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• Design, develop and evaluate packaging structures for the consumer market achieving cost, launch and scope goals successfully utilizing corrugated materials, SBS structures,Thermoforming, labels and Palletizing.• Design of package structures for Plantronics M20, M50, M25, M55, Gamecom 380, Gamecom 780, Vpro HD products.• Benchmark analysis of competition product packages for innovation of new packaging designs, materials and trends.• Research on consumer feedback for influencing the package design aligning the design team continuous improvement efforts.• Continuous improvement initiative leader implementing packaging peer reviews and design reviews in the early stages of the packaging development process agilizing product launch in the later stages of the design.• Packaging design analysis and redesign for optimal performance in production and cost reduction.

• Lead multiple cost reduction/avoidance projects achieving over 1 Million dollars annually of savings: Redesign to reduce number of parts/ reduce cost of material and assembly Standardizing of materials for less cost / outsourcing Change product design features that enhance yield like poke yoke’s (reducing critical ops)• Cost analysis: Perform assembly process and scrap simulations for optimal design solutions.• Introduction of New products implementing lean manufacturing and DFMA principles• Sustainable improvements on production processes: Improvement on fixture design reducing assembly steps and time Optimization of line distribution  Change packaging process from UV to Ultrasonics ($60k dollar cost reduction)• Helped to implement the Design for excellence program world wide successfully with upper management aid.• Provide DFMA training to colleagues from China, United States and Mexico achieving a company worldwide standard guideline for DFM.• Established DFMA analysis procedures that were implemented in the Product Development Process successfully providing feedback to our designers achieving optimization of all new products and time to market reduction.• Established a common DFM lessons learned archive that contains all the practical guidelines for DFM and they are used early in the design phase in every new product as part of the PDP.• Helped to establish manufacturability metrics in a product design before it goes to production. • Basic design of product parts in Pro E (Part features changes)• Introduction of new product packaging for the gaming and entertainment market, focused on meeting Time-To-Market and Production goals.• Experience on time studies (routings), production line balancing and documentation. Layout and Flow optimization // Industrial engineering activities.• Provide manufacturing support and assessment to engineering during design stage phases and current manufactured products.