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SAN Francisco, CA, US

SAN Francisco, CA, US

- Built a range of Web Apps and a Google Workspace Sheets Sidebar used by Sunrun's Design & Engineering Department. These tools are interconnected with 100% of Sunrun's Customer volume, serving as (a) the app engine for Structural & Hardware Calculations to qualify homes for rooftop Solar, and (b) the primary tool to generate a PE signed/sealed Structural.

SAN Francisco, CA, US

SAN Francisco, CA, US

- Daily interface with Salesforce, Google Sheets- Primary liaison between Internal Professional Engineering and Subcontractos, maintaining business continuity of each others workflow- Create Salesforce reports and dashboards to quantify metrics for engineering leadership

Zeeland, Michigan, US

• Facilitated a more structured chain of command to escalate quality issues
• Initiated presentations for monthly quality meetings to show areas of improvement in the manufacturing process, including defects, potential causes, and supporting data of occurrences
• Networked with multiple disciplines to facilitate short turn-around regarding ANY quality-related question
• Helped generate more ownership at the manufacturing level, so team members would see and share potential quality issues
• Suggested a machine setting change to reduce a quality defect from 200 PPM to 20 PPM.
• Approve Process Change Orders and Standard Work Instructions for quality assurance

Zeeland, Michigan, US

• Manufacturing team leader of 10+ employees, managing safety, schedule attainment, quality
• Assessed priority metrics and technical issues on a daily basis to allocate people or resources where needed which helped exceed scrap cost and performance goals
• Designed and implemented new light fixtures for improved ease of maintenance and position reliability, and therefore improved tester calibration reliability
• Independently designed and implemented a mechanical fixture using Solidworks to improve reliability of a seated wire connection across a family of camera modules
• Helped coach off-support staff for more consistent troubleshooting practices to reduce unnecessary production downtime
• Facilitate line layout improvements using AutoCAD

Crystal Lake, IL, US

• Learned DFM methods which reduced production labor costs
• Member of the High-speed engineering group which focused on reducing design and manufacturing costs of legacy equipment
• Consistently met or exceeded design deadlines under quoted hours for improved yield
• Applied FEA to CAD models to keep dynamic stresses below 2,000 psi while reducing material for more structural efficiency
• Applied knowledge of mass-spring systems and natural frequency to optimize equipment material and effectiveness
• Collaborate with peers to optimize fit and function of multi-unit system