Summary
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Selva Paramasivan

Fremont,CA

Summary

Product quality engineer with effective project management skills and hands-on manufacturing experience in high volume manufacturing environment, seeking full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing manufacturing experience, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

Work History

PRODUCT QUALITY ENGINEER

Juniper Networks
  • Project manage internal and external teams to resolve field quality issues with minimal or no revenue impact
  • Review Quality KPIs on a weekly / monthly basis for actionable improvements and drive them to closure
  • Early engagement in prototype phase to identify and resolve issues from NUDs (New, Unique & Different)
  • Audit manufacturing partner sites on a yearly basis for compliance with quality plan and to maintain relationships
  • Analyze yield issues through DMAIC process and ensure corrective actions are implemented & verified
  • Improved component traceability in products from ~90% to >95% by working with CMs and suppliers
  • Drove test cycle time reductions by 50% without any impact to quality yields by analyzing test data & FA reports
  • Enhanced cosmetic specifications and quality audits to reduce return rate from Japanese customers by half
  • Project managed cross functional team in Juniper to root cause field thermal events and drove design improvements reducing field thermal events by >50%
  • Skill development in recent years: Trained as Product Lifecycle Program Manager for a year in Juniper Trained as Manufacturing Program Manager for 6 months in Juniper

PRODUCT SPECIALIST

Indium Corp.
  • Provided technical support to customers in CA, NV, WA and OR resolve quality issues.
  • Worked with customers to understand requirements and provide technically feasible and cost-effective solution.
  • Supported market segments – Automotive, Aerospace, Networking and Consumer.

NPI ENGINEERING MANAGER

Flex
  • Provided quote & transformation strategy for new customers trying to source at Flex, Milpitas.
  • Performed capacity analysis for new products & executed exit strategy for mature products to high volume facilities.
  • Led several FA efforts with suppliers & FMEA with internal teams to resolve issues seen in field returned products.
  • Special projects – Project manage production floor moves / re-layout with zero impact to customers.

PRODUCT MANAGER

Smart Modular (Solectron)
  • Launched surface mountable Bluetooth modules for key OEMs including Apple & HP.
  • Drove project team to develop a mass production ready solution for USB Dongle in less than a year.
  • Managed offshore software development team to manage costs with existing budget.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Solectron
  • Setup SMT & Chassis assembly process for “Build to Stock” & “Configured” products for several major customers.
  • Managed transition of new products from Prototype to Production with yields exceeding quality targets.
  • Led a bi-weekly site-engineering meeting for >2 years to keep engineers abreast of the latest industry developments.
  • Developed an e-purge system to complete the quality purge process and report findings in 24 hours.
  • Cycle time reduction by panelizing PCBs resulting in >$100K annual savings.
  • Completed process qualification, converting 50+ products from “Leaded” to “Lead-Free” with no impact to throughput.
  • Performed evaluation and selected Bell core compliant Solder paste & Wave Flux to match customer requirements.

Education

MBA - Networking And Communications

California State University - East Bay
Hayward, CA
06.2001

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY
06.1997

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

University Of Madras
Chennai, India
06.1995

Skills

  • Failure mode effects analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Failure Investigation and Analysis
  • Engineering Change Management
  • Project Management
  • Electronics Manufacturing
  • Quality Management Systems
  • Quality Risk Assessment

References

Available upon request.

Training

  • FA tools – FTIR, TDR, SEM, Ion Chromatography, ERSA Scope, DAGE and Cross-section techniques.
  • ASQ Green Belt in Six Sigma & Green Belt in Lean Manufacturing.

Timeline

PRODUCT QUALITY ENGINEER

Juniper Networks

PRODUCT SPECIALIST

Indium Corp.

NPI ENGINEERING MANAGER

Flex

PRODUCT MANAGER

Smart Modular (Solectron)

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Solectron

MBA - Networking And Communications

California State University - East Bay

Master of Science - Industrial Engineering

Binghamton University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

University Of Madras
Selva Paramasivan