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Bothell, Wa, Us

Plantation, Florida, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Co-founder of Engineering Services Company focused on partnering with product teams at all stages of product development. Our team is located in Pacific Northwest with broad experience in product delivery from early concept through high volume execution.Key deliverables range from early product technology and risk assessment, consolidation of Functional requirements, Product design, Design Verification, all the way through to manufacturing readiness and execution.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Lead a team of design and manufacturing engineers collaborating with Development and Operations partners to design and develop cutting edge consumer electronics. • Responsible for successful launch of products from early-stage development through mass production by implementing best in-class principles in design manufacturability/assembly, quality systems, and adaptive manufacturing processes. • Formed strategic partnerships across the company in order to influence product direction, explore opportunities, and provide guidance around high value solutions that prevent wasteful spending of resources. • Accountable for driving domestic and international outsourced design and contract manufacturing through onsite design and process reviews, manufacturing line bring-up, and startup operations. • Drive identification of next generation/unique design requirements, risk assessment, design tradeoffs, and characterization of new components, materials, and processes.• Key technology experiences include automation design, advanced adhesive development, fabric lamination, adaptive laser cutting, complex kinematics, touch display module integration, connector design, and integration of flexible printed circuits (FPC).

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Created and led a team of experienced engineers, focused on development and maturity of new and emerging technologies. • Drove advanced design/manufacturing for HoloLens, touch display module material advancements and enclosure improvement for Surface products.• Researched new materials, advanced manufacturing processes, and industry partnerships to leverage in the next generation product developments.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Senior Dfx/Mechanical Engineer responsible for supporting startup operations of various hardware platforms. I focus on optimizing manufacturability, quality, and reliability of our products.• Specified, developed and qualified production lines for several dozen products, including automation, fixtures, assembly aids, and multi-generational flexible manufacturing systems.• Identified and evaluated design interactions to improve designs, achieve manufacturable solutions with high yields, and achieve reliable designs and processes.• Drove development of first generation manufacturing technologies for touch display modules with combined significant design and yield improvements. • Partnered closely with design engineers and cross-functional leaders to optimize design and leverage existing technologies.• Managed manufacturing partners to validate design, process capability, and execution of prototype and production builds to enable mass production. • Solved design and process issues by leveraging Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DoE), Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA) reviews, applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to translate the voice of the customer into design/process requirements and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). • Invented new manufacturing processes to achieve aspirations design goals, including: adaptive machining, active alignment, and automated binning. • Led redesign initiatives aimed at reducing complexity, improving quality, increasing scalability, enhancing reliability, and reducing manufacturing costs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of a unique group that developed cutting edge technology to deliver the large format MS Surface platform. http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Cinnaminson, New Jersey, Us

Mba, Technology Management

Bs, Biological Resources Engineering

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