on 1U compute server products based on Nvidia chip.
• Managed cross functional core team with partner-joint development to meet aggressive schedule.
• Successfully managed all day-to-day design activities on HW & SW (driver development & testing of apps) from concept to NPI & production. Managed off-shore JDM team and all coordination for successful integration, design verification & factory introduction. Led SOW creation and approval.
• Successfully managed program budget (NRE & materials). Managed all board & system builds for test & NPI activities.
• Process improvement (BU leader): FMEA (failure mode effect analysis), use of risk identification/management & 8D problem solving technique. Introduced the use of gate process into life cycle process. Use of Sharepoint (Dreamweaver and HTML) & MicroSoft Project Center for effective communication of schedules coordination, determination of dependencies & communication of key issues to team members and management.
CISCO SYSTEMS, San Jose, CA 2/1999 – 11/2007
Senior Program Manager/Technical Leader
Engineering program management, NPI/engineering operations management (HW/SW development process improvement, quality improvement initiatives, quality matrixes, SW release operations, JDM-partner hardware designs), program office operations and new starts/strategic initiatives. Program team composed of matrix cross-function team (10 – 100 managers/engineers), project duration from 3 months to 18 months.
• Proven ability to program manage SPRSG time-based SW releases on Cisco high-end routers (CRS, GSR & MGX); including ISO9001/TL9000 compliance requirements & program office ops. Organized/drove weekly program meetings with cross functional team during execution & monthly ops meeting with GM/VP & directors. Drove team to achieve Cisco SP/RTS quality objective.
• Managed & led program office activities: project priority list, introduction of MS Project Server into CRBU, CFD (customer found defects) matrix, featurette development timeline, use of Dreamweaver in project web design, Cisco Product Development Methodology, Time to Market Initiatives.
• Program managed & led MGX voice and data software releases. Drove weekly meeting with BT account team on features & issues. Program managed SW transition planning & execution from San Jose to Delhi. Authored statement-of-work, reviewed with Legal, reviewed/negotiated with vendor and sent to management team for approval. Led MGX sustaining activities. Resulted in successful project migration to Delhi & BT deployment.
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CISCO EXPERIENCE (continued)
• Proven ability in program manage all SMB ($200M BU) router projects. This includes leading program office (i.e. handling PM templates/tools, ISO audits, featurette projects (time based Cisco IOS SW releases)) & sustaining team. Proven ability to work with off-shore development agencies (China & India). Successfully pioneered two platform projects with offshore development partner in Taiwan, the first IOS router with 802.11 wireless in Cisco with JDM partner. Project resulted in 10- point improvement in margin while maintaining SMA headcount in development. Defined processes/tools to improve SW/HW quality.
• Led JDM/OEM HW & IOS projects in Cisco PCBU, including gate process, field trials, post project assessments, etc. Including web site development for confluence.
• Proven ability to program managed all SMA-SOHO engineering projects from start, through NPI & production. Two major platforms and a number of featurette (software) projects.
• Led two major platform projects for Cisco 800 series routers, added 2 new families to the fixed router product line.
• Authored & negotiated statement-of-work on HW out-souring. Reviewed with team, Legal and vendor and sent to management team for approval. Led 800-SOHO sustaining ac...
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