Christopher Tom Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Kent, WA, US

• Led virtual cross functional team across 4 states in multiple time zones
• Collaborated weekly with leads from Design, Structural Analysis, Materials and Processes, Manufacture Engineering, Supply Chain to align the ~30 cross functional individual contributors
• Balanced priority of transitioning production builds with block upgrade design
• Delivered first oxygen turbopump for engine testing to support annual company milestoneIdentified, managed, and escalated technical risk
• Led Engineering Decision Risk Boards, created Impact Assessment content to evaluate schedule, performance, cost at key decision points, provided recommendation
• Example: Rearranged engine test objectives to continue test campaign with legacy hardwareManaged schedule

Kent, WA, US

• Accelerated design, fabrication, test, production builds
• Reduced average drawing release from 5 weeks to 3 weeks by completing peer review in Jira and facilitating roundtable meetings instead of Windchill 5.0
• Submitted Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) quotes to suppliers based on concept drawings which reduced purchase order timeline by 2 weeks
• Identified 10 week schedule opportunity in test campaign to fabricate/route pressure sense lines with plastic model instead of a fully assembled and instrumented test article
• Improved pump delivery by 1 year through change in fabrication method of critical path part

Kent, WA, US

• Created work instructions to interpret engineering drawings into touch labor instructions
• Created qualification documentation- non-conformance pareto charts, PFMEA, workflowsPlanned, executed, and optimized test campaigns
• Created and verified Acceptance Test Procedures (ATP) which included valve set-up, hydraulic and pneumatic leak checks, data reduction, and data analysis
• Removed ambient low pressure leak checks from ATP after reviewing historic test dataStandardized operations across team
• Deployed a standard hot GN2 purge operation after hydro proof to prevent corrosion

Lake Oswego, Oregon, US

• Manufacturing Engineer of investment casting for Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) nozzles
• Reduced scrap and rework rate through statistical analysis of castings, waxes and tooling
• Implemented improvements after cost justification analysis on material and labor
• Analyzed dimensional data and prepared Material Review Board (MRB) documentation for customer submittal
• Provided direction to Engineering Technician for creation of work instructions

Mason, Ohio, US

• Quality contact for Solar Turbines (Division of Caterpillar) and Siemens Power Generation (Finspong, Sweden) of forged and investment cast nickel alloy vanes, injectors, and support rings
• Produced PPAP’s for New Model Development- First Article Inspection (FAI) reports, Process Capability, Gage R&R, Control Plans, Ballooned Prints
• Generated Non-Conformance reports detailing non-conformance, root cause, and corrective action to customer
• Negotiated accept, repair, or scrap dispositions of non-conforming parts with customer
• Created monthly Cost of Quality Reports to management, detailing number, type and responsibility of non-conformances
• Minimized non-conformances by initiating corrective action of processes and tooling

London, OH, US

• Awarded first project 1 month after being hired. After successful launch into mass production, awarded the senior engineer’s project, after he left the company. Awarded 3 additional new model headlights.
• Developed headlights from Design to Mass Production
• Designed Warp, Environmental, Photometric, and Bodyfit fixtures in CATIA V5R20
• Involved in all aspects of head light production: Steel Die Mold, Plastic Injection Molding, Coatings, Metalization, and Assembly
• Developed and Deployed prototype trial schedules to project team to meet Honda’s delivery date
• Led plant wide problem resolution meetings to assign and implement countermeasures

Columbus, Ohio, US

Analyzed and standardized Excel spreadsheets from DRAINMOD soil simulation data to determine soil characteristics. Assisted graduate students test water infiltration rates into retention basins and used MATLAB to analyze aquifer pressures. Installed and maintained mirco-irrigation sprinklers at the Ascension Lutheran Church Garden.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Facilitate individual or group tutoring sessions helping students to improve academic skills and achieve mastery of calculus.

Honolulu, HI, US

Improved experimental setup for the injection of liquid fuel into a plasma chamber to create synthesis gas

Honolulu, HI, US

Produced an absorbent, superior to commercial products to remove hydrogen chloride from the gasification of banana grass

US

• Collect and tabulate data for permits, assisted in the collection and preservation of fish samples, helped operate field sampling equipment such as a generator, boat, and outboard motor, cleaned equipment, helped.
• Identified five streams with poor water quality and identified an invasive species, the northern studfish, in a tributary of the Little Miami River by conducting water quality assessments through electroshocking of fish
• Finished project ahead of schedule. Redeployed to complete overdue projects from other teams

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Biological-Systems Engineering

Education record

Education record