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Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

● Managed introduction and scale up of new technologies into production in factories in Asia.● Lead engineer on Innovation team, coordinates with product engineering, contract manufacturers, factories and equipment and materials vendors.● Developed enhanced cooling technologies based on evaporative cooling through moisture management.● Replaced a toluene/IPA based chemistry that caused health and environment problems. The impact was reduced cost through materials, equipment, and better work conditions.● Developed membrane coating technology used for OutDry Extreme rain gear that improves breathability with superior waterproofness.● Develop test methods to compare or establish performance of competing technologies.

Albany, Oregon

● Process engineering representative for process safety management (PSM).● Developed project scope, budget and timeline for capital projects.● Created/modified process flow diagrams, P&IDs, and functional statements.● Worked with plant engineering and operations to troubleshoot production issues.● Validated P&IDs with plant details on the implementation of improvement projects.● Worked with vendors on scheduling equipment deliveries, installation, and start-up

Primary instructor for Process Data Analysis course (CBEE 213, spring), taught 200 students about the application of engineering statistics to solve problems in the area of chemical, biological and environmental engineering. Topics included regression analysis, statistical process control, analysis of variance (ANOVA), design of experiments, and gauge studies.Instructor for Computing and Problem Soving (CBEE 102, winter). Taught class of 200+ students on introduction to MATLAB and LabVIEW in lecture and lab environment. Instructor for material and energy balances courses (CBEE 211/212, summer 2011).

● Designed and oversaw the installation and qualification of a coating production pilot plant● Coordinated projects with production and R&D activities● Equipment design/procurement, new product introduction from R&D to manufacturing,supporting production, tool recipe/process development, supporting and transferringprocesses at multiple manufacturing locations● Developed and patented a partial water assist laser cutting process to trench silicon waferswithout damaging thin film circuits while maintaining high throughput and eliminating the useof HFC as a carrier gas● Developed a palladium plating process which reduced bore diameter variation; improvedCpK from 0.75 to 1.3, rolled improvement to manufacturing sites● Developed electrode shielding methods that produced uniform metal deposition whichresulted in $11 million savings when implemented in worldwide production.● Process engineer for ink manufacturing and cartridge filling operations high mix/lowvolume ink business● Process engineer for LightScribe coating manufacturing. Introduce new disc labeling coatings to manufacturing to improve labeling time andreduce product cost● Resolved process and product quality issues, improvement projects, data collection, changemanagement, supplier qualification and management● Managed the shutdown and decommissioning of a plating production facility. Worked withproduction management on personnel resource requirements, EHS staff on decontaminationof equipment, maintenance teams on equipment removal● Lead engineer on the transfer of a palladium and rhodium plating manufacturing lines toIreland, 2 year assignment. Transferred and installed equipment, trained personnel,implemented documentation and quality systems, qualified product quality and release lineto production● Project management fundamentals, Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing principles, quality systems● Skilled using PFD, P&ID, SPC, DOE, KT, FMEA and other problem solving tools

Master Of Science - Ms, Chemical Engineering

Bse, Chemical Engineering