Engineer Quality

AMAN KHAWAJA 408-***-****

**** ***** ********* ********: 408-***-****

San Jose, California 95120 e-mail: ***********@*********.***

Overall Experience:

I am hands on experience in customer and supplier quality engineering

issues using DMAIC - 6 Sigma - ISO-9000/MD13485 methods and approaches,

managing CM's on Off-shore locations, performing Supplier Quality

Functions, working on customer returns with respect to quality issues.

Extensive experience with managing leading overseas suppliers and obsolete

Inventory clean up. I am hands on with AGILE, BAAN, Matrix Systems on-line

ECOs, ISO-9000 audits,RMA processes and quality reviews, developed

processes for NPI between engineering and Manufacturing. I am well aware of

MD 13485 processes and its implementations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

6/2009 - Present: Consulting as an independent contractor to local

electronic company STS - a local reliability testing house for

semiconductors and PCB boards. STS performs testing for medical device

companies using MD 13485 requirements

Zebra Technology Corporation, Camarillo, California

3/2007-5/2009

Supplier Development / Supplier Quality Engineer

Using 6-Sigma DMAIC's / ISO-9000 / MD13485 approaches to lean

manufacturing, and assured products meet company engineering,

quality and procurement requirements for the largest specialty label

printing company serving the automotive, pharmaceutical, postal,

medical, financial, retail distribution, warehousing, defense,

transportation and shipping industries with sales of more than $900

million. Inventory management of all obsolescence materials and

Conducted supplier on-site surveys to ensure supplier quality

systems are acceptable and meet company quality and functional

requirements based on DMAIC approaches.

Westcor, Division of Vicor, Sunnyvale, California 2005-2007

Supplier Quality/ components Engineer

Using 6-Sigma's DMAIC/ISO-9000, lean manufacturing approach,

qualified new sources for active and passive parts for a

manufacturer of power supplies with $80 million sales.

. Worked with Engineering and Material Planning group to qualify

active and passive components, while reducing product costs

. Completed RoHS requirements and obsolescence of all components

listed on all bills of material the analysis was performed on more

than 5,000 components.

. Researched and implemented change orders from Non- RoHs to RoHs

compliant parts and all obsolescence inventory..

Consultant, Santa Clara County, California 2002-2005

I worked for different companies included Harmonics Inc, ARTT. My

assignments included: Supplier Quality Engineering, Components

Engineering, and RoHS compliance assignments. The supplier quality

function included 6 Sigma - ISO-9000 compliance and practices.

IBM, San Jose California

2000-2002

Supplier Quality/Components Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

. Managed the entire Memory products (PCB Assemblies) using ISO-9000

approaches

. Tracked product delivery, cost, quality inventory turns, expense

budgets and engineering change as a single point of contact for

all technical and business issues with the internal/external

customers and suppliers

. Qualified and managed all Contract Manufacturers and component

suppliers for meeting the target delivery schedules to internal

and external customers. Coordinated activities with the Commodity

& Development Engineering teams on new products introduction and

new component/supplier qualifications. Managed and monitored the

NPI projects for Solectron, Singapore.

. Convened regular scheduled meetings with cross-functional teams in

order to get full buy-in on each project and management of any

outstanding issues.

. Salvaged $980K worth of excess Inventory after a rigorous 3 month

qualification cycle of obsolete stock.

. Reviewed all AGILE uploads and assisted in second source approval.

. Performed on-site audits to review supplier processes and executed

out of box audit according to company requirements.

. Streamlined Supplier management processes.

. Performed PCA's process compliance audits

. Reduced material cost by 25% in 1 year, resulting in savings of

$1.2 million.

. Spear headed 2 new customer qualifications (Diamond Multimedia and

Intel), successfully won business for our Head Stack Tester.

. Responsible for direct customer interface on understanding

business requirements and driving the schedules internally.

. Introduced EOL reviews on all material company wide and lined up

EOL buys for 2 critical components. Negotiated reduced costing on

buys saving company $800K. Provided material management support to

the Program Management and Commodity teams

. Managed out-sourced product builds at Sanmina and 3 sheet metal

shops. Worked with all sub-contractors to assure ISO quality

requirements were met. Supervised two 6-Sigma Programs

Note: This IBM job was eliminated due to sale of division to LSI Logic

Maxtor/Quantum/Conner San Jose California

1984-1999

Supplier Quality Engineer - Memory Products

JOB DESCRIPTION (15 years in a disk drive companies - due to mergers

I have consolidated three disk drive companies experience.

. Started as a components engineer but was promoted to the manager

components engineering - Build a component engineering department

- group of 5 components engineers were direct report to me.

Developed procedures for components engineering to meet ISO-9000

practice and requirements. This period was at early stage of ISO

procedures and practice, later coordinated generating my own

department procedures.

. Responsible to establish a Supplier engineering department that

focused on cost reduction and JIT availability of commodity

product.

. Managed an active supply chain of 150 suppliers covering all types

of components (passive, active, semi-custom & custom).

. Developed a new strategy to focus material bandwidth on key

suppliers. Implemented the "best 3" program to effectively control

the Supply Chain. The "best 3 "program resulted in saving of $3.6

million in the first year alone.

. Established a component qualification lab and reduced

qualification turns times down 400%.

. Managed program at 3 Far East manufacturing facilities and

conducted a number of surprise audits.

. Worked with Engineering to develop the semiconductor

specifications for ASICS and Memory devices.

. Performed hands-on EMC & Safety approvals at UL / CSA / VDE /FCC.

Performed BOM analysis for compliance requirements and replaced a

number of components to meet emissions specs.

. Responsible for Final qualification and Supplier management of all

memories and microprocessors.

. Effectively managed supply chain partners overseas (Mitsubishi,

Japan - Sanyo, Japan ). Performed process compliance audits

. Closely managed all semiconductor package & test qualifications at

ASE, Taiwan. Kept Management updated with daily / weekly reports

on yield, process audits and test results. Performed process

compliance audits

. Documented ISO-9002 procedures for the department.

. Generated departmental internal failure analysis procedures.

. NPI team leader to interface between Engineering and

Manufacturing.

. Improved existing RMA process to reduce turn around time and

closely monitor warranty coverage.

. Staff advisory role in the Process and Technology group.

. Responsible for Final qualification and Supplier management of all

memories and microprocessors.

. Conducted regular Supplier reviews based upon Cp / Cpk data to

ensure on-going reliability.

. Coordinated ISO audits and implemented any corrective actions

issues with the reliability or quality of the products.

. Worked closely with SCI, Singapore to monitor all contract

manufacturing services.

Tandem Computers, Cupertino California

1980-1984

Components Engineer

. Participated in implementation of "Best 3" practices to manage

Supply base, selection criteria was based on PPM and DPM analysis.

. Documented specifications for all semiconductor builds.

. Qualified components in the lab and generated qualification

reports based on developed test plan.

. Obtained product safety approvals from UL / CSA / VDE / FCC.

. Managed Tandem ASL (approved Supplier's List) for accurate lead

times & standard costs.

EDUCATION

California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California

BSEE Electrical

University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California

MBA program at University of Santa Clara - Completed 25 units

Other Courses:

Attended 6 Sigma certifications program - Completed 6 Sigma Green Belt

Project

Attended ISO classes administered by the company

Attended company internal management classes

Completed courses on SPC & on Integrated Circuits Fabrication

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