Steve A.

Jones
5131 Bloomington Avenue South - Minneapolis, MN 55417-1849
sjcb3682@westpost.net
952 / 715 - 7215
CAREER SUMMARY:
Engineering manager, team leader and program manager of product and component de
velopment. Adept at increasing customer satisfaction and reducing time to marke
t delays through improved customer technical interface. Proven track record of
improving development processes and systems to reduce development time and impro
ve customer new product acceptance.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
MTS Systems Inc.
Eden Prairie, MN
2008 - 2010
Senior Project Engineer - Project Engineer leading cross-functional teams in the
design build and ship of custom Friction Stir Weld (FSW) Equipment to worldwide
customers. Served as the overall project manager responsible for all project p
erformance including cost, technical performance schedule and customer satisfact
ion.
Managed ten custom engineering projects totaling greater than $11M in sales.
Championed 1.5 year ITAR controlled FSW retrofit project approximately 80% compl
ete.
Received excellent and appreciative customer feedback for communication, perform
ance and results.
Initiated and led weekly customer conference and webex calls with various custom
er stakeholders, MTS vendors and customer vendors.
Designed, built and installed improved sensor fixtures on site to keep project o
n schedule.
Led a $2.2M Japan project and increased the FSW content in high-speed rail train
s.
Coordinated design changes with another vendor while reducing costs and realloca
ting resources.
Learned MTS, SAP queries for cost and scope creep control to keep within 5% of s
old margin on existing inherited and difficult custom projects.

Boston Scientific, Inc.

Maple Grove, MN
2007
Principal Equipment Engineer -- Project leader and representative into extrusion
, balloons and drug eluting stents operations groups.
Created cost versus risk analysis for replacement of temperature and pressure PL
C controls, and saved greater than $10,000 in capital expenditures.
Brainstormed solutions steering operations team away from expensive, complex sof
tware driven machine solution to a simplified, inexpensive, quickly implemented
lean flow solution.
Wrote and executed equipment acceptance testing protocol of confidential tube te
ster; identified several missed specifications preventing additional delay to im
plementation.
Prioritized and coordinated mechanical and vision designers to expedite design,
build, installation and qualification of video microscope alignment system reduc
ing yield loss by 50%.
Created quotes for alternative designs of dual purpose camera - inspection and 2
D barcode reader - reduced capital costs from $100,000 to $47,000.
Coordinated and prioritized backlog of greater than fifty equipment work request
s into top three projects; improved utilization of resources and customer satisf
action.
Identified 208% overspent service purchase order, negotiated resolution with bud
get owning department and vendor, saved more than $15,000.
HEI, Inc.
Victoria, MN
2006
Manager of Project Managers -- Managed seven microelectronic engineers responsib
le for the product design and technical customer interface including Class III i
mplantable components.
Designed alternative solutions to trace and overcoat cracking of flexible PCB op
timizing improved printing tolerances reducing yield loss to near zero.
Created strategy for internal and external, rigid, flexible and hybrid circuit b
oard suppliers to successfully meet supply, technical and relationship challenge
s.
Designed and developed x-ray process to inspect continuity of copper filled vias
on high frequency telecommunications products. Improved lot acceptance to 100%
.
Improved development processes to meet ISO13485 requirements for implantable med
ical devices.
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY
Bloomington, MN
1984 - 2004
Program Manager -- Program manager and team co-leader coordinating R&D plans of
recording subsystem.
Challenged and motivated subsystem component developers to build earliest ever p
re-production disc drive, pulling in implementation of new technology one produc
t cycle.
Completed Design for Six Sigma training and Executed Design of Experiments, incl
uding the build of, test of, head, media, preamp and channels in disc drives val
idating micro magnetic-model for future designs.
Created development processes to connect five separate development organizations
at five different locations into 25+ member subsystem team improving technology
planning.
R&D Business Planner -- Staff business planner for VP of Recording Head R&D resp
onsible for capital forecasting and leadership training.
Eliminated duplication of forecasts, linked capital, technology and product plan
s, and reduced approvals,
cutting time necessary to forecast capital, by greater than 50%.
Reduced one year forecast to actual delta by 100% over a two-year period.
Created and implemented two-day management leadership training for 98% of RHO ma
nagement as Chair of Leadership Training Committee meeting leadership improvemen
t goals. Facilitated five seminars.
Core Team Leader -- Managed four to six head Program mangers to meet product dev
elopment and qualifications goals.
Improved product qualification by creating core team organization.
Core team model implemented throughout corporation significantly reducing develo
pment time and improving disc drive reliability.
Reduced product development costs through earlier transfer of pre-production and
qualification to offshore, lower cost, pre-production facilities.
Improved international pre-production transfers by pulling in offshore team memb
ers earlier into development process.
Improved executive communication with daily, multi-product status presentations.
Manager of Technical Program Management -- Managed four to six program managers
to 100% successfully complete all component qualifications and off shore product
ion transfers.
Recruited and promoted internal and external candidates, improved program manage
ment team to an effective team sought after for other positions in engineering m
anagement.
Technical Program Manager - Program Manager / Team Leader of Head Gimbal Assembl
y R&D for enterprise
disc drive products.
100% successfully led development and Head Gimbal Assembly qualification into dr
ive products.
Presented daily program status to internal executives and customers executives.
Created business processes to achieve and maintain ISO 9001 certification.
Applications Engineer -- OEM Thin Film Heads
Industrial Engineer/Manufacturing Engineer
Received President's Award for effort necessary to introduce new OEM products in
to production.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, IA

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Business Process Modeling
Reliability Assurance in Medical Electronics
Design for Six Sigma Training
Creating Value through Financial Management
Reducing Product Development Time
Transactional Six Sigma Green Belt Training
K-T Problem Solving and Decision Making
Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control
Franklin Covey 7 Habits
Compliant & Effective Quality Process Using ISO 13485