Chris Reed Email & Phone Number

San Jose

Duties include scheduling employees and managing purchasing so that a multitude of projects and competing priorities are finished on time, interfacing with customers, and managing subcontractors and vendors.• Provide accurate materials costs and labor estimates to help develop project quotes, budgets and schedules• Manage all production activities including documentation, purchasing, fabrication, assembly, testing, quality assurance, customer acceptance, and shipping• Work with Production and Engineering to make our designs more manufacturable.• Developed new processes to reduce inventory, expedite production, and encourage collaboration.• Reduced Stock Room inventory by Utilizing Lean principals, practicing JIT ordering, and implementing a cycle count; negotiated a buyback of excess material from vendors with no re-stocking fee.• Created online Task Lists to increase visibility of employee's workloads and aid in project scheduling and capacity planning.• Report status of work in process to the Operations manager daily, confer with Engineers and technicians to ensure projects meet deadlines, Attend weekly meetings to address issues needing attention.• Preside over customer acceptance of new hardware and software, and direct engineering and technical support for customer issues• Schedule and coordinate on-sight repair by technicians, transport of equipment and RMA items between facilities for Routine cal & maintenance or repair.• Create and submit monthly RMA reports; guarantee labor and material costs for and engineering support were captured correctly• Training of new employees including two operations managers, technicians, interns and admins on standard operating procedures, ongoing training of technicians and test operators in new processes• Manage and facilitate movement of BOMs from design stage to purchasing and production ready by Interpreting engineering requirements, auditing, editing, and updating as needed to maintain accuracy.

San Jose

• Participated in the planning and design of a dedicated lab space and conference room.• Identify, Evaluate, select and purchase all required furnishings including machinery and tools for the lab and four individual workstations• Continuously improve layout, fixturing, lighting, etc. in the lab to increase production, safety, comfort and appearance• Determine stock levels and standard parts, manage and schedule purchase of tools and supplies as needed• Create Ordering sheet and empowered employees to suggest and request parts as needed to ensure adequate stock levels• Improve efficiency by ensuring commonly used parts were in stock and easy to find

San Jose, California

• Responsible for interfacing with Customers to ensure projects are aligned with goals, testing and installing new test systems and software at customer facilities, attending internal meetings to report on project status, Provided ongoing Support and Repairs at CM, trained Test operators to set up and use equipment• Design and layout PCBs, Research parts, identify suppliers, request quotes, provide material costs to sales for quoting purposes• Created documentation including Schematics, BOMs, ECOs, Maintained accurate drawings for all designs, parts, and assemblies, wrote Manuals and Quick Start Guides that became the benchmark for Larson Automation that others to were instructed to follow• Re-created Test Systems and fixtures with little, poor, or no documentation• Troubleshoot Test Setups to support customer product validation during FAT, HALT and QUAL Testing, in addition to everyday production.• Write Software inLabwindows CVI including overall architecture, GUI’s and Instrument drivers.• Solely responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining a cable harness testing program for twenty different wiring harnesses; including Hardware and Software design, budgeting and quotes, repair and ongoing support including software revision upgrades• Worked with Environmental Stress Screening Program at Larson Automation from it’s inception though 2M in sales: management/interface communication with the Contract Manufacturer Developing and writing Testing Procedures, Designed Custom interface boards, test cables, Vibration Fixtures and Head Expanders and brought them from prototype through production, Created Vibration Profiles using Spectral Dynamics PUMA software.

Hudson, Ma

Internship, Manufacturing Support Group. Successfully managed the introduction of VWR Scientific to site, participated in planning for equipment and size requirements of new gown room, and helped eliminate clean suit shortage for contractors, thereby increasing productivity.

Reno, Nevada

Worked in front office and in most phases of production line, earned the nickname “Eagle Eye” and became lead QA inspector for incoming raw materials and final product. Trained new employees, always shipped parts on time under strict deadlines, awarded highest score ever given for safety on my performance review. Saved company money and prestige by catching faulty parts and reworking them before they shipped to customer. Selected as one of two employees sent to Nevada to set up a new manufacturing facility.

B.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering

Education record

Education record

Education record

H.S. Diploma, Science And Mathematics