Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Engineering Manager Resume

Desired Industry: Manufacturing	SpiderID: 3638
Desired Job Location: charlotte, North Carolina	Date Posted: 9/14/2005
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date:
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel:
Highest Degree Attained: Masters	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Experience:
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

General Manager with a track record of 22 years of excellent business results in high technology electronics manufacturing and telecommunications at Fortune 500 and other companies. Outstanding strategic, tactical and operational bi-lingual and bi-cultural leader. Strong managerial and technical skills including world-class techniques, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, team building, self motivation and creative thinking. Effective communicator and negotiator. Fluent in both English and Spanish. US citizen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AVAYA INC., Monterrey, NL Mexico 2000 - 2005
Senior Site Manager (2001 - 2005)
General Manager responsibilities at this contract manufacturing facility 800 - 1000 employees. Developed, refined and monitored foolproof processes, metrics, and policies. Led activities to improve P&L, efficiency, yields, quality and delivery performance at the lowest cost. Served as a Manufacturing expert for analysis and resolution of issues. Six-Sigma Green Belt certified. Salient Projects included:
· Reduced ongoing back schedule from over 200,000 units to 1,500 units.
· Improved a $250 million US per year business partnership with a sub-contractor manufacturer yielding over $15 million US/year in reduced cost.
· Successfully implemented Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and World-Class Manufacturing techniques to all the production lines and support processes making this a site model for Avaya.
· Reduced raw material inventory by $8 million US.
· Improved On Time Delivery from 75% to 100% by applying lean supply chain and process improvements.
· Established and coordinated Kaizen analysis of production metrics. This statistical analysis led to the implementation of Poka-Yoke Processes. Final QA acceptance improved to 99.9%.
· Developed expense approval process for scrap and other premiums, avoiding costs of $100,000 US/year.

Manufacturing Lead Functional Test Engineer (2000 - 2001)
Project manage test production transfer. Test development, process and yield improvement, evaluation of designs for testability (DFT), fixture procurement and Failure Mode Analysis. Technical support to manufacturing and other engineers. Evaluation of models and introduction to manufacturing of new products.
· Successfully transferred production testing to Mexico and Colorado sites.
· Developed test and improved yields of the 4600 family of IP terminals by over 15%.
· Developed calibration procedure for the Partner Scat Test Set.
· Successfully introduced and ramped up to production the 4600 family of IP telephones.

TELETOLIMA S.A. E.S.P. , Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia 1997 - 2000
Switching and Transmission Manager (1998 - 2000)
Operations Manager for this telecommunication company. Responsible for planning, customer service, P&L, budget, design, configuration, administration, capacity, expansion projects, technology and IT. Also responsible for developing supplier relationships.
· Reduced average service and problem order processing from five days to one day.
· Successfully designed and managed expansion project to add 15,000 lines to the city on time and on budget. $7 Million US/year new revenue.
· Developed and implemented quality improvement plan based on statistical analysis and resolution of bottlenecks. Improved call completion rate to nearly 100%.
· Developed and managed successfully the company Y2K plan and the contingency Y2K plan.
· Investigated, analyzed and recommended new techniques for better use and maintenance of the equipment. $2 million US/year savings.
Network Manager (1997 - 1998)
Responsible for over 110,000 telephone lines and 75 direct employees in the city of Ibagué, including supervision, planning and control of preventive and corrective maintenance activities, technical guidance, construction and expansion of the network.
· Reduced the maximum repair time for cables and telephone lines from one month to less than 48 hours and the average repair time to 24 hours. $1 million US/year extra revenue.
· Developed repair and quality plans to achieve the desired quality indices under difficult operating conditions. Successfully managed building the company's fiber optics network.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, North Andover, MA 1996 - 1997
Manufacturing In-circuit Test Lead Engineer
Responsible for planning, controlling and executing in-circuit test development for medium and high complexity circuit packs.
· Improved first pass yield for very high complexity circuit packs by greater than 30%. Yields became better than the predicted yields.
· Introduced to the factory in-circuit test for codes with more than 4000 nodes on the HP3070 test system. Developed test for 8000 nodes code.
· Developed in-circuit test for signal processing codes in XTSI, ECHOC, DIF, JUPITER, and CADENZA projects.

AT&T, North Andover, MA 1983 - 1996

Senior In-circuit Test Engineer (1989 - 1996)
Development of test software and hardware for circuit packs for Digital Access Cross-Connect Systems.
· Quality improvement team leader (9% average yield improvement across all circuit packs).
· Cost reduction coordinator. Contributed over $60 million in cost reduction.
· Developed in-circuit test for circuit packs in DACS II releases 3.0, 4.0 and 6.0. Also, developed test for DACS VI circuit packs.
· Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award winner - 1992

Hybrid Integrated Circuit Product and Functional Test Engineer (1983 - 1989)
Product management and test development responsibilities.
· Conducted studies of thermal noise on thin-film resistors. These studies led to improvement of the reliability of these resistors.
· Developed/designed hardware and software for automatic and semi-automatic test sets. (FTX180, FTSG417Mhz light-wave and various microwave test sets).
· Participated in cost reduction cases totaling over $14 million US.
· Coordinated design of test facilities and developed test software for the FT-Series G 1.7Gb test sets.

Education:
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 1983 - 1986
M.S. Eng. in Electrical Engineering (Communication systems and signals)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1979 - 1983
B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Communications and solid-state electronics)

Other training: VLSI gate array technology, Design for testability, Microelectronic interconnection and packing, Principles of data communications, Basic telecommunications for engineers, Process characterization, Introduction to manufacturing statistical quality control, Manufacturing resource planning, Bill of material system, HP computer systems, Communications & team work, Methods for productivity and quality, Resource requirement planning, Process and routing system, HP3070 test system, HP3065 test system, HP8510 network analyzer system, DACS II and DACS VI digital access cross connect systems, International Assignment skills, Export law, Multicultural strengths, Electrostatic discharge, Alcatel 1000 (system 12) switch, N7 Signaling, and various classes in English technical writing, Self-improvement, Teamwork, Creative thinking and Leadership. Six Sigma Green Belt. UNIX, DOS, HP, HFS, Windows, BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BT- Basic, C, VCL. Microsoft office, Harvard graphics, ProComm, Fastback plus, Internet browsers, Lab Windows CVI, Minitab.

Additional Information:
AWARDS

University of Massachusetts Bilingual Collegiate Program award for academic achievement (two years).
Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award with AT&T.
Excellence award for distinguished work in the Y2K project in Teletolima

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Manuel Perdomo
Street:	Phone: 704-496-4430
City: Charlotte	Fax: -
State: North Carolina
Zip: 28277
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