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Pleasanton, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

- Lead engineering, maintenance, calibration, asset management, facility validation/equipment qualification functions- New facility buildout - Capital projects- Manage resources overseeing systems ranging from HVAC, MEP, generator, cold chain storage, clean rooms, building automation, environmental monitoring systems, CMMS

Fremont, California, US

- Management of facilities and engineering resources to design, develop, construct, qualify, and release GMP facilities and process equipment- Project management of capital project to build facility for cGMP pharmaceutical manufacturing- Manage and maintain laboratory, instruments, equipment, and other assets for internal customers such as process.

Ingelheim Am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, DE

• Manage major capital expense facility expansion projects (~$30M)
• Manage technical projects containing installation of new automation, hardware, instrumentation, controls, and facility infrastructure
• Budget, scope, and schedule management for CapEx programs with rapidly changing requirements, designs, and customer needs
• Manage entire plant shutdowns with consideration for stakeholders such as validation, quality, automation, engineering/architects, and construction contractors, manufacturing
• Lead general contractor, construction manager, engineer/architects and all other stakeholders through construction
• Lead validation/qualification, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams through Qualification/Validation of major manufacturing equipment life cycles

Ingelheim Am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, DE

• Create, launch, train, and maintain global engineering collaboration and communication platform for the Biopharmaceutical Division of Boehringer Ingelheim (Biberach, Vienna, Shanghai, Fremont)
• Provide and manage engineering standards and procedures to biopharma production sites to improve reliability, quality, safety, efficiency, and compliance
• Own and investigate quality deviations, and execute global inter-company CAPAs
• Facilitate global workshops to align corporate visions, communication strategies, and business processes for worldwide engineering network
• Develop E&T benchmarks and key metrics and models
• Biopharma Division Management System Owner for Maintenance and Calibration methodologies, concepts, processes, procedures, and practices.

Ingelheim Am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, DE

• Manage Reliability Engineering program to maximize process and utility asset up time
• FMEA-style, quantitative management of risks associated with biopharmaceutical production, process equipment, and facilities such as air handlers, autoclaves, bioreactors, CIP, COP, chromatography skids
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) to determine corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs) for mitigation of business risks
• Manage engineering projects to increase the reliability and maintainability of assets
• Created SOPs for Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) defining when to create or perform the following: user requirements, maintenance and calibration, testing, asset retirement, and spare parts
• Define and improve asset maintenance plans by implementing Reliability Centered Maintenance (e.g. predictive and inspection-based techniques)

Santa Rosa, CA, US

• Design, implement, train, and revise manufacturing procedures to improve efficiency, throughput, productivity, and yield
• Increased yield for the stent manufacturing line through root cause analysis, creation of revised process instructions, and training of operators to implement improvements
• Execute CAPAs to close Non-Conforming Material Reports (NCMRs) to ensure compliance, product quality, and traceability
• Maintain and calibrate manufacturing equipment such as laser cutters, electropolishing equipment, and optical measurement inspection machinery
• Use of value stream mapping, takt time, level loading and other process metrics to balance manufacturing resources

London, GB

• Managed, executed, and developed testing of new equipment, such as military communications devices and human-machine interface
• Test work included human factors surveys, on-board diagnostics using digital data loggers, battery life testing, and hull temperature testing, power train/max payload durability testing
• Worked cross-functionally with designers and customers to determine performance specifications
• Coordinated with customers overseeing product testing
• Authored test procedures to verify a new touch-sensitive monitor met requirements for soldier interface and authored sections of a 1000 mile durability test report for anti-explosives equipment
• Lean Sigma liaison for field test engineering department. Proposed new storage method for field test department's physical assets to streamline testing process.

College Park, Georgia, US

• First Officer in CFR Part 121 air carrier operations transporting revenue passengers flying an Embraer ERJ-145
• Balanced tight schedules, extreme weather, traffic delays, maintenance issues, malfunctions, and customer satisfaction to achieve incident-free flights
• Provided leadership to personnel and passengers by managing both daily and emergency flight operations

• Provided flight instruction and aviation ground school for private, instrument, and commercial multi-engine students recruited by Shanghai Air, China Eastern, and AirChina
• Instructed 20 students to a 96% first-time pass rate for their FAA flight exams
• Pilot-In-Command during flights for student training

Oakland, California, US

• Field Engineer: 08/2005 – 04/2006
• Analyzed GPS information of natural gas facilities to assess risk of pipeline failures to DOT defined "High Consequence Areas”
• Pipeline integrity: analysis of GPS information, company records, and corrosion surveys
• Maintenance and updating of GIS mapping databaseDesign Engineer: 04/2002 – 07/2005
• Designed natural gas transmission systems and CAD database, trained co-workers on use of drafting software.
• Managed CAD system for Design Drafting department. Standardized CAD processes/symbology, created electronic databases of pre-drafted equipment.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration, Management And Operations

Cfi, Aviation