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Chandler, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Providing ongoing support for customer audits and customer corrective actions (8-D’s) by collaborating with operations management, as well as process and product engineering.

Casa Grande, Arizona, United States

• Coordinated corrective and preventative action (CAPA) activity associated with non-metallic honeycomb manufacturing. Presented daily quality status to a cross-functional team including senior management. Administered.
• Reduced nonconformance process cycle time 50% by introducing Hexcel’s next generation paperless nonconformance system for pilot use in the factory. Roll-out included training of 125+ operators on multiple shifts.
• Led a Six Sigma project to improve raw material yield by 3% in successful pilot trials to eliminate a projected $650K overuse of material.
• Reduced response time to quality excursions to 48 hours by developing a first pass yield tracking dashboard used for daily monitoring and maintenance of key product quality.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Managed all Quality System/ Quality assurance functions including customer corrective actions, internal/ customer/ 3rd party audits, FMEA, document control, supplier quality management, change control, control plan.
• Reduced Wafer scrap 32% by prioritizing corrective actions, implementing capital improvements in high risk areas, and fostering a culture of continual improvement among departments. One key action in this campaign was.
• Improved quarterly scorecard KPI’s by 30%, by hiring and training a Quality Engineer and a Quality Technician to successfully perform quality function tasks such as internal audits, managing Material Review Board, and.
• Led a team to successfully transition the FCI Quality Management System to completely new versions of the ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 quality standards. Operating practices affecting all departments were communicated and.
• Passed all audits with no major nonconformances in eight customer audits and four third party certification audits associated with ISO 9001/ IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 quality standards.
• Reduced customer nonconformance notification process cycletime for Product Engineers by 50% by writing a Visual Basic program to standardize contact information as an input to Microsoft Outlook emails.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Hired and Coached Product Engineers to successfully manage customer accounts.
• Led the Product Engineering team to reduce the number of process flows by 40% within Flipchip’s MES system to streamline fan-out of best practices and reduce the workload associated with process flow changes.
• Accelerated product development at a new bumping factory in China by teaching two one-week Product Engineer training sessions to visiting engineers from this facility.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Translated customer product requirements into optimal wafer process flows and mask tooling designs. Coordinated cross-functional review of special customer requirements. Managed new product introduction and ongoing.
• Developed three customer accounts from low volume to the top 5 of Flipchip International’s high volume customers by revenue the through the development and use of design rules aligned to manufacturing.
• Sustained customer relationships by supervising interdisciplinary teams to expeditiously diagnose and correct quality issues such as photoresist lifting, copper plating variation, and automated optical inspection.
• Focused effective corrective actions by accurately identifying root cause for quality issues by analyzing data using JMP software. Data sources included wafer lot commonality studies, fishbone analyses, and test wafer.

Deer Park, IL

• Supported multiple automotive engine control and transmission control module programs by designing the geometry, performing RMS tolerance analysis, created drawings utilizing GD&T for die cast and plastic injection.
• Launched the next generation transmission controller per schedule for a major automotive manufacturer as the Senior Mechanical Engineer on the program.
• Developed multiple ANSYS and ICEPAK simulations to verify module electronic components would operate within specified mechanical and thermal limits to support new product launches and ongoing customer quotation activity.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Quality, Reliability & Statistical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Lean Six Sigma Certificate

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega

Education record

Master Of Science (M.S.), Theoretical And Applied Mechanics

Masters Thesis – Characterization of Electronic Packaging using Moiré Interferometry