SUMMARY

• 12 years of Fortune 500, project management, operations, and engineering leadership bringing to market new world class products. (6 years consumer products; 6 years medical device)
• Proven track record establishing the vision, mission, scope, budget, and timeline of unique manufacturing and operational projects, leading diverse cross functional teams to perform and deliver on time, on budget, and on spec for projects large and small while concurrently developing solutions to persistent business technical problems.
• Concurrent with expansion of career responsibilities, completed masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, with emphasis in business management and PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification.

Confidential, Irvine, CA – Operations Integrator
This facility designs and manufactures artificial heart valve and catheter delivery systems.

Mechanical Staff Engineer  (Sept 2011 – Present)

• Lead cross functional team to establish the supply chain for next generation minimally invasive heart valve delivery system including make vs. buy decisions, supplier identification, design for manufacture, equipment selection, process development, quality standard development, yield and cost requirements, facility requirements, line layout, direct labor selection and training.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN – Senior Engineer Level 2 "High Potential", Zimmer, Orthopedic Medical Devices This facility designs and manufactures Orthopedic Spinal Implants and Instruments.

Manufacturing Project Leader  (Jan 2008 – Sept 2011)

• Championed, justified, and managed in sourcing project to save $500,000 per year and control supply chain through the insourcing of cleaning, assembly, and packaging of spinal implants.
• Managed M&A crossfunctional team to integrate $10 MM sterile implants and instrument business into quality and manufacturing system.
• Consulted business to resolve legacy inventory risk of disparate packaging and labeling standards through statistical planning and project management to repackage inventory assuring regulatory compliance while protecting supply chain continuity and minimizing cost.
• Managed supplier relationships to ensure supplier production conforms to Zimmer’s quality requirements.
• Resolved nonconformances, dispositioned MRB product, and completed CAPA’s to identifying and resolve root failure causes.

Confidential, Everett, WA  Mechanical Engineer 3, Aircraft Assembly 
This facility assembles commercial aircraft.

Mechanical Engineer 3 (Apr 2007 – Jan 2008)

• Analyzed and resolved aircraft nonconformance issues.

• Promoted 3 times at KimberlyClark from coop to Engineer 3.

Confidential, Everett, WA  Mechanical/Project Engineer 3 (Jun 2006 Apr 2007)
This facility pulps and converts tissue products into finished consumer products.

• Justified and managed 10 million dollar capital project to expand tissue converting plant capacity by 33% while reducing cost manufacture by 10%.
• Provided capital project management and leadership to resolve technical and logistic challenges associated with process design, equipment selection, and the installation of new capital at a brownfield, strongunion facility.
• Utilized 6 sigma to optimize tissue converting process by identifying and controlling key process parameters then trained operators to recognize process instability.

Confidential, Draper, UT  Mechanical Engineer 2 (Aug 2004 Jun 2006)
This facility manufactures a broad range of medical devices.

• Provided technical leadership to resolve daytoday medical device manufacturing issues in an ISO 9001/13485 FDA regulated environment in terms of safety, quality, and productivity using quality management systems i.e. process mapping, IQ, OQ, PQ validations, sixsigma, FMEA, NCR’s, CAPA’s, and documented procedures.
• Designed machinery using Solidworks. Programmed, and validated automation equipment to replace the manual assembly and inspection of medical devices, saving $200,000 annually.
• Lead multifunctional teams through kaizen events to implement Lean techniques to increase production and improve quality.
• Successfully implemented Lean manufacturing to develop singlepieceflow work cells that doubled production capacity while reduced cost of manufacturing cost by $100,000 per year.

Confidential, Neenah, WI  Mechanical Engineer 1 (May 1999 Aug 2004)
This is staff and technical headquarter where world wide products and process are supported

• Designed firstofakind production machinery for largescale high volume production using Solidworks and AutoCAD.
• Applied concurrent engineering to commercialize high volume plastic consumer products and the required manufacturing processes by partnering with OEM suppliers and product development teams.
• Brought forward enabling technologies to produce new products, increase production capacity, and enhance profitability by partnering with OEM’s though joint development agreements.
• Designed and developed a tissueconverting pilot line to identify and optimize key process parameters to support new product development.

EDUCATION
Master of Mechanical Engineering
MBA Foundations of Business Certificate
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering