Abe Keane

About Abe Keane

Leadership• Planning, communication, and prioritization of team deadlines to meet program milestones • Organize and lead multi-site, multi-program collaboration activities• Enforce use of established engineering processes• Resource planning, recruiting, and on-boarding of engineering staff • Goals, checkpoints, and annual reviews for team membersHigh Volume Consumer Electronics Design and Manufacturing• Design feasibility analysis against marketing requirements• Cross-functional design floor planning• Design for cost, test, reliability, and manufacturing• Creation of enginering process documentation• Validation of electrical design against internal, customer, and regulatory requirements• Resolution of manufacturing yield issues • Analysis of field returnsElectrical Hardware Design• System power management design involving PMICs, discrete regulators, charging, battery life, and thermal concerns.• Design with various mobile system and application processors • System memory integration of eMMC, uSD, and LPDDR• Implementation of digital communication interfaces including USB, I2C, and SPI• Awareness of audio considerations including integration of fundamental components, common tests and parameters, and manufacturing test• Awareness of RF considerations including operation of fundamental components • Basic understanding of cellular communication including GSM, UMTS, and LTE• Schematic capture and part placement using Zuken, Mentor Graphics, and Cadence • Electronic systems validation and troubleshooting using a wide variety of lab equipment

Experience

1. Director of Product Engineering

   Microsoft

   Sep 2017 — Present

   Lead Hardware Product Engineering activities through development and sustaining of Microsoft\'s hardware portfolio, including XBox and Surface product lines.• Develop best practices in root cause/corrective action, yield improvement, manufacturing processes, production repair, field quality, and sustaining product improvements.• Recruit and develop engineering talent.

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  BS, Electrical Engineering

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• High Volume Consumer Electronics Design and Manufacturing
• Power Electronics
• Product Design
• Microprocessors
• Manufacturing
• Design for Manufacturing
• Analog
• Wireless
• Consumer Electronics
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Pcb Design
• Electronics
• Mobile Devices
• Systems Engineering
• Gsm
• Product Management
• Rf
• Electrical Engineering
• Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Hardware Development