Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · 11 mos

• Products: Edge and Aggregation Routers
• New Product Introduction:
• Delivered multiple New Products launches in parallel, from the concept phase to release, meeting committed cost, quality and delivery at launch.
• Defining the new product requirements, manufacturing six sigma quality goal, customer reliability metrics, product qualification plan, new supplier on-boarding & qualification and new manufacturing process with design engineering and Contract manufacturing.
• PCBA design, stack up and DFM review of 25+ layered boards.
• Prototype BOM review, management and transfer from new product to mass production on Agile.
• Manufacturing test plan development, support prototype testing and troubleshooting the failures to drive 8D and ensure six sigma goal is met before mass production.
• Ideation of cost avoidance opportunities leading to 10% reduction in overall COGS of the product at launch.
• Identification of alternate vendors, resulting in cost advantage of 5% and reducing the end-to-end supply chain risk.
• Product Lifecycle Management:
• Sustenance product ownership of multiple product portfolio with $1B yearly revenue.
• Consistently meet the Six-Sigma quality yield during production by defect analysis and implementing continuous process improvement.
• Regular tracking of Reliability ratios, MTBF, Annualized failure rates, DOA, DOS and Immediate returns, to proactively engage with component, design, and manufacturing team to resolve any spike in the failures.
• Process and Product Initiatives:
• Global Chip shortages: Mitigate shortages by alternate design solutions, new supplier on boarding and site balancing to reduce extended customer delivery lead times from 10-12 weeks to 4-5 weeks.
• Change Management: Lead change management process optimization(PCN, ECO,EOL) to achieve quicker implementation of change at vendor site and Contract Manufacture sites to deliver better quality and reduce scrap cost of over $500K.

Jul 2015 – May 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos