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Richvale, California, United States

Richvale, California, United States

Richvale, California, United States

Chico, California Area

Responsibilities: Operations and manufacturing process consulting. • Conduct projects for operations management improvement.• Perform system dynamics modeling, and manufacturing/business processes improvement.• Assist with lean manufacturing and quality management solutions. Accomplishments: Completed a production planning project for determining high leverage long-lead purchases and build-to-stock items.

Chico, California Area

Responsibilities: Teach classes in Quality Management, Operations Management, Project Management, and General Business.• Create lesson plans, discussions, lectures, activities, assignments, and exams. • Provide individual assistance, grade student work.• Oversee Teaching Assistant and Tutor. Accomplishments: Created learning sessions that emphasize discussion and in-class activities. Used relevant and recent industry examples. Received high marks from students and peers.

Chico, Ca

Responsibilities: Chief technical officer and senior service manager for a leading manufacturer of nut harvesting machinery. • In charge of all product development, design, and process engineering• Oversee all project management, production support, and product planning. • Supervise prototype production, custom product production, and service. • Member of the company leadership team.Accomplishments: Established a change management system enabling repeatability and improved post-delivery support. Aligned the service and the prototype/custom shops to improve capability and flexibility. Key contributor for the implementation of an ERP system. Super user proficient in all departments' functions. Tailored the ERP system's product configurator.

Chico, California

Responsibilities: Chief engineer and service manager for a leading manufacturer of door machinery.• In charge of all product development, configuration management, production support, and process engineering. • Oversee all project management, prototype production, and field service.• Member of the strategic management group. Accomplishments: Established a new project management system resulting in company records for new product introductions, and reducing warranty claims. Led projects related to value stream mapping, Kaizen events, 6S, and other lean tools. Improved throughput and reduced cost.

Chico, Ca

Responsibilities: Company and division director of quality and engineering for a manufacturer and operator of aerial firefighting systems.• In charge of the organization's quality management system, quality assurance, and material review board. • Oversee project engineering, production engineering, design engineering, test engineering, and technical support to production. • Member of company strategic management team. • Personally performed projects related to process engineering, assembly analysis and planning, and work flow management.Accomplishments: Established integrated product teams, implemented project engineering. Key employee in division’s ERP implementation. Led the establishment of work center inspection teams resulting in dramatic improvement in production speed. Led the achievement of company-wide ISO 9001 and AS9100 certification that required facilitating a multitude of improvement sessions.

Renton, Wa

Responsibilities: Engineer for Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group. Performed research and development projects for new wing assembly processes. • Performed process design, technical analysis, financial analysis, and production support• Managed a multi-division wing assembly development project.• One of the lead tool engineers for a new 737wing.• Responsible for in-house and supplier tool engineering and fabrication. • Member of multiple design build teams.Accomplishments: Received awards for leadership, communication, innovation, technical contribution, team and individual performance, and process development. Edited and authored large portions of multi-division tool engineering process documentation.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Special Project: Process Mapping and Systems Dynamics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Design Engineering Technology