ALLEN R.

HOEM
317-674-6772 | allen.hoem@gmail.com | www.allenhoem.weebly.com

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROFICIENCIES
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SKILLS OVERVIEW

Technical and team leadership

Documentation for specifications and test plans

Lean Six Sigma

Production test hardware/software development

Workflow based resource coordination

Systematic problem solving and debug

Global program deployment and support

Process design and optimization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015

Software Partner and Project Manager, Roku Inc.

Austin, TX

Accountable for software deployment, milestone management, and issue support for new product manufacturing, component
and brand partners.

Lead in streamlining external and internal partner interaction (via JIRA) and redefining software development processes to scale
with company and multi-product growth.

Meets with partners worldwide throughout the development process to ensure they have data and support from Roku to
successfully create product; on time and with outstanding quality.

Deployed a new product JIRA workflow to streamline and reduce churn for multiple, daily firmware releases

2014

Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Austin, TX

Team leader and supervisor accountable for the end-to-end development and execution of a multi-million dollar
microprocessor manufacturing tester in the product pipeline.

Technical Lead and PM who defines, validates, and deploys manufacturing test infrastructure to China, Singapore and Malaysia
for next generation microprocessors. Accountability includes:
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distills customer and product requirements into a design specification

manages validation and integration milestones

coordinates global equipment capacity fulfillment and submits purchase orders based on demand and budget

meeting production ramp and sustainment KPIs such as Gage R&R and FTRd

Accountable for success of our manufacturing-equipment development processes, continuously optimizing, educating teams
and ensuring organizational adherence.

Co-developer and SME for an improved burn-in infrastructure design which increases development velocity and lowers material
costs by more than 50%; from $1.1M+ to $590K.
2007- 2014

Senior Product Development Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Austin, TX

Core designer, contributor, and mentor of a Ruby programming based tester control and validation architecture depended on
by local and global teams leading to a highly adopted, flexible test solution (2007 current).

Saved $750K in development and capital expenses by repurposing legacy testers as a focused test solution for 2014-2015
microprocessors.

Traveled worldwide to train manufacturing teams and drove workshops with Asia site engineers.

Drove a green belt charter to improve compliance of the equipment development milestones, ultimately leading to
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an iteratively redefined process that streamlines customer and service provider interaction
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aligns with the rapid development schedules

meets the quality definition set forth

Conjunctively applied voltage regulation subject matter expertise and Six Sigma principles to mitigate multiple unnecessary test
stopgap caused by misperceived tester variation, saving costly test time.

Pioneered the analysis framework and software toolkit to characterize and validate test system voltage regulators.

Addressed a PCBA functional test gap for voltage regulators by designing a CPU socket based voltage-controlled load
emulation board, capturing an additional ten percent of failing regulators and avoiding costly tester variation and downtime.

Generated a cost-to-coverage risk analysis for new test equipment options including procurement and labor costs ultimately
realizing a savings of $3M USD.

Provided an analysis of system capability for accelerated life testing of silicon leading the company to avoid purchasing over
$150K USD of new test technology to meet increasing product demand.
2005, 2006

Intern Engineer, Whirlpool Corp.

St. Joseph, MI

Given responsibility to create proof-of-concepts for the Dishwasher Test Lab and the Electronic Design and Controls
o Designed an autonomous water flow rate monitoring system using LabVIEW and variable voltage flow rate meters (2005).
Coordinated with the mechanical, user-interface, and firmware teams to design and integrate a variable frequency DC-AC
inverter for prototyping electroluminescent technology in appliances (2006).

EDUCATION AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

2007

AMD Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and charter execution

2011

AMD & Purdue University Recruitment Captain

AMD Technical Showcase Finalist

2009-2012
2014

PUBLICATIONS
Allen Hoem, (2011). Tools for SLT Voltage Regulator Development, Submitted for AMD Showcase,
November 10, 2011
Allen Hoem, SumeshKumar C.G., (2014), Reducing Burn-In Platform Development Overhead through
Design Generalizations, Finalist paper for AMD Showcase, October 2, 2014.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Software Development: Ruby, Sublime IDE, some VBA experience, firmware-to-software API debug, some front-end web
development
Hardware Development: Schematic entry with Allegro Cadence HDL 16.3, design with LDO and switching regulators, op-amps,
data converters and system monitors. Debug of computer architecture and system buses (I2C, JTAG 1149, clocks, among others)
Process Analysis: LSS, DMAIC, FMEA, FTRd, GageR&R, pareto, control charts, MiniTab statistical analysis.
Project Management: JIRA (& Agile tool), JIVE, Bugzilla, some Kanban, MS Project/Sharepoint/Office/Visio

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