Gary Scapellati

Background

About Gary Scapellati

Technical Program Manager with a proven engineering and product development history, leading cross functional teams executing Product Life Cycle processes: program inception/definition/requirements, product design and development, validation, customer qualification, and production release resulting in the successful product delivery to the enterprise and consumer markets/customers and financial KPIs to the business Skills and Career Highlights Technical - Hardware/FPGA logic design - Software experience: C, Perl, Java Script, HTML - Extensive experience with JIRA, Wiki, Slack, MS Teams, Polarion - Failure Analysis, Debug, FMEA, 8D - Trained in and executed Agile|SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) development process - Architected and developed IC design tools and FW development/simulation interface tools - IC and System Test and Validation Engineer - debug skills, log file failure data mining, root cause driven - Developed engineering work flow processes and procedures i.e. code check-in, defect resolution, code release and distribution - BS Electrical Engineering Program Management - Managed and coordinated multi-functional world-wide team including business, engineering (firmware and hardware), validation, manufacturing, materials, and customer qualification - Accountable for the program Product Life Cycle (PLC) process execution and improvements - Created financial analysis for program labor, materials, tooling costs, and product KPIs - Conducted risk analysis, quantification, and mitigation, features vs. schedule tradeoff analysis, and schedule recovery - Managed and coordinated factory resources and materials for HW product builds, reliability testing, yield enhancements, failure analysis, and hardware characterization - Coordinated reviews and execution of test and validation plans, defect resolution from all test groups (FW unit test, FWQA, customer system validation, and manufacturing)- Responsible for Executive Management reviews, planning, and communication Customer and Supplier Engagement - Led development of product qualification plans and program reviews with customers including Apple, IBM, Dell/EMC, HP, Cisco, NetApp, Tencent, Hitachi - Managed internal and customer design reviews with emphasis on FW functionality, product and system performance, power, recording sub-system functionality, and reliability metrics - Facilitated and drove engineering RFQ responses for new business opportunities leading to closing multiple large deals - Customer product requirements and feature definition - Reviewed supplier roadmaps and technical data