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Estimate costs, create quotes, and work with sales, engineering, and project management to transition purchase orders into new projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

Work with clients, vendors, and contractors to coordinate installation of machine shops and labs.Lead work crews to install workstations and lab storage.Track down machine details and maintain project ledgers.

Oakland, Ca

Performed a double role as prototyping engineer and safety officer.Designed and built fixtures for chemistry experiments, including a system to precisely dispense caustic liquids.As safety officer I wrote health and safety manual, tracked chemical inventory, and filed reports for incidents and near misses to comply with OSHA regulations.

Richmond, California

Guided customers in selecting Parker products based on system specifications and recommended alternatives for legacy products and competitor parts Documented engineering standard work and processes, streamlined existing policies regarding distribution of company intellectual property, and organized resources to transfer responsibilities of the CSE position to the Core Engineering Department. Improved the system for tracking technical requests, resulting in reduced wait time for customers. Trained six new territory sales managers to present Veriflo products to distributors and end users

Concord, Ca

Designed a robotic module to print and apply labels to 1.4mL vials, owning the project from concept to prototype. Adapted design to use existing parts, reducing lead time by three weeks.Maintained existing relationships and forged new ones by meeting with local and overseas vendors to source custom and off the shelf parts.Worked with the machine shop team to improve manufacturability for turned, milled, and sheet metal parts.

San Francisco, Ca

Supported the launch of a crowd-funding backed product, including pilot manufacturing and preparing for the transfer of assembly to contract manufacturers. Analyzed survey data using cluster analysis and pivot tables to identify the target customer demographics. Designed and built an assembly fixture which reduced scrap by reworking a press fit seal without damaging surface finish.Evaluated processes and work instructions for assembly transfer to contract manufacturers.Calculated carbon footprint for consumer electronics and researched carbon offset options. Selected secondary packaging to ship products safely with minimal environmental impact.

Greater Chicago Area

Supported lean engineering projects, updated parts database, and performed ergonomic, safety, and NSF compliance audits of production areas.Conducted a kaizen study and used value stream mapping to rebalance a frozen beverage dispenser assembly line, increasing the average daily output from 8 to 18.Designated material storage areas, determined min/max levels, and created more efficient kanban labels to prepare for the closure of a building and transition to offsite warehousing.Performed ergonomic, safety, and NSF compliance audits of production areasWrote code in Python to present information from CNC programs in Excel spreadsheets.