Tech

Consultant

Skilled in managing entire project lifecycle and driving teams to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. Engages clients to identify, design, and implement creative solutions. Adept at negotiating with vendors and suppliers and talent for developing policies and procedures regarding product design, regulatory compliance, and governance. Continuously improve processes to increase efficiencies and reduce cost. Effectively train and manage teams to deliver projects on-time and on-budget. Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate risk and build consensus on new technological approaches. Areas of expertise include:
•	Opto-Mechanical Design
•	Team Building & Leadership
•	Budgeting & Cost Control
•	Project Planning & Resource Allocation
•	Client & Vendor Relationships
•	Tool Qualification & Tooling PLM
•	MCAD, DFMEA, PFMEA, SPC, TA	
•	CMOS & CCD sensor Experience
•	Strategic Planning & Execution
•	Staff Training & Development
•	Mechanical Design & Engineering
•	Product Research & Development 
•	Consumer Electronics & Payment Terminals
•	Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement


Completed technical design reviews on business to business and consumer electronic devices, providing feedback on design improvements for Dfx issues, Cost reduction, Manufacturability and Competitive Product Analysis.
Suggested alternative technologies and vendor supply chain including alterative contract manufactures to drive cost reduction up to 50% on Bill of Material and Manufacturing conversion costs.


Oversaw product lifecycles for 20 new products as strategic leader of payment terminal portfolio.
Managed all aspects of product development as liaison and cross-functional team leader focused on identifying and covering gaps between engineering teams, suppliers, supply chains, and contract manufacturing. Oversaw alignment of core product designs with customer feedback, user experience, and market research. Led NPI builds and HW designs through all stages of maturity, and development of new product candidates to create unique security solutions.
•	Drove successful launch of 20 new terminal products over four years, resulting in a 20% higher gross margin and recurring software revenue.
•	Effectively managed 52 NPI builds over 12 months for 10 new HW designs, delivering on time and under budget results for 95%+ of projects.
•	Successfully reduced costs by an average of 20% through design innovation and systematic security and design technology improvements.
•	Spearheaded fastest development in company history delivering EVT1 in less than eight weeks: parts delivered from new prototype tooling within 14 days after data was released and product delivered to market within 8 months.


Head of NPI Engineering

Managed mechanical design teams and six global product development centres to deliver 50 products to market.
Led 60-member team, spanning seven different functions across six global locations for Hardware and Process Development, Tooling, Configuration Management, and Prototyping. Negotiated global budgets, reduced costs, improved processes, and defined global tools/systems as strategic planner. 
Developed KPIs, program governance, and risk mitigation strategies. Managed vendor relationships and negotiations, created mechanical engineering processes, defined component qualification processes, and represented Mechanical Engineering at business reviews. 
•	Effectively reduced global field failure rate from 28% per year to less than 5% per year.
•	Successfully defined mechanical and hardware engineering processes, training staff across six global Research and Development locations. 
•	Consistently reduced global budgets by 10% through negotiations and technical analysis.
•	Realized 60% discounts on future software purchases and renewed $500k in vendor software service agreements.


Director Mechanical Engineering

Successfully defined new technology and led mechanical design teams for Nokia Input Platform.  
Recruited design team in and delivered most successful CDMA protocol phone Nokia ever made selling 24M units.
•	Fully trained mechanical design team on CATIA 3D CAD modelling system of Nokia 6275 in 4 mos. 
•	7 Years experience in Opto-Mechanical design as part of Nokia’s Imaging Business unit designing camera systems with Kodak & Konica CCD and CMOS image sensors and Carl Ziess optical assemblies.
•	Defined and implemented variants of existing product designs within development lifecycle of six mos. for key customers.
•	Collaborated with cross-functional team in defining new UI interfaces in with concept roadmaps, marketing, UI and SW teams.  
•	Developed generic test platform for early assessment of product ergonomics/UI that became foundation for input procedure in 10 projects.
•	Delivered new mechanical technologies and internal battery strategy with Nokia Research Group.


Mechanical Platform Lead

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Ian Lewis: Consultant in Morgan Hill, CA

Ian Lewis

Lewis Consulting Services

Verifone Inc.

Blackberry

Nokia Mobile Phones

Manchester Metropolitan University

Teesside University