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Albany, OR, US

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Role: NPI ManagerAccountabilities: Operations management; Operations, Assembly Engineering, and Database personnel management; Facilities management; Key supplier managementContributions:
• Improved assembly process planning and tracking, resulting in an accurate understanding of build capacity and bottlenecks and identification of solutions to improve capacity.
• Enabled build prioritization to meet NPI goals by presenting weekly operations reports that provided key information on the operations performance against current demand and future build demand.
• Aligned prioritization of operations resources with business priorities.
• No work stoppages despite multiple facilities and supplier order fulfillment issues.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Contract Engineering for HP, Inc., Print DivisionRole: World Wide MEMS Quality Management Systems LeadAccountabilities: Training and mentoring early career engineers; Providing a quality framework and driving quality.
• Developed and implemented training plans for early career engineers.
• Developed and taught introductory product engineering course.
• Developed and taught product data management course.
• Drove world-wide quality systems development for new product introduction using project planning and visualization tools.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Contract Engineering for HP, Inc., Print DivisionRole: Quality Management Systems Mentor/Trainer for Early Career EngineersContributions:Developed detailed training plan for quality assurance engineering in a product development environment.Enhanced, expanded and promoted business unit knowledge and training platform.Trained stateside and off shore new.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Fluid supplies project lead, quality engineering lead, and reliability engineering lead
• Led the fluid supplies product development team to successfully meet program checkpoints, resulting in the on-schedule introduction of the supplies, contributing to the on-schedule introduction of the printer.
• Working with the printer design team, established quality and reliability acceptance criteria and tested to that criteria, imbuing confidence in the performance and shelf-life of the design
• Led multiple cross-functional quality issue resolution teams before and after product release, contributing to improved customer experience and decreased warranty cost.
• Transferred manufacturing of the supplies to low-cost offshore site, increasing product profit.
• Mentored many young engineers, guiding them to increased capability and contribution.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Managed engineering team and manufacturing operations - Accountable for delivering monthly quality, cost and production goals stateside and offshore.
• Managed introduction and production of leveraged inkjet supplies and cartridges, including several months at >100% of planned capacity, contributing significant upside revenue.
• Demonstrated the financial impact of stateside operations by determining the cross-over point to positive gross margin through reporting monthly production and financial results.
• Oversight of team transfer of products offshore based on threshold volume, resulting in reduced product cost and freeing of stateside resources for new product development and introduction.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Developed quality grading criteria, improving quality and performance understanding of the new platform.
• Partnered with the failure analysis team to determine the appropriate level of investigation for different failure modes, providing efficient use of resources and faster identification of failures.
• Developed a quality dashboard for facilitating tracking, prioritizing and resolving product issues, resulting in the efficient use of resources for timely issue resolution.
• Lead an issue summit to drive alignment on the existence of a significant design issue, resulting in a design change to eliminate the issue.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Managed horizontal group of expert microfluidic designers - Accountable for providing resources and designs to technology and product programs and the dissemination of microfluidic design knowledge to the larger.
• Coordinated with project managers to leverage the design work of the Microfluidic Design Center to the greater organization and provide on program design resources as needed.
• Organized and led internal microfluidic design summits, enabling designers to collaborate and share their knowledge, resulting in improved understanding of thermal inkjet microfluidics in the design community.
• Recognized the potential and supported the development of a team member’s brain child that became the HP D300e, providing a new revenue stream for HP and an instrument at use in COVID-19 vaccination research.
• Lead college hiring effort with aggressive diversity hiring goals, resulting in a coordinated effort to recruit at diversity events and many diversity hires.

Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Specialization in Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering