• Lead day-to-day engineering activities on NPI (New Product Introduction) automation cells thru Design Freeze/Equivalency phase to the Transfer Lot phase.• Developed, managed, and improved Operational SOP’s and processes for new equipment.• Conducted and lead multifunctional teams through RCA’s investigations.• Continuously identifying and implementing solutions to improve equipment throughput, quality, and yield.• Identified and recommended solutions to Raw material and Assembly drawing oversights.• Defined process and assembly limits/specifications for vision systems, heat staking, and ultrasonic welding automation cells.• Composed and presented daily, weekly, and quarterly reports to upper/senior management.

• Coordinated day-to-day engineering operations on multiple automated assembly machines and packaging machines for Lateral Flow products. Aligned production, maintenance, quality, and other engineering departments to effectively complete planned production, maintenance, and engineering activities.• Chaired multifunctional team (engineering, maintenance, production, quality, and OPEX) in daily evaluation and action planning of equipment, maintenance, and personnel performance.• Implemented 2 production lines (Assembly to Packaging) including installation, qualifying, and validated. Achieving 80%+ OEE and 95% yield within 6 months of installation. • Conducted engineering studies to evaluate machine and process improvements. Identified loss leaders using statistical analysis.• Facilitated a multifunctional team in root cause analysis investigations.• Head engineer on design and implementation of continuous improvement projects for POD7 automation equipment. Managed continuous Improvement project timelines and resources.• Reduced assembly machine’s cutting station downtime by 80% through data analysis, identification, and implementation of a standardized mechanical setup process.• Identified and initiated vision inspection improvements to improve yield, by 1.5%, through reducing false failures at final device inspection.• Managed, updated, and improved Preventative Maintenance and Operation SOPs. • Developed preventative maintenance schedules. Developed and maintained maintenance and production training documents and program to reduce performance variability across shifts and to promote singular machine / production philosophy.• Composed and presented weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.

• Designed, developed, and improved processes for capacitor manufacturing. • Handled project development, planning, scheduling, implementation and reporting on experiments to verify effectiveness of changes or equipment.• Conserved $250k per year through the development and implementation of using in-house fuse sheets,• Drafted detail drawings of equipment and fixtures using CAD (Autodesk Inventor). Maintained Drawing library for engineering department.• Improved efficiency, yield, ergonomics and safety of manual wafer breaking through the design and development of a new tool to precisely remove portions of a cut wafer. • Designed tooling and production procedures for new product line. Assisted in development of new products and reported, issued recommendations, and implemented process changes for product lines. • Improved and automated Visual Inspection on Mitutoyo QuickVision machines to increase efficiency and electronically capture batch results for historical reference. Designed product fixturing to improve process flow.

Worked within Pratt and Whitney• Spearheaded development and implementation of torque wrench program. Authored training manual for torque wrench program and instructed operators in proper use.• Identified potential applications via observation, drawing review, and work instruction reviews. Performed lab trails for statistical analysis for application viability.• Performed production testing, purposed ergonomic solutions, and updated work instructions. Performed IT testing during implementation of each application.• Authored DC Torque Wrench Process Manual for engineering.