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Kitchener, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Leading a dynamic manufacturing and test systems engineering team with a background in mechanical, electrical and software; Focus on implementing organizational systems thinking with a blend of continuous improvement, agile and lean methodologies to create a functional management framework aligned with corporate and departmental objectives.Committed to building best-in-class unmanned aerial system manufacturing capabilities in a controlled and standardized environment: Delivering robust assembly processes, fixtures, and instructions to remove manufacturing variability; Delivering best-in-class test systems covering entire electro-mechanical, RF, sensor, and software stack; Developing operator focused solutions with a forethought to ergonomics and safety at all stages. Working closely with the development teams, early in the product development lifecycle; Implemented manufacturing test requirements and specifications processes to close gaps between expectations and capabilities; Executing design for manufacturing, test, and excellence analysis on parts and processes; Reporting on manufacturability and test analysis through engineering design and change management processes.Overseeing the development of manufacturing execution system improvements and new functionality to guarantee process control standards; Prioritize integrations to automate non-value add tasks; Architecting functional improvements to our manufacturing and calibration test engine.Resource planning to balance production support, sustaining improvements and engineering design projects; Building a balanced team with cross functional skill-set; Providing opportunities to demonstrate expertise in individual skills; Encouraging and demonstrating the sharing of skills and knowledge to broaden capabilities within operations.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Demonstrated continued ability take on more responsibility, challenges and roles within the organization; Filled in for operations NPI Program Management; Steadily acquired additional direct reports including manufacturing engineers, manufacturing technicians and soldering specialists; Worked closely with Director of Operations in improvement of overall operations process and procedures; Executed low rate initial production of custom engineered solutions to existing projects; Assisted every group within organization with a holistic, broad in scope and technical understanding of our manufacturing operations, product portfolio, cross functional processes, developments and corporate history.Developing and maintaining standards for documentation of test requirements, test specifications, station definitions, project plans, work instructions, process control, data collection, reporting, key performance indicators, calibration and preventative maintenance.Managed, led, and contributed to deep dive investigations into systematic failures with multivariate direct and root causes; Assisted in-market engineering team with investigations into customer issues utilizing collected quality data with an emphasis on closing assembly and test gaps.Applied value stream mapping to identify waste in assembly and test process; Generated continuous improvement projects through applied Gemba and Kaizen techniques; Assigned, prioritized and promoted continuous improvement activities that improved yield, test time, test coverage, assembly takt time, manufacturability and quality.Prioritized debug activities balancing revenue needs of the business and commitment to existing customers; Coordinated targeted scrap recovery of at-risk components; Implemented regular scrap process to target reductions in inventory value to reduce inventory risk.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Took on increasing responsibilities for more functional blocks within Operations department, creating a broader Manufacturing Test Systems team; Led a team of Manufacturing Test Development Engineers, Manufacturing Systems Software Engineers and Assembly Test Technicians (Debug Operators).Integrated organization systems thinking methodologies into team management systems; Orchestrated daily team meetings to prioritize new out of scope asks along side planned sprint activities; Reported out to higher tier Operations management meetings and fed back priority changes to team.Performed and automated yield and test time capturing, calculations, reporting and analysis to focus improvement activities towards the largest area of impact; Triaged and assigned of test station bugs, new requirements and coverage improvement to the team, expanding on original ask and defining scope of activities.Led reviews of our processes, procedures and standards with impacted parties to ensure alignment of best practices across operations; Assisted in the development of processes, procedures and standards for other groups within operations; Created teams to drive improvement and re-standardization of outdated templates and formatsExecuted against A3 and RCCA problem solving methodologies and utilized lean tools to deep dive into systematic failures in test with direct and root causes in hardware, software and stack up tolerances; Designed, developed and delivered automated test solutions for new product introduction to support concept, development, verification and production sustaining phases; Led assembly and test fixture, hardware and software design reviews; Designed manual assembly tuning systems with a mind for operator safety from potential hazards.Implemented and improved upon initial manufacturing test requirements and manufacturing test specifications processes to close gaps between engineering test expectations and manufacturing capabilities.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Led team Kanban meetings with Test Systems Development Engineers; Implemented agile and sprint methodology via standardized meetings, control boards and velocity reporting.Managed improvements to manufacturing execution system, led reporting needs and prioritized development of new functionality; Improved test engine automation; Developed flow checks and allocation locks; Automated non-conformity and return material authorization reportsDesigned, developed, and delivered automated test solutions for new product introduction to support engineering development phases; Designed manual assembly tuning systems with a mind for operator safety from potential hazards; Supported and developed improvements to existing generation test systems.Led and contributed to A3 and RCCA deep dive investigations into systematic failures in test with root causes in mechanical, electrical and software. Troubleshot and debugged fresh production and customer failures.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Managed manufacturing execution system replacement project, budget, and deadlines alongside new enterprise resource planning system deployment; Solely designed, developed, and delivered a full stack in house manufacturing execution system; Exported, scrubbed, and provided initial data sets for import; Provided on-call technical support and troubleshooting during system migrations directly leading to a successful launch without delay in bring-up.Designed and implemented controls for assembly and test flows; hierarchical allocation; test quality data; incoming and outgoing quality data; shipping and receiving; non-conformity reporting; and return material authorization reporting; Developed APIs and business logic to integrate with variety of systems; Implemented data validation and transactional control automation. Maintained legacy data tracker functionality and implemented continuous improvement suggestions to improve intractability on the shop floor; Expanded our reporting capabilities linking customer failures with manufacturing test and quality data.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Converted Visual Basic build data tracker to a relational database architecture; Implemented digital tracking of return materials authorizations, non-conformities, test data, and shipments; Developed reports to track impact of components in systems; Supported finance with reporting, transaction troubleshooting and maintenance of enterprise resource planning system.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Information Technology Client Services Support regarding Accounts, Applications and Deployed Hardware; Configured and Deployed Stations for new users, and reclaimed and refurbished stations of existing users.

St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada

Tier I & II Client Services Information Technology Support for Ministry of Transportation Accounts and Applications.

St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada