SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, proactive, innovative, professional engineer with years of experience successfully managing the design, development and delivery of state-of-the-art products for industry leaders.
• Knowledge of current best practices for improving manufacturing roadmaps, designs, specifications, yield and quality with a clear vision to accomplish the company’s strategic, long-term goals.
• Strong, effective leadership; excellent communication skills; attention to detail and dutiful respect for compliance in all regulated environments.
• Expertise enhancing business practices; hiring,, team building, decision-making and customer service.

SKILL:

Proficient with spectrum of engineering tools including: Digital Multimeters, C, C+, LabView, Matlab, Visual Basic, Pneumatics, Schematic Capture, Microcontrollers, AC, DC, FPGA, PLC, AutoCAD, ERP, Visual.

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER EXPERIENCE:

MANUFACTURING/QUALITY ENGINEER

Confidential, Monument, CO

Responsibilities:

• Review existing production processes and design new methods to improve product flow and reduce scrap.
• Institute a paradigm shift from initiating nonconformances (NC’s) for normal, everyday, inherent product imperfections to initiating NC’s for unusual, abnormal, outlying product deficiencies through use of validated scrap yield reports and installation of approved thresholds reducing resources needed to address product issues.
• Support Instantis projects to improve yields, bring those projects under the quality system through Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA’s) and institute Planned NC’s/Deviations to allow projects to achieve goals.
• Provide schematic support for machine modifications using AutoCAD Electrical.
• Update manufacturing documents using PTC Creo Parametric.
• Investigate product nonconformances to assignable cause, issue appropriate product dispositions and operator awareness, conduct Cognos searches, ensure appropriate bounding of affected product lots and close out inquiry.
• Create and implement Job Breakdown Sheets (JBS) and train operators to new processes.
• Act as Project Lead and support engineers for numerous CAPA initiations, root cause analysis, investigations, action plans and effectiveness monitoring.

SENIOR MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Provided company-wide technical leadership and mentoring in relevant engineering disciplines.
• Created and presented quotations for potential new products which included selection of materials, processes, tooling, equipment, resources, development engineering activities, finished piece price and overall project lead time.
• Created and facilitated execution of test, validation and build protocols. Provided relevant documentation at conclusion of tests, validation and builds.
• Planned and directed personnel in fabrication of prototypes, first articles, test equipment.
• Developed the methods and procedures for manufacturing and testing products and/or systems.
• Generated Test Reports, Drawings, Procedures, Routers, Specifications, DCO’s and ECO’s.
• Troubleshot tooling, process performance, design and material related issues during manufacturing start-up.
• Facilitated and performed process characterization and validation on components/products according to company procedures and customer requirements (DOE, MiniTab).
• Created component and process qualification and validation plans (IQ,OQ, PQ).
• Generated quality documents (pFMEA, Control Plans) associated with procedure documentation.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Created analog and digital circuit designs (schematics) of Computer Numerical Control (CNC) routing machines.
• Implemented, developed and maintained d Confidential base of ZUKEN/CAETEK E3 ECAD package.
• Generated fault monitoring systems and protection against common-cause failure using SISTEMA Performance Level Software Tool in adherence to ANSI/ISO Standards.
• Produced machine safety reports employing EUCHNER Risk Assessment Risk Reduction Software.

ENGINEERING LAB MANAGER.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Managed engineer and technician’s efforts to ensure completion of product testing within timeframes for agency and pilot runs for new product development, engineering and manufacturing.
• Oversaw product failure mode and life cycle analysis through component test development, setup and execution involving varying voltage and atmospheric conditions.
• Led activities to migrate from time-intensive, manual operations to more efficient, automated operations by incorporating barcode labeling, pneumatics and software applications.
• Responsible for setup and maintenance of lab equipment (e.g. Oscilloscopes, DMM’s, Environmental Chambers, Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Test Racks, Explosive Gas and Carbon Monoxide lines)
• Instituted quality standards similar to Six-Sigma and Lean Manufacturing for engineering lab operations.
• Developed baselines, set goals for verifiable improvements, instituted the modifications and followed through to deliver measurable, continuing success.
• Responsible for environmental protection, occupational health and safety of the entire facility.
• Led internal safety audits ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulations regarding stored materials, work place environment, and machine safety.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER.

Confidential, Longmont, CO

Responsibilities:

• Led team of engineers to analyze disk-drive failures, recommend technical solutions and implement corrective action.
• Developed debugging tools for Failure Analysis (FA), customer engineering and factory FA teams to provide smoother, quicker engineer integration.

APPLICATION ENGINEER.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Designed motor board component of magnetic-tape, storage devices from womb to tomb assuring successful new product introduction to steady state manufacturing.
• Reduced test times, provided greater test coverage and resolved high Pareto hitters.
• Developed and implemented software and hardware debug solutions to broaden scope of technicians’ analyses and increase product knowledge, decrease turnaround times and reduce annual return rates.
• Trained technicians and provided daily operational direction encouraging a team-building environment.
• Determined root cause failure to component level. Implemented corrective action measures to improve yields and enhance design, process, and supply engineering considerations.