Sergei Chekhonin Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego County, California, United States

• Conduct process development activities, including the development of First Articles using technical drawings, and sequence of operations interpreting specifications, creating bill of materials to meet customer requirements;• Develop best practices and manufacturing instructions for processes. • Share with staff capabilities, best practices, NC reports, and corrective actions via data analysis, and data translation in written/graphical formats;• Analyze, develop, and perform corrective actions to change production processes to ensure the elimination of non-conforming products;• Analyze scrap data, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions using best industry practices and the Lean Six Sigma approach (i.e. installed thermocouple reading system driven by Raspberry PI in the permanent mold to make sure process parameters meet requirements).• Develop a web-based casting catalog including needed relative data (Angular 2, SQL) and easy one-click access to share point files• Support the manufacturing team in developing equipment operation procedures: hardware and software analysis.• Partner with supplier organizations to provide material requirements.• Design and 3D Print jigs, holders, hooks, and special features to support and simplify manufacturing processes• Lead the project of relocating the core room without production interruption• Develop and execute a 6-sigma/lean project of relocating equipment to reduce WIP handling

San Diego, California, United States

• Conducting process development activities, to make the product comply with the main product values• Initiation of software logic design to obtain new features of the product• Design the framework of the UI of the product• Provide competitor analysis, investigate the Pros and Cons of the product• Design and conduct testing procedures (noise control, static resistance, tempera-ture/humidity resistance, aging tests, etc.)• Creation procedures for the customer support team and for customers on how to fix different bugs and/or malfunctioning. • Design and 3D modeling of new mechanical features (knobs connections, bills path joints, etc.)• Design, 3D modeling, and print new parts samples for field testing• Leading the project developing "Universal Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adaptor" for the discriminators. The IOT device shares data with the WEB application via the MQTT protocol.

San Diego County, California, United States

• Conduct process development activities, including developing of First Articles, sequence of operations to meet customer requirements;• Develop best practices and manufacturing instructions for processes. Educate stuff regarding capabilities and best practices.• Analyze, develop and perform corrective actions to change production processes to ensure eliminating non-conforming products;• Analyze scrap data, identify root causes, implement corrective actions (i.e. installed ther-mocouple reading system driven by Raspberry PI in the permanent mold to make sure pro-cess parameters are meet requirements).• Develop and perform activities to increase production performance, decrease production cost (7 ways approach);• Design and print spare parts to repair casting patterns using Creaform 3D printer;• Develop informational environment in MS Office to track and control daily KPI's data by departments;• Conducting M.I.S. data transfer from server to MS Sharepoint;• Developing web-based casting catalog including need relative data (Angular 2, SQL) and easy one-click access to share point files;• Plan activities for Kaizen events, leading improvements during events;Highlights: 10% increasing performance of sand mold shakeout department by eliminating unnecessary move-ments, implementing using automated tools versus hand tools. 2% decreasing scrap during sand core production implementing tool modification (installed mag-nets to keep chills on certain places, design metal incuts to hold plastic inserts to keep cope and drag aligned to each other, etc).

• Developed, read and interpret drawings of equipment and model designs.• Troubleshoot, identify and correct problems in complex high pressure aluminum die casting processes.• Planned, implemented, and coordinated manufacturing process in accordance to LEAN production system.• Led the manufacturing department in cross-functional team, which developed and executed plan of the ISO9001 certification process.• Investigated customer’s complaints, developed and executed correction plans.• Managed activities to set up technology process to produce heat radiators up to 2000 tons per year of “green field” project with a budget of $15M.• Developed and implemented “turn-key” technology of papered foil recycling saving $45K for the company.

• Planned, implemented, and coordinated commercial activities to ensure the set targets are consistently met for multiple plants.• Prepared $8M “take-or-pay” sale contract for LLC “Russian Radiator” • Prepared primary accounting documentation on silicon sales.• Organized document workflow of silicon sales department (domestic and import market).• Prepared requirements for developing SAP documents sales module for IT department.• Reduced time for preparation FAS reports from 24 to 4 hours using VBA Excel programming.

• Planned, implemented, and coordinated manufacturing activities to ensure the set targets are consistently met for multiple aluminum plants. • Planned production of finished products, monitored the implementation of the approved plans for the production. Analyzed of technical and economic indicators. • Strategized for opportunities for production of new products. • Developed standard production procedures in accordance with ISO 9001.• Preparation of information for internal and external audits (Power Point presentation, Excel tables and graphs)

Analyzed technical and economic indicators of rolling-mill plants: RUSAL Ural foil, RUSAL Armenal, RUSAL Sayanal, and RUSAL Sayanskaya folga. Prepared reports and presentations. Analyzed and controlled warehouse stocks of primary aluminum, contract preparation, payments control for supply.

Master'S Degree, Metallurgical Engineering

Engineer'S Degree, Military Economics And Management