Charles Brunner

Responsible for line support, capacity expansion, NPI projects and value engineering for Intuitive's flagship product, Da Vinci Xi, and other Multiport systems.

Manage a team responsible for establishing supply chain capability, performing DFM activity with design engineering and suppliers, and part qualification. Establish the team as process experts in the areas of commodity responsibility.

Responsible for Supplier Engineering across the full life cycle of mechanical components for the System Business Unit. Managing cost reductions for sustaining product, NPI product launch, and development of novel fabrication methods in conjunction with the R&D team.

Lead team responsible for production ramp of system components for new Da Vinci systems. Team performs process selection and DFM evaluation and manages supplier quality during the NPI phase. This includes supporting technical challenges such as process and production capability during ramp-up. Also responsible for supporting new supplier on-boarding evaluation process, including business, quality system and capability evaluations.

Responsible for production ramp of system components for new Da Vinci systems. Manage supplier quality during the NPI phase, as well as supporting technical challenges including process and production capability during ramp-up. Also responsible for supporting new supplier on-boarding evaluation process, including business, quality system and capability evaluations.

Technical manager of subcontracted inertial measurement units. Managed obsolescence redesign to design out parts no longer in production. Redesign included qualification testing and analysis to perform requirement verification. Acted as requirement verification manager. Supervised concurrent manufacturing of heritage design during redesign effort. Managed transition to higher rate production of new design on the production line (NPI) after completion of design qualification. Generated recovery plan for several quality problems stemming from upstream supply chain requirement violations.

Technical manager of subcontract development of guidance hardware for a satellite program. Responsible complete product life cycle: design, manufacture, test and integration of analog sensors (magnetometer) into complete system solutions. Assumed role of project manager as well, including negotiating contract value (~$3 MM) and payment terms. Worked with downstream stakeholders to creatively mitigate delayed delivery of product due to incorrect PWBs being delivered by the supplier.

Technical manager of subcontract development of guidance hardware for a satellite program. Responsible complete product life cycle: design, manufacture, test and integration of analog sensors into complete system solutions. Supervised the following activities: manufacturing, quality, reliability and requirements verification. Focused on manufacturing and qualification testing. Used Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and EMI/EMC testing to qualify design for space applications.

Technical manager of subcontract development of guidance hardware for a satellite program. Responsible complete product life cycle: design, manufacture, test and integration of analog sensors into complete system solutions. Supervised the following activities: manufacturing, quality, reliability and requirements verification. Worked on efforts to improve producibility and quality within the production line to reduce costs and improve schedule.

Responsible for migrating support on software used for internal simluation of system performance and design aide. Languages supported were both C and matlab code in support of custom software architecture.

Developed scripts (PERL and unix) that ran scheduled verification tests on software builds, modifying the database environments and compiler builds between tests. Developed additional scripts that dynamically updated an internal webpage to link latest test results for each test with in the test matrix with an embedded test result summary.