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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Area

Managing a diverse highly motivated team of engineers and technologies for class 6-8 vehicles including ABS/ESC, suspension controls, active aerodynamics, tire pressure monitoring systems, and trailer communications. The team is also responsible for integration of ADAS features to the ABS system.

Portland, Oregon Area

Special assignment with the mechatronics manufacturing engineering group, focusing on process and product improvements for chassis dyno within the truck manufacturing plants of DTNA. Using Six Sigma principles, TOS+ tools and strategies from Toyota Production systems I was able to lead a cross functional team from Detroit, Portland, Saltillo, and Cleveland.

Lead controls engineer on axle assembly line specifying and development of SISAM PCS a simplified version of the MES system SISAM (System for Information and Supervision Aggregates Manufacturing) to communicate directly from the SISAM server to the machine PLC eliminating the need for most PCs on the plant floor. Developed and specified the wireless.

Greater Detroit Area

Lead controls engineer on turbo charger assembly and machining systems. Including high speed balancing, electron beam welding, grinding and lathe machining.Responsibilities included all electrical documentation, PLC program review, safety design review,and sequence of operation documentation, machine qualification for functionality, initial startupand.

Greater Detroit Area

Lead controls engineer on flexible cylinder head machining line. Responsibilitiesincluded process design review, electrical print review, verifying programming and HMI standardswere used, process runoff, FIS integration, and installation. In this project we developed flexible human robotic interaction inspection station for large cylinder heads improving.

Greater Detroit Area

Controls Engineer Production support of flexible cylinder block machining. Responsibilities included production and process improvements to the entire line. During this time I was awarded a cost savings bonus for developing, installing and programming a new way to introduce repaired parts to liner assembly machine that did not require stopping the machine..

Greater Detroit Area

Lead Controls Engineer HDEP Machining on 4 separate concurrent projects. Responsibilities included writing an updated electrical specification that would communicate to foreign and domestic machine builders rules and regulations required in the United States. Helping them understand the requirements of the NFPA, NEC, and UL508A. A PLC programming.

Greater Detroit Area

Controls Engineer Startup and production support of a 20 operation head machining line. Projects included integrating back flushing filter to improve part cleanliness, integrating of new machines and stations needed for product changes, implementing process poka yokes to improve quality and

Greater Detroit Area

Controls Engineer small parts machining. Projects included controlsupgrades to honing, vertical boring, and turning machines. All of the projects were completed onehundred percent in house. I was responsible for hardware drawings, supervising the hardwareinstallation, HMI development, PLC programming and machine qualification