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Paramount, California, United States

• Managed and Directed a variety of engineering, production planning, and quality initiatives related to the manufacture, testing, and quality assurance of aerospace fasteners. I was the leader of the technical team and the cornerstone to advancing the engineering and quality culture, reinforcing these concepts out on the shop. Oversaw the creation, implementation, and sustainment of tooling, progression, and production drawings and BOMs.• Site Champion for the implementation of a robust Manufacturing Execution System, ensuring up to date run rates and setup times to effectively capture cost in ERP. Responsible for creating processes rooted in a strong engineering foundation to ensure repeatability. Made determination for new equipment, additional staff, and operator training needs. Proposed productivity and cost saving projects to help reduce manufacturing costs. Led productivity pipeline to drive projects to completion. Developed and conducted corrective actions, solutions, and improvements.

Gardena, California, United States

• Managed all areas of Manufacturing to produce products and directed staff so that custom crates are safely manufactured on schedule, with high quality standards, sound load-bearing integrity, and within cost margin objectives. Achieved optimum employee productivity while ensuring all OSHA safety standards with minimal overhead and raw material costs to meet budgetary expectations set during the bidding process.• Assisted company officers and sales manager in the development and formulation of strategic sales objectives. Accompanied the sales manager providing technical support and key sales pitches for current customers or new business developments. Developed strong personable business relationships with clients generating client trust and reliability. Directed and monitored individual projects, acting as liaison between CEO to inform hourly personnel of communications, decisions, policies and all matters that affect their performance.• In charge of quoting unique crating projects, putting in place an Excel programed spreadsheet used in operations, sales, financing and manufacturing departments.• Planned, directed and coordinated all manufacturing projects ensuring timeline can be met, proper materials are spec’d out, staffing is adequate, and crates are built to customer specs or improved with client approval.• Developed strong and personable business relationships with outside suppliers and third-party vendors such as foam companies. Crafted the manufacturing plan and established procedures for maintaining highest standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that crates conform to customer needs and company quality.• Hired, trained and evaluated staff. Recommended and implemented corrective actions necessary in accordance with company policy. Ensured compliance with current federal and local regulations.

Fullerton, California, United States

• Designer of metal stamping tooling, laser fixtures, In-process Quality Control gages and progressive dies in the auto and aerospace fields for both prototypes and production using Autodesk AutoCAD and SolidWorks 3D CAD software in 2 and 3 D. Responsible to plan, direct and coordinate projects completion.• Key participant in Corrective Actions meetings providing engineering voice to resolve and improve operations/production quality issues. Provides diagnostics for problems with conditions of equipment, stamping dies and processes.

Inglewood, California, United States

• Managed the technical duties for the plant: process development and validation, design review, equipment selection and modification, product development and redesign, including cost estimates, identifying cost reduction opportunities, risk management, existing product cost optimization and powerful problem solving.• Directed projects and technical support to customers, suppliers, contractors, and sales dept. Analyzed and approved all engineering change proposals from customers and internal departments, involving issues related to R&D for new parts, converted components, material changes, converting processes and procedures, and specifications of existing parts. Provided technical support customers for NPDs or existing products, proposing new materials and processes for optimum manufacturability. Travelled across the U.S. territory and internationally (Mexico and South America) to meet with customers.• Led the acquisition of $2M CNC Servo controlled equipment with Laser cutting capabilities which improved the process time of sophisticated medical parts in the Clean Room by 50%.• Extensive experience and advanced knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma. Black Belt graduated from accredited program at UC Irvine. Performed complex analysis of process capabilities for process optimization in accordance with cGMP’s by using Minitab software. Directed and mentored Value Stream Mapping initiatives.• Trained and managed the activities and performance of 2 manufacturing engineers, a process engineer, a technical service coordinator, 3 clean room supervisors, and a configuration analyst supervisor, by providing a positive and equitable work environment emphasizing respect, responsiveness, and results.

Fullerton, Ca

• Managed, Planned and directed all daily operations related to Engineering and Manufacturing processes of CNC machining jobs in order to accomplish customer satisfaction of top quality and delivery expectations.• Supervised the generation of job travelers, estimate of times, technical proposal, quoting and pricing, extensive drawing and specification review, CNC programming, tooling and fixture design using SolidWorks CAD software, change orders, jobs coordination, scheduling, job routing, day-to-day operations, and quotation follow-up.• Played a major role in successful negotiations for aerospace projects with new and existing clients.• Directed, motivated and provided training to a team of 25 specialized machinists in the areas of CNC and EDM field, as well as hands on in aspects of conventional machining with lathe, milling and grinding equipment. Equipment included: 10 Wire Electrical Dischargeable Machines, 4 Conventional EDM, 3 Hole Popper, 2 CNC Work Center FADAL and manual mills, grinders. CNC plasma and water jet metal cutting.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

Master Of Science (Ms), Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General