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Austin, Tx, Us

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

Earned rapid promotions to build and lead a team in transitioning ground-breaking new products to production. Guide the strategic vision to uncover critical issues, remove barriers, and partner cross-functionally to implement agile and lean solutions.Achievement Highlights:- Transformed a stagnant ERP project initiative introducing innovative solutions and workflows to remove $10M in erroneous hardware; increased data accuracy from 4% to 98% for financial, procurement, and manufacturing data.- Enhanced reporting for current/potential investors through accurate product and labor cost projections.- Leveraged critical data to boost future decision-making during the hardware development phase.- Boosted operational efficiency by developing actionable KPIs for senior leaders, management, and shop floor.- Implemented daily tiered standup meetings for production to review Safety, Quality, Delivery, Equipment, and Productivity (+QDEP) key process indicators from the previous day's work and a form for issue escalation to support staff and senior leadership. - Plugged into areas with needed leadership such as the machine shop where we increased production from 3 orders per day to 6 orders per day. Developed cross-training plans, capacity plans, created the annual operating budget, purchased new CNC equipment, and focused on cycle time reductions by implementing the PPAP process. - Created the first materials management group to improve on-time delivery for critical and long lead parts.- Led a cross-functional team to implement Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRR).- Completely overhauled the company redline process to increase communication of changes to production.- Lead a team of ERP developers and BAs to create a gate for new product introduction into the ERP system using agile management which stopped bad data input into the system.- Created and lead a tiger team to quickly produce business processes across Finance, Accounting, Production, and Supply Chain.

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

Led a team of five Composite Manufacturing Engineers tasked with executing five simultaneous improvement projects each month to boost efficiency for the creation of a first-of-kind composite rocket and cryogenic liquid oxygen tank.Achievement Highlights:- Designed a new launch site Kanban system to ensure sufficient hardware during critical projects; trained every member of the team on the Kanban process by creating viral five minute training videos. Earned subsequentpromotion.- Drove critical change by recommending an innovative solution to reengineer a flawed design of the Alpha Stage 1 Liquid Oxygen tank. Reduced building time from 16 to 4 weeks and passed the first acceptance testing phase inhistory.

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

Directed a team of Manufacturing Engineers to envision the future of composite rocket manufacturing while implementing lean manufacturing principles and leading 300+ continuous improvement initiatives (Kaizens).Achievement Highlights:- Increased “ready to build” status from 7% to 82% by using ERP to implement reordering rules for 60% of hardware while implementing Kanban principles for the remaining 40% consumables.- Reduced large tank assembly curing from $2K+ to <$5 per tank and 15 to 3 days through new technology and processes.- Reversed a $700K scrapping error to $0 (material/labor) by implementing a new material handling process.- Spearheaded an initiative to create a fixture to assemble the quad engine thrust structure to the aft end of the stage 1 fuel tank; new tooling and process reduced time from 5 days to 4 hours.- Boosted team efficiency (saving 30% downtime) by implementing a scrum board to prioritize manufacturing planning.- Saved 45% in costs and reduced material delays by negotiating long-term carbon fiber agreements with vendors.- Minimized build schedule from 6 months to 2 weeks for each rocket by implementing takt times.

Cedar Park, Texas, Us

Defined, researched, and implemented strategies, processes, workflows, tools, and technology. Built a team of engineersto quickly iterate new designs, recommend design enhancements, and optimize manufacturability.Achievement Highlights:- Developed the world’s first process to bond carbon to carbon large completely sealed cryogenic pressure vessels;streamlined the process so anyone can execute this process with zero defects.- Reduced material scrap rate from 40% to 20% by creating prepreg cut files for all new hardware.- Procured and implemented a 3 axis mill for machining carbon fiber; reduced need for outside machining and cuthand cutting from 238 parts to 8 parts.- Led team to implement laser projection reducing layup touch time by 30% and increasing accuracy of ply drops.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Built, coached, and led a sales team executing regional and national sales plans, leading the install process, and exceeding revenue goals YoY. Defined policies, strategies, virtual training, and incentives to accelerate growth.Developed individual forecasting, planning, and territory plans to capture market share growth.Achievement Highlights:- Led team to capture recognition as #1 Team in Texas.

Austin, Texas, Us

Designed retrofit solar systems and educated homeowners on the benefits of switching to cost-controlling renewables. Provided company-wide training, mentorship, and one-on-one training to my team and other teams in the region. Achievement Highlights- 2016 Direct Employee of the Year- Highest approved design rate- Lowest cancelation in the company- Highest volume in the Direct organization and 4th overall in the company- Highest quality in the company

Arlington, Va, Us

Handled structural analysis and testing initiatives supporting the Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, Redesigned Kill Vehicleprograms, and a proprietary program. Built and analyzed FE models. Tested flight and prototype hardware.

Arlington, Va, Us

Supported 9 programs in the Electro Optics Production Center. Quickly became the Subject Matter Expert in Root Cause Corrective Action and Continuous Improvement. Achievement Highlights:- Reduced manufacturing defects through hardware design, manufacturing processes, material handling, and training.- Played a key role in hardware prototyping, manufacturing, and inspection to support emerging programs.- Delivered $1.2M in cost savings by leading an enterprise project initiative to automate training records verification.- Earned 2014 Leadership Award, Inventor Award, and President’s Award Candidate for process improvement, leadership, and innovation. Developed an advanced inspection method for TOW to prevent shutdown.- Reduced the defects on RAM sources from a decade historical average of 40% to 0%.

Sustained Minute Man Missile III trainers by designing unique components that mimic the operational weapon system, designed components for updated systems, provided technical assistance during manual rewrites, and briefed Air Force and Technical Review Board (TRB) on new project proposals.First and only intern to propose design changes to TRB – Both changes were implemented and improved customer testing and simulationAdapted load bank to cost-effectively increase trainer functionality from 60% to 100%