LEO F. SENNOTT | 5 Oxford Road ▪ Derry, New Hampshire 03038 ▪ 603-339-6486 ▪
SUMMARY
A forward-thinking and driven engineering manager, with extensive experience in manufacturing intelligence, factory automation, new product development, manufacturing, software engineering, business development, wafer processing, data analysis, consulting, and applications engineering. Produces innovative business intelligence solutions across worldwide company functions, leveraging hands-on technical leadership to deliver on business objectives. Develops strategies and application innovations that provide clear performance metrics and actionable insight for improved business processes. Builds strong development teams, with an understanding that people drive innovation and improvements that spur a competitive advantage.
EXPERIENCE
SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INCORPORATED, Woburn, Massachusetts
Senior Engineering Manager, 2002-2013
Directed engineering development team designing custom infrastructure software applications to provide manufacturing business intelligence solutions that supported worldwide factory locations. Designed and constructed middleware interfaces to enterprise systems for continuous factory automation. Established relational databases and associated portals providing global floor management. Established data standards, formats, and interface protocols with material suppliers and original equipment manufacturers. Designed and installed off-shore test operation networks (Carsem, JCET, Tong Hsing). Provided internal middleware infrastructure, using SQL databases with custom interface applications supporting production to enterprise automation.
„X MERGER AND ACQUISITION INTEGRATION: Successfully integrated manufacturing logistics for acquisitions of SiGe, AATI, and Axiom with no additional overhead cost and full integration of off-shore assembly and production test logistics. Executed project without production interruption, exceeding quarterly revenue targets. Transferred high-volume test operation to Mexicali, Mexico, during formation of Skyworks Solutions from merger between Alpha Industries and Conexant. Built logistics team to redefine automation infrastructure and data server requirements.
„X AUTOMATION: Developed worldwide factory floor automation network, consisting of several dedicated servers with custom infrastructure applications supporting electronic map assembly, RF test, and direct data transfer. Produced manufacturing- knowledgebase enterprise with dedicated data-mining servers. Created fully automated production test operation, utilizing high-speed turret handles outputting 20,000,000 devices per week.
„X PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS: Initiated and developed KGD programs in all wafer foundries, producing greater than 99% yields at off-shore assembly factories. Designed bar-code and labeling system, with middleware service tied to SAP enterprise results, leading corporate paperless production operation. Established data standards and formats throughout manufacturing, supporting all business enterprise systems and third-party analysis tools, including Data Power, Jump, Origin, and Excel. Created full product genealogy data extraction portal for full lot-level traceability to bills of material used during assembly. Provided live Web real-time metrics, production monitoring, and executive dashboards.
„X APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: Led team to design and code worldwide wafer-mapping software, using electronic files to determine good and bad devices on wafer ready for assembly. Developed application converting and transferring over 1,000,000 files. Worked closely with IT department to create SAP feed and design Web-based portal to locate all genealogy data associated with work orders, allowing better analysis of business data for new product developments, yield improvements, and customer returns. Earned award from vice president of quality for application.
„X LEADERSHIP: Strengthened engineering team by adding programmers with Web-based experience, using Microsoft Visual Studio suite and SQL server, allowing for creation of world-class applications. Generated cost savings from product yield improvements, spurred automatic decision making with electronic alert systems, and allowed prototype builds from Web-based records. Established OEM training with Ismeca for high-speed test handlers during transition. Worked in Mexicali for new facility¡¦s first year, helping company perform and expand without interruption by creating teams and rapidly identifying points of failure for improvement.
„X WEB SOULTIONS: Initiated and directed entire Web-based business intelligence solutions for production manufacturing and test operations, offering real-time desktop control and monitoring of production operations. Developed Web task management portals for product qualifications, evaluation study, and characterization, establishing desktop task management system generating corporate visibility to engineering. Led design of Web service providing factory-to-factory manufacturing enterprise interface and creating Interface Bridge between incompatible Promis wafer enterprise systems.
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ALPHA INDUSTRIES, Woburn, Massachusetts
Manager, Systems Engineering, 1992-2002
Directed department providing automated test solutions for high-volume manufacture of wireless components. Developed solution consisting of rack and stack instrument design, test featuring, and all software design. Installed test systems in wafer fabrication, internal production test, and quality assurance areas, as well as at subcontractor locations in Southeast Asia. Led automation, overseeing selection of OEM handlers, multi-axis, and motion-control systems. Oversaw production test manufacturing team supporting 10,000,000 unit-per-week output of semiconductors required for wireless industry, allowing for unlimited expansion.
„X Designed COP software management application to manage all production floor activity, perform automated testing, and interface with MES systems and network.
„X Created competitive advantage with software management application, allowing teams to further develop applications and change entire production operation from desktops with recipe management and remote service.
„X Developed many internal robotic designs to test custom package designs of less than two millimeters. Became single-source supplier for many years with high gross margins
„X Achieved publication in Test and Measurement World magazine for control box designed to manage automation using PC as controller. Earned award for company for publication.
Engineer
Built custom test systems from schematics, printed circuit design, and component specifications. Installed and sustained custom testing solutions. Designed custom test fixtures. Completed programming in assembly language. Worked in systems engineering department to design all the test solutions for microwave diodes, using discrete circuits and Motorola processors. Created GaAs EPI reactor to control EPI doping levels in wafer fabrication areas.
„X Purchased first IBM PC for company, replacing all RadioShack-based systems with PCs, allowing input and output interface accessibility for end-users.
„X Based all new test designs on PC system and created first autom...
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