DARYL MULLINS

Pleasanton, CA 94566

BSEE, MBA, PMP, CSM

Technical Project Manager - Development

darylmullins@comcast.net www.linkedin.com/in/darylmullins [M] 925.200.3059

Summary
Expert leader of 100+ complex high-tech development programs from idea through early production Completed 1 program of nine simultaneous development projects in 15 months with 32 people Upgraded project management methodology at Asyst. RESULT: Intel 2008 Supplier of the Year award Project management highlights: certified expertise in Agile Scrum, Lean, and PMI PMBOK. Risk Management experience in FMEA and FTA; deep know-how of Requirements Engineering; FDA Design Control Technical expertise in electromechanical systems, robotics, digital and analog electronics, medical devices, and software development management Strengths: Engineering Management created, led 2 design departments, 30+ people, 75+ microchip designs Technical personally designed, debugged, characterized 25 microchips; electrical engineering degree Communicator point-of-contact for 100+ customers; presenter to CEOs, VPs, project teams Judgment use amount of project management fitted to key project segments like cost, time, risk, etc. Extensible Experience recognition of patterns drawn from multiple industries

Experience
ABBOTT VASCULAR, INC. Medical Device Manufacturer, Santa Clara, CA Project Manager, R&D, reporting to Director Design for Excellence (DFX). 10/2010 5/2013 Abbott RIFed 650 staff in 2013

Managed development project of robotics-based, Automated machine-Vision Inspection System (AVIS) to inspect coronary stents production at FDA-regulated firm. Goal: defect-free stents using digital vision processing algorithms. Project metrics: $2.1 million, 13 months, 15 people, 1 European robotics vendor, 1 USA vision vendor. Set agendas, chaired AVIS Governance Board weekly meeting of five director-level stakeholders; recommended actions, published decisions. RESULT: online timely Board decisions and reasoning for AVIS team direction Authored procedure for writing, prioritizing AVIS equipment requirements. Abbott team used it to cite functions, performance, and priorities. RESULT: explicit specifications guiding suppliers and Abbott minimum questions Built MS Project Schedule and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) diagram with 44 deliverables requiring 250 tasks. RESULT: WBS of AVIS deliverables - no omissions; WBS was output of 3-days, 3-companies, 9-engineers meeting Quickly learned the technical steps of stent manufacturing, current-state stent inspection rules, FDA-driven testing to validate AVIS future-state stent inspection. RESULT: foundation for reviewing, understanding AVIS specifications. Scrum Master for DFX teams creation of 12 six-sigma training workshops (Project metrics: $500,000, 6 months, and 5 people). Chaired ~50 of these meeting types: sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. ASYST TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Semiconductor Capital Equipment Maker, Fremont, CA 11/2007 4/2009 Senior Manager, Program Management, reported to product line GM. Asyst filed bankruptcy April 2009 Led Asysts first new product development in three years. Project metrics: 25-people, 140 person-months robot development with 5 mechanical sub-assemblies, 8 PC Boards, and 25,000 lines of control/computation software. Created 110-days / 235-tasks schedule for eight cross functions. RESULT: Delivered 32 prototypes on time. Hired with recommendation of Intels Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement representative. Organized, facilitated 6 Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) meetings for robots core team. RESULT: Team found all failure modes before ten-week reliability testing. RESULT: No surprise failures found during testing. Created 10-page Software Development Procedure to eliminate ad hoc software methods, and to meet end-user requirements. RESULT: 15 software developments with no re-design iterations. Available for review

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To build a repeatable project work methodology, hired, directed summer interns creation of Product Life Cycle (PLC) Swim Lane diagram with 200 deliverables for five PLC Phases. RESULT: clear, documented development path for 8 cross-functions showing explicit roles/responsibilities. Available for review MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. IMAGING DIVISION Semiconductor Manufacturer, San Jose, CA Project Manager, New Product Development Directorate. 2006 2007

Led 30-people on cross-functional teams located in U.K. and USA on five sub-projects of Image Signal Processing (ISP) program. Division management approved program at Feasibility and Design stage-gates Compressed ISP chip design schedule from 12 to 10 months during week-long visit to U.K. site. Quickly learned U.K. teams assignments; collaborated with U.K. design manager to revise schedule, and obtain his agreement. Microns 35% year-to-year revenue decline in imagers caused project cancellation (EE Times 9/3/2007) MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR, WIRELESS DIVISION Fabless Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA Program Manager reporting to Engineering VP of 250-person engineering dept. 2005 2006

Drove closure of requirements for features/functions between marketing and engineering for six IC developments RESULT: all six products requirements resolved before starting any product development activity no time wasted Developed comprehensive capacity planning tool for VP and 15 user-managers of Wireless Division. This tool predicted resources availability for new projects. Gave user trainings and support. BENEFIT: predictable start dates ARROW ELECTRONICS, INC. LSI Logic Authorized IC Design Center, Santa Clara, CA Design Center Manager, Senior Field Applications Engineer. 2001 2004

Design Center Manager primary customer contact and project manager for each IC design. Led staff using LSI Logics Design Automation Tools and CMOS processes to design and release four ICs to production. Guided staff in technical issues, schedules, progress reporting, and risk avoidance methods Sr. Field Applications Engineer orally presented the technical portion of 33 RFQ responses supporting two sales engineers. RESULT: Completed 43 quotations for 33 customers in 15 months Prior Professional Experience ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (Sunnyvale, CA) Telecom Design Manager. Hired and led 7-person team that developed single-chip modem. Fastest chip to $1M revenue in AMD history. Next recruited and led 35 engineers for following generation modems all DSP-based. Represented AMD at ten global ITU modem standards meetings Education MBA, Idaho State University highest honors Beta Gamma Sigma, Pocatello, ID BSEE, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Regulatory Affairs Certificate, Medical Devices, 240 in-class hours, University of California Santa Cruz, Extension, Santa Clara, CA, 2010 Project Management Professional (PMP) (#282329), Project Management Institute, 2005 Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance, 2012 Six Sigma Green Belt, Villanova University, 2005 Lean Product Development Implementation, Technology Perspectives, 2012 U.S. Patent 4,922,492 Architecture & Device for testable mixed analog and digital VLSI circuits MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Outlook, UNIX, MS Office Suite

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