• Developed an in-house secondaries shop for the largest powdered metal manufacturer in Cameron County. • Scheduled and managed three shifts of employees• Prioritized order processing through the shop to ensure on-time delivery of parts and reduce factory bottleneck issues• Troubleshooting of day-to-day machining issues• Researched and provided advice to senior executives regarding the purchase of CNC equipment• Purchased all necessary tooling for secondaries department

• Reduced cycle-times and increased tool life of CNC equipment through Lean Manufacturing principals• Developed relationships with vendors to make recommendations for tooling and machine purchases• Kaizen Leader – led teams of approximately 10 people through events to promote continuous improvement• Designed cell-integration to ensure continuous runtimes and increase thruput of high priorities parts

• Provided oversight to approximately 20 employees at a time as shift supervisor• Tracked daily thruput• Compiled data and submitted Dept. of Environmental Protection reporting• Designed presses using SolidWorks• Wrote job instruction sheets

• Set up, did offset adjustments, and tool changes to CNC machines• Help set up a new, 5-axis machine center