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Marion, Il, Us

Marion, Illinois

- Design and implement returnable and expendable packaging for automotive electronic control modules utilizing design software and project resource management.- Manage multiple projects for automotive OEM customers for domestic and export business and maintain projected build schedules to meet milestone events multiple times per year to include minor and major model changes.- Implement and maintain customer and industry standards into designs to meet or exceed specifications.-… Show more - Design and implement returnable and expendable packaging for automotive electronic control modules utilizing design software and project resource management.- Manage multiple projects for automotive OEM customers for domestic and export business and maintain projected build schedules to meet milestone events multiple times per year to include minor and major model changes.- Implement and maintain customer and industry standards into designs to meet or exceed specifications.- Coordinate with automotive OEM customers and internal departments to determine and implement route sizes for domestic and export customers.- Built upon task tracking database to incorporate expendable and returnable packaging flow for analysis, reporting, and recovery.- Advise and support logistics and warehouse operations and management.- Operated forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts in support of logistics and warehouse operations. Show less

- Manage logistics and warehouse operations covering three shifts.- Manage product flow and accountability.- Maintain courteous, prompt and efficient communication and customer relations.- Developed standardized processes for customers, per customer requirements. Liaison with other support groups to ensure processes are established and maintained. - Created and managed training program based on established requirements.- Manage and audit to insure proper documentation… Show more - Manage logistics and warehouse operations covering three shifts.- Manage product flow and accountability.- Maintain courteous, prompt and efficient communication and customer relations.- Developed standardized processes for customers, per customer requirements. Liaison with other support groups to ensure processes are established and maintained. - Created and managed training program based on established requirements.- Manage and audit to insure proper documentation, including transit documents and customs clearances, exist for shipments. Ensure documentation is accurately processed, distributed and released to carrier, forwarders, customers and agents in a timely manner. Includes both hazardous and non-hazardous materials as well as inbound and outbound materials.- Manage, plan, and schedule appropriate modes of transportation based on daily needs with regard to situation and customer and maintain a cost effective balance between customer service and cost of shipment.- Manage all packaging projects.- Resolve, manage, and mitigate all internal and external customer service issues.- Analyze service failures/issues and implement improvements and countermeasures to enhance future service delivery.- Incorporated, modified, and tailored the database I created in Maintenance, to fit a growing need to better track materials and projects within Logistics and Packaging.- Incorporated bi-annual inventory into Logistics database to streamline, increase efficiency, and fill a much needed gap with our inventory process.- Administer and support Logistics database for bi-annual inventory.- Manage monthly workspace safety audits and implement countermeasures with strong Kaizen and KY activities.- Implement (Yoketen), manage, and audit department 5S program.- Schedule and train on all plant wide ESOP’s.- Operated forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts in support of logistics and warehouse operations. Show less

- Managed and led a multi-function technical team in the full scope support of an automotive electronics manufacturing facility.- Manage preventive and corrective maintenance activities, to increase operational availability, covering two shifts while maintaining an on call status 24/7 365 days per year.- Manage spare parts inventory containing 2600+ parts for corrective and preventive maintenance activities for both manufacturing equipment and facilities equipment.- Manage, audit… Show more - Managed and led a multi-function technical team in the full scope support of an automotive electronics manufacturing facility.- Manage preventive and corrective maintenance activities, to increase operational availability, covering two shifts while maintaining an on call status 24/7 365 days per year.- Manage spare parts inventory containing 2600+ parts for corrective and preventive maintenance activities for both manufacturing equipment and facilities equipment.- Manage, audit, and train Lockout Tag Out program.- Created and managed spare parts database to better manage spare parts inventory.- Created and managed task tracking database to utilize for documenting, troubleshooting, analyzing, and reporting.- Created and managed preventive maintenance program for the entire facility encompassing 136+ machines in addition to all facilities related equipment.- Create and manage budget for entire maintenance department to include purchase order and parts tracking.- Manage and assign all maintenance work requests and schedule around production requirements as required.- Created and managed the tool program for Maintenance and Engineering departments.- Provide PLC, IT, mechanical, and electrical diagnosis, repair, and recovery support to our team.- Implement, manage, and audit department 5S program.- Manage monthly workspace safety audits and implement countermeasures with strong Kaizen and KY activities.- Regular reporting to upper management, Engineering, and maintenance department technicians on machine downtime events greater than 30 minutes and greater than 2 hours and production OA (operational availability) affected by maintenance related support.- Schedule and train on all plant wide ESOP’s.- Receive and report out on all group company work place hazards and events.- Led M0 S1/2 activities.- Operated forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts in support of facility and equipment installation related projects. Show less

- Worked both individually and as part of a team in an automotive electronics manufacturing environment.- Created and maintained spare parts inventory, totaling approximately $ .5 Million dollars, covering all manufacturing and facilities equipment as well as general maintenance items.- Worked both individually and as part of a team to troubleshoot machines for electrical, mechanical, and IT issues, including but not limited to Mitsubishi, Omron, and NAIS PLC’s, touch panels, barcode… Show more - Worked both individually and as part of a team in an automotive electronics manufacturing environment.- Created and maintained spare parts inventory, totaling approximately $ .5 Million dollars, covering all manufacturing and facilities equipment as well as general maintenance items.- Worked both individually and as part of a team to troubleshoot machines for electrical, mechanical, and IT issues, including but not limited to Mitsubishi, Omron, and NAIS PLC’s, touch panels, barcode readers, camera vision systems, IAI controllers and actuators, safety systems, pneumatics, Windows multi-language platform clients and servers, Linux Red Hat server, VM Ware, computer hardware and component level diagnosis and repair, cat5 installations, and network implementation, configuration, troubleshooting, and repair.- Backup and maintain programs for PLC’s, touch panels, barcode readers, NAIS vision systems, and IAI controllers.- Understand and apply proper Lockout Tag-out procedures.- Maintain proper temperature and humidity levels for a clean room environment with the HVAC system and computer automated control system.- Operated forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts in support of facility and equipment installation related projects. Show less

- Perform visual inspections for high quality solder, proper coating to control failures of products due to high condensation and moisture levels, and damaged or defective items on 100% of products assembled.- Perform harsh environmental tests on 100% of products assembled to verify proper function in extreme heat and cold.- Work with others as a Team to accomplish our production goals.- Train team members on the proper use, function, and maintenance of machines in an industrial… Show more - Perform visual inspections for high quality solder, proper coating to control failures of products due to high condensation and moisture levels, and damaged or defective items on 100% of products assembled.- Perform harsh environmental tests on 100% of products assembled to verify proper function in extreme heat and cold.- Work with others as a Team to accomplish our production goals.- Train team members on the proper use, function, and maintenance of machines in an industrial environment.- Use my troubleshooting techniques learned in the United States Navy and from Rend Lake College, accompanied with my experience learned in the Navy as a Maintenance Technician as well as my working knowledge of every machine on the assembly line, to troubleshoot machine faults and failures to repair and minimize downtime for production.- Received training from Omron on programming the VT-WIN II inspection machine. Show less

Norfolk, Virginia

Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA):- Performed computer repair and network systems administration including installation and configuration of Windows NT, 2000 and Unix operating systems, Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, as well as network TCP/IP, NT, and Unix server environments.- Responsible for managing a team to install, maintain and deploy Portable Cryptologic Equipment (PCE) throughout the Atlantic Fleet.- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on… Show more Naval Security Group Activity (NSGA):- Performed computer repair and network systems administration including installation and configuration of Windows NT, 2000 and Unix operating systems, Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls, as well as network TCP/IP, NT, and Unix server environments.- Responsible for managing a team to install, maintain and deploy Portable Cryptologic Equipment (PCE) throughout the Atlantic Fleet.- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on numerous, diverse and highly classified, multi-million dollar, electronic systems, electronic computer systems, and electronic equipment used for data communications, signal collection, distortion analysis, tracking, recognition, and identification both ashore and afloat.- Applied theory of basic electronics to fundamental electronic systems, including the use of test equipment and troubleshooting cryptologic equipment.- As a Communications Security Maintenance Technician, I performed organizational level maintenance on KY-57/58, AN/WSC-43 and KG-84A/C including inspections, servicing, removing and replacing faulty assemblies or chassis mounted components. I also diagnosed faults by using prescribed procedures, Built-In-Test Equipment (BITs), Special and General Purpose Electronic Test Equipment (SPETE/GPETE) as required.- Performed inspections and inventories of assigned equipment.- Performed aloft cryptologic antenna systems maintenance. Show less

Pensacola, Florida

Center for Cryptology- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on 27 Fleet and shore cryptologic collections systems and the physical security systems surrounding secured compounds which provided training to officers and enlisted personnel in consonance with Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) directives.- Repaired and operated electronic equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital audio tape recorders, signal generators, signal analyzers, spectrum analyzers, as well as… Show more Center for Cryptology- Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on 27 Fleet and shore cryptologic collections systems and the physical security systems surrounding secured compounds which provided training to officers and enlisted personnel in consonance with Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) directives.- Repaired and operated electronic equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital audio tape recorders, signal generators, signal analyzers, spectrum analyzers, as well as analog and digital receivers.- Led a tandem of technicians in correcting casualties to the stations VINDICATOR systems.- Inventoried and classified 849 pieces of signal collection equipment for the CTR “A” and “C” schools. Efforts identified enough surplus equipment to outfit additional lab space utilized by two courses of instruction. The additional lab space helped minimize training bottlenecks and provided needed capacity for a projected 20 percent increase in course throughput.- Install Radio Frequency cable for the Advanced Cryptologic Carry-on Exploitation System lab, enabling live Ultra High Frequency signals to be prosecuted and injected into the training lab for 104 students annually.- Responsible for the armed security of Naval Air Base Pensacola and the Center for Cryptology, covering numerous Top Secret Military Installations, flight line operations, and aircraft refueling depots, as part of the Marine Corps Cadre Security Force division.- Performed vehicle searches and bomb inspections.- Qualified Sharp Shooter.- Qualified to carry Monadnock PR-24.- Qualified to carry OC spray.- Trained in close quarters hand to hand combat.- Advanced to Second Class Petty Officer (E-5).- Awarded a Letter of Commendation for outstanding performance of duties as a Maintenance Technician. Show less

Cryptology, Honors Graduate

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications