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St. Louis, MO, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Laid off due to cost reductions

Redmond, Washington, US

Assisting XBOX design engineers, program managers, product release managers, and NPI teams to validate and establish accurate, updated, and revision controlled documentation and bills of materials for all electronic and mechanical parts used in engineering evaluation, pre-production, and production builds. Work daily within ERP system, establishing new.

Dallas, TX, US

• Plexon, Inc. (OEM; Neurotechnology research systems)Manufacturing Engineer, August 2014-August 2015
• Tasked with cleanup of MRP system (Syteline) which had been in place for over ten years; no formal training was available. Learned through help screens, trial and error, and minimal internal assistance.
• Reviewed over 4500 of 6000 total parts within eleven months and realigned all to meet proper system formatting and update with appropriate notes, and added photographs of parts.
• Properly reconfigured over 300 BOMS (ALL BOMS in system were improperly structured, creating inventory anomalies), using Phantoms and other criterion to eliminate unwanted negative inventory counts.
• Learned how to build two different systems (assembling PCB’s into enclosures, labeling, SMT level and wire updates/modifications, system test and validation).
• Drafted instructional internal reference documents for Syteline users, including parts and BOM creation methods.

Gainesville, Texas, US

• Processed and validated incoming customer data (Solidworks models and PDF plots), sent to engineering and manufacturing floor for review of materials, design, and process required for manufacturability.
• Built tooling quote requests for eight offshore mold tool shops. Negotiated costs and build schedules.
• Plugged final part/tool cost data into Excel based template, and generated final customer quote; sent quote to customer.
• Started tooling and build schedule process on customer acceptance.
• Visited plant and performed time studies for a variety of parts and processes to validate costs on template.

• Worked as direct link between engineering department and contract manufacturers to ensure manufacturability (DFM), testability (DFT), and timely builds of electromechanical communication assemblies.
• Entered all new part data into Excel and Agile databases, and Factory Edge MRP system.
• Maintained all ECO and ECN activities for legacy and new products.
• Selected/managed diverse vendors (electronic parts, cables, sheet metal enclosures, hardware, and silkscreen for and purchased small groups of components for prototype build activities.
• Met with parts vendors and suppliers to establish relationships and cost effective parts ordering streams for production.
• Negotiated and routed builds to CM’s for most cost effective and timely turnarounds.

• Managed production of five different products at offsite CM in Monterrey, Mexico. Travelled quarterly/as required to factory, collected and analyzed production metrics, explored root cause issues, wrote reports and.
• Managed local production and prototype builds at three local CM’s. Delivered parts kits, scheduled builds, addressed process issues, ordered paste stencils.
• Wrote build reports for all assemblies and reported to engineering and management when builds were complete.
• Ran XRAY studies for fault isolation and helped develop chipset BGA solution for assembly

Boston, MA, US

• Managed high mix low volume product builds for eight different customers.
• Trained floor personnel in assembly and test routines.
• Wrote assembly documentation for large system builds.
• Set up workstations and flows using Kanban, Kaizen, and Lean manufacturing principles.
• Built and maintained BOMS in Oracle MRP.
• Learned and drove both ICT and Flying probe test.

Dallas, TX, US

• Worked in test PCB development group, acting as liaison between engineering groups and PCB fab houses. Processed design data (schematics and labeling), routed gerber plots to engineering for review, scheduled PCB.
• Worked as Product engineer managing flow of prototype silicon from initial probe, through wafer manufacture, to full probe, to offshore assembly/test sites, to final package characterization and test.
• Captured schematics using both AutoCAD and Mentor Graphics software.
• Designed probe cards for initial prototype wafers and production wafers.
• Wrote test programs using proprietary TI based software.
• Analyzed probe and production data using Excel.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics Engineering Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Medical Technology