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Goleta, California, Us

Goleta, California, Us

Rutherfordton, Nc, Us

- Responsible for high impact strategic BU project, the consolidation of two manufacturing facilities.- Responsible for the development of scope, schedule & budget of the entire project.- Manage 7 project leaders to ensure adherence to project’s metrics & milestones.- Regularly present to senior management and stakeholders project status throughout monthly metrics.- Developed product transfer stage gate process in unison with NPD, technical, manufacturing and sales.- Responsible for transferring & commissioning five coating & lamination lines. - Actively participated and supported the development of scope, budget and design for new coating and lamination capabilities for the manufacturing site.- Delivered and commission new PU lamination line on time and 10% under Capex budget.- Design and build new coating capability within schedule and budget to increase site’s yearly revenue by $1M.

Rutherfordton, Nc, Us

- Responsible for the efficient and timely operation of Rubber and Polyurethane products with a yearly revenue of $90Million. Develop operations strategy in support of Company deliverables for delivery, cost and schedule. - Provide leadership, direction and professional development to 6 direct reports and applicable staff (160 DL employees, maintenance manager and 12 maintenance techs). - Responsible for Plant Engineering & Maintenance team.- Acting plant manager (7mo).- Successfully reduce $400k in scrap within first 6 months. - Mentor operations team towards Gemba/On-floor approach that focuses on proactive problem solving through available data and communication escalation. - Champion the implementation of Lean Manufacturing tools across the plant, heavily focused on 5S and standard work. Trained key employees on 5S and std. work tools for deployment. - Responsible for sustaining 70% of planned maintenance items vs. breakdowns over 16 months. - Reduced an avg. of 160 backlog items to an avg. of 20 items per month within 12 months. - Responsible for $3Million plant Capex projects that are justifiable by OEE improvements.- Utilize project management approach for identifying improvement drivers. - Partnered with NPD, Sales, Supply Chain teams for product/process improvement. - Participated and champion safety committee team to improve safety culture. - Determined head count capacity based on customer demand and business performance. - Responsible for monthly operations results report to Senior Management.

Rutherfordton, Nc, Us

- Successfully reduced scrap by $1Million within 12 months.- Responsible for $20Million production commitments per year of polyurethane products.- Mange a team of 32 DL employees and 1 OH employee. - Sustained zero quality escapements during this period.- Lead the implementation of a $300k Capex project (check weight system), gained 10% OEE. - Supported the launch of new products in all life cycle stages. - Implemented Lean Manufacturing tools, 5S, SMED, Std. Work and time studies that lead to the increase in OEE of the department by 5%. - Coached and mentor team members, promoted two operators to chief operators within 6 months. - Focused on cross-training to improve SOP adherence and improvement.- Empower operators to define guidelines for line responsiveness for stoppages and troubleshooting.

Rutherfordton, Nc, Us

- Direct report to the Business Unit President - Reduced quality escapements to aerospace customers in polyurethane products by 100% in 9 months.- Develop and maintain PFMEAs, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Root Cause Corrective Actions (8Ds).- Customer focal for Safran and Collins Aerospace.

Plaisir, Fr

- Project Engineer for different product platforms (Business class seats and Tourist class seats) installed on different Aircrafts (Airbus & Boeing).- Successfully delivered on time programs for customers around the globe (THY-A330, THY-777, SIA-777 (300), ANG, THY (follow on), HAL, JAL-787 (support). - Responsible for all technical aspects of the program including, but not limited to program scope of work, timeline and budget. - Coordinate with Sales, Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Program Management, Quality Assurance, and other departments as necessary to ensure the delivered project fulfills the internal/external customer accepted definition.- Eliminate or adjust process issues that prevent successful delivery of customer project commitments.- Lead the efforts to define, plan, schedule and track the project scope, goals, deliverables, and full scale project plans and timelines.- Engineering support for aircraft delivery at Airbus/Germany (UAE-A380).- Mentor and train new Project Engineers and Design Engineers. - Regularly status high level technical progress metrics to Senior Management.

Plaisir, Fr

- Lead team of five engineers to resolve complex and recurring design problems- Responsible to evaluate and resolve engineering and manufacturing problems in production- Support field service organization in the evaluation and resolution of engineering technical problems after Aircraft delivery- Complete RCCA and develop disposition for nonconformance- Implement and lead cost saving initiatives- MRB Authority - Support engineering service team in Mexico

Plaisir, Fr

- Coordinate First Article Inspection meeting with customer, engineering and manufacturing to resolve all quality issues prior to production runs.- Create process and procedures for internal source inspection team.- Supervise three source inspectors, train personnel per std work instructions, define roles and responsibilities and determine process flow for source inspection team- Lead and participate in 8D problem solving process- Designated Supplier Quality Representative for Airbus- Responsible for the supervision of four quality inspectors and two quality electrical testers. - Responsible for the development of quality assurance procedures. Create work instructions and process flow diagrams for Quality Engineers.- Responsible for the supervision of the quality system in manufacturing. Lead corrective and preventive actions as required by customer and FAA regulations.

Irvine, California, Us

Leader for Continues Improvement Projects in a top class III medical device company. Projects included validation of new suppliers, molds, biosensor, and new materials for electrophysiology catheters. Process excellence team. Implement lean principles following the DMAIC philosophy in a production line to reduce WIP, direct labor and defects.Experience with IQ/OQ/PQCoordinated projects between California-Juarez, MX. facility

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for implementation of lean principles in 5 assembly production lines, layout redesign, 5S implementation, work station design, cycle time reduction, time studies, line balance, and created standard work instructions. Responsible for creating and approving engineering change orders: process entailed the review and approval of product and material changes, product deviation and routing. Participated in MRP meetings as a core team member for material disposition and introduction of new products.

Master Of Science, Engineering Systems, Management

Micromaster Principles Of Manufacturing, Manufacturing Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering