Lead Process Engineering, Process Control Engineering and Maintenance• Collaborated within and across teams to test, implement, and support technical solutions to minimize impact on production• Cultivated nimble team capable of rapidly addressing fluid production needs• Reduced monthly utilities cost by 30%• Reduced R&M monthly expenses by 30%

Created and managed build out of the $2MM budget for the injection molding and blow molding manufacturing areas; Responsible for creating the utility layout of the manufacturing facility; Responsible for sourcing and managing contractors for the build out of injection molding and blow molding manufacturing area; Sourced capital equipment for the injection molding operation; Generated policies/procedures to define operations, product quality and promote safety; Made weekly presentations to management • Presented to Durant City Council and successfully lobbied for the replacement of their damaged transformer using the city budget• Modified resource allocation to reduce manufacturing cost by 10%• Improved product yield by 8% by executing a Minitab formulated DOE on cutting boards, ice trays and sippy cup injection molding processes

Responsible for managing 13 maintenance personnel in 3 focus factories across 3 shifts; Responsible for maintaining equipment that produces in excess of 60 MM FDA regulated units annually; Assign preventive maintenance tasks required for the upkeep of Sidel blow molding machines, Engel, Husky, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Arburg and Krauss Maffei injection molding machines with a mix of Staubli, Engel and Wittmann robots; Coordinated the training of staff on local and corporate procedures; Responsible for completing the review of each Maximo work order generated• Reduced machine down time12% by improving the on-site spare parts inventory• Established personnel performance review method that reduced subjectivity• Manage the implementation and execution of preventive maintenance job plans• Supervise maintenance personnel providing training, motivation and performance feedback• Coordinate long repair/preventive maintenance projects with production management to minimize downtime• Adjusted the distribution of maintenance personnel with varying skill sets over all shifts to provide the most effective coverage • Implemented daily pass down meetings between each shift to discuss machine issues, production schedule and safety concerns

Manage capital projects for the injection molding business unit; Started new manufacturing plant from an empty warehouse; Installed 6 Nissei 850T, 2 Nissei 650T and one Ube 2500T over 2 years; Coordinated electrical, mechanical and rigging contractors; Managed the installation schedules to meet management deadlines; Capital project accountability updates to management and stakeholders; Troubleshoot manufacturing equipment to minimize production downtime• Established process parameters for injection molded parts for IBU components used in Nissan automobiles Murano, Titan and Frontier • Analyzed processing data using Minitab to confirm part consistency ±5%• Improved OEE on Injection Machines across three shifts from 48% to 85% to improve quality, output, scrap, and decreased overtime by running a series of DOE’s (Design of Experiments) to optimize the processing parameters with a cost savings of $250,000 in FY18 and a projected cost savings of $725,000 in FY19.• Troubleshoot equipment failures to reduce manufacturing down time

Manage capital projects for the injection molding focus factory with budgets as much as $2MM; Weekly capital project accountability updates to management and stakeholders; Manage contractors used in the installation of utilities and capital equipment; Specify, source and commission capital equipment for profit maintenance, production expansion and continuous improvement; Management and training of junior engineers; Mentor junior engineers; Troubleshoot manufacturing equipment to minimize production downtime• Managed the installation, commissioning and validation of a LSR IMM that consisted of the SAT being performed in Austria, making shipping arrangements and coordinating functional testing with downstream focus factories for validation• Managed the upgrade of obsolete IMM to minimize the risk of extended downtimes• Managed the installation of a system to reduce the risk of curing a LIM mold due to a power outage

Manage the Research and Development facility; Specify, source and commission capital equipment for process scale-up; Management and training of engineering technicians; Communicate with customers to understand their product specifications ;Perform incoming inspection of raw materials to confirm specifications are met; Organized facility work flow to reduce inefficiencies • Designed 40 R&D developed porous plastics products and transferred to production parts that included medical devices, based on customer specifications and requirements that successfully launched and generated over $400,000 in annual sales for domestic and international customers.• Managed cross functional team during the transition of high profile projects from research and development to production.

Managed the execution of airflow visualization studies in controlled manufacturing areas; Executed time studies on production floor; Member of Elevated Investigations for low fill volume complaints of particulates in vialed products and poor mechanical function of equipment; Lead project to re-design procedures for the purchase of capital equipment• Wrote and managed the execution of FDA required protocols to validate capital equipment purchased to increase process production capacity .• Validated manufacturing equipment used in the production of the Solid Phase product line with capital cost of $400,000 that produces sales in excess of $3 million annually.• Performed DOE studies for dye immersion and torque relaxation on vial components used in the filling process to establish parameters for validations.

Wrote development reports that document the steps taken to determine the appropriate conditions for cGMP manufacturing of products used in clinical trials; Assisted with the manufacture of transdermal patches that included producing the solvent suspension and processing of the transdermal films that contained either active API or placebo formulations • Designed small scale equipment used in the manufacture of numerous cGMP batches of transdermal patches in a class 100,000 clean room for indications such as diabetes and Parkinson’s used in Phase I/II clinical trials; an array screening device for functional testing of two configurations of the electrical component of the PassPort™ Patch system using DMADV method; an enclosure used to guard a robot that assembled the PassPort™ Patch system that eliminated the manual assembly process.

• Product Development Engineer of continuous membrane for the medical testing, pool filtration, IQ/OQ/PQ validated manufacturing process for class III medical devices using PPAP that were transferred to production.• Design Engineer of stepper motor driven ball screw linear actuator for pick and place device using DMAIC to reduce operator interaction, PLC controlled/pneumatically actuated production equipment to improve batch consistency, and extrusion/pellet production equipment that is heat exchanger cooled water to increase run time and improve product quality.