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Portland, Oregon, Us

Safely maximizes quality manufacturing output in a cost-efficient manner. Responsible for ensuring and improving performance in quality, productivity, efficiency, and profitability of operations through effective methods and strategies.

Certified Residential Washington State Appraiser. Currently providing appraisal services for multiple end users including lenders, mortgage companies, insurers, and private parties. Leaning on my background in mechanical engineering, process improvement, lean transformation, and data analysis, allows me to be proficient in application of a variety of techniques to attain appraisal values, analyze market segments, and characterize market trends.

Certified Residential Washington State Appraiser. Currently providing appraisal services for multiple end users including lenders, mortgage companies, insurers, and private parties. Leaning on my background in mechanical engineering, process improvement, lean transformation, and data analysis, allows me to be proficient in application of a variety of techniques to attain appraisal values, analyze market segments, and characterize market trends.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Lead and develop operating plans for the North America West Coast Wire & Cable organization including engineering, engineering support, and laboratory operations. It’s my role to partner with other UL businesses to achieve corporate objectives and ensure customer satisfaction.A few of my responsibilities included:• Implementation and execution of capacity and capability strategies. • Manage the performance of team members, define accountabilities and establishperformance objectives• Lead employees to openly suggest, promote and embrace change.• Drive customer loyalty by engaging in regular customer interaction. Anticipatecustomer needs and provide complete solutions. Gather, share and respond tocustomer feedback. • Collaborate and build trust within the organization and with customers. Develop strong, flexible cross-functional networks and global relationships and coach staff to do the same.

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Leads a laboratory team for the Wire and Cable industry. Responsible for the development and achievement of operating plans, goals and budgets for the lab. Manages the staff and daily activity of the lab. Partners with Conformity Assessment Services management to ensure customer satisfaction and achievement of business objectives. Oversee the establishment of appropriate testing programs and the coordination of laboratory activities within the division/affiliate. Identifies and pursues the development of requirements for test procedures beyond the scope of existing standards and requirements involving unique features and requiring the use of independent judgment. Manages the development and maintenance of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. Establishes and maintains the test proficiency training program for laboratory personnel. Leads direct reports by defining accountabilities and development of staff.• Implemented cell-structured batching system into FUS W&C area improving area productivity by 77% over a one-year period.• Reduced TT by 25% n FUS W&C in the same period• Created/implemented real-time data acquisition tools for process analysis and improvements and continued area TP performance year over year• Led major cross-functional Kaizen events in Melville and Camas which resulted in increased performance for NA FUS operations – resulted in ongoing work sharing and benchmarking for NA FUS processing• Participated and took various leadership roles in the LIMS/Labware rollouts for Nansha and Chemicals deployments

Munich, Bavaria, De

Industrial Engineer:Managed the planning, scheduling, monitoring, and optimization of wafer manufacturing with a team of key personnel. Coordinated information related to order fulfillment, schedules and priorities, capacities, production and shipments, dollar sales, inventories, and supplies to the affected appropriate divisions. Worked with global counterparts to define Supply Chain and SAP related policies and systems.• Maintained foundation of systems for Inventory control, resulting in 25% reduction in cycle time and respective WIP inventory and 5% improvement to overall inventory accuracy.• Worked with capacity changes in coordination with installation of new equipment and/or processes increasing fab ordering capacity by 33%.• Analyzed actual capacity utilization vs. planned capacities for both optimization and bottleneck relief• Created and maintained equipment capacity models for all equipment in the plant.• Routinely performed capacity evaluations and recommendations through bottleneck identification and management.• Developed capacity forecasting tool to evaluate plant loading and provide decision making basis for accepting customer orders using real-time data and capacity models.Equipment Engineer:Responsible for reliability improvement of production equipment, maintenance procedure development and support as well as design and modification of production equipment• Initiated additional quantitative methods in the equipment engineering group to analyze equipment failures.• Designed/implemented vacuum monitoring system to anticipate failures/reduce losses on edge-grind tools.• Designed/implemented quick-drain system and cassette detection sensors to tab removal cleaning bench reducing annual costs by approximately $50K in edge-grind area. • Designed and implemented line-of-sight sensor system to reduce yield losses in post slice cleaning area resulting in a savings of approximately $30K/month.

Vancouver, Wa, Us

Responsible for using engineering and statistical methodology to optomize area yields and improve profitability. Routinely employed the use of designed experiments (DOE), FMEA, and SPC for process optimization and problem solving. • Coordinated the specification, installation, and qualification of a new generation acid etch machine and wet cleaning bench.