Rob Chambers

About Rob Chambers

Quality and Engineering Executive with over 25 years global engineering…

Experience

1. Vice President Quality, Digital Intelligence

   Wabtec Corporation

   Dec 2016 — Present

   Quality Leader for 1500+ person global P&L, advocating for customers, and ensuring effective, but efficient processes to deliver high quality software and hardware for embedded and non-embedded systems.• Established Customer Centric approach to decision making, ensuring cross functional alignment on investment decisions and commitments.• Integrated Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile and Kanban processes into a previously waterfall organization. Leveraged internal & external best practices to optimize time to market, project cost & quality. • Improved on time delivery from 60% to 94% while staying on budget and reducing defect escapes by 80%.• Improved First Pass Yield for SW deliveries from 70% to 95%.• Excellent communicator at all levels of the organization, internally and with customers.

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder

  MS, Electrical Engineering

  2000 — 2003

• Virginia Tech

  BS, Computer Engineering, Computer Science

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Automation
• Embedded Software
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Engineering Management
• Microsoft Project
• Six Sigma
• Dmaic
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Requirements Analysis
• Integration
• Software Project Management
• Testing
• Ms Project
• Systems Engineering
• C++
• Team Building
• Management
• System Testing
• Project Management
• Cmmi
• Lean Engineering
• Requirements Management
• Product Development
• Embedded Systems
• Program Management
• Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Earned Value Management