| Chris Labbe | |
| 10647 Fillmore Way, Northglenn, CO 80233 (720) 864-1012 | |
| chris@sunshinelobby.com | |
| | HIGH-TECH MANAGER & VISIONARY LEADER with experience in world-wide technology development, manufacturing engineering & personnel management. Related areas of expertise - Global Organizational Management & Strategic Planning
- Factory & Equipment optimization through statistical analysis
- Project Management & Decision Making
- Design Engineering & Program Launch to Manufacturing
- Test Time Reductions & Projections
- Controls Theory & Servo Dynamic Systems
- Factory equipment design & test process development
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| | Seagate Technologies, Longmont, CO | 2002 – 2018 | |
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Operations Technology Advanced Analytics Group Managing Technologist Data Science - Helped build Seagate Division dedicated to Data Science
- Responsible for recruiting, hiring & managing the Data Scientists
- Asia-wide leader for Customer & Reliability Product Failure Analysis
- 350 employees in 8 divisions in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand & China
- Focused teams on strategic goals, common practices & communications
- Optimized quality testing systems resulting in reduced $Millions in capital needs
- Reduced quality alert time from 7 days to < 1 through workflow automation
- Global champion for Seagate’s developing of an 8D culture
- Developed systems to facilitate multi-variate factory controls
- Worked with failure-automation team to rebuild decision processes
- Solved problems in factory floor using smart vision detection
- Pioneered use of predictive health for production equipment (PHM)
- Developed true data solutions for business teams stuck in weak processes
- Team produced dashboard solutions in R and Python as needed
- Automated electrical FA drive selection through machine learning
- Member of Core Team for successful launch of 3.5” disc drives
- Coordinate the combined FW output from 5 different functional teams
- Design test processes that attack key reliability failure modes
- Schedule, manage & track a constant list of ~80 issues & features
- Developed a centralized interface for collaboration of key issues (Python)
- Delivered 1D, 2D, 3D & 4D versions of one product in 2008
- Advanced Technology planning and staging
- World-wide Platform Lead
- Direct management of key capital reduction projects
- Direct author of software tool – 95% reduction in configuration build failures
- 2nd level manager for Manufacturing Test Firmware team
- 2nd level manager for Manufacturing Projects team
- Responsible for world-wide coordination of research and development to solve a significant problem with one of Seagate’s biggest most important products
- 1st level manager hired to repair an underperforming team
- Primarily in R with Jscript implementation for UI
- 30 progams with 100 Random Forest decision trees from thousands of labeled data
- Python w/ HTML templating for interactive UI
- Python, VBA, SQL, lots of file moving through FTP & SSL
- Python & VBA
Analysis & Solutions Engineering, Sr. Director
Product Systems Engineering Systems Design Technologist Director of Test Process Engineering Senior Staff Engineer, Release Products Team Senior Manager, Servo Development |
2015 - 2018
2011 – 2015
2007 – 2011 2005 – 2007 2004 – 2005 2003 – 2004 2002 – 2003 | |
| | MAXTOR CORPORATION | 1995 – 2002 |
| | - Senior Staff Engineer, Advanced Servo Development – group lead
- Senior Staff Engineer, Servo Development – program team lead
- Staff Engineer, Servo Development
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| | B.S.E.E.T., DeVry University, Atlanta | Feb 1995 | |
| | Magna Cum Laude Graduate (4.0/4.0) Six Sigma Brown Belt, Seagate Director’s Training, Harvard University M.S.C.E, Colorado University, CU Boulder (Degree not completed) Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving & Decision Making Coursera Machine Learning by Andrew Ng Coursera Johns Hopkins Data Science
| June 2005 Sept. 2007 1997 - 1998 2000 2016 2016 | |
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| | - 2 formalized patents + several in process & many trade secrets awarded
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Historical FW skills in each role | | |
| | Frankenchiller Developing small compute high tech solutions for the brewery industry utilizing OO Python on RPI & Pycom - Temperature control of production vessels, cold room, chillers
- Real time alerts when temps off target
- Batch to batch comparison using labeled data learning
- Pressure monitoring and adjustment of CO2 settings
- Utilize pressure to monitor fermentation and predict completion
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| | Seagate Technologies, Longmont, CO Operations Technology Advanced Analytics Group Managing Technologist of Data Science Organization Advanced Technology investigation – if I liked it, it was passed to the team - Python, R, AWS, Plotly, Dash, Pandas, Numpy, Joomla, Docker
- Classifiers -- Linear & Logistic regression, SVM
- Search – Hill Climbing / Amoeba, Genetic Algorithm, Monte Carlo
- Image recognition using Python / Opencv on RPI
- Micro device concepts using Nvidia Jetson TX1, TX2 and CUDA
Analysis & Solutions Engineering, Sr. Director Led project to Automate electrical FA drive selection through machine learning Product Systems Engineering Developed a centralized interface for collaboration of key issues (Python) Systems Design Technologist Direct author of software tool – 95% reduction in configuration build failures Director of Test Process Engineering | | |
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