Dr. Dave Trindade has extensive experience as a consultant, executive, technical expert, quality improvement leader, and trainer. He is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Previously, at Phoenix Technologies, he was Senior Director of Software Quality. At AMD, he served as Director of Reliability and Director of Applied Statistics before becoming the first Senior Fellow. He also held positions as Worldwide Director of Quality and Reliability at General Instrument and Advisory Engineer at IBM.
His fields of expertise include: reliability modeling and engineering, applied statistics (especially DOE, SPC, process capability, forecasting, and PC software for data analysis), variance reduction, SPC implementation, management of quality, technical and organizational leadership, and productivity improvement. He has taught statistical topics to over 5,000 individuals in industries worldwide and academia.
He has been adjunct professor for graduate instruction in the Applied Mathematics Department at Santa Clara University for over 15 years. In 1995, he was selected as Adjunct Lecturer of the Year. He is a pioneer in developing novel and effective training techniques, especially in the utilization of computers for classroom learning.
Dr. Dave Trindade, is co-author (with Dr. Paul Tobias) of Applied Reliability, 2nd Ed. He has written many articles on applied statistics for internal and external publications.
For information, contact Dr. Dave Trindade, 6005 Assisi Court, San Jose, CA 95138-2316. Telephone is (408) 532-1219. Email to: dave@trindade.com.
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