Imad Richani, Staff Product Engineer

Imad Richani

Staff Product Engineer

Qualcomm

Location
United States - California
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
21 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 7 Months

Staff Product Engineer at Qualcomm
  • United States - California
  • My current job since June 2017

Supported the launch of high-volume products by managing the Fab supplier, assembly and test houses
throughout the product life cycle to meet tight deadlines, yield improvement, and test cost reduction goals.
● Working collaboratively with global cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Project Management, Design, System, Failure Analysis, Reliability, Process, Yield Management, Operations, and Offshore Support to solve design, test, reliability, and supply throughput.
● Overseeing the reliability testing of power management devices, including high temperature operating life (HTOL), latch-up, and electrostatic discharge (ESD).
● Leading the production of Power Management IC (PMIC) chips supporting different wireless and automotive applications.

Account Manager at Rework
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2016 to May 2017

Led the company’s expansion in the UAE and the Gulf region and grew the customer base from one Authorized Apple Reseller to 6 major Resellers and 3 major Authorized Apple System Integrators within six months.
● Worked collaboratively with the Management team based in Estonia to support the on-boarding of their Gulf region based clients by negotiating and closing contracts.
● Trained and supported the retail and B2B sales teams by delivering presentations to groups of 20+ Sales Representatives and Sales Managers at a time.

Senior Product Engineer at Qualcomm
  • United States - California
  • February 2012 to December 2015

Served as a Product engineering lead for reliability efforts throughout the product lifecycle; from design tape-out through high volume production.
● Led a team of 2+ Test Engineers and Engineering Technicians in order to meet schedule milestones and customer deliverables.
● Debugged standalone devices and related tests including board schematics design, design for test, bench characterization and failure analysis.

Senior System Engineer at United Technologies
  • United States - Illinois
  • November 2004 to January 2012

Worked with aerospace and avionics customers in system design and testing by creating and maintaining
system requirements documents.
● Provided reliability and system safety analysis and design guidance for electronic controls and electrical power generation, distribution, and load management systems on a variety of aircraft platforms.
● Applied Failure Modes Effects Analysis and Summary (FMEA, FMES) at the circuit and functional levels.

Product Support Engineer at Tourmaline Networks Inc
  • United States - California
  • October 2002 to October 2004

Lead the Product and Test Engineering efforts for new email applications on BREW-enabled handsets.
● Oversaw the installation, testing, and qualified new applications prior to market release.
● Generated test plans and procedures as well as application specification documents, user manuals, FAQs, and training material for new products and version updates.
● Worked collaboratively with national Sales and Service teams to deliver on-site product training for groups of 20-100 representatives at a time.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Rockford University
  • May 2010

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Master's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at San Diego State University
  • May 2004

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at San Diego State University
  • May 2002

Specialties & Skills

Manuals
Administration
Marketing Operations
Marketing
FUNCTIONAL
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
AUTOMOTIVE
CLOSING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
COST CONTROL

Languages

Arabic
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English
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