SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished and talented technical and technical operations manager with more than 20 years of experience.
• Demonstrated revenue enhancing skills in project management, lean manufacturing, quality management, process design and redesign, and implementation of positive change.
• Adept at developing and leading successful departments, teams, and production lines. Able to create and implement sound policies & actionable procedures.
• Strong communication skills that bridge the gap between technical & non - technical personnel, provide effective guidance to production line teams and clear explanation of ROI to executives.

Areas of Expertise

• Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
• Design for Assembly (DFA)
• Manufacturing Systems
• Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Quality Management/ISO 9000
• Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing
• Statistical Data/Process Control
• New Product Introduction Lifecycle
• Strategic Planning
• Work Breakdown Structure
• GANTT, PERT
• MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City

Senior Manufacturing/Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed this project in a cash flow sensitive environment while meeting all major milestones & NPI gates.
• Realized cost savings by achieving critical quality milestones.
• Reviewed production line layout/flow and lead team to create an efficient high volume assembly line.
• Ensured compliance with Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing standards for production lines including DFM
• The Vietnam installation, operational qualification, and process transfer, were verified by rigorous Fortune 500 customer production line audit.

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Senior Manufacturing Product Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the transformation of a 'Highest Risk' 'Fast Track', Phase I high powered fiber optic cable assembly line into a Phase 5 manufacturing line in an ISO 9000 environment, while maintaining other high profile prototype deliveries.
• Qualified a company's Chinese operations to build fiber assemblies in a 'copy exact' method.
• Enabled $20.8M in revenue and >$10M in investment for the company.

Confidential, Hillsboro, OR

Project (Component) Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported electrical, mechanical, industrial, and test engineering team with electrical components, specifications, optical build up, manufacturability expertise, and component selection to mock up demos, samples, prototypes, and pre-production products.
• Worked closely with quality control to ensure survival of LCD module in extreme conditions.
• Developed product roadmap where sales, R&D, and manufacturing could adapt business plans and strategies for business success and growth.

Confidential, Camas, WA

Capital Equipment Design and Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Selected, tested, and deployed of variable frequency, brushless, and closed loop controlled motors requiring precision electro-mechanical interaction. Solved issues with backlash, position, web control and other non-linear noise.
• Managed large 65” LCD screen rework project.
• Developed Robust Process in clean room environments meeting the highest international quality standards

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Chief Executive Officer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, maintained, and debugged high volume, high horse power production equipment, including 3 phase transformers with protective current, “heaters’, breakers, control circuitry. Installed and maintained IT services.
• Created 3-D real-time designs for customers.
• Managed concurrent production of over $100K in cabinet orders per month
• Sold company per business plan.

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Project Engineer/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product Feature Architect Lead for high volume, photographic quality printer. Explored, defined, and implemented a solution path for product development, manufacturability, and delivery.
• Devised a software installer strategy, aligning teams worldwide to produce a single delivery model to the customer.
• Collected server-side data and produced automated responses to unseen issues with deployment and operations.

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

R&D Engineer/Manufacturing Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed new code to support printer formatter/language card boot code, Power On Self Testing (POST), Non-volatile Memory (NVM), smart chip code, and re-flashing Read Only code.
• Wrote and debugged firmware code expanding the functionality of a networked printer interface.
• Identified and solved issues preventing printer cartridges from lasting 7 years by defining and managing complex experiments utilizing Design of Experiments DOE to optimize production and design polices.
• Coordinated multiple worldwide factories' production plans while keeping standard production inconveniences minimal.

Confidential, Corvallis OR

Capital Equipment/Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed an equipment engineering team to cost reduce motion control tooling.
• Gathered baseline data, then analyzed product vs. manufacturing vs. machine capability.
• Planned, designed, and implemented process data collecting system for a high volume pick and place machine comprising both measurement and data logging systems for part, lot, time, and event based data.
• Developed a new pick and place Six Sigma process and equipment set for <5µm placement.
• Trained Japanese engineers on feedback control systems of Linear Motors and systems to achieve world class motion control under heavy loads and extreme sub-micron accuracy.

Confidential, Wilsonville, OR

Capital Equipment/Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Showed feasibility of photographic quality printing on plain paper, consulting with chemical and media experts. This required installation, modification, and testing of a small offset prototyping printing press.
• Helped select control circuitry & other analog circuits for motion control in a high volume, photographic quality printer.