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Hallam, Victoria, Australia

• Execute on-site scanning, inspection, and reverse engineering utilising leading-edge metrology equipment such as CMMs, laser scanners and laser trackers.• In-house calibration of portable measuring equipment.• Provide product demonstrations of hardware and software to prospective customers. • Consulting with customers to determine detailed requirements for their applications.• Provide technical support to customers both on-site and remotely.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

▪ Responsible for creating production documentation for electromechanical relays, including assembly drawings, wiring diagrams, work instructions and bill of materials.▪ Designed and developed jigs and fixtures for relay manufacturing. Designed and implemented the use of GO/NOGO gauges for dimensional control on critical components.▪ Reviewed and updated documentation for new automated test equipment acquisition.▪ Performed root cause analysis on RMAs and manufacturing non compliances.▪ Actively worked on design improvements for existing manufactured parts and on reducing manufacturing costs.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

▪ Played a key role as Process Engineer at Fawkner’s bag plant responsible for developing, implementing and documenting process improvement projects on bag converting equipment. ▪ Received Best Practice award for bag machine knife kit upgrade initiative. Project resulted in a 400% knife kit life cycle increase and a cost reduction in consumables of AUD 37k per year. ▪ Designed and implemented several PLC program bag machine upgrades: - Implemented logic for new registration sensors leading to a 70% registered job set up time reduction. - Added speed control functionality to bag machine powder applicators with PID controller and speed feedback resulting in more accurate powder quantity application.▪ Provided extensive CAD (SolidWorks) services to modify/create machine parts, such as blade holders, contrast sensor bracket assembly, enclosure panels, etc. ▪ Managed a wide variety of projects; from yield improvement to plant environmental projects.▪ Performed root cause analysis and extensive troubleshooting on bag making and test equipment faults.

Melbourne, Australia

▪ Contributed to the continuous process improvement in the company's manufacturing facilities.▪ Increased cutting length functionality on profile cutting machines by modifying PLC program (Allen-Bradley) to cater the need for longer cutting lengths on extruded rubber profiles.▪ Designed and implemented PLC program (Unitronics) to interface shaft encoder with industrial printer as an in-house solution for controlling label printing intervals on extruded rubber profiles.▪ Designed and supervised construction of roller guiding system to accurately align rubber profiles with inkjet printer head for consistent printing of labels.▪ Managed other process improvement projects ad-hoc.

Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

▪ Tire Uniformity Specialist responsible for tire uniformity scrap and OEM yield managing a team of 5 quality technicians.▪ Established correlations between manufacturing processes and tire uniformity deviations, through the performance of controlled tests and gathering of data for statistical analysis, which led to a reduction of the total uniformity scrap generated from 4% to 2% of total tire production (approx. 300 tires per day). ▪ Created and automated a uniformity scrap ranking by correlating different uniformity defects with production cells, yielding a P97.5 value reduction of ~70% on conicity and ~20% for radial force variation non conformities.▪ Led project single-handedly to redesign the tire flow for uniformity testing in Final Finish based on common defects. Significantly reduced in scrap by elimination of false negatives and increased yield from targeted rework tailored to individual tire defects.▪ Updated uniformity testing machine code algorithms (BASIC language) for tire testing, grading, marking and sorting according to the new process flow diagram.▪ Managed Uniformity & Quality Final Finish team to perform quality control tests and machine calibration on uniformity testing machines to ensure accuracy and repeatability.

Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

▪ Provided technical support for distributors, customers and SKF application engineers on SKF products and their applications.▪ Carried out RCFA (root cause failure analyses) on bearings and reported results back to the Application Engineer department for customer feedback. ▪ Participated on load calculation and bearing selection projects.▪ Designed a sensor support structure for a condition monitoring project for the mining industry.▪ Supervised a bearing mounting operation for a pulp and paper company.

Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

▪ Performed market research on the Test & Measurement industry.▪ Established and conducted engaging dialogs with potential Best Practices Recognition companies senior executives.▪ Referenced interview notes and utilized existing templates to compose write-ups about the potential Best Practices Recognition candidates.▪ Liaised with Frost & Sullivan industry analysts with collecting and reviewing data about potential Best Practices Recognition candidates and the competitive landscape.

Master’S Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering