Stephanie Tremblay
Ottawa,ON
Summary
- Highly-motivated and versatile Product Development Leader with over thirty years of experience in telecom equipment design environments, in the fields of Optical, Wireless, RF/Microwaves.
- Proven leadership experience leading multi-disciplinary teams. Hands-on leader, contributing at all levels to offer solutions and get things done in resource constrained environments.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, build and motivate highly skilled and efficient development teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills, excellent at multi-tasking, prioritizing and making risk-calls in a timely fashion.
- Effective project management skills and proven track record of consistently delivering commercially successful products on schedule, with high quality.
- Demonstrated ability to develop successful technical proposals, program plans and cost estimates, enabling expansion of customer base and building trust.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director Hardware Design
Infinera
Ottawa
08.2017 - Current
- Recruited and actively leading highly skilled cross-functional development team responsible for Infinera's 800G coherent pluggable modules, as well as advanced ASIC and TROSA evaluation platforms.
- Coordinating with stakeholders across multiple teams (Systems, ASIC, Program Management, Operations, PLM and Sales) to develop innovative strategies and products.
Sr. Manager, RF/Electrical System Design
Sanmina
Ottawa, Ont.
09.2013 - 08.2017
- Responsible for Systems, Microwaves/RF, Electrical Design and Test Engineering group as part of the Optical and Microelectronic Division
- Recruited top-talent, expanded the team’s capabilities in the areas of RF systems and electro-optics design, RF modeling and signal integrity tools, microwave and optical measurement techniques, which resulted in substantial diversification of the solutions offering and customer base
- Leading and developing technical design proposals and program plans supporting various RF and optical solutions for telecom, defense, medical and instrumentation customers
- Successfully delivered several turnkey design programs including High-Power RF Amplifiers for radar applications, Point-to multipoint-radio, front-end modules for high-performance test equipment, Satcom transceivers (30GHz), Smart pluggables, broadband micro-electronics products and leading-edge optical modules.
Director of Engineering
Ultra Electronics TCS
Ottawa, Ont.
03.2010 - 09.2013
- Led a team of systems, RF, digital, firmware, software, mechanical and antenna designers, responsible for the development of TCS’ Electronic Warfare (EW) solutions and adaptive antennas
- Member of the EW cabinet, closely working with Business Development, Marketing and Finance primes to grow the business from $3M to $12M per year in revenues
- Responsible and accountable for engineering budgets as well as Capital Expenditures to establish TCS’ Ottawa engineering center,.
- Certified predictive index analyst, a resource management and coaching tool.
Manager, Hardware, Optics and Physical Design
Optelian
Ottawa, Ont.
04.2006 - 03.2010
- Reporting to the President, led a team of hardware and mechanical designers, responsible for developing Optelian’s Optical Transport products including SONET, GbE and OTN regenerators, transponders, optical fiber amplifiers, management and Ethernet switch cards.
- Working with Product Line Management, Sales and Marketing teams on RFQ responses and customer facing documentation.
Hardware Engineering Lead
TenXc Wireless
Ottawa, Ont.
11.2004 - 04.2006
- Led a team of engineers developing RF and digital circuit packs for intelligent antenna solutions improving capacity of cellular deployments.
Manager, Circuit Pack Design DWDM Transport Systems
Nortel Networks
Ottawa, Ont.
01.2000 - 01.2004
- Led a team of engineers responsible for developing circuit packs used in OC-192 line systems
- Defined Common Photonic Layer products, which resulted into innovative solutions and appropriate performance/cost tradeoffs targeting both Metro and Long-Haul applications.
Senior RF Designer, TDMA Base Station Radio
Nortel Networks
Ottawa, Ont.
01.1996 - 01.1999
- Lead designer on numerous transceiver designs
- Demonstrated performance of Wideband Receivers
RF Designer CDMA PCS Systems
AT&T Product Realization Center
Mount Olive, NJ
01.1994 - 01.1996
- CDMA Transmitter Unit (CTU) prime for the PCS Mini Cell system and the Base-band Combiner and Radio for a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) CDMA system.
RF Hardware Designer, Cellular Base Station Radio
Bell Northern Research
Ottawa, Ont.
01.1991 - 01.1994
Education
Bachelor of Electrical Eng. 1991 -
University of Ottawa
01.1991
Skills
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Organizational Development
- Business Acumen
- Technology Innovation
- Talent Acquisition and Retention
- Program Management
- Budget Management
- Strategic Planning
- Issues Resolution
Accomplishments
- Identified as a candidate in Executive Succession Planning at Ultra Electronics
- Consistently awarded for outstanding performance and leadership at Nortel Networks, AT&T and Infinera. Identified as top-talent (top 2%) contributor.
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
French
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Director Hardware Design
Infinera
08.2017 - Current
Sr. Manager, RF/Electrical System Design
Sanmina
09.2013 - 08.2017
Director of Engineering
Ultra Electronics TCS
03.2010 - 09.2013
Manager, Hardware, Optics and Physical Design
Optelian
04.2006 - 03.2010
Hardware Engineering Lead
TenXc Wireless
11.2004 - 04.2006
Manager, Circuit Pack Design DWDM Transport Systems
Nortel Networks
01.2000 - 01.2004
Senior RF Designer, TDMA Base Station Radio
Nortel Networks
01.1996 - 01.1999
RF Designer CDMA PCS Systems
AT&T Product Realization Center
01.1994 - 01.1996
RF Hardware Designer, Cellular Base Station Radio
Bell Northern Research
01.1991 - 01.1994
Bachelor of Electrical Eng. 1991 -
University of Ottawa
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