Design of ergonomic office furniture. Optimization for manufacturing, packaging and shipping.

• Material selection for food and pharmaceutical devices and packaging.• Design of pharmaceutical delivery devices.• Design and fabrication of process equipment.• Coach engineers in material selection, process development and design for manufacture/assembly.• Cost and time estimation for projects.• Design verification and validation.• Process equipment installation.• Training: process and testing.

Notable Accomplishments:-Design and have fabricated welding fixtures to decrease manufacturing time.-Accurately route machining operations to depict real time processing.•Research processing of large polyurethane foam blocks to combine thesaturation process of carbon and fire retardant additives (current project).•Design fixtures and a new welding table to allow for a decrease in process time.•Write preventative maintenance protocols and work instructions.•Track machine shop rework to identify root cause.•Participate in new product introduction for manufacturability and processes.• Identify waste in the manufacturing process using Lean tools (TIMWOOD and Kaizen)

-Notable Accomplishments:Revalidation of extrusion systems.-Design and implementation of safety mechanisms on web slitting machinery.•Research and propose polymer (PVC) blending equipment upgradesand process improvements.•Diagnose and coordinate equipment repairs.•Design and implement change to processing equipment to facilitate safety and technician ease of use.•Act as liaison between manufacturing personnel, engineering and management.•Extrusion Subject Matter Expert (SME).•Offer technical support to plant engineering, validations and maintenance.

• Plastic extrusion process improvement and documentation.• Analysis of manufacturing techniques and equipment to increase first pass yield.• Sustain manufacturing through engineering support.• Installation, qualification and training of test equipment.• Analyzation of manufacturing techniques to decrease start-up time and reduce non value added activities.• Provide solutions to quality concerns and implement CAPA.• Design manufacturing equipment to facilitate increased production output that was repeatable and document the changes.• Mechanical and physical testing of extruded polymer materials.

Medical device development.•Senior manufacturing engineer and part of the design development team for manufacturability and material selection for single use sterile pharmaceutical delivery devices.•Injection molding manufacture and material selection for developing and prototyping for medical products.•Aseptic clean room experience.•Design of the core technology that led to a patent application.•Advise on Design for Manufacture (DFM) to junior engineers and technicians.•Resolve issues due to manufacturing inconsistencies.•Prototype manufacturing process equipment.•Machine upgrade and maintenance.•Design and process testing, verification and validation.•Installation, Operation and Process Qualification.Institute for Environmental and Industrial Sciences

Development of high performance polymers and manufacturing methods for new products used for military, aeronautic and aerospace applications.•Product and process development of polymers to increase the thermal transfer abilities.•Profile extrusion of polymers blended with carbon nanotubes via twin-screw extrusion.•Pi-K rocket nozzle layered composite research.•Lab and pilot scale polymerization of material to improve processing techniques for higher yield and decreased failure.•Produce test subjects via extrusion, injection molding, compression molding, vacuum bag molding and lay-up techniques.•Test samples according to ASTM specifications for material characteristics such as: tensile, izod impact, falling dart impact, V50 ballistic testing, dynamic mechanical analysis, thermos-gravimetric analysis and dynamic scanning calorimetry.•Categorization and tailoring extensive research of the experiments that altered the cis-trans ratios to improve impact and glass transition temperatures.•Melt blending nano-material into a copolyester, discovery led to a patented process.•Post processing techniques invented to tailor the crystallinity of a polymer, resulting in ductile and brittle characteristic projection, which were submitted for patent.•Lead of engineering and construction of pilot scale molecule cracking apparatus.•Fuel Tank sealant research for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.