Alon Yaniv

Experience

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  Ziv av engineering

  Jan 2007 - May 2011

  Team Leader Mechanical Design

  •Designed and build an economic PV tracker resulting in a 35% cost reduction on tracker cost.•Designed a XYZ switch board robot, with high precision for Fiberzone networks.•Designed and led an innovative water filtration system for Amiad Water Systems.•Designed an innovative loading drawer for the HP-indigo printing machines.•Plasan Sasa -Led the company's MRAP (Mine Resistant Armor Protected) project to production in the USA. •Plasan Sasa – “Sand-Cat” Armored Vehicle, led the computerized modeling of prototype based on Plasan armoring elements in compliance with Israel Police requirements. Show less

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  Strauss Water Ltd. שטראוס מים

  May 2011 - Mar 2015

  Project manager,Product Engineer Leader, NPI

  • Responsible for the "Stand Alone" products in the company -marketed in China• Led successful NPI in the company's OEM factories• Designed/implemented solutions in the production and preproduction line resulting in a 40% reduction in faulty material entering the production line and a 15% reduction in the time to build. • Designed a new spout for the T7 machine resulting in a complete remedy for the epidemic drip issue.• Managed a project of malfunction burn out of a heating element from a 40% malfunction rate to a 0.01% malfunction rate.• Led 9 packaging projects resulting in a 50% cost reduction, green recyclable packaging and brought it to uphold international transportation standards.• Led a consumable packaging project that had a 95% failure rate to a100% success rate. • Had full responsibility for planning and managing the timeline of all projects• Led an alternative supplier project resulting in a yearly 3M$ cost reduction. Show less

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  Medtronic

  Mar 2015 - now

  • Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team.• Manage and trained a dedicated skillful team of Advanced Manufacturing Engineers, mechanical engineers to projects completion• Manages the development and implementation process of a company's products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products.• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.• Mass production scale up experience - focusing on yield and performance improvement• Leading a cross functional team – (marketing, quality ,RA, Corporate engineering, operations, R&D, logistics, Contract Manufacturing (CMs), Supply chain & Planning)• Working within workplans with transparency to site management levels • Challenge people and methods commonly used to reduce CDPs/ECOs – over ~2000 project hours reduced this year. Show less

  • Research and Development Program Manager

    Jan 2020 - now

  • NPI Manager

    Jun 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2017