• Lead and coach Engineering team consisting of nine engineers and three co-ops with overall responsibility for process improvement and sustaining engineering of natural materials, polyurethane, polymer, ceramic, and mechanical device technologies in a FDA 21CFR820 and ISO 13485 regulated facility. • Identify and support >$1MM in annual cost savings through improvements in product yield.• Implemented tool to organize and track over (100) active projects and then communicated cross-functionally to prioritize projects across all technologies.

• Lead, coach, and grow Engineering team consisting of one manager, two supervisors, and six engineers and have technical responsibility over all process development, metal tube manufacturing, and metallurgical laboratory. • Collaborate with customers to design, develop, test, and optimize novel metal tube products for medical, aerospace, and industrial applications within ISO13485 and AS9100 quality systems. Awarded US patent 11543066 for composite tube with a sacrificial layer for very thin wall tubes.• Design, develop, implement, and troubleshoot manufacturing processes using extensive knowledge of metals processing and ASTM standards. Use PFMEA, Design of Experiments (DOE), check sheets, and SQL queries to collect data. Use MiniTab and Excel to analyze and drive data-centered decisions. • Generate and lead projects and teams that resulted in hard savings of $500K from January 2022 through November 2022 by reducing variable spend and improving process efficiency. • Design, develop, and validate novel cleaning equipment to reduce set-up times and improve environmental footprint.• Used Apollo Root Cause Analysis process to determine source of lead (Pb) embrittlement in medical-implantable Nitinol tubes. Used poka yoke solution that has prevented the problem from recurring.• Established a model and implemented Material Review Board (MRB) for bench-drawing value stream. Mentored a cross-functional team on identifying and attacking top nonconformances which resulted in a scrap reduction of 4200 feet of implantable tube on one product and a nonconformance rate reduction from 105% to 28% in a twelve-month period on another product.• Facilitate communication between production control, customer service, engineering, manufacturing, and outside vendors to ensure quality and on-time delivery of our products as well as improvement projects.• Reduced nonconformance rate for our top twelve products from 42% to 27% through Pareto analysis and targeted projects.

• Led one engineer and two technicians and had responsibility for troubleshooting tube manufacturing processes.• Collaborated with manufacturing supervisors and managers to develop and implement technical policies and procedures used to manufacture tubing in all departments.• Led Nitinol product ramp to increase department output from 4000 feet per month to 7000 feet per month using a Kaizen event and process simulations. The increased business resulted in $2.2MM in additional revenue.

• Led and supported new business opportunities that realized $575,000 in revenue in 2010.• Leverage Production Preparation Process (3P) methodology to brainstorm and simulate new technologies to clean coiled tubing within coil processing cycle time and with less chemical emissions. Generated scope, requested $210,000 capital, and experimentally determined machine specifications to further develop the equipment and the cleaning technology.• Interface with customers to design, build, test, and deliver prototype and production quantities of stainless steel, titanium, and nitinol tubing for implantable and endoscopic devices and aerospace components. • Use SolidWorks to design and document fabricated tube dimensions and the tooling used to manufacture tubing.• Standardized set-up of a manufacturing process to decrease set-up time and decrease defects.• Managed the development, delivery, and validation of two internally built metal forming machines, tubing process, and inspection equipment to support a $500,000 per year product using accepted project management principles and tools and then successfully transferred the equipment and process to an international facility. • Collaborate with manufacturing associates in a hands-on environment to solve technical problems using design of experiments, root cause analysis, and standard work practices.• Coordinate production control, customer service, engineering, manufacturing, and outside vendors to develop validated medical tubing processes and then insure the on-time delivery of the product.• Prepare and execute equipment installation and operation validation protocols in accordance with internal procedures and customer specifications.• Diagnose quality and performance issues with high power laser welding equipment and roll forming tools and then implement error-proofed solutions to prevent future issues.

+ Saved $75,000 by reducing the variation in productivity using Six Sigma methodologies+ Implement and enforce Lean Manufacturing principles to create a safer and more efficient work environment+ Identified production problems using Lean and Root Cause Analysis tools, justified and presented cost-effective solutions to upper management, and then implemented the solutions.+ Improve the reliability of manufacturing processes using Six Sigma tools and techniques+ Interact daily with machine operators to monitor and improve the quality of all material flowing through the mill

+ Conduct experiments to decrease lead time and improve material quality for customers+ Design, implement, and maintain high temperature alloy forging, heat-treating, and testing processes+ Provide technical direction and assistance to lab services and manufacturing personnel+ Collaborate with engineers and manufacturing personnel to solve production problems