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North Carolina, United States

South Carolina, United States

• Methods Engineer in Injection department mainly working with Injected front and rear plastic fascia in regards to their quality and process from Injection to Assembly. • Conducting time studies to find opportunities for process streamline and reducing overall cycle time, human efforts, and scrap.• Creating and updating existing document to capture process changes and to include control measures put in place from the Control Plan to ensure quality of products meet customer requirement. • Using 5Whys and Root Cause Analysis improving Key Process Indicator by reducing scrap from 2.4% to 1.9% in conjunction with practices from Kaizen to train and educate production personnel for process improvement. • Optimizing process to reduce MOD for the process using Time studies to making the process more efficient and cost effective. • Lead projects to create bank building for parts when the Injection Press or the Injection mold is facing issue and must be planned for downtime to perform repairs and maintenance. • Conducted validation trials for back-up Injection presses and performed SPC on the parts to ensure the quality aspects are in normal variation and close to intended nominal value. • Project Launch for at punch process, eliminating the use of Laser cutting to automated punch-die setup to reduce the cost of maintenance and operation of the Laser cutting unit by $250,000 per year. Additional savings on the plastic which can be recycled to save additional $25,000 per year

Anderson, South Carolina, United States

• Manufacturing engineer for customers from Tier 1, Tier 2 and OEM which include Tesla, BMW, Rivian, and Nissan. Worked with the several customers to understand their quality requirements to eliminate / reduce probable complains on Mergon’s end to have good deliveries and better customer satisfaction. • Responsible for the cross-functional team consisting of Automation, Tooling and Maintenance to improve everyday performance of the blow molding machine and overall OEE.• Increased OEE for several Blow molding processes by over 20%. While dealing with daily issues met related to the blow molding process using trouble shooting and root cause analysis to add repeatability to the process to stabilize quality.• Using standard manufacturing principles to reduce time with efficient planning of preventive maintenance on molds and presses.• Using forecasting data, set up monthly, quarterly, and annual preventive maintenance plans for mold and press for each press and individual mold. Performing changes to the die, to increase quality of product and process, meanwhile keeping the product on the agreed dimensions and quality by the PPAP.• Added cameras to the process to add automation to the quality check for each part rolling out of the press, providing repeatable quality, controlled process, and better output. • Monitoring quality of parts for form, fit function and dimensions to document and demonstrate the sustainability and precision of the process using quality tools like fit function gauge and Faro Arm. • Co-ordinated and support several APQP project launch activities as run at rates and quality safe launch for BMW, Nissan and Tesla to safe launch and full production capacity. • Managed the project from planning and finance management of new dust collector system to improve the facility capacity to deal with dust generated by the newly added machines to keep up and have threshold for future expansion.

Clemson, South Carolina, United States

• Our main goal is to provide energy assessments to manufacturers who are small and medium sized enterprises(SME’s).• Work mainly involves around visiting the plant and evaluating lights, compressors, motors, and other energy-intensive processes.• Collaborating in a team, the collected data is used to calculate the potential energy savings and a report issubmitted to the Department of Energy for approval.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering