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San Jose, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Clean Wave Technologies develops and manufactures advanced electric drive systems for electric and hybrid electric vehicles.
• Successfully developed and managed all aspects of Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality / Reliability operations.
• Scaled the company’s advanced electric drive systems from prototype to high volume manufacturing capacity (15,000 systems / year) within 12 months.
• Built the operations team from the ground up including Manufacturing Technicians, Quality Technicians, Manufacturing Engineering, and Supply Chain Management.
• Managed the selection and implementation of a companywide (manufacturing centered) ERP system.
• Trained staff and cross functional teams in the application of Lean Six Sigma tools including the DMAIC methodology, 8D corrective action process, process capability analysis, line balancing, waste reduction, and 5S.

Newark, CA

• Handpicked to improve manufacturing efficiencies and help position the company for acquisition.
• Increased productivity more than 200% in 10 months.
• Successfully enhanced product quality improvements, allowing us to drop down to a single shift from a three-shift operation while consistently meeting Takt time requirements.
• Stabilized and improved manufacturing yield from 95% to greater than 98%.
• Stepped in, turned around, and reduced field returns by 50% compared to the previous year.
• Achieved manufacturing improvements through application of the DMAIC principle utilizing a focused multi-disciplinary team approach and application of other Lean principles such as work cell development, 5S, and.

Barre, VT

• Oversee the management and monitoring of the engineering team in the design, construction, and start-up of a high volume, state of the art, capacitor manufacturing facility.
• Expertly designed facility using Lean manufacturing principles to level the product flow throughout the process, and minimize product travel time.
• Utilized Design of Experiments in optimizing processes prior to final product verification and validation.
• Scaled the company’s new Power Ring® capacitors from prototype to high volume manufacturing capacity (200,000 units annually) in less than 2 years. This $18.2 million dollar project was completed on timeand within.
• Appointed team leader to manage the implementation of an automotive Quality Management System, TS 16949 that uses ISO9001 as its foundation.
• Trained in Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), which is a key element of TS 16949. Core tools used in the application of APQP are; SPC, FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis), MSA (Measurement System Analysis), and.

Watsonville, CA

• As Senior R&D Engineer 2005 to 2008
• Successfully developed manufacturing process for metal matrix composite wafers.
• Utilized controlled expansion wafers to reduce unit device packaging costs by integrating high power devices and heat sink at the wafer level.
• Engineered manufacturing process for a Micro Channel Cooler device made of controlled expansion material and used to cool high power laser diode stacks.
• Established characterization metrics, and evaluation techniques, in support of joint, Army funded, Kinetic Energy Penetration (KEP) program. Program was successful in achieving performance goals. As Applications.
• Provided engineering guidance to customers in meeting their technical requirements relative to integration of metal matrix composite heat sinks, and sub-mounts, into their high power device packages.

Santa Clara, CA

High volume manufacturer of audio, video and digital audio tape marketed under the Memorex and Radio Shack name brands.

Sunnyvale, CA

World’s largest manufacturer of microfilm.

Sunnyvale, CA

World’s largest manufacturer of floppy disks marketed under several OEM name brands.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Lean/Six Sigma Blackbelt, Lean/Six Sigma