Vahid Vatannia

Responsible for Sales, Marketing, and Operations at Eugenus.

Designed and patented Next Generation Sequencing sensor using resonance tunneling technology and CMOS Semiconductor processes.

♦ Managed daily operations of a 100-staff facility supporting Life Science and Semiconductor customers. ♦ Developed new business accounts, and established business plans to improve customer loyalty, quality and profitability. ♦ Managed customer relationships, ensuring $70MM in annual revenue. ♦ Developed and implemented SOPs, driving build readiness with engineering and operations teams. ♦ Managed team performance within design engineering, business, planning, purchasing, facilities, IT, HR, finance, manufacturing and quality engineering. ♦ Engaged in capacity planning and oversaw several million dollars in factory equipment budgets and qualifications. ♦ Performed forecasting for financial analysis on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. ♦ Developed and implemented business/operations strategies, determined pricing structures for produced parts, quoted prices to clients, ensured continuous improvement initiatives, and set priorities for customer to provide outstanding service. ♦ Managed client accounts and ensured customer requirements were met. ♦ Quoted new projects and maximized sales opportunities. ♦ Reviewed business plans, manufacturing agreements and contracts. ♦ Influenced product design through manufacturability, testability and supply chain responsiveness to achieve low costs and maximum flexibility. ♦ Created/coordinated production schedules with supply chain operations staff.

♦ Managed operational due diligence for M&A activities, and supported Jabil sites worldwide, including the Americas, Asia and Europe, as required. ♦ Drove customer loyalty via net promoter score, and satisfaction programs as reported in the Quarterly Business Review globally. ♦ Managed projects and quality management systems for new sites. ♦ Developed training programs and materials for industrial engineers and manufacturing managers based on lean principles. ♦ Developed engineering best practices for BTO-CTO operations. ♦ Established low volume / high mix cookbook guidelines. ♦ Supported customers and products launches on a global basis using APQP methodologies. ♦ Performed Design for Manufacturing (DFM).

♦ Directed production, building maintenance and engineering (test, manufacturing and industrial) with a staff of 7 managers and 200 indirect reports. ♦ Doubled revenue to $1BN utilizing the same quantities of indirect labor and a small increase in direct labor.

♦ Expertly directed manufacturing engineering, IT, maintenance and facility management tasks as related to production. ♦ Led continuous improvement teams to increase yield from 50% to 85%. ♦ Reduced labor costs from 12% to 7.5%. ♦ Established design guidelines and equipment acceptance criteria. ♦ Implemented capabilities to support Design Validation (DV) and Process Validation (PV) pilot runs. ♦ Developed and maintained procedures as applied to manufacturing engineering in accordance with QS9000.

♦ Expertly reviewed capacity shortfalls, identifying funds to ensure business unit resources/capabilities were properly utilized. ♦ Forecast manufacturing facility and tool spending. ♦ Developed business cases for cost requests. ♦ Participated in design reviews. ♦ Championed the Visteon Production Development System (VPDS). ♦ Implemented manufacturing design rules and lean manufacturing processes. ♦ Directed a team of manufacturing engineers, production supervisors and maintenance technicians. ♦ Automated back-end of EEC line to reduce labor costs. ♦ Improved quality with zero ship-in errors. ♦ Designed and fabricated a vision system to eliminate the #1 DOA issue by detecting damaged and bent pins in EEC connectors, and automatically inserting a cover for protection.

♦ Delivered on-site equipment evaluation, testing and process development, setting up maintenance schedules and monitoring a spare parts inventory. ♦ Installed, debugged, qualified and supported automated vertical/horizontal furnaces. ♦ Established training modules for IBM staff. ♦ Repaired/troubleshot material handler controllers, robotics wafer transfer systems, DC motors, power supplies, driver circuits, digital process controllers, temperature and gas control electronics and vacuum systems.