software engineer

senior software engineer

intern

product manager

finance manager

Motorola Solutions

learn lot of new applications
it was good challenge

Skills and Accomplishments
I have completed more than 200 audits in more than 5 states and a number of foreign countries, including, Canada, England, France, Hong Kong, China, and Dominican Republic. 
I have recovered Thousand’s of dollars for our clients. I have uncovered errors and abuses that others never knew existed—from errant reporting and gray market activity to purchasing violations and money laundering. 
In almost all instances, our efforts have saved our clients money immediately, and well into the future—and have more than paid for our services. 

Building Relationships: Consulting
I have made very good relationship with vendors because I made payment on time 
Our fraud work has recovered Thousand’s of dollars for wronged parties.

I consistently go out of our way to devise solutions for clients that will solve identified problems and prevent their reoccurrence. 
I have trained clients to identify indicators of errors or abuse to reduce their dependence on our services.
 
I have saved clients millions of dollars in taxes, improving cash flow for business growth.
Received a clean audit with no management letter comments. 
Developed an implementation plan and implemented GASB Statement No. 34. 
Took necessary steps to allow review of the annual budget through the company policy.
Maintained an average of 8 working days after month-end to prepare accurate interim financial reports. 

Increased the online inquiry capabilities of the other departments to provide them with up-to-date general ledger account and vendor information. 
Provided comprehensive payroll and benefits services in a complex payroll system, including the issuance of 11,050 paychecks; processed 850 employee insurance changes, and updated 1,100 rate changes. 
Implemented the Accounts Payable processing procedures for Phase III of the CAL-Card  card purchasing program. 

Personal strength
Communication, Management, Technical, Sales, Problem-solving, Creative, Speaking, Interpersonal/ Human Relations, Organizational, Numerical ability, Mechanical ability, Research, Writing, Analytical, Data/Information 

Major accomplishment: Resolving a $2 million dollar inventory loss in a manufacturing plant where the Controller had circumvented company polices to cover up the long standing inventory loss. Audit investigation led to a need for a complete overhaul of the plant's cycle counts, segregation of duties, inventory transfer process, and scrap write off procedures. Evaluated the entire production and distribution process and the related accounting procedures and completely redesigned policies and procedures to ensure the integrity of GAAP financial statements.

Motorola "was" one of the greatest companies in the United States.  I worked there over two separate engagements, the first for 5 years, the next for a little over a year.

I started when one of the owners ran the company, a great man and a great leader steering Motorola to new innovation paths tempered with business needs and ROI.  Maybe a bit too conservative at times, like missing the boat on digital voice (analog was better voice quality, but missed the boat on the other aspects of digital).

When his son took over, the anointed replacement, he systematically destroyed the company through his flavor of the day, at any cost cult of cool approach to business.  His business school should revoke his business degree (I think they publically disowned him in the news).  I can't tell you how many rabbit holes we went down for his pride, satellite phones down to the last minute, aluminum phones, etc.  All huge wastes of time given the market at the time and costs involved.  Simple business concepts of ROI, sunk costs and business strategy all lost of him.  His son gutted the experienced ranks favoring "fresh out of college" talent and FOREIGN (work visa engineers displacing American workers) Engineers vs. seasoned professionals with all their experience.  What resulted was a bunch of recycled old ideas as the fresh outs and foreign engineers couldn't think outside the box they were presented with from academia so they leverage old designs as the basis for all their work.  It's good to have an experience mix and to have a solid mentoring program to teach newbies how to work independently.  His son shifted work overseas.  As someone who used to go overseas I can tell you all they did was wait for me to come over and basically fix their manufacturing problems and redesign their processes for them.  Typically at a net loss in productivity, orders, customer allegiance and credibility in the marketplace.  Motorola then shifted to outside DESIGN and manufacturing and just plopping their logo on design house products.

Nepotism was the beginning of the end for Motorola.

He as well as subsequent leadership at the CEO and a few levels down adhered to what I referred to as the 3 and out rule.  The new guy would come in, start a bunch of programs 180 degrees out of phase with the last guy on a 4-5 year plan and then in year three would leave with a golden parachute, the next guy comes in, does the exact opposite and then after three years leaves the same way.  Each can say "well if we ran my plan to the end it would have been a success but we will never know...".  Pathetic.

Motorola was a very client needs and employee needs orientated company. They believed in training. The best investment they made was in training. For myself, this attitude inspired me to take on extra projects and work extra time to get the job done. For example I was deployed to South Korea to teach a Cellular Technology course to KMT (Korean Mobile Telephone). I was inadvertently sent a week earlier than the class started. Motorola had the policy that trips of over eight hours of flight went first class. I realized that it would be cost efficient for me to remain in South Korea. I called the KMT contact and informed them that I was a week early and asked if they needed any assistance that I might be able to provide. I just cannot sit around doing nothing, it is boring. They asked me to come to their cellular telephone equipment site. I was amazed at the scope of their problems. In about  two hours I had the entire system tuned and performing correctly. The KMT management called the resident Motorola Engineer and informed the engineer what I had done. I was not aware that their was a Resident Motorola System Engineer on site.
The Engineer confronted me and asked who gave me authority to make the changes. I told him that the KMT engineer asked me to make the changes. The Motorola Engineer was incensed that I had made the changes. I told him that I would put everything back the way it was. The Motorola Engineer said never mind, mumbled and walked away. The KMT client was amazed at how things were now functioning. 
The point of this is that the Motorola work culture and environment was conducive to employees going the extra mile, at least it was for myself.
Motorola suffered some reversals resulting in massive RIFs. Since I had trained two other instructors whose combined salaries was less than mine, I was "invited" to retire. Only makes good business sense. No hard feelings. After I retired Motorola invited me back as a consultant, I declined.

I loved my job, although it was fast-pacing, complex, compliance- required, with deadlines dictated by business urgency, high-volume, and n at all hours, odd hours, all the time.

Typical day: Work to assist global internal businesses clients dispersed in 5 continents, strategics according to specific needs, coordinating work with internal and external partners at finance, HR, Relocation and Outside Counsels firms, whose work I supervised, followed, analyzed, and adapted to Motorola's particular policies, procedures, and needs. Using metrics to follow up case b case, volume vs costs, services vs costs & results, etc.

Learned: The value of building, fostering cooperative partnerships with multi-cultural and multi-function teams of colleagues and external partners in all continents. I have learned all aspects of efficient management of programs and projects, treating my high quality partners (co-workers and outside teams) with respect and collaboration, leading by example, and being willing to step in and assist to solve complex issues that eventually came up from time to time.

The hardest part was having little time for family and friends, given the breath and high volume of my work, the odd times I was frequently solicited to solve problems, since I was the go-to-person for all matters related to expatriates compliance with immigration, labor, finance issues, and expatriates expectations and needs.

The enjoyable part was the job itself, its variety, the opportunity to work in a variety of cultures, languages, work ethics in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, North America, to enjoy face to face presentations and discussions, cementing lasting working relationships based on collaboration and trust in the competence and efficiency of the high level of workers Motorola has worldwide.

First off the company as a whole varies dramatically.  If you are on a team that deals with specific customers, it will be operated completely different then another team working in another area.  This can be good and bad, what makes sense to do won't happen, then you will be glad that your management doesn't enforce certain things.

At times people can be very insular and appear to show favoritism, many people have carved out their area of responsibility, so if you don't stick up for yourself you will get taken advantage of.

You will be thrown to the wolves a lot, so if you are the type of person who is reliant on other people, you will fail. 

There is an alcohol problem with most people working for Motorola, and it is just joked about, this is evident in people drinking until early morning daily and coming to work hungover, or still legally drunk.  If you drink, you will be right at home, if not, you will be picking up other people's slack.

If you are familiar with the radio world, Motorola is always put up on a pedestal, I worked with some amazing people, but the management was horrible, with crazy amounts of turn over and new policies.  Once I saw behind the curtain as a "motorolian" I was disappointed.

The pay is only good when working overtime, which requires 90% travel or more if they see that you can be taken advantage of.

Training is all dependent on schedule, which can lead to no training in the course of a year.  

The project managers and engineers, besides a few, are some of the worst I have ever worked with.  You will be expected to wear multiple hats, take the heat face to face for short comings due to the project managers and engineers.  You will be expected to find a solution.

I would only suggest the FST that travels to a single person who doesn't mind high travel.

I held various job titles during my years as a Motorola employee. I will  summarize a typical day as an HVAC/ Maintenance Mechanic then as a Automation Mechanic which is the job title I held before transferring into the HVAC field. at Motorola.

Check in with co-workers and check e-mail. Do rounds to ensure that equipment is functioning normally. Make necessary repairs or compete jobs that carry over to the next shift. 

I learned the functions of a large industrial complex. I learned plumbing, fire and sprinkler systems, HVAC, floor and celling title repair, lighting repair, electrical switch gear generators, UPS systems, roof drains, diesel fire pumps, chillers, boilers, exhaust fans, and air handler systems to name a few. 

Management was great and always encouraged us to do continue training in our field of study.

My co-workers and I developed long lasting relationships and we all learned from each other.

The hardest part of my job was not being intimidated by such a large industrial complex. 

Taking on the challenge and feeling good about my accomplishments. 

Prior to my HVAC/Maintenance Mechanic position I was an Automation Technician Mechanic. I worked in manufacturing and maintained and repaired production equipment. Some of the equipment include but not limited to surface mount, through hole, and solder paste equipment, chip shooters, routers, conveyors, stackers, loaders, wave solder machines, water washers, solder paste ovens, and any equipment that the engineering team deemed necessary for product production. I would make repairs upon a machine operator's request via paging system. I also trained new operators and technicians about equipment operation and repairs.

Working for Motorola Solutions for the past 3 years has been a positive experience. Currently, I am working at the Federal Technical Center and at times it can be challenging. The high volume of equipment that comes through the department can be overwhelming for anyone but I find it to be rewarding. Typically I work at my bench but that is hardly where I spend most of my day. With my roll as the Sr. Electronic Technician, I come face to face with various tasks such as proper training of technical candidates, ATE repair, production reports and repair documentation. Our technicians have entrusted me with providing correct and accurate information to keep their production fluid. With the expansion of the department, I am the first to receive training on new equipment. Management trusts that I am efficient in giving instruction to the rest of the team. They are a group of hard working individuals that are eager to provide assistance where necessary. The team is all on the same page when it comes to getting the work done and this environment is provided by our management. They allow us to voice ideas and give us constant feedback to improve our processes.

One of the toughest parts of the job are the long hours. At times it can be exhausting working over 10 hours a day and also on weekends. Our clients observe our constant improvements in quality and productivity within the department by a continual increase of equipment. On the other hand, the best part of the job are the rewards. The ability to be recognized for one's efforts is very satisfying. Motorola provides awards for Employee of the Quarter, which I have had the privilege of being nominated and selected. I have learned that a job can be demanding as well as fulfilling, strenuous but accommodating, all in a positive energetic environment.

I would rate this as one of the worst places I've worked.
Everyone is overtaxed to the point their personal lives are paying the price.
The company refuses to invest in tools to function at the level it should. Instead it places unrealistic burdens on the staff to make it work on the FREE GOOGLE garbage offerings.  The entire company appears to be managed on google's free spreadsheet program.  And you get to document the same data on multiple google spreadsheets, because they won't invest in a tool for you to be efficient.

Sleep is optional if you work here.
25% of my team has been let go since February under the guise of "job elimination", but they really just are getting rid of you to bring in new people.  Ironically its always someone that worked with my leaders at their last company.  So strange isn't it?

50% of my job is made up of ridiculous inefficient spreadsheets (vs a workflow tool and running a report in a tool!!)  and chasing people who are overdue on their response to you.

It's not just one department either, its everywhere.

Then there's ridiculous competitions among the leaders to see who can make their overtaxed employees work harder by completing the most training this month.  OR for September, lets see whose employees can contribute the most volunteer hours.

This on top of the fact there is _no_ work/life balance.

And lets not forget the whole DEI nonsense.  I'm a DEI -qualified candidate and they have ruined the company by bringing in non-qualified people- only to make my life's work so watered down that any meeting I attend I'm viewed as "dumb" and "hired" because I checked the box of DEI.

RUN RUN RUN far away from this company.  The leaders at the top are terrible humans.

I worked in a 6 inch wafer cell at Motorola. This was a new division with Motorola, and everyone was new to the place except the management team. We each had our jobs, but we had to work as a team to come up with the finished product. Once we learned our jobs, the managers made sure that we were cross trained to do other peoples jobs as well. They felt this was good, because it not only made us more valuable to the company, but also made sure that we were not stuck in one position within the company. One of the things that I remember is having our weekly meetings, the management team made the new employees feel like we were equals with them. They use to tell us that we were a new division within Motorola, that we could make our own rules for our area, and as new employees, we were just as valuable as the managers were, and they listen to our ideas and inputs. I eventually worked towards the cleanroom area and I got to see the finished product after everyone got done with the process. After learning the cleanroom and its protocol, I became the Quality Assurance person for our division. I had to inspect every wafer and make sure that they were within code and ready for our next customer. Once I inspected them, I got the lots together and got them to a controled environment until they were ready to ship to the next person. I also had to log all the wafers into the computer and report to our divisions boss every week if we had met our quota and if the cell was profitable. I also ordered all the supplies for our divison and our office.

Analyze WIP (Work In Progress) and SHIP bucket discrepancies. Maintain all inventory levels consisting of quality inspections, quarantined products, reworks, purges, reflashes, breakdowns and re-programming of cell phones and accessories.
Audit and verifies all products being scrapped out of inventory. Monitored and reconciled production line double packs and/or revends that were either manually or systemically generated. Assist Inventory Control department in all other aspects when needed.
I've gain more experience in using MS Office such as Excel due to formulating production/inventory spreadsheets for management. I also learned why there were systemic errors being generated from raw products in production lines after finish product was completely furnished. Gained more knowledge of production/inventory concepts from Motorola/Exel Inc initial processes.
Our management team was detailed at times to assure compliance among all their employees.
Enjoyed the time I shared with my co-workers. Since I was the Lead Inventory Analyst prior to transitioning to become a Production Control Analyst, I was able to build a good, communicative relationship amongst my co-workers not only in my department but others as well.
One of the hardest part of the job was when my supervisor, co-worker and I were involved in the quarterly WIP/SHIP inventory project. Although, we were able to always meet the customer's expectations and resolve most of the discrepancies, we would work long hrs (10-14) most of the time on the weekends.

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