Irma Santos, CSSBB

Experience

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  PerkinElmer Optoelectronics

  Jul 2000 - Aug 2006

  Primarily responsible for the design and implementation of PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Philippines’ Reliability Program. The responsibility includes capability enhancement and maintenance of reliability testing of devices for both useful life monitoring (Reliability Monitor Program) and qualification (Qualification Test Plan) purposes.Primarily responsible for the analysis of defects encountered at the manufacturing floor as well as the customer facility. Enable release of completely reviewed failure analysis reports to the external customer in 72 hours and to internal customers in 7 days.Closely supervise direct reports: one Junior Engineer and one Inspector Show less Integral member of the Continuous Improvement team that is primarily responsible for the Cost of Quality reduction of PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Philippines from 7% of Year 2001 to 4.5% of December 2002. Spearheads major and minor yield improvement projects. Identifies critical stations where Six Sigma Methodology should be applied for continuous improvement (on quality and productivity). Assigns high-potential project leaders to key projects.Primarily responsible for the monitoring, successful closure and continuous implementation of key Six Sigma Green Belt and Small Group Activity projects. Responsible for mentoring Green Belts and Yellow Belts in Six Sigma tools and experimentation. Also responsible for the continuous monitoring and regular review of project progress, including that of SGA’s (Small Group Activity).Primarily responsible for the training of all PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Philippines employees in the knowledge and actual use of Six Sigma tools. Responsible for designing and drafting of Six Sigma training modules to be used in training all PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Philippines employees. Show less Primarily responsible for the Modules product group yield improvement from 98.4% of Year 2000 to 99.4% of Year 2001. Spearheads major and minor yield improvement projects for the Modules product group. Identifies critical stations where statistical process control and/or Six Sigma Methodology should be applied to improve the yield.Performs critical experiments on process improvement, process simplification, material qualification, machine qualification, Cost Of Quality reduction and cycle time reduction. Responsible for the technical training of operators and techniciansResponsible for the conceptualization of new testers and fixtures.Responsible for the documentation of assembly instructions, technical reports of all experiments performed, standard operating procedures, visual aides, special instructions and the like Show less

  • Senior Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineer

    Feb 2004 - Aug 2006

  • Six Sigma Engineer

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  • Process Engineer

    Jul 2000 - Dec 2001
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  Littelfuse

  Oct 2006 - now

  Responsible for the transfer, set-up, start-up and management of the Philippines Product Evaluation Laboratory of Littelfuse Philippines Inc. which includes product analysis, reliability, electrical, mechanical, environmental and applications tests of overcurrent and overvoltage circuit protection devices.Manages a Global Laboratory with customers from 9 Littelfuse Inc. global locations (Chicago, Lake Mills, Boston (USA); Piedras Negras (Mexico); Bremen (Germany), Suzhou, Wuxi (China); Yokohama (Japan); Lipa (Philippines)) serving all 3 business units within Littelfuse, Inc. (Electronics, Automotive and Industrial).Manages 5 Engineers, 14 Technicians within a laboratory operating on a $1M annual budget and working on 6,000 square feet of floor space completely filled with laboratory equipmentAchieved 99.5% on-time delivery of test results based on customer-request date Show less

  • Global Senior Manager - EBU Laboratories

    Jul 2016 - now

  • Philippines Product Evaluation Laboratory Manager

    Jan 2008 - Jun 2016

  • Senior Product Engineer

    Oct 2006 - Dec 2007