Chris Mackanic Email & Phone Number

Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area

Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

In addition to my role as a technical leader, I am the line manager for my technical team.

Grenoble Area, France

Process development:- I define, prototype, and bring to maturity all process steps from RFID chip assembly to final test. Process steps include micro-soldering, glue dispensing and curing, laser cutting and soldering, textile wrapping, ultrasonic welding, wire and textile transport and spooling, and more,- I work with the product development team to choose the appropriate materials and processes to meet our customer’s objectives for reliability and cost.Equipment development:- I develop and set into operation all equipment necessary to produce and manufacture our products. The equipment ranges from small prototyping tools to large scale manufacturing lines with capacities up to 25 million parts per year.- I support the manufacturing team with yield analysis and process optimization to meet OEE targets on all assembly lines.Technical leader:- I am the technical leader of a small team of technicians and engineers (3-5 people).

Montbonnot, France

• Design test cards for semi-conductors - Design and validate card structures using analytical calculations and finite element analysis - Knowledge of physical phenomenon linked to card/silicon wafer contact - Adapted JEM technology to customers’ needs (temperature, current, voltage, frequency…) - Designed custom products for customer’s R&D departments• Design universal and customs PCBs for all types of testers - Knowledge of impedance, interference, frequency and leakage current phenomenon as well as LVDS and force/sense measuring methods.• Manage projects from A to Z as well as a team of sub-contractors in engineering• Customer & product support (On and Offsite)• Pilot equipment maintenance and calibration strategies for ISO 9001 certification• Tooling design and fabrication for production• Operate and train technicians to use CNC milling machine• First Aid training to promote on-site health and safety

Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

• Organized the machines in the workshop and wrote user manuals and maintenance manuals for the machines.• Repaired machines.• Made lab equipment to teach how to program robots using the Grafcet programming language.• Taught, started the school newspaper, organized conferences and outings.

Lyon Area, France

• Developed a birth simulator (BirthSIM) for the hospitals of Lyon (HCL).• Developed multidisciplinary skills (mechanical design, programming, instrumentation).• Developed a test bench using a digital command and acquisition system (dSpace), advanced programming with Matlab-Simulink, initiation to ControlDesk and MotionDesk.

Monrovia, Ca Usa

• Developed atmospheric enclosures.• Designed tooling for resistance welding of electronic parts.• Oversaw and helped assemble atmospheric enclosures containing resistance welders. • Organized CAD files, created bill of materials and entered them into the company database.

Usa & France

* Operator at Soitec (Bernin, France) - Summer 2005* Assembled and tested electrical & pneumatic products for Teco Pneumatics (California, USA) - Summer 2004* Sales and Customer Service assistant at Preco Electronics (Idaho, USA) - Summer 2003

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mechanical Engineering

Academic Exchange, Mechanical Engineering

French Scientific Baccalaureate & Us High-School Diploma