Directed activities involving Asset Management, Rentals, Customer Service, Customer Support, Training, Field Service, Worldwide Manufacturing, and RCA.

Managed Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, IT, and HSE. Traveled to various 3rd party companies to establish worldwide service and manufacturing. Assisted NOV sites with plant layout and process improvement activities.

Created manufacturing cells, including Standard Work, Manufacturing Work Instructions, Tool/Fixture design, spec and purchase of capital equipment. Acted as a liaison between Engineering and Manufacturing, attend design reviews, escalation review boards, FMEA activities, facilitated release of new products to manufacturing, and led process improvement activities.

Identified product improvement opportunities. Created/changed engineering specs for improved quality and manufacturability. Led a cross-functional team to reach breakthrough in defining specs and methods to manufacture key product features. This included creation of new cutting tools, fixtures, and gauges. Done in conjunction with an NOV sponsored training focusing on Project Management. Cost savings from this project yielded $126,500 in annual savings.

Established the Manufacturing Engineering department, and managed the team to create and implement processes to meet new product specifications.

Established Manufacturing Engineering Department. Created single piece flow production line, including layout, processes, fixtures, tooling, and capital equipment specs and purchase.

Tool and fixture design, ESD lab supervisor, DOE, Heads & Media testing, Design for manufacturing.

Tool and fixture design, Oversee daily activities in ESD lab, Design for manufacturing, Implementation of tools and fixtures on production line in China, Heads & Media design for new products.

Build per print, tools, fixtures, and machined parts. Build per CAD solid model various machined parts. Design/build tools and fixtures for disk drive manufacturing and R&D engineering parts. Design/build injection molds for various R&D parts, and create parts using ejection molding equipment. Various machines used include: Manual:Mills, Lathes, Ejection molding, various sheet metal equipment. CNC: Program/Run, Mills, Lathes, (2-Axis, 3-Axis, 4-Axis) Punch press, Press breakWelding: MIG, TIG. Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Mild Steel