Calibration Technician
Calibration facility supervisor/manager-9 years. Typical duties included supervision, training and evaluation of between four and 20 soldiers. The areas of focus included: monitored supply procedures, production control, and technical training; managed successful completion of production goals while ensuring quality product and customer satisfaction; prioritized work orders, scheduled jobs and assigned technicians; established work procedures to meet production schedules, using knowledge of capabilities of machines and equipment; wrote and implemented internal operating procedures to ensure compliance with higher headquarters.Quality Assurance / Quality Control supervisor-2 years: Duties included: assisted in the direction of 11 Area TMDE support teams and an Area Calibration Laboratory, which provided calibration and repair support in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and Alaska; conducted technical assistance inspections to standardize TMDE procedures, technical compliance and verify traceability to NIST; provided technical guidance and support, which resulted in the company attaining an operational readiness rate of 97.2 percent, exceeding the Army standard of 95 percent.Instructor/Writer-3 years: Supervised and instructed U. S. Army, international military, and U.S. Army civilian personnel in advanced calibration, operation, and maintenance of laboratory level calibration standards. I maintained student records, counseled students and conducted student evaluations. Conducted training on technical and military tasks for peer instructors. Wrote and developed course material and correspondence courses.6 years: Calibrated and repaired a vast variety of test instrumentation in the DC and Low Frequency, Microwave, physical/dimensional and Ionizing Radiation areas, including; signal generation, frequency measurements, spectrum analysis, multimeters, oscilloscopes, radiation detection, attenuation, capacitance and resistance, pressure/vacuum.