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New Product Development- Created a product improvement roadmap covering product design opportunities and upgraded equipment capabilities.- Applied supervised learning to model and predict new product design recipes.- Developed prototype samples with a 40% decrease in direct current leakage.- Applied Ordinary Differential Equations to model and simulate chemical processes.- Improved process control by reducing 50% of temperature variation.- Developed Tantalum powder prototypes with 5 times the baseline surface area of SOP products.Side projects- Created a R-SQL database that speeded-up 400% data preparation times PE/QA analysis protocols.- Coded a Shiny application in Quarto/RStudio that allowed the interactive visualization of product quality indicators through the production line.- Implemented a dashboard for the Manufacturing team that automatically tracks and reports On-Time Delivery, Daily Production Rate, Yield, and Throughput Time. - Deployed a batch traceability dashboard in Power BI to comply with audit requirements and improve the Root-Cause Analysis process.- Created a dashboard template to engage the transition from Excel to Power BI for corporate HR.- Automated raw material waiver approval process with Power Automate.- Created organizational Yammer communities to spread awareness of Excel, Power BI, R, Python, and VBA productivity tools.

Plant transfer USA to MEX- Lead qualification of 13 products (capacitor grade tantalum powder) through AUTOMOTIVE and STANDARD protocols in 4 locations (Mexico 2 sites, China, Thailand)- Equipment and product evaluation/qualification- Raw material & supplier evaluation/qualification- ASQ certified quality auditorCustomer quality- Customer complaints, 8Ds, 3L5Y, SPC, process flowcharts, MSA- Specification creation and revision- Item setups- Product change documentation / New product documentation - ID sources of variation affecting critical parameters- Internal customer FPA and Yield trackingInternal testing area (20 employees)- Equipment: ICP, densimeter, LECO CS, LECO ONH, FT4 rheometer, laser PSD, etc.- Reduction of time to report results- Reduction of retests- MSA- Troubleshooting- Mistake proofingInternal quality, documentation and indicators- KPI in Excel and Power BI- Finished Product Acceptance: 16% improvement- Lot to lot variation reduction- ISO audit support- Work Instructions

Product type: electromechanical switches for heavy vehicle industryAchievements• Reduced NPI setup time by 61%• Implemented PN with sales value of $398K Activities• Custom / New product design• Process documentation• Cost reduction projects $82K• New material evaluation• CAD drawing creation and interpretation• Marketing and Customer Service liaison• 5S implementation

Product type: anode for tantalum capacitorsProduct Engineer / Process Engineer• Reduced 15% throughput time• Improved First Pass Acceptance by 12% • Increased supplier FPA by 30%• Six Sigma Green Belt • Root cause Analysis: G8D's, 5 why's, Kepner and Tregoe method• PPAP, APQP, MSA, SPC, FMEA• Financial variance analyst (material, scrap, variable overhead...)• Proficient data mining and analysis skills• Evaluation, qualification and documentation of new materials and new product designs • Final customer complaint analysis• Developed mathematical predictive models for capacitance, pull strength, ESR, Oxygen diffusion• Vertical integration database for root cause analysis• Link between material Supply and Engineering departments• Supervisor of a multifunctional team combining Engineering, Technician and Operative members• Supplier development• Supplier quality documentation• Specification revision and implementation• Layered audits

Development and implementation of the New Product Introduction Project that safely launched new anode designs for Automotive, Military and Standard customers- Definition of SPEC limits- Initial setup for process parameters- Negotiation with customers to define and adapt process variables to get the desired capacitor performance

Quality Control Engineer. Product certification, quality standards definition, 8D’s & experimental design.• Development of master production program achieving a decrease of 28.7 tons in inventory, and eliminating out of stock situations from 9 to 0 in a period of six months• Modified warehouse layout that improved 10% product shipping speed• Managed the rehabilitation of a Quality Control Laboratory product inspection according to American regulatory organisms.

• Mastered a variety of molecular techniques such as RT-PCR, blue-white screening, electrophoresis, generation of recombinant bacteria strains, agarose and acrylamide gels, RNA and DNA extraction and purification.