I am seeking a position as Manufacturing, Production or Operations Manager or Supervisor
AL SABRI
561 Los Palmos Drive
San Francisco, CA, 94127
415 452 6548 (home)
415 336 1254 (cell)
alsabri@aol.com
PERSONAL SUMMARY
Self-motivated, driven by new challenges and responsibilities, with years of experience in all production and operation tasks required
to manufacture electronics products, including production planning and scheduling, actualizing product from design to
manufacturing, interacting with vendors, customer presentation, assembly and board testing, final system testing, cost reduction,
product maintenance and customer support
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Operations/Manufacturing Manager
Procurement / Materials
Manufacturing / Test Engineer
Cost Reduction Initiative Specialist
Prototype New Product Manager
Documentation Design and Maintenance
Integration Acquired Product Manager
Vendor / Customer Interaction
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Operations Manager Catalyst Enterprises, Inc. 11/2004 - 06/2005
Bus-specific Instrumentation Design
-Managed operations, goal planning and implementation, developed team objectives, procedures, and processes for effective work
flow, implemented and enforced company policies and procedures.
-Responsible for operation of instrument test units based on Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), PCI Express, Universal
Serial Bus (USB), PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect), and PCI-X
-Coordinated closely with engineering and scheduling departments to ensure that proper engineering configuration documentation
accompanied product when released from engineering to production
-Coordinated introduction of new products into manufacturing to ensure successful on-time delivery
-Inspected, evaluated, and negotiated with vendors, fab houses and assembly houses for expedient product delivery
-Generated daily production plan, assigned tasks to test engineers, and monitored daily production activities
-Interviewed and hired staff for production department
Manufacturing Manager, CoSystems, Inc., 12/1994 - 09/2004
Networking and Communication Design
-Responsible for all production and operation tasks required to manufacture component communications boards, (16-port T1/E1
cPCI, MSP700 VOIP Media Getaway/Class5 Switch), including production planning, and scheduling, interacting with vendors,
customer presentation, board and assembly testing, final testing, yield monitoring, product maintenance and customer support
-Interfaced with engineering, sales, and marketing to determine product requirements and define products
-Consulted with designers regarding new products, providing them with all pertinent data such as selection of components and
vendors, identification of obsolete parts, long lead items, second source, and cost comparisons
-Coordinated introduction of new products into manufacturing to ensure successful, on-time delivery
-Integrated acquired networking company into our manufacturing process, interpreting and analyzing the accompanying transferred
documentation, making necessary changes to improve design and reliability, and to decrease costs
-Established on-going interface process with design engineers, testing and quality/reliability groups, to improve product performance
and resolve product related issues
-Responsible for an effective manufacturing engineering function to maintain and improve manufacturing tools, equipment, and
facilities, to ensure efficient operation of the plant via understanding of product development process, testing, sales, service and
support
-Organized all manufacturing related documents, tools, and test equipment
-Provided customized product development, manufacturing, testing, service, and product support
-Managed multiple projects under dynamic conditions
-Coordinated closely with engineering and scheduling departments to ensure that proper engineering configuration documentation
accompanied manufactured product released from engineering to production
-Transitioning of products from R&D to manufacturing, generating part numbers, BOM's, ECR's and ECO's and passing products
through FCC and UL testing
-Developed common manufacturing tests and solutions supporting growth over a variety of product families
-Inspected, evaluated, and negotiated with distributors and vendors, fab houses and assembly houses, ensuring their compliance
with Standardized Supplier Quality Assessment (SSQA)
-Maintained broad, in-depth knowledge of manufacturing methods, production planning, purchasing, materiel control, quality control,
and manufacturing engineering
-Implemented design changes for improving efficiency and lowering costs
-Provided solutions for reported problems to ensure customer satisfaction
-Purchasing of components and inventory management using (PC-based) MRP system and establishing costing and pricing strategies
-Lowered the cost of building products by lowering component costs, using JIT principles to reduce inventory build-up
-Contacted major suppliers for custom made parts
-Improved processes and implemented corrective and preventative actions through root cause analysis
-Managed purchasing for low cost, high quality, and for inventory maintenance
-On-going contact with vendors regarding fabrication and workmanship, assuring quality and cost efficiency
-Interviewed and hired support personnel in manufacturing department
-Stayed constantly current with search for newest data necessary to make decisions enabling us to provide CoSystems products with
better quality and reliability, most efficient manufacturability and lower cost
-Solved the daily problems of the manufacturing and production department in a efficient and timely manner
Manufacturing Engineer, Resonex, Inc. 1989-1993
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scanner
-Responsible for digital/analog front-end data acquisition and HP host computer sections in manufacturing
-Responsible for introducing new products from R&D to manufacturing, reviewing designs of manufacturability, providing problem
solving support to development engineers and software engineers
-Transitioned new products into manufacturing, and maintained manufacturing documentation and BOM
-Evaluated and implemented new board designs, ran diagnostic tests, collected data and compared test results to specifications
-Worked on prototype design and implemented design changes for testability
-Designed test fixtures for boards, generated test procedures and performed reliability assessments
-Generated and implemented test procedures for troubleshooting printed circuit boards and sub-systems
-Responsible for maintenance and continuous improvement of production procedures and test equipment
-Modified boards to eliminate cross talk and to solve timing problems
-Trained new technicians, provided sustaining support to production and assembly technicians
-Debugging and troubleshooting of motion couch electronics chassis system using servo motors
-Developed rework instructions, assembly guides, procedures, illustrations and modifications for digital and analog boards used in
front end electronic chassis and motion couch electronic chassis
-Generated and updated wiring diagrams of new and existing cables
-Programmed and generated test procedures using a cable tester connected serially with a PC to test production cables prior to
installation
-Evaluated new devices and located second source components
Development Engineer, R&D, Acurex, Inc., 1986-1987
IBM PC-Based Industrial Process Control and Measurement System
-Designed tests for engineering models of the circuit boards to ensure operation to specifications
-Participated in the development phase of designing new products
-Assisted in the debug of the engineering model and pre-production models of the entire system
-Suggested design changes to improve product quality and reliability
-Wrote GO/NOGO test procedures for all the subsystems to test hardware and software of digital/analog circuits
-Designed test fixtures and performed reliability tests for purchased items
-Interfaced with vendors and in-house engineers to coordinate new products
-Assisted software engineers in supporting new product introductions to manufacturing
-Designed and directed environmental tests of a system made of a work station, distributed control modules, and remote I/O
modules, successfully modifying the system to pass temperature, humidity, and vibration tests
Test Engineer, R&D, Nicolet-Paratronics, Inc., 1982 -1986
Product: High Speed Logic Analyzer
-Assisted in development of three models
-Coordinated the introduction of new products from engineering to production
-Designed board level to system level test procedures, incoming test inspection procedures, and initial troubleshooting guide
procedures
-Designed and documented test fixtures, implemented in-house test equipment and procedures, developed basic tools for production
-Evaluated new product design, integrated new products into production, generated ECO's
-Provided technical support to manufacturing and to customer specifications
-Traveled to customer site to resolve problems
-Evaluated reliability testing of new and existing products in manufacturing, analyzed field failures, and modified test procedures to
measure results in yield, quality, and cost reduction.
-Reviewed and approved all test procedures
Test Engineer, Manufacturing, Adac Laboratories, 1979-1982
Nuclear Medicine Diagnostic System
-Developed manufacturing troubleshooting tests from board level to system level on digital/analog radiographic systems
-Designed test fixtures for ATE and implemented design changes and system modifications
-Supported new products into manufacturing
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering,(BSEE) 1979, Heald Engineering College, SF, CA
Graduate Courses in Physics and Management, 1976, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
Bachelor of Science, Physics and Mathematics, (BS) 1975, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan,
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Expertise with MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Outlook, CAD, MRP
References Furnished Upon Request
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