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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

St Paul, Mn, Us

Lead projects to improve capacity, cost and supply chain in non-woven manufacturing.

St Paul, Mn, Us

Work with customers, suppliers, and global project teams to develop, manufacture and implement new products for LCD displays. • Developed and ran various optical and functional tests to measure product performance; used results to improve product design and product application• Developed design solutions for customer product application issue; communicated root cause and improvements to key customers; resulted in improved future designs, quicker product acceptance in industry and new IP for company• Developed best in class high color gamut display demo used at many customer meetings and trade shows leading to multiple new LCD design wins• Led team to develop and publish new research in high color gamut perception in multiple trade show presentations and industry publications resulting in increased customer pull for company’s solution in the market• Planned, led and participated in industry trade shows to help promote new products (SID, SMPTE, NAB)• Used modelling to help customers optimize the optics of their displays resulting in several design wins for the company• Developed and built new online inspection lighting for new prism product defect inspection in Korea and Japan• Led competitive intelligence gathering for high color gamut technologies; results have led to improved understanding of the competition high color gamut market

St Paul, Mn, Us

Responsible for cosmetic and functional quality on multiple new film-based products for the LCD display market. Worked closely with lab, manufacturing, business and tech service teams to develop products that meet customers’ needs.• Defect root-cause analysis to improve yields and reduce manufacturing costs • Led Test Method Development and Specification setting for new products and processes• Extensive travel to 3M and vendor plants around US and APAC area to work with very diverse colleagues and solve challenging problems in their factories• Led experimental coating, lamination and converting runs; troubleshot process problems; ran and analyzed DOEs to find best formulations and process conditions for new products.• Led qualification of many product/process changes (MOC/NPI processes) to improve product performance and quality• Extensive collaboration work with corporate research groups on complex analytical measurements• Led automated inspection development at multiple film making and coating locations (Greenville, Hutchinson, White City, Singapore) to significantly improve product and process understanding resulting in improved yields• Led Green Belt project to improve static control on PP based film product • Core team member on multiple Six Sigma Black Belt projects to improve yields on various products

St Paul, Mn, Us

• Ran experiments on polymer window films. This included operating a variety of testing equipment and coaters and observing and recording the results. • Found innovative solutions to product problems.