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Rochester, Ny

Leadership of Process Engineering & Maintenance Team, inclusive of all manufacturing equipment, cleanroom facilities, water treatment, and chemical delivery & waste systems. Successful advancement of manufacturing system from pre-production to manufacturing scale. Continuous improvement of process cycle times and product quality. Successful design, implementation & qualification of capital upgrades to significantly improve product quality and enable new product features.

Rochester, Ny

Product Engineer, pre-production:Created a structure for and managed product & process master data, bills of material, and product configuration control. Created a detailed model for estimating COGM over a 5-year horizon, including significant capacity expansion.Led a team in the consolidation of customer specifications, and converted these to appropriate product specifications. Coordinated the build of customer samples, from initial design through pilot manufacturing, ensuring quality parameters met specification and samples were delivered on time. Created an optical inspection room and developed new test methods for verifying product quality. Manufacturing Operations leader:Construction & development of a new product, manufacturing process, and facility for Kodak’s Functional Printing business. Specified manufacturing requirements for the build of Class 1K and 10K cleanrooms, including space requirements, equipment layouts, and utilities. Analyzed workflow and procured supporting equipment. Created cleanroom policies, monitoring protocols, and training programs. Specified requirements for the design of custom material handling equipment for the transfer of product between & within cleanrooms. Led a team in the development of a product singulation & packaging process, including packaging design & labeling.

Rochester, Ny

Led projects for new product introduction, cost reduction, and product quality improvement. Manage pilot-scale microelectronics packaging operation in Class 1000 and Class 10K clean rooms for device fabrication in support of concurrent product and process development, manufacturing launch, and ramp. • Delivered $520K annual UMC savings by leading a global, cross-functional team in qualification and implementation of a complex change to the print head electrical circuit and manufacturing process. • Dispositioned $800K of quarantined product as saleable through analysis of wire bond failure modes. • Managed $400K project to identify and procure equipment for first manufacturing line startup. • Prepared first Process FMEA for startup and optimization of manufacturing process; led three subsequent Process FMEAs for impact of next-generation products & design changes. • Created a cost model to enable low-cost manufacturing process selection for future products. • Created a comprehensive business-wide capacity model that established product mix volume thresholds which minimized capital investment.

Rochester, Ny

Managed pilot-scale microelectronics packaging operation in Class 1000 and Class 10K clean rooms in support of product development, launch and design changes of four generations of print heads. Responsible for operations and maintenance of all processes within the flow, including high precision die bonding, wire bonding, fine line adhesive dispensing, plastic welding, clean room utilities, optical microscopy, automated vision inspection, and image quality characterization. • Analyzed workflow and designed equipment layout for installation of $6M pilot line. Managed several subsequent facility modification projects to enable expansion. • Defined critical parameters, established metrics, and certified pilot manufacturing processes utilizing various tools including process capability indices, Gage R&Rs, control charts. • Managed supply / demand process of pilot flow, including components and final assembled product; effectively balanced the competing priorities of several concurrent project teams to deliver an average of 10K units and 300+ configurations annually. • Contributed to Kodak's world-class print head production line performance by championing the pre-production pilot line use of 5S, kanban, standard work, and other lean manufacturing principles. • Controlled $2M annual budget with typical 10% year-end under-run. • Supervised up to 7 technicians, 23 operators.

Rochester, Ny

Department manager of pilot-production operation; its primary mission to support development activities driven by commercialization and current engineering teams for smooth transition to high-volume, world-wide production facilities. • Managed entire manufacturing flow – including planning, purchasing, inventory control, quality, engineering, maintenance, and operations for both injection molding and assembly/packing functions. • Led team to ensure flexibility to meet all requirements as specified by engineering teams, and ensure production of saleable product exceeded all cost, quality, and delivery goals. • Supervised six direct reports (two first-level supervisors); total headcount of 40.

Rochester, Ny

Led cross-functional product team to continuously improve product cost, quality, and delivery performance for several camera models with an annual volume of 40M units. • Modeled the use of good manufacturing practices (cost, quality and delivery metrics, OEE, corrective and preventive action, standard procedures, change control, etc.) for improved product performance. • Co-led the organization’s first ever kaizen achieving a 98% reduction in setup time. Led three additional kaizens achieving similar results that enabled the implementation of Heijunka. • Traveled to Mexico as "kaizen expert"; improved hybrid manual/automated line productivity by 39%. • Planned and executed the relocation of production equipment valued in excess of $10M and comprising 100K sqft of floor space to a new facility. The move was completed six weeks ahead of schedule, 40% under the labor budget, and without equipment damage or production delivery delays.

Rochester, Ny

Catalyst for continuous improvement to product cost, quality, and delivery performance. • Established operational methods, authored standard operating procedures, and created a training certification process in support of ISO 9001 certification. • Implemented process monitoring of high volume robotic assembly lines to maintain & improve machine cycle times and defect rates. • Reduced product manufacturing cost by prioritizing improvement opportunities through the construction of a multi-factory UMC benchmarking model.