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Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

• Led teams to improve product quality, decrease cycle time, and minimize production downtime using lean manufacturing tools.• Decreased process cycle time by 60% using value stream mapping and lean manufacturing techniques.• Authored new and updated existing process instructions to reflect cGMP. • Significant reductions of non-conforming product by identifying and eliminating common failure modes.• Implemented new materials, equipment and processes to improve product quality and reliability.• Worked in a cross functional team to streamline processes by identifying and eliminating waste.

Massachusetts Area

Focused on new product development, production scale up and lean manufacturing principles.• Solid Material Solutions, LLC: Develop new processes to create high strength reinforced superconducting wire and scale up production with improved performance and quality. • Comark, LLC : Reconfigured manufacturing floor and inventory management based on lean concepts for the production of factory hardened computer systems. Installed manufacturing cells and kanban systems to increase productivity and decrease production cycle times and inventory.

Shrewsbury, Ma

• Lead a team on technical achievements to develop materials and processes to produce unique medical grade Tantalum powder for the capacitor industry.• Improvements led to a product that performs up to 30% greater than currently available materials.• Identified and implemented improved product analysis techniques.• Identified opportunities for scale-up to increase production volumes with lower processing costs.

• Key team member in streamlining and redesigning the manufacturing process, personnel, and equipment to meet and exceed production metrics.• Brought various projects/programs from concept to prototype and eventual full production. • Assisted in upgrading proprietary software, equipment and processes to solidify the technology base for the core component of all our product lines.• Established and maintained critical relationships with suppliers to meet ongoing program and project goals.• QNA Presidential Award recipient- 2012.

• Spearheaded the development of new alloys for metal bonded abrasive products.• Implemented new processes to increase production capacity.• Coordinated internal sales and customer demands to expand products beyond traditional markets.• Implemented a database to track processing data and product measurables.

• Characterized critical components for vendor selection/validation.• Analyzed data from prototype runs in order to identify SPC points for a full-scale production.• Employed continuous process improvement techniques to streamline manufacturing processes.• Performed failure analysis to determine root cause and folded corrective action steps into production.

• Characterized and optimized deformation and heat treatment processes.• Developed a novel plating and diffusion processes along with support equipment.• Developed a coating process that improved performance and eliminated hazardous waste.• Documented and presented results, procedures, and implemented equipment maintenance schedules.• Instituted an improved cleaning process leading to improvements in product quality and decreases in product defects.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology With Concetration In Cybersecurity, Graduate With Honors - Cum Laude

Associate Of Science - As, Information Technology

Bs, Metallurgical Engineering

Education record

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology

BS in IT with concentration on cybersecurity. Graduated with Cum Laude honors