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Dyersville, Iowa, United States

Lead the effort to automate the plant manufacturing floor and clean up product technical documentation.

Coralville, Iowa, United States

Manchester, Ia

Troubleshoot automated manufacturing equipment, modify PLC code and HMI screens, automate legacy (30yo) equipment to modern standards, ID legacy equipment, drive OT network to CPwE standards, act as a technical resource with plant personnel, work with OEM's to modify equipment, and develop plans to upgrade legacy equipment. Developed the long term controls/automation strategy for the plant.

Provide high technology automation concept, design and project managment services. Customers include: LaserCard, Solyndra, PCI, Gallo, Balboa Water Group, The AKA Group, Abbott, zelos, and others.

Santa Clara Ca

Develop, apply and maintain quality requirements and standards for development and manufacturingproducts. Serve as the primary quality assurance resource to department supervisor(s) for problem identification,resolution, loss reporting and continuous improvement. Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in design development projects representingquality assurance and the customer. Design and implement methods for process control, process improvement, testing and inspection. Promote and execute quality standards, inspection processes, test methodology, quality plans,documents and reports. Report to management on quality issues, trends and losses. Review suppliers purchase orders and establish supplier quality requirements. Participate in internal and external quality audits. Interface with supplier and customer quality representatives concerning problems with qualityassurance and assure that effective corrective action is implemented. Assist shop personnel with process and maintenance standards for all machinery.

Pleasanton

Identify automation issues and develop plans to resolve all issues across 6 north American plants. Participate in Lean six sigma activities. Reverse engineered equipment and developed missing electrical schematics, pneumatic schematics, and mechanical drawings then rewired 2 very neglected automatic machines. Trained techs in troubleshooting techniques. Worked with IT to map out IP address of all the equipment and identify equipment with XP or other security issues. Drive all automation issues across all north American plants.Key projects: #1 Visited all 6 north American plants to evaluate automation equipment technical skill sets, production variability, production standardization opportunities, and production capability to identify improvement opportunities. #2 Identified legacy controller issues, wrote legacy survey to understand the concerns of each plant and IT, developed an automation controls strategy that looked out 20 years, identified security legacy and ROI justification then developed the budgetary ($10 - $15 million) cost. #3 Transferred hand drawn mechanical drawings of 6 systems into 3D Inventor models, fixed alignment and missing parts issues, developed BOM. #4 Cleaned up the ACAD drawings of all 6 north American plants, added IP maps and split up the drawing functional layers such as shelving, facilities, structure, office space, plant equipment using XREF.

Livingston, Ca

Manage controls projects; Develop budgetary costs, present funds request for projects, develop project time line, write SOW, oversee contract vendors performing work, test equipment for functional ability. Work with and train techs to better their troubleshooting skills. Special projects: #1 Develop a plant controls strategy, identify critical issues that can shut the plant down. Criteria for determining shutdown; time > 24 hrs or equipment damage cost > $100,000. #2 Retrofit a 30 year old industrial filter to a modernized sensors to server capability. Total budget $1,090,000. Under budget by ~$200,000

Livermore Ca

Worked as an automation and controls engineer on a contract basis. Update and modified existing programs from past projects. Develop electrical schematic drawings and PCB schematic drawings and board layouts. Design and program equipment to SOW. I was called in for small, short term projects which other contractors did not want due to the size and size.

Fairfield Ca

Key Challenges: (i)Role model an attitude for embracing lean. (ii)Integrate plant wide equipment with osiSoft and zpi software. (iii)Provide technical leadership covering: equipment documentation standards, forensic data analysis, statistical analysis, and process improvement methodology.Major Ongoing Projects: (1)Clean up existing schematic diagrams, PI&D diagrams, and system drawings. (2) Verify vendors, and contractors understand and deliver equipment as required. (3)Develop new technological concepts for improving production yield.Review all schematics and HMI files. Periodically back up PLC and HMI source files. Modify PLC code and provide new tags for zpi and OSI/pi (osiSoft) integration. Troubleshoot equipment failures. Develop one point lesson plans for bringing new equipment on-line or operational process changes. Identify process improvement activities, changes or designs. Identify opportunities to reduce scrap or equipment down time. Check osi/pi tags zpi to ensure integration is properly configured. Influencing operators to embrace lean. Calculate the ROI and write specs for modifying out ABB robots.

Livermore, Ca

Design the electrical circuits and develop controls code for all custom automation projects.Responsible for all controls and automation strategy.Provide technical sales and marketing support to the sales group.Oversee the assembly and testing of the custom automation projects.Currently working as an independent contractor with NexusAutomation developing electrical schematics and writing software code using Ladder Logic, VB.net, and C#.

San Francisco Bay Area

Identify opportunities for market growth and penetration for Exec leadership. Provide market trend analysis, conduct research on industry competitors, and provide product design recommendations to Exec leadership. Review marketing material and recommend marketing material changes to leadership.Recommend marketing strategy for penetrating the OEM automation industry to leadership.Call on customers to review their project needs, expedite product delivery, and present product advantages to personnel at all levels. Work with external suppliers and distributors to present PMD products and solutions to their customers.Keep customers abreast of any new product offerings.Set up sales calls with new and existing customers.Provide technical support to current or potential PMD customers with selecting products which best fit the customer’s requirements. Provide phone or on-site troubleshooting assistance to customers using PMD standard products, in custom equipment, and custom circuit designs.Authored: Configuration Dependant Indexing Solutions, PID Pressure Control, & Automatic Door Controller solution notes. www.pmdcorp.com/solution_notes/

Provide electrical and software design, concepts for new project designs, train and mentor Jr. engineers, and provide technical support to customers.

Turlock

Taught undergrad students operational theory, business analysis and process improvement during the spring semester. Covered topics included: Six Sigma, TQM, Lean manufacturing, TPM, and SPC.

Developed state of the art R&D solar assembly equipment for product development. Directed equipment build teams to bring projects that are behind schedule, back on schedule. Lead design teams on projects where time is the most critical element.

Solved complex technical issues for a vision measuring concept. Developed and brought 3 vision measuring systems on-line with a measuring capability of +/-10 microns. Developed high security and high precision automated web film processing and micro-printing equipment.

ResponResponsible for corporate wide quality and lean activities. Provide company wide training to all personnel in process improvement activities. Develop executive staff in strategy, business development and financial metrics. Provided all financial calculations for capital equipment purchases.

Set up mamogram test system. Troubleshoot down to the component level.

Design electrical and software controls systems. Manage custome laser automation projects.

Key system architect for developing wet bench robotics. Concretized the operating system, programming language and hardware designs for a new robotic product. Key software and hardware architect for building custom automation projects. Drove design and development costs down through lean manufacturing principles.

Mba In Operations & Finance, Lean Operations

Mba, Quality/Lean, Finance, Global Operations

Activities and Societies: CSU-Stan MBA Association founder, Received the Bava-Demergaso Business Fellowship.After Graduation I was invited.

Mmse, Operations

Activities and Societies: Developed automation control methodologies to reduce developement costs.My area of concetration is in lean.

Bsee, Rf/Microwave Communications W/Math Minor

Because of my experience as a Rf/microwave technician, I provided critical R&D to help develop an E-fiel/H-field sensor for the school.

Aa, Programming

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bs, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering