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Product Development and Platform Integration

Develop Lockout Tagout and Quality procedures for ISO 9001

•Managed the development and integration of Engineering Builds of Material for futuristic engine designs.•Conducted design reviews ensuring verification and validation process met design output requirements; developed new products; DFMEA, PFMEA, DVP&R, & APQP; updated Product Technical Profiles; •Performed Risk Assessment, and failure analysis using 8D and Rapid Problem Solving (RPS) processes.•Mentored new engineers in Value Package Introduction (VPI), product development, and sealing system failure analysis. •Developed Sealing Solutions; designed / developed new lubrication components, and heat shields.

Responsibilities: Analyze failed medical injection devices, prepare root cause failure analyses, Design, Process, and Application FMEAs.•Performed over 800 detailed engineering investigations for root-cause determination of failures on refillable medical injection devices.•Reviewed, updated FMEA and reliability/GMP quality documents; Authored detailed investigation reports.•Developed tests to duplicate polycarbonate field failures.

Responsibilities: Evaluate sealing technology, analyze joint and joint loading sealability, perform product development gasket and seal testing, prepare engineering statements of work, cost estimates and test proposals for customer approval.•Designed self-healing gasket concept, which reseals if a leak occurs.•Redesigned thermal cycle bench test increasing cooling flow 75% for temperature ramp rate control; wrote ISO-9000 test procedure for thermal cycle bench and associated equipment.•Awarded 2001 Annual Quality Improvement as Leak Team member (Top 5 in $20 billion dollar corp.).

Responsibilities: Develop instructions for QS-9000 Process Control Plans, identify, implement quality and manufacturing improvements.•Assisted plant in achieving/maintaining QS-9000 certification by process documentation, and follow up audits.•Reengineered machining processes per PFMEA, identified and implemented safety and manufacturing improvements on crankshaft, connecting rod, and cylinder block lines component lines.•Implemented 5S organization and eliminated unnecessary material to enable lean manufacturing.

Responsibilities: Contact customers/dealers for failed parts, detailed information and troubleshoot product failures.•Conducted 3,000 Quality Customer Contacts; provided troubleshooting assistance to U.S. and Canada network; gathered data beyond warranty reports; retrieved parts for evaluation; engineering input on failures to design.•Troubleshot electronic “fly-by-wire” fuel system and component problems by telephone

Responsibilities: Prepare electrical load analyses, estimates, proposals, engineering environmental studies; prepare cost of service analyses for water and wastewater systems. Identified transformer savings and reduced field failures by quantifying transformer service life by the aging of plastic and elastomeric materials in electrical transformers.

Responsibilities: Manage pastorate of small churches bi-vocationally 13 years and full-time four years. Public relations representative in community functions; television and radio broadcasts; and Chamber of Commerce. Taught and presided over church meetings. Represented churches in over 2,400 speaking engagements including 30 television and radio presentations.

Managed Product Service team of 5-20 employees with $500,000 non-salary budget, managed service publications; designed repair components. Reduced financial exposure using failure analyses and reliability findings for warranty, design, quality, and production. Corporate Leak Team Representative

Project Engineering; designing components for fuel systems, machinery, and other products,; providing engineering troubleshooting for chemical processes, cast iron welding processes, heat exchangers, and manufacturing issues for multiple plants with over $500,000 annual cost savings.

Managed 12 test cells using matrix testing and close scheduling of over 100 product development test programs, increasing completed test programs over 100%; performed failure analysis; supervised 3 technicians.

Developed and revised specifications and procedures for international use, covering ANSI, ASTM, DIN, JIS, MIL, AISI and SAE standards for company products; orchestrated agreeable compromises; arbitrated when necessary.

Metallurgical, Polymer, & Chemical Laboratory Analysis: Developed aging process duplicating seal failures, saving $500,000 annually. Improved shop floor chemical analysis, reducing process rejections and improving control 14%. Developed chemical process for maintenance cleaning of heat exchangers, saving $100,000 annually.