Harvinder Kang
Director, Product And Test Engineering
Milpitas,CA
Summary
Transformational leader with 15+ years of Product, Test and manufacturing engineering experience in Data center platform Products.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director, Product and Test Engineering
Western Digital
11.2023 - Current
- Developed high-performing Multi-geo teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Responsible for mfg. infrastructure development and maintainence in US and offshore factories.
- Work with Firmware, System, HDD, System engineering teams to create optimized solutions for manufacturing.
- Improves project efficiency with strategic planning, resource allocation, and time management practices.
- Ownership of RMA and manufacturing failure analysis at system and component levels.
- Ownership of factory capacity planning.
Sr. Manager, Product and Test Engineering
Western Digital
10.2020 - 10.2023
- Leading global multidisciplinary Product, Test and manufacturing engineering team, responsible for providing industry leading cost effective test solutions for NAND, HDD and platform products
- Charter of the team is to provide leadership in Quality, Yields, cost and Cycle Time across all stages of manufacturing at SMT and system level test
- New factory setup - created end-end floor layout, process development and qualification from SMT to packaging.
- Responsible for Industrial engineering (Capacity planning and implementation)
- Team supports Product development from New product Introduction (NPI) phase to EOL
- Ownership of performing RMA and Mfg Failure Analysis (FA).
Manager, Product Development Engineering
SanDisk
12.2014 - 11.2020
- Manage team of product engineers supporting enterprise storage solutions
- Review customer requirements and determine test strategies to meet these
- Define Road-maps and schedules and manage development activities
- Drive for quality, Yield improvement & Test Time reduction to meet quarterly goals
- Define test strategy for high volume SSD product manufacturing with effective cost scaling
- Responsible for tester development for enterprise products.
- Leading Product and Test Engineering team for Data center platforms operations group throughout product Lifecycle
- Performing DFT and FMEA studies
- Development and release of PCBA and system level Testing methodologies - ICT/Flying probe or functional
- Scaling/Ramp - Failure analysis and Yield improvement and test time reduction efforts
- Sustaining - Oversee change in design, RMA process setup
- EOL operations.
Systems Product Development Engineer - II
SanDisk
04.2011 - 12.2014
- Responsible for bring up of Client and enterprise storage SSDs (SATA, SAS) infrastructure from scratch at new factory in China.
- Managed multiple products at a time (in development and sustaining mode) without any quality incident
- Reduced test time of SSD with innovative approach
- Received corporate award for project
- Indirect managing (dotted line) MFG and product teams overseas
- Successfully released multiple SSD generations (NAND or controller technologies) to production
- Increase efficiency in MFG processes to automate FA, binning, etc
- Drive for significant increase in product yield for enterprise SAS product.
Systems Product development Engineer - I
SanDisk
09.2010 - 04.2011
- Responsible for embedded SSD (SATA protocol) development & root cause failure analysis of new products
- Performed failure analysis on customer returns and provided solutions to screen failures to improve customer quality
- Responsible for yield and test time improvements.
Systems design engineer
Netmax Technologies
01.2006 - 12.2007
- Designed projects using ORCAD software performing simulation with P-Spice
- Designed multilayer PCB and troubleshooting various circuits with ADC & amplifier IC's
- Making schematic in capture & routing of board using layout plus, component placing and testing
- Designed and tested various low power supply circuits varying from unregulated to SMPS, converters
- Documentation of various projects including test cases, progress reports, etc using office tools such as Word, excel,etc.
Education
Executive Education - Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA 05.2024 -
Executive Education - Corporate Management
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA 07.2022 - 05.2022
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering (VLSI)
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 05.2008 - 05.2010
Bachelors - Electronics & Communications
Guru Nanak Dev University
01.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Strategic Planning
Global Operations
Organizational Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Accomplishments
- Lead Product, Software and Manufacturing teams that ramped production by 12x in 2 years.
- Efficiency and Optimization - Developed vertically integrated mfg. data driven application for single screen visibility of SMT to RMA data.
- Reduced mfg. test time by 35% on platform products.
- Developed AI driven application to support field teams with real time mfg. data and product specs.
- Coach and leader: Recruits and train talent with >95% retention rate post COVID. Create cohesive and feedback enrich environment for teams to pro-actively contribute and thrive.
- Cost effective innovation : Developed numerous applications to assist mfg. operations (in CMs and captive factories). In-house tester development.
Awards
- Corporate award for test cost reduction
- Corporate award for role in new company acquisition
Timeline
Executive Education - Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
05.2024 -
Director, Product and Test Engineering
Western Digital
11.2023 - Current
Executive Education - Corporate Management
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
07.2022 - 05.2022
Sr. Manager, Product and Test Engineering
Western Digital
10.2020 - 10.2023
Manager, Product Development Engineering
SanDisk
12.2014 - 11.2020
Systems Product Development Engineer - II
SanDisk
04.2011 - 12.2014
Systems Product development Engineer - I
SanDisk
09.2010 - 04.2011
Master of Science - Electrical Engineering (VLSI)
San Jose State University
05.2008 - 05.2010
Systems design engineer
Netmax Technologies
01.2006 - 12.2007
Bachelors - Electronics & Communications
Guru Nanak Dev University
01.2003 - 05.2007
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