Albert Yanez – Vice President, Operations

Mr. Yanez is a silicon valley veteran bringing over 25 years of equipment engineering, manufacturing engineering, and operations management experience to the company. Previously, Mr. Yanez held several positions such as Plant Operations Manager & Program Management of New Plants and capacity expansion projects for Monierlifetile were he built the latest state of the art facility with the highest throughput and lowest cost of manufacturing.  Monierlifetile is the largest concrete roof tile manufacturer in the world. 

Prior to Monierlifetile, he was Plant Operations Manager of Southwall Technologies, turning that operation profitable and stable enough to be transferred to Dresden, Germany. Mr. Yanez also served as Director of Manufacturing & Process engineering for Manufacturers Services, Inc. were he streamlined operations for Hewlett Packards Laser Jet & Plotter manufacturing divisions, 3 Com Modems and the manufacturing of Palm Pilots. Mr. Yanez also held senior management positions at Western Digital Corp. where he converted their nickel plating operations to state of the art thin film deposition lines and rebuilt their factories from the ground up to Class 10 clean room technologies for high volume disk drive manufacturing. He was part of the team that founded Trimedia which became Hitachi Metals Trimedia and was a successful IPO.

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