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Philadelphia, PA, US

Morgantown, PA, US

• 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.
• 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.

Foxborough, Massachusetts, US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Foxborough, Massachusetts, US

• 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.

Foxborough, Massachusetts, US

• 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.
• 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.

Philadelphia, PA, US

+ 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.

Philadelphia, PA, US

+ 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.

M.S., Engineering Management

B.S., Materials Science And Engineering