Eric Darmstaedter Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto

• 5S program manager
• Software development team member and primary alpha tester for creation of plant-wide continuous improvement platform to gather improvement ideas, review them, turn them into projects, and follow them through to.
• Lead LSS Black Belt projects, reducing labor hours required to create customer data packages through digitization of data collection
• Apply DMAIC strategy to department-wide increased job satisfaction initiative, adding objectivity and data to a subjective process

Palo Alto, CA

• Lead engineer for programming Surface Mount Technology (SMT) line, including solder jet printing, pick and place (PnP), AOI, vapor phase reflow, x-ray, and selective solder
• Reduced non-value added time by 30% for loading PnP across planning, stores, and production as part of LSS Black Belt Project, $130k annual savings
• Created Excel VBA macros to translate router BOM structure into PnP machine, reducing programming time from 3 hours to 30 minutes
• Qualified new selective solder machine and use of ceramic column grid array (CCGA) packages for spaceflight use on JPL programs
• Updated 100-page, 20-year-old Workmanship Standard document

Palo Alto

• Qualified new equipment for production of spaceflight hardware and taught operators how to use per Manufacturing Process Instructions (MPIs) – automated epoxy dispenser, screen printer, and dicing saw
• Rewrote neglected MPIs for over a dozen machines and processes relating to Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) and Thick Film substrates for training new employees
• Collaborated with Materials and Design groups to formalize and release design guidelines for new LTCC and Thick Film substrates
• Create 2D and 3D drawings in AutoCAD and Creo for machining custom equipment parts

Sylmar, CA

• Team leader of $280k scrap reduction project related to organic-metallic layer adhesion as part of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification
• Increased First Pass Yield (FPY) of V-22 Osprey product line from 60% to 95% through coatings cell using tools such as Cause and Effect (C&E) Matrix, and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Minitab software.
• Created work center system for Bill of Operations/Bill of Materials (BOO/BOM) across entire plant to improve product flow and allow more detailed financial scrap analysis
• Equipment procurement and floor plan for coatings cleanroom operations cell in $9M project
• Write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for new equipment such as UV curing robots, IR cameras, vacuum chambers, and acid stripping booth and train operators how to use the equipment

Sylmar, CA

• Develop and production scale-up of new abrasion resistant coating system for V-22 Osprey
• Optimize coating formulations using Design of Experiment (DOE) to achieve best desirable qualities based on critical x variables
• Run UV chambers, humidity and temperature controlled rooms, FTIR, viscometer, chemical resistance and abrasion tests to meet customer specifications.

-Quality control of microfabrication semiconductor equipment including wet chemical etch and dry plasma etch, Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD), sputtering, evaporation, and photolithography using Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts-Supervised new process staff and trained them to SOPs-Assisted with moving and startup of new Nanolab.

Continued research on carbon nanotube "gecko foot" adhesivesSynthesized carbon nanotubes and attached them to polymer backingConducted own research project on electrochromic glass and presented to S&T team at end of internshipGrew thin metal oxide films on glass substrate

Worked with live cells under a sanitized hoodRecorded lab procedures and produced videoGathered information on Raman Spectroscopy