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Greater San Diego Area

Monitor, evaluate and improve the environment, equipment and processes in working areas to ensure compliance with government safety regulations and industry standards. Their chief goal is to protect the employees, customers and the environment.

Greater San Diego Area

Manage San Diego Customer Service Repair Depot.Manage Supervisor responsible for the department, 16 direct hourly reports, responsible for all incoming and out going RMA repairs. Manage monthly revenue commitments and performance metrics in order support business unit goals and goals.

Greater San Diego Area

Lean:Leads Lean and transnational Six Sigma projects to reduce waste, improve cycle time and solve business process related quality problems. •Operations – Leans out processes from the supplier thru manufacturing/service thru to distribution to reduce waste. Ensures high productivity, low cycle times, reduced cost and high quality while maintaining availability and ensuring a positive Customer experience. •Business Process – Improves business processes to reduce non-value-add activity, increase productivity, accelerating throughput and achieving high levels of quality while improving the Customer experience.Manufacturing Engineering:Certified on Universal Through Hole automation equipment. Specialize in programming, preventative maintenance and repair of Radial, Axial and DIP insertion machines. Currently responsible for VCD 6241D, VCD88 as well as Radial 6380A and 6796 DIP inserters.Over ten years experience in creating high level assembly work instructions to consistently produce high quality output of electronic equipment for the power supply industry.Responsible for assembly line design and layout as well as work flow processes to meet one piece flow and Lean Manufacturing concepts.Responsible for designing, modeling and implementing assembly fixtures to enhance assembly processes in order to increase work flow capacity.Responsible for the design and testing of all outbound packaging materials in which products shipped. Effectively reduced damaged product returns to less than 3%.Responsible for writing simple to very complex internal procedures for Manufacturing processes.Responsible for bill of materials restructuring in order to maximize work flow.Responsible for creating customer installation drawings that are supplied with shipped product for in field modifications.Specialize in company acquisitions and responsible for coordinating physical relocation, layouts and documenting acquired work processes.

Greater San Diego Area

SkillsCertified on Universal Through Hole automation equipment. Specialize in programming, preventative maintenance and repair of Radial, Axial and DIP insertion machines. Currently responsible for VCD 6241D, VCD88 as well as Radial 6380A and 6796 DIP inserters.Over ten years experience in creating high level assembly work instructions to consistently produce high quality output of electronic equipment for the power supply industry.Responsible for assembly line design and layout as well as work flow processes to meet one piece flow and Lean Manufacturing concepts.Responsible for designing, modeling and implementing assembly fixtures to enhance assembly processes in order to increase work flow capacity.Responsible for the design and testing of all outbound packaging materials in which products shipped. Effectively reduced damaged product returns to less than 3%.Responsible for writing simple to very complex internal procedures for Manufacturing processes.Responsible for bill of materials restructuring in order to maximize work flow.Responsible for creating customer installation drawings that are supplied with shipped product for in field modifications.Specialize in company acquisitions and responsible for coordinating physical relocation, layouts and documenting acquired work processes.

Responsible for managing and planning all contracting estimates as well as executing on all acquired contracting jobs in the HVAC, plumbing and roofing fields.Responsible for arranging, planning and managing the use of sub-contractors when applicable.Responsible for managing all necessary aspects in the permitting and approval process.Responsible for managing all aspects of retail establishment including but not limited to: purchasing, inventory control, commodity management, hiring workforce and employee management.

Industry Related

Dec 1999 Universal Through Hole Training Feb 2002 AutoCAD Advanced software training Feb 2003 JCIT DFT Strategy Apr 2003 SolidWorks Basic.

General Education

Diploma