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Leading a team of engineers and engineering techs across two plantsSupporting employee development and the company's strategic goalsSupporting new products in going from design to production and coordinating the transitionReviewing designs and working with engineering to improve manufacturability of productsDeveloping work instructions for new productsLeading manufacturing prototype builds, pre-production builds and new production buildsWorking with cross functional groups to support new products Reviewing current process capability and researching new technology to increase capacity and improve efficiency Working on developing a simulation model to support process improvements and address a variety of manufacturing and production issues

Led and managed the workload of a team of engineers and an engineering techLed several capital projects and developed the capital budget to support the welding departmentTackled day to day issues from ergonomics to weld quality and implemented several process improvements Developed plans for increasing capacity in the welding dept. to support increasing demandWorked with other team leads to implement better project and workload tracking methods in order to increase productivity and balance the load Trained new employees

Greene, Ny

Led several projects including capital ones to meet increasing volumes in fabrication, and improve on ergonomics and air qualityDesigned machine acceptance procedures and created 3D models and drawings to support the tests aimed at validating new equipment Created new standard work to operate new machinery Supported production by solving day to day issuesDesigned, produced, tested and implemented several fixtures to support new processesImplemented several ergonomic solutions including new lifting devices Worked with cross functional teams to improve efficiency and reduce cost in many work centers Was the Asaichi admin for the department where I worked with several engineers through root cause analysis to reduce defects and improve quality Updated the press brakes database for better forming quality Led in-sourcing projects to reduce product cost Reviewed prints, defined routings, generated costs, and reported on cost savings Eliminated NVA work in many processes to increase profit Trained operators on how to run new equipment such as the press brake Was the team lead for the Jishuken activites in FYE 2019 and was able to implement a new kitting process that improved ergonomics and reduced truck cost. This is a yearly initiative based on TPSPreformed SPC analysis to assess process capability and promote a proactive approach to quality Mentored new Co-ops and new employeesPresented to Japan our process improvement projects and participated in the company's events to promote manufacturing jobs and engineering

Greene, Ny

Worked on several projects to decrease waste and improve production efficiency using lean manufacturing principlesDesigned tools and fixtures using Creo to support the manufacturing process Conducted time studies on various manufacturing processes to assess opportunities for improvement Performed statistical process control on the machining of rails in order to quantify process capability Implemented exponential data regression to transient temperature data to investigate and improve the cooling rate of parts after the paint processCollaborated with Systems Engineers to perform discrete event simulations to analyze the required buffer size in some areas Contacted equipment suppliers to troubleshoot machinery issues that cause down timeLearned about lean manufacturing, TPS, Six Sigma, and other key concepts in the manufacturing engineering domainOrganized data from each project in a professional manner, and presented my results to stakeholders in order to implement the desired change

Worked on the advancement of synthetic mechanical vocal fold models in the Fluids LabUsed 3D modeling software (Creo) to create parts and constructed experimental setup for data collectionInvestigated the effects of changing boundary conditions on phonation dynamics such as: flow rate, frequency, and pressureUsed FEM analysis to predict the variation of parameters as the boundary conditions of the model changeWrote MATLAB code to perform edge detection on high speed videos of vibrating vocal folds models to extract parameters of interest including speed and open area quotients Compared the numerical to the experimental results Presented my research findings in the American Physical Society in the fluids dynamics divisionDocumented the full process of creating and testing the models

Worked with students one-on-one and helped them with problems they might have with the course materialGraded quizzes and homeworkProctored examsAssisted the professors through teaching and practicing problem solving with students

Potsdam, New York

Designed 3D models of a rig that allows uniaxial testing on silicone samples using CreoWrote MATLAB codes that generate stress-strain curves of silicone samples of different L/D ratios Made a simple electrical circuit that can be used as a stroboscope to illuminate the vibrating synthetic vocal folds in order to measure their frequencyUsed digital image correlation to visualize the displacement of layers of the vocal fold models containing florescent particles Tested silicone quantity components and calculated its Youngs Modulus Presented my research at the SURE conference and won 2nd place

Master'S Of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Junior

Activities and Societies: Tutored Mathematics, including Calculus, and differential equations Was a member of Pi Tau Sigma honor society.

Minor, Mathematics

Associate'S Degree, Mathematics And Sciences

Activities and Societies: Was Physics tutor and a Calculus tutor Won the Peer tutor award