Franck Chirat

About

With 25 years experience in high tech industry and graduated with an MBA degree in 2010, I have strong asset in operation management and project’s leadership with test & manufacturing challenges. Specialties: - Team management/development. - Program/project’s leadership. Collaborative platform. - Customer’s interface. - Test solution bring up. - Manufacturing cost & yield. Process audit. - Data mining/ analysis. Experience’s areas - Semiconductor. Advanced process - High volume, low cost wireless market’s constraint. - Low dppm industrial/automotive requirement.

Experience

• NXP Semiconductors (11 yrs 2 mos)
  • Vice President of Operations Engineering
    Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Test Engineering Senior Director
    Nov 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Test Engineer Director
    Jan 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Application Engineering Manager at OptimalPlus
  Jun 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Texas Instruments (17 yrs 5 mos)
  • Test & Product Engineering Manager
    May 2009 - May 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Oversaw OMAP5 chassis bring up - latest flagship apps processor for industrial and automotive market. - 28nm process driver for TI and foundry's partner

  • Test & Product Engineering Manager
    Feb 1999 - May 2009 · 10 yrs 4 mos

    Managed Nokia high end (Edge, first-ever 3G engines) baseband SoC productization - Growing business from zero in 1999 to more than 228Mu in 2008. Number one account at TI worldwide. - Large portfolio, 8 products from leading edge process node (130, 90, 65 and 45nm) ramp in volume. - Team built from zero to 12 engineers.

  • Test Engineer
    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for the test of 3rd generation Nokia SoC

• Application engineer at Thomson Telecom
  Jan 1995 - Dec 1995 · 1 yr

  Responsible for military communication encryption and component's self test using TI 54x.

• Co-op service at Somfy
  Sep 1993 - Dec 1994 · 1 yr 4 mos

  Responsible for automated production test solution in home system