Product Engineer – Cleaner Blades March 2016 – December 2017Owned all new cleaner blade development across six product linesInterfaced with suppliers to acquire new cleaner blades, improve existing parts, and improve valueCooperated with colleagues to coordinate messages to suppliers and to share improvements across productsSelected product cleaner-blades and cleaner-blade component suppliersOversaw internal and external testing of new and existing cleaner bladesEvaluated new technologies as candidates for new and future productsConsidered supplier requests for component modifications to improve manufacturing and cost Mechanical Design Engineer – Photo-Conductor Units July 2013 – March 2016Inserted charge-roll-cleaner-roll into existing product cartridge for extended life testingWorked to understand and eliminate interference between components in imaging unitDesigned and modeled in 3D imaging unit housing and components – Pat# 10,401,785Tested new connector for feasibility by building and using testing apparatusOwned cleaner-blade development and testing for new productExtended life of cleaner bladeDesigned and tested new method for charge roll shipping separatorInterfaced with product engineers to extend new innovations to old productsInterfaced with suppliers for acquisition of testing materialsMaintained stock of cleaner blades for testing and discovery builds

Technical Rotation Program – Mechanical Design Engineer December 2012 – June 2013Interfaced with Product and Process Quality Assurance (PPQA) to find and solve product issuesCommunicated with Cebu, Philippines to correct tamping algorithm and improve staple-stack qualityMeasured paper speed and developed alternative design to improve paper speed consistencyTechnical Rotation Program – Product Engineer March 2012 – November 2012Communicated with customers to understand and address field issuesManaged Engineering Changes including BOM changes, part modifications, and process changesVisited China manufacturing facility and oversaw Start of Production buildWorked with Chinese manufacturer to track down root cause of color misalignment for process improvementCreated and started a process for the recertification of printersTechnical Rotation Program – Mechanical Design Engineer June 2011 – March 2012Created testing fixtures for the development of camera scanning technologyPrototyped two separate scanner designsDesigned and prototyped covers and Optical Capture Assembly (OCA)Eliminated reflections and increased efficiency in the OCA

Provided assistance to product and design engineers, modified drawings, performed testing, managed projects.