OVERVIEW:

• Sixteen years of direct experience in lean manufacturing operations.
• Design for manufacturability focus for new product development in dynamic, high tech electromechanical environments.
• Proven leader in developing continuous improvement across the corporate culture.
• Proven ability for independent thought and creativity under tight deadlines in a team environment.
• Passionate about quality as it relates to opportunity cost and continuous improvement.
• Well rounded knowledge of supplier and customer relationships, domestic and international.

SKILL SETS:

• Semiconductor Equipment, Electric Motor repair, Electric Generator, CNC Machining, CNC Sheet Metal, GD&T, 3D Modeling, Powder Coating, Electropolishing, Plating, Cabling, Electronic Troubleshooting, PCB’s, Casting and Plastics.
• Lean, KAIZEN, Continuous Improvement, customer and supplier relationships.
• SPC, DFM, DFA, Value Stream Mapping, Set-up Reduction, 5S, Visual Management, MUDA.
• Standard Work, TQM, TPS, J.I.T, Product Structuring, Bills of Materials, Documentation, One Piece Flow, Poka-yoke, Six Sigma Green Belt, Constraints Management.
• Own a Solidworks license; skilled in SAP, FabriTRAK, Syteline, MRP Systems.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Confidential January 2012– Present

• New Product Introduction/project management/production support for silicon wafer handling robots used in the semiconductor equipment industry.
• Vendor management, Transitioned 4 robots in 5 months from design to Pilot production run.
• Operations management, Process control, Quality Management, Warehouse Management.

Manufacturing Engineer Consultant, Confidential October 2008 – January 2012

• Analyze manufacturing and quality systems in China and the United States for contract manufactures. Project size 7 million dollars.
• Analyzing workforce utilization, facilities layout and work flow.
• Work as a liaison with multiple projects and multiple teams of planners, design engineers, sales and marketing personnel to balance the customer’s expectations and the business needs.
• Review lean practices from order inception through customer installation and highlight opportunities to improve cash flow and reduce capital equipment expenditures.
• Identify areas that can benefit from improved communication both interpersonal and process-based such as visual management.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Confidential August 2005 – October 2008

• New Product Introduction/project management/production support for Mass Spectrometers and Gas Chromatographs (medical research capital equipment) with annual revenue of $70 million.
• Led team through 1700 line item transition of chassis, PCB’s and cables to Asia in six months.
• Created the material review board and implemented failure analysis software, incorporating customer service feedback.
• Certified as a Thermo Fisher Scientific Practical Process Improvement Process Champion and as a PPI Facilitator and additional advanced training from Lean.org classes.

Senior Engineer, Confidential March 2005 – June 2005

• Transition planning, process mapping, building layout and AutoCAD drawings for Austin and Winston-Salem.
• Responsible for ISO audits and document control for Austin, Nashville and Winston-Salem facilities.
• Responsible for implementing RFID (planning stages).
• Member of team transitioning the receiving process to the warehouse and defining the strategies to incorporate forward pick.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Confidential January 2000 – March 2004

• Transition engineering/project management/production support for robotic stepper motor controlled concert lighting with annual revenue of $80 million. (PCB’s, cables, sheet metal, stepper motors.)
• Led teams through 5 new product releases and 1 facility transition.
• Converted an 11-year-old product structure tree into a configuration matrix format by restructuring bills of materials for 23 product lines (7000 line items).
• Developed corresponding documentation for a diverse work force with 7 primary languages using digital photography and video.
• Supervised receiving inspection department decreasing cycle time 500% by focusing resources.

Project Engineer, Confidential October 1997 – October 1999

• Technical support, customer service, sales and marketing for $10 million Applied Materials’ account.
• Converted a 100-person manufacturing facility from manual systems to a real-time bar-code manufacturing system by implementing FabriTRAK software.
• Exceeded ISO 9000 requirements by instituting closed loop quality and delivery initiatives and reconfiguring manufacturing processes.
• Resolved in excess of 1,500 formal and informal supplier issues associated with machine and sheet metal parts in six months working with the customer’s engineers, buyers, planners and managers.

Manufacturing Engineer, Confidential February 1994 – October 1997

• Transition engineering/project management and new product development for semiconductor equipment. Etch Chambers, Ultra-high vacuum. Gen Rack/Controllers (telecommunications cabinet)
• Led teams through 9 new product releases, 16 product transitions, 4 capital equipment purchases, and 4 facility transitions. (cables, valves, electrostatic chucks, RF Generators)
• Led a team to convert a 10-year-old product structure tree into matrix format by developing a new naming convention and creating over 750 new kits (6,000 line items).

EDUCATION & INTERESTS:
Bachelor of Science 
Major: Engineering; Minors: Business Administration and Math.