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Cortland, New York, United States

Cortland, New York, United States

Ithaca, New York, United States

Ithaca, New York Area

Ithaca, New York Area

- Manage APQP Coordinators, Customer Quality Engineers and Quality Engineers for production floor support- Responsible for Quality Systems, TS16949, Change Management

Ithaca, New York Area

- Developed Green Belt training at Engine Timing Components (ETC) plant. 5 year goal to train 90% of engineering and technical staff. - Worked with ETC plant staff to define Six Sigma projects that met business and project goals and have proper scope.- Instruct engineering staff on the use of Six Sigma tools and methods.

Ithaca, New York Area

- Lead a team of 8 manufacturing engineers to support varaiable CAM timing systems product launches and floor support- Developed and validated a ETC plant capacity model for all currect VCT product models. Model used for quoting of model VCT business.- Managed VCT manufacturing engineering through purchase, build, installation, and PPAP of $8.76 Million in.

Ithaca, New York Area

- Managed 7 manufacturing engineers supporting production floor processses and new program launches.- Capacity analysis for MCD equipment with focus on check valve and pressure relieft valve machines to support global requirements.

Ithaca, New York Area

- Completed runoff, installation and final acceptance of new high volume concept check valve assembly machine.- Increased exitsting Check Valve Assembly machine efficiency from 89% to 96%, decreased scrap output per shift by 20% and increased shift output by 33%.- Launch new pressure relief valve product.

Lancaster, PA

- Managed production facility for aluminum aircraft propeller manufacturing. Responsible for 2 shift production scheduling, financials, and union employees.- Developed CNC programming for Vertical Milling and Custom Profiling machines, both manually and with SurfCAM/MasterCAM/custom written programming software.- Responsible for facility layout changes.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Area

- FAA DER, propulsion - fixed pitch propellers- Supported wood and aluminum propeller manufacturing, propeller service tooling and new propeller development- Performed in-flight vibration surveys for new aluminum propellers development for a variety of certified and homebuilt aircraft. Tested both fixed pitch and constant speed propellers for Sensenich and.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Completed December 2017 with 3.958 GPA

Education record

Bs, Aeronautical Engineering, Aircraft Design, Helicopter Aerodynamics, Stability & Control

Activities and Societies: Screaming Eagles RC Aircraft Club

As, Engineering Science, Mechanical Engineering