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Responsible for Product Lifecycle and revenue for flight deck display modules, overhead panels, hardware and Data Concentrator Units. Support Product Managers evaluating new business opportunities, forecast revenue, develop product plans and create solutions bringing value to our customers.

Mukilteo

Manufacturing professional with experience in quality and lean manufacturing systems. Broad-based knowledge of CNC machine tools and right-sized equipment. Key contributor in developing plans and policies that enhance profitability and employee development. Established bench of expertise in AS9100 and AS9102, FAI, DFAI, and the ability to use metrology and statistical methods to diagnose and correct improper quality control practices. Experience in FMEA, control plans, root cause analysis, corrective actions, 8D and continuous process improvement to reduce scrap and minimize rework. Well versed in contracts and flow down of supplier quality requirements, and purchasing technical specifications. Recognized for detailed and dedicated work style. Ability to apply analytical skills to effectively solve operational problems and reduce cost. Charts the course and finds a way by developing strong channels of communication, and establishing relationships built on trust and respect. Proficient in Windows/MS Office, Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio and Vantage ERP and IQS database systems. Additional software experience using Solid Works and AutoCAD Inventor associative assembly modelers for product design and configuration.

Redmond, Washington

Responsible for documentation, procedures and systems flow down of project requirements. Serve on material review board and CAPA follow through. Lead continuous improvement efforts. Leverage the output of coordinate measurement system by working closely with PCDMIS programmer to collect data to close feedback loop to manufacturing. Support quality control and manufacturing team to ensure product conformity and continuity of inspection processes and accurate documentation. Foster strong channels of communication by establishing relationships built on trust and respect. Act as customer liaison for Messier Bugatti industrial validation dossiers for commercial and military programs.

Woodinville, Washington

Served as a Quality Engineer at the SkoFlo Machine Shop in support of the quality function for chemical injection metering systems for the gas and oil industries. Primary Function was serving as a senior CMM programmer using PCDMIS on a Brown and Sharp Global to provide timely inspection feedback to manufacturing. Additional duties included using statistics to bring processes in control.

Woodinville Washington

Engineering team member charged with setting up an inspection department from the ground up. Key contributor in selecting inspection tools and methods to support inspection plans for valve cores with over four hundred part features. Set up each machining work center with the required inspection tools for in process manufacturing. Developed digital part inspection programs using PC-DMIS CAD ++ and DATA PAGE to efficiently report out of control part features to reduce scrap and rework. Additionally supported SkoFlo’s chief engineer in designing, fabricating, and assembling SkoFlo factory acceptance test stands and pump skids.

Woodinville Washington

Hired to implement and develop Enterprise Resource Systems (ERP) in addition to installing lean manufacturing strategies on the shop floor. Direct line contributor charged with streamlining in-house manufacturing processes. Selected outside casting and machining vendors, and negotiated all contracts for parts and components. Challenged by expanding sales of new products and growth of over 200% over a three-year period; changes made in the supply chain enabled the company to realize a 20% reduction on parts and components. Accountable for production inventory job costing and supplier relationships. Advised the corporation president on all aspects of shop floor control, bills of material, vendor performance, and costing from raw stock to finished goods.

Redmond, Washington

Managed cellular manufacturing work cells for the fabricated parts division of the Super Boom assembly line. Worked in numerous Rapid Improvement Process Workshops to develop detailed strategies for work in process of all weldments and machined components. Programmer of nested parts on two Mazak 5,000-watt industrial laser machines in support of sheet metal requirements. Well versed in lean manufacturing, value stream mapping, and the Toyota Production System.

Monroe, Washington

Hired to build a 10,000-square-foot aluminum truss fabric roof superstructure, located in Monroe, Washington. Project Manager in charge of all detail drawing for the outsourcing, cutting, and welding of materials to make sub-assemblies in support of a finished building site. Set up cellular manufacturing work centers after completing building assembly. Employed right-sized equipment for manufacturing processes.

Principal owner of a small Northwest job shop started in 1995 with a UW engineering graduate, servicing the aerospace industry providing short lead times for AOG parts, and production machining in support of the first tier supply chain.

Manufacturing Engineer for a Northwest manufacturer of laser, surgical, and diagnostic lenses and indirect ophthalmoscopy and slit lamp indirect lenses.