SUMMARY:

• Experience designing, integrating, and installing capital equipment for manufacturing and warehouse automation including construction management. AutoCAD expert able to produce high quality 2D and 3D drawings for efficient space planning.
• Responsible for defining project budgets, vendor selection, schedules, deliverables, and leading internal teams, client - side resources, subcontractors including millwrights, electricians, and controls engineers.
• System engineered and project managed the deployment and design of robots, conveyors, AS/RS, storage shuttles, carousels (horizontal & vertical), scanners, mezzanines, pick modules, print-and-apply, and barcode readers.
• Engineered order fulfillment systems for product put-away and order picking to enable E-commerce operations and variable production schedules in manufacturing. Coordinated PLC and WMS software integration to improve inventory management, interior architecture, ADA, OSHA, Title 24, Security, Fire Suppression, Life Safety and Egress, workspace management including IT, office furniture/cubes and Life Safety. Involved in all aspects of system engineering from concept, through final commissioning and acceptance testing including permit inspections and approvals.
• Manage 15+ crew members on multiple projects simultaneously
• Responded to facilities improvement requests wif technical evaluations, equipment specifications, and systems layout drawings including IT requirements
• Budget and schedule definition
• Site inspection to create as-built drawings in AutoCAD
• Obtain client sign off approval on finalized plans
• Bill of Materials (BOM) creation
• Order, track, and install facilities equipment
• Manage subcontractor and vendor selection including installation crews both union & non-union
• System testing to verify throughput requirements are achieved
• Electrical, Structural, Seismic, OSHA, ADA, Fire, and Life Safety, code application
• Permit submittal, inspection, and sign-off
• Commissioning and punch list resolution to meet client requirements
• AutoCAD 2D and 3D
• Engineer and install conveyors, AS/RS, cranes, racks, mezzanines, carousels, and shuttles.
• Facilities management of process mandated adjacencies including Power and Data Distribution, Lighting, Egress, Fire Suppression, Life Safety documentation, and project implementation.
• Space planning of facilities layout, interior architecture, and cube layouts for facility improvement projects
• Capable of auditing inventory SCU mix and inventory processes to optimize warehouse space and order pick accuracy to reduce costs.
• Electric Vehicle EV production experience including a solid understanding of EV battery manufacturing
• Human factors engineering, to aid productivity and health through workstation ergonomics
• Electrical integration documentation including I/O of facilities equipment wif site power
• Design and installation of both pneumatic and hydraulic equipment and plumbed distribution systems
• Liquid (LN2) and Gas (GN2) nitrogen installation for thermal test chambers to simulate outer space
• Product development of solid objects using 3D printing prototyping of complex mechanical assemblies
• Tenant Improvement design, construction, and project management experience
• Perform audits of existing production and inventory systems to define process improvements
• Technical animation production to demonstrate process engineered solutions from AutoCAD drawings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Program Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Fulfillment Center automation systems deployment.
• Integrate industrial engineering projects into the Fulfillment Center ship schedule.
• Project Management concentrating on project, scope, schedule, and budget.
• Ensure EHS and OSHA Safety standards are met. (OSHA Certified)
• Manage Project stakeholders: customer, construction management, vendors, SMEs, AHJ, and Operations.

Confidential, Mountain View, California

Material Flow Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led building architectural and building construction process to ensure future buildings could accommodate robots, conveyors, and lifts to meet the specific application objectives of the customer.
• Engineered manufacturing processes companywide for robots, conveyors, and lifts to reduce labor costs.
• Achieved immediate ROI through negotiating and implementing Robot as Service (RaaS) contracts.
• Successfully pitched founders new robotic and conveyor applications to ensure management support.
• Project Managed all aspects of multiple automation deployments and installations simultaneously nationwide.
• Created ROI analysis focused on CAPEX/OPEX to ensure the support from both facility operations and facility development teams.
• Supply Chain Management: wrote contracts, purchase orders, approved subcontractor submittals, ensured invoice requirements and delivery dates were met.
• Met weekly wif all stakeholders as the subject matter expert to ensure project support and success.

Confidential, San Leandro, California

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Access Control, Burglar Alarm, and CCTV systems are installed to project specifications.
• Upgrade facilities control panels for automated access control functionality and end-user tracking.
• Onsite Project Management of subcontractors to ensure systems functionality wifin existing facilities.

Confidential, California

Hardware Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Develop optimal on-hand Work in Progress WIP quantity requirements for hardware at each workstation on multiple production lines based on Bill of Materials BOM data.
• Optimize inventory product delivery quantities from vendors using Intuit ERP and Oracle Agile software.
• Track and report EV battery and EV battery controller production on a daily basis through all processes including build, acceptance testing, and installation.
• Install hardware and software on production line for electric EV motorcycles.
• Improve production facilities to increase worker health and safety and calibrate production equipment to increase worker performance.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Facilities Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the construction of multiple Confidential parcel shipping stations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Track financial details in terms of CAPX and OPEX in Excel.
• Lead project meetings for executive oversite at corporate level.
• On-site project management to ensure business operation is not effected by construction.
• Manage material handling equipment MHE installations for parcel shipping.
• Manage conveyor automation and other material handling systems.
• Manage telecommunication teams including IT and phones.
• Manage the installation of security infrastructure including CCTV, and badge-controlled access.
• Support operations to improve efficiency.

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

Facilities Project Manager Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project Managed the relocation of vacuum chambers and other lab equipment
• Ensured LN2, GN2, and compressed air line were installed to correctly to support vacuum chambers.
• Project Managed 60+ employee relocation in ACAD, which included conference rooms, offices, and cubes.
• Designed electrical and data distribution layouts to meet employee requirements.
• Managed budgets, schedules, GC and other vendors

Confidential, Salida, California

Systems Engineer and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Systems engineered for the integration of mechanical, electrical, and controls disciplines for automated logistic centers.
• Project managed the installation of robots, conveyors, and other automation systems including PLC.
• Managed vendors and schedules.
• Performed costing for multimillion-dollar automation opportunities to ensure profitability.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Systems Engineer and Project Manager of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Integrated allied product solutions to enable sales team to meet or exceed customers’ needs.
• Proposed facility layout designs for manufacturing, 3PLs, and distribution centers.
• Optimized equipment and systems solutions to support rapid order fulfillment in terms of conveyors, sortation, shuttles, carousels, pallet rack, pick modules, and other material handling equipment.
• Managed suppliers to meet design intent, budget, and schedule for a multiple logistics projects.
• Provided client inventory analysis to justify equipment solutions for proposed facility layouts.
• Developed multistate, companywide project management design process for company of 200+ employees.
• Obtained final permits including coordinating and installing fire suppression sprinkler systems.
• Created and conducted multistate, companywide, conveyor layout and design to comply wif Blackbelt . Note: The was intended to teach sales reps the basics of automated warehouse design in order to identify future opportunities.

Confidential, Mountain View, California

Space Planner - Automation

Responsibilities:

• On site automation systems engineering for Google Express, GSX.
• Designed and implemented facilities layout for same-day order fulfillment cross dock hubs.
• Consolidated orders from merchant stores for same day order fulfillment.
• Defined automation solutions to meet current and future order fulfillment goals.
• Engineered equipment layout and design to meet throughput requirements.
• Wrote RFQ's for quick and accurate vendor response.
• Project managed automation and facility upgrades to remain wifin tightly established budgets.
• Coordinated facilities operations team to ensure Google management buy-in on proposed solutions.
• Analyzed ROI based on fixed and operational costs, as they apply to production cycle data.
• Determined vendor selection and conveyor design based on ROI analysis.
• Responded immediately to facility issues as required.

Confidential, California

Systems Engineer and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed a leadership role in designing and developing cost TEMPeffective technical solutions for large scale automation integration projects, wif OEM and vendor supplied equipment from concept to procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning.
• Applied expertise to qualify and developed technologies to improve Power Automation Systems’ AS/RS PowerStore systems and other conveyor equipment to ensure a timely and successful project outcome.
• Project managed mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering teams through project development and on-site during installation, to ensure a timely and successful outcome.
• Hands on mechanical design of automated equipment system layouts, which includes mechanical and controls equipment positioning relative to building features and other machines.
• Implemented the use of technologies to lower cost to improve ROI.
• Designed systems to optimize equipment specs wifin available floor space to achieve desired throughput.

Project Manager and System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided AutoCAD design and technical project management to define logistic improvements to warehouse layout and material handling automation.
• Project Managed the installation of conveyors and other automation systems.
• Designed robotic work cell layouts for the Toyota Corolla assembly line for facilty relocation to Mississippi.
• Defined product inventory management and control through improved facility space utilization to reduce operation costs of clients’ manufacturing and distribution centers.
• Analyzed distribution and production methodologies, equipment, and technology relating to clients’ HighJump Warehouse Management System (WMS).
• Designed and engineered technical solutions in AutoCAD for management team.
• Selected vendors and managed communication to subcontractors relating to project technical specifications and schedule to obtain accurate price quotes based on a variety of design options.
• Proposed case for action to clients’ management teams based on Return on Investment (ROI) information, as determined by capital cost options.

Confidential

Project Manager, Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed engineered material handling solutions, which increased product throughput to meet client requirements for the following industrial segments: manufacturing, logistics, warehouse fulfillment centers.
• Designed and engineered manufacturing and automation processes using AutoCAD in 2D and 3D.
• Integrated scanners, scales, and barcode readers into conveyor systems for communication wif PLC.
• Managed cross-functional teams of: customers, architects, contractors, engineers, and electricians.
• Documented I/O based on electrical requirements as provided by electricians.
• Designed and engineered mocked up prototype equipment.
• Tested proposed solutions to verify process feasibility.
• Presented design options to clients.
• Created BOM. Ran cost analysis of said options to remain wifin budget.
• Specified and ordered: conveyor systems, shuttles, vertical and horizontal carousels.
• Integrated building electrical and pneumatic supplies into engineered solutions.
• Ensured dat improvements ran smoothly while maintaining client productivity.
• Wrote Request for Quote documentation for subcontractor selection.
• Project managed all trades during manufacturing equipment installation.
• Implemented OSHA, ADA, electrical, fire suppression, and seismic anchoring codes.
• Defined preventative maintenance procedure and schedule.
• Created city permit documents submittal package.
• Took ownership of the submittal process and scheduled inspections wif city to obtain permits.

Confidential

Founder, Design Engineer, and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Founded Start-up, which produces and operates construction equipment for public entertainment use.
• AutoCAD designed, engineered and manufactured functioning hydraulic tractor known as the Dig Zone.
• Project managed site selection and preparation for Dig Zone installation, including concrete and electrical.
• Managed business accounts and operations, including contracts, brand, marketing, and accounting.
• Defined electrical control requirements wif vendors for seamless wireless integration of point-of-sale POS devices, which display real-time cash and credit totals to smartphone.
• Defined preventative maintenance schedule of multiple Dig Zone locations.