Bruce Elder Email & Phone Number

Mount Pleasant, SC, US

South Carolina, United States

• Electronic Technician Supporting the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) by providing hands on rack assembly wiring and integrations as well as various production control responsibilities.
• Active DOD Secret Clearance
• Responsible for Staging materials in support of Subassembly, Rack integration and wiring
• Create and catalog UID labels for all production assets and Configuration of all serialized items in racks prior to customer inspection
• Assemble HP and Dell Servers, Cisco Switches, Routers and Firewalls as well as PDU’s, EBM’s and UPS’s
• Rack integration of Subassemblies and Wiring of all Power, Fiberoptic, Coax and other Communication cables and final closeout of racks

United States

Engineering Assistant and Team lead for Advance Composite Manufacturing Area. Supports conformal composite antenna structures as well as electro mechanical assembly and engineering support for advanced apertures. Provides support from prototype to production.

United States

• Team lead responsible for scheduling workload for 12 team members.
• Coordinated with Planning and production control to assure Schedule milestones were met.
• Ran daily stand up meetings with other team leads and management to assure product flow through Autoclaves, machining and paint.
• Implemented and lead Lean and Continuous Improvement efforts for team reducing production times on legacy antenna programs by 35%.
• Trained new and existing employees on layups and fabrication of Antenna’s.
• Responsible for all incoming Material testing.

Concord, Massachusetts

Production of Van Dusen racing Shells, Carbon Fiber Masts and spars for a wide array of customers using prepregs, and advanced triaxle braiding technology.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Fabrication of composite radomes, radar windows and thick-walled marine structures and incoming material testing.