Paolo Sona

Current

• Supply Chain Development Manager at Pirelli Broadband Solutions

Past

• Operations Manager at Pirelli Broadband Solutions
• New Product Program Manager and Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Cisco
• Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Jabil

• Manufacturing Engineering Manager at Hewlett Packard
• Design Engineer at Quanta System
• Research & Development at Euro Laser Tecnology - Belgium

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Education

• Politecnico di Milano
• Liceo Classico S.Ambrogio

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

Paolo Sona’s Summary

Over 13 years experience in Electronics Manufacturing and Supply Chain management: Contract Negotiations, Production Planning and Logistics, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality Assurance, New Product Introduction. Management of outsourced production, production lines design and installation, production tranfers between sites.
In addition
- 5 Years of design experience of lasers and automation for industrial applications: marking, welding, cutting, labeling, etc.
- 2 years as researcher on optics and lasers

Paolo Sona’s Specialties:

Supply chain set-up and management
Thorough knowledge of the Electronic Manufacturing Process from a Technical and business perspective: New product introduction cycle, internal or outsourced production (china), , Program Management, Quality Assurance , Configuration Control, Npi and Testing, Supply contracts negotiation.

Paolo Sona’s Experience

• Supply Chain Development Manager

  Pirelli Broadband Solutions

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  New supply chains in different geographical area
  New business opportunities
  Demand management initiatives with supplier
  Service Level Agreements
  Contract negotiations with supplier

• Operations Manager

  Pirelli Broadband Solutions

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Operations Manager for Broadband Access and Photonics products, managing the following functional area
  - New Product Introduction both Mechanical and Electronics
  - Suply Base Quality Assurance
  - Configuration Control (PLM)
  - Planning e Logistic functions.
  Started a fully outsourced supply chain from China with European distribution.
  Contract negotiations with supplier Italy and China
  End of month revenue delivery and inventory management
  On time delivery responsability

• New Product Program Manager and Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  Cisco

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2000 — April 2004 (3 years 5 months)

• Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  Jabil

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; jbl; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1998 — December 2000 (2 years)

  Manager of the Process Engineering team and of the maintenance team for the factory SMT lines.
  Managing cost center budget, equipment capex and renewal.

• Manufacturing Engineering Manager

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

• Design Engineer

  Quanta System

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 1991 — October 1995 (4 years 10 months)

  Optical Engineer: responsible for the industrial laser application: design, built and installation of customer tailored lasers and automation systems for industrial applications: marking, welding, cutting.

• Research & Development

  Euro Laser Tecnology - Belgium

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Industrial Automation industry)

  December 1988 — July 1990 (1 year 8 months)

  Research and Development on innvovative optics for fast axial flow gas laser dedicated to industrial applications

Paolo Sona’s Education

• Politecnico di Milano

  Master , Optics and Electronic Engineering , 1983 — 1990

• Liceo Classico S.Ambrogio

  Bachelor , Classical Studies - Humaniora , September 1978 — July 1983

Additional Information

Paolo Sona’s Interests:

Radioamateur: member of Italian Radioamateur Association (ARI) and of ARI Emergency Communication Team.

Paolo Sona’s Groups:

Cisco Alumni, HP Alumni, MilanIn, SCN, ARI

•    HP Alumni
•    Cisco Alumni Association
•    Executive Suite
•    Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN
•    Politecnico di Milano Alumni
•    CISCO
•    TalentBar: HR and Recruiter Network
•    The Recruitment Network
•    Supply Chain Management Practitioners & Experts
•    Premium Headhunting Network
•    The Executive Search Group
•    Cisco club
•    Link to Milan Expo 2015
•    Pirelli Alumni (500+ members)
•    HP Connections
•    Amateur Radio Operators
•    Jabil Circuit - Alumni
•    linkedHRit | connecting HR & Change professionals in Italy
•    Supply Chain Network International
•    Worldwide Recruitment Manager Network >100K€+ Job Network for all Mid/Senior Level Professionals
•    Aberdeen Supply Chain Management Research
•    Manufacturing Insights
•    Il Mercato Italiano del Lavoro - The Italian Job Market
•    SCMWorld

Paolo Sona’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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