Sanmina-SCI
Titles Held:
Director, ODM Strategies and System Development March, 2002 – February 2003
Vice President, Engineering February, 1999 – March, 2002
Engineering Manager, Technology Division June, 1991 – February, 1999
Highlights
Direct sales team participation in over a dozen final product assembly wins, resulting in over 30% of SCI’s revenue ($20,000,000,000.00) in twelve years. Customers included personal computer providers (Dell Dimension and Precision Dell Web PC, HP, Intel, IBM, Toshiba, NEC and DEC) Point of Sale terminal providers (PAR, Micros and NCR) Multiple set top box providers (Houston Tracker, Sony, GoVideo, Eagle and Nokia) Telecommunications providers (Nokia, Nortel and Ericsson) Medical customers (Johnson & Johnson, Roche and Baxter) Industrial customers (Rockwell, Clever devices, Warning Systems and Boeing) and a number of other customers with unique products that do not fall in the above categories.
Achieved profitability after first year and my division led all division profits for 10 of my 12 years at the company
Market development of the BTO/CTO box assembly manufacturing outsource model resulting in SCI becoming the market leader in this segment producing over in revenue.
Participated in acquisitions and mergers resulting in over $8,000,000,000.00 in top line revenue (IBM NetVista PC manufacturing, Nokia networks facilities in Europe, IBM facilities in Japan, Nokia engineering facilities in Sweden, Nortel PDI facilities in Canada, and Notebook equity partnership in Taiwan. Ericsson infrastructure facilities in the US and Europe and Intergraph facilities in the US
Develop and manage strategic supply chain solutions with Asian OEMs and ODMs fulfilling customer hardware and software requirements
Managed over 400 direct and 1500 relationship engineering resources in seven countries on three continents with a $26M annual budget including:
Manufacturing engineering for both new and volume process development (white papers)
Test development including software, test fixture and diagnostics
Electrical design including (analog and digital),
Mechanical design (sheet metal, plastics and packaging)
Software design
Product validation and integrity testing
- Electrical simulation
- Environmental testing including
- Thermal testing
- Shock and vibration testing
- HALT testing and HASS profiling
- Acoustic testing
- Moisture resistance testing
- Voltage stress testing
- Agency certification (self certifying - FCC) pre testing for 23 agencies
- Application and hardware compatibility verification
- Network validation for Ethernet and Token ring
- Windows, Novel, Banyan VInes
Responsible for ISO9000 /ISO 140001 plan creation and training of over 400 engineering personnel in seven countries of the development organization
Developed manufacturing software test processes for volume finished product assembly used worldwide and a patented system configuration and software download process for configure to order manufacturing
Managed the advanced process development facilities in the US and Europe
Managed the global new product introduction organizations in the US, Canada, Japan, Mexico, England and Scotland
Managed the advanced software development center in Yasu, Japan utilizing the Sashimi (Agile) development methodology
Created a patented system configuration and software download process
Established call centers and third level customer support organization for customers in Huntsville
Business development executive team member for all market segments including consumer, medical, telecommunications, high reliability, government and aerospace products.
Responsible for all IP, Technology Export and Design Services Negotiations
Patents, Awards and Honors Received at SCI
1992 – Technology Achievement award Dell Computer Dimension / Precision
1993 – Technology Achievement award Hewlett Packard design and on-time release of the Vectra series
1995 – Technology Achievement award – NEC
1995 – Patent – Airflow through a constrained space (Infinium computer) (Toshiba / SCI)
1996 – Patent – Configure to order manufacturing process (SCI)
1998 – Patent – Legacy free PC (Dell / SCI)
1998 – Technology Achievement award Hewlett Packard (1 million units produced)
1998 – Patent Intel Pentium II processor mounting device (SCI)
1999 – Technology Achievement award Hewlett Packard (2 million units produced)
2000 – Keynote speaker at Nepcon East