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Houston, Texas, United States

Senior engineer transitioned to Operations Manager to resolve production inefficiencies that led to 50+ late orders backing up and increasing lead time. I cut lead time in half while steadily increasing output over 50%, also increasing revenue and improving other business objectives.Process improvement: Assess and remedy production floor bottlenecks and areas of waste to set goals and objectives. Documented root cause analysis through corrective action reports.Implemented a new scheduling system to allow continuous updates for 100% visibility of all job locations. Improved it to remove paperwork delays, saving up to 4 hours/day. Built and led a high performing team to manage the production floor job flow and supervise 70 production employees, resulting in 50% reduction in QC rejections and leading to over 90% orders delivered on time.

Houston, Texas, United States

Applications projects: Quote, design, and produce 50+ filter vessel retrofit kits. Field work included measuring vessels and installing kits that enabled customers to use improved filters without permanent modifications or other tasks requiring additional safety paperwork.Oversaw construction and pressure testing of 5 filter vessel skids. Contributed to component design. Resolved vendor issues with piping in order to make the delivery date.Designed and built prototype infrared machine (2018) and a rotary potting table (2012) still in use today that led to larger improved dedicated machines for two specific high volume product lines.Contributed to piping layout and built a prototype skid to test automated filter backwash cleaning technology for viability. Operated skid in multiple field applications.Managed fabrication shop to produce hardware components for use in filter vessels to support filter business. Tasked the growing maintenance department with repairs, modifications and upgrades to production machines and the facility.

San Diego, California, United States

Designed a 17 slot air cooled chassis to accommodate six different computer board sizes. Communicated with the customer to design one I/O panel layout for five product variants.Worked with internal contacts in Canada to acquire rapid prototype models for the engineering department to use in fit checks, tests and inspection across several product lines.Developed system assembly drawings and instructions with the operations department and instructed assemblers on how to build systems. Provided input on production routers to shorten chassis assembly time.