• Lead and manage cost reduction projects for products across all Rain Bird plants, with a target of $1M for 2012.• Provide support to Commercial SBU operational cost,• Coordinate and support purchasing reduction prime cost,• Coordinated factory Operations Team resources in New Product Introduction projects.• Served as liaison between Core and Operations Teams.• Communicated all critical project information to Core Team and Stakeholders.• Ensured that official dates, expectations and schedules are fully communicated to Operations Personnel.• Provided periodically project status to staff regarding critical milestones, current cost, risks and issues.• Coordinate with Materials, Quality, Production and Manufacturing department to Release all the necessary documentation is in place before the product release.• Coordinated product engineers to meet cost reduction objectives.• Provide support to evaluation of new components, creating test plans and analyzing results.• Develop new BOM’s structures for components.• Develop and release all the related documentation for projects implementation.

Rain Bird Commercial division. Nogales, Mexico Mechanical Engineer (Product Mechanical Engineer) • Lead and manage cost reduction and product improvement projects,• Design and redesign components for specific applications, on the mechanical and packaging field.• Design fixtures for production,• Provide mechanical support to the following assembly lines:o Electric valves,o Solenoids, o Coil,o Hydraulic sprayer (Commercial/Golf Rotors),• Develop local suppliers for Packaging and metal,• Commodity Engineer leader for hardware and packaging,• Identify root causes of internal issues,• Identify root causes for field issues and implement improvements accordingly to those findings, • Working as field Engineer visiting specific customers generating data to improve the product. • Lead on continous improvement teams, to reduce DPPM’s

Mechanical Engineer Sr. (Product Engineering, Mechanical) • Handle the mechanical support to assembly lines as Sr. Mechanical Engineer.• Work with sourcing to develop local suppliers (Packaging and metal),• Identify and evaluate project to reduce cost and/or labor, • Provide support to SQE to identify root causes of internal issues,• Work with metal fabricators (Steel /aluminum) finding root causes for specific issues,• Design manufacturing fixtures for production,• Design and draw packaging and mechanical components,

Mechanical Engineer III. (Packaging and Metals Area)• Lead and manage cost reduction and product improvement projects, • Provide mechanical support to final assembly lines,• Take final disposition to rejected materials (Fasteners - Metals – Packaging)• Take the lead on actions to reduce the line rejections,• Implement project to reduce cost and labor, changing the design or material on parts,• Provide help and analytical analysis to SQE,• Backup of plastic engineer• Review the component approval for each part to be used by production (Metals-Fasteners-Packaging),