• Lead and develop team of manufacturing engineers to focus on key projects that target focused KPIs such as scrap and efficiency. Successfully growing team and on boarding 5 engineers to support operations in sustaining current processes. Focusing on being personal and understanding each team members unique abilities and guiding them to achieve their goals.• Data driven approach using excel and Power BI to create ME Dashboard Metrics to track team support effectiveness across the site and guiding the team on the correct priorities• Successfully lead manufacturing engineers to focus on reduction of scrap to 1% and increase efficiency by 20% and generating savings 100% over the planned savings. Using data driven approach to target key projects to predict and optimize teams effectiveness to work on appropriate tasks and projects to yield maximum savings• Providing support to operations to minimize line downs, support efficiency improvement projects, equipment and capital purchases, and automation efforts• Key member in running kaizen events targeting top value streams

• Implementation of SQDC operating system across the organization for accountability across the entire site from level 1 floor operators to level 3 operations management. • Refocusing site management to using metrics for a more data driven approach to steer the teams on the right priorities. Using excel and Power BI to create appropriate operational dashboard and metrics for review. • Successfully leading cross functional team of manufacturing engineering and technicians to reduce overall scrap by 50% and generating significant savings by using A3, Kaizen, and 6 Sigma tools to target top scrap contributing parts. • Lead and support team of supervisors and manufacturing engineering to reduce labor variances by 25% by utilizing lean tools such as Gemba, Kaizen, level loading, and performing review of standards through time studies• Leading Value Stream Mapping events targeting improvements to Quality Notifications process to reduce their closure time by 40%.• Develop and deploy idea generations board leading to sitewide improvements to safety• Develop and deliver Six Sigma and Lean training to supervisors, leads and manufacturing engineers.• Successful justification and approval of significant CAPEX expenditures targeting automation, new process capabilities and plant expansion.• Lead team of data entry personnel to transfer master data for routers, maintenance, calibration, and inspection characteristics onto new SAP system• Monitor and report KPI status to corporate management on a weekly and monthly basis• Point person for expertise in routers, including creation, modification and training• Using spaghetti diagrams and process mapping to layout newly launched product in white room and mapping material, shipping and manufacturing logistics across the plant

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that directly impact site metrics related to productivity, quality, inventory and delivery• Lead 2 Six Sigma teams to reduce scrap on highest volume parts by approximately 30% for each product line for savings of over $100k per year.• Lead Lean transformation team to perform several projects to reduce WIP inventory by 25%, improve delivery performance to over 90%, and increase productivity by 22% and achieve over $300k in savings. • Lead team for implementation of visual factory signals, including SQDC board for whole plant, Hourly boards, and visual pull system signals• Successfully lead team for master data integration between old and updated SAP system• Provide Lean and Yellow belt training for all personnel involved in Lean Six Sigma projects• Lead team to reduce customer complaints backlog by over 75% by streamlining process and performing RCCA• Provide manufacturing engineering support. Activities include: Writing procedures (Work Instructions, Test Setup Instructions), PPAP activities, validation (IQ/IOQ/PQ), RCCA, data analysis for capital investments, database creation to support production activities, process development (ultrasonic welding, crimping, wire/cable stripping, laser etching, labeling)

• Lead cross-functional team for a Lean Kaizen Standard Work event on Aerospace accelerometer production line to improve manufacturing flow, create supermarket between sub-assembly and final assembly lines, setup standard WIP for finished goods reduction, 30% scrap reduction, 40% lead time reduction, improvement on-time delivery to 97%, and 15% gained workbench space.• Lead cross-functional team for Lean Kaizen Standard Work event on Test and measurement Triaxial line to create a U-shape lean cell with point of use material to reduce lead time by 50% and guarantee a 3 day lead time through use of standard WIP and Kanban raw material for triaxial accelerometers, purchase of equipment to support cell creation•Successfully validate equipment and perform process capability analysis/MSA to equipment during the transition move of Meggitt Sensing Systems from San Juan Capistrano to Irvine. •Successfully integrate 5 new products from the Test and Measurement and Aerospace products into the PE/IEPE production •Responsible for the Quality metric on Scrap for the PE/IEPE production and leading problem solving and 5 why analysis/root cause analysis whenever metric is missed• Perform Manufacturing Engineering activities including: provide technical support to the ISOTRON department (electro-mechanical accelerometer assembly and testing), liaison between production, document control, design engineering, and program management, creation of job instructions, manufacturing readiness review, qualification testing of new supplier parts and new products into current assembly line, answering customer corrective actions and performing failure analysis, participate in customer audits, MRB disposition, tooling and design reviews

•Create and lead team to perform improvement projects using Six Sigma and Lean methodologies to improve productivity by 20% in testing department.•Successfully establish short-term KPIs encompassing cycle times for dock to stock and order fulfillment for warehouses and productivity for SMT production across sites in Europe and Asia and lead short-term improvement projects.•Analyze throughput data and present data to top level management for automation projects as well as calculate ROIs. Obtain any data requested regarding the production floor and presenting to management.•Lead project involving a wishlist from the whole production floor and act as liaison between production, IT department, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Advanced production Engineering.•Perform time studies and man-motion analysis for recommendations on layout of production and warehouse.•Part of team to train and conduct 5S audits and provide feedback on improvements on the production floor.•Write work instructions for troubleshooting department and shipping department.•Use of Excel to write Macros to provide temporary solutions for production floor problems.•Research new automation technologies for implementation.• Industrial Engineering activites including: setup data collection, analyze throughput data and present data to top level management for automation projects, modeling and simulation of production processes, time studies and man-motion analysis on layout of production and warehouse, excel macro writing to automate processes

•Provide technical support to the ISOTRON department and a liaison between production, document control, design engineering, and program management• Improved product yield from 91% to 94% to achieve $80,000 in savings using Six Sigma tools• Using lean methodologies to double throughput of testing department, setup of Kanban between sub-assembly and final assembly of the piezo-electric accelerometer assembly, tool consolidation and 5S• Troubleshooting all non conformities during production of ISOTRON product• Using lean methodologies to improve throughput of testing department• Experience using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, ohmmeters, capacitance meters, function generators, signal analyzers, to calibrate and test accelerometers for circuit bias, sensitivity, frequency response, noise, temperature characteristics, and transverse sensitivity• Experience with resistance welding, laser welding, solder assembly, and pull testing of resistance weld samples• Creation of DCRs, engineering reports and memos• Perform qualification testing of new supplier parts on final products• Implementation of visual instructions based on Solidwork models• Implement SPC charts for monitoring calibration test consoles and key performance specifications on high volume products• Answering customer corrective actions • Using six sigma methodologies to investigate problems with process and recommend process improvements• Creation of failure analysis reports for customer returned products• Disposition of parts and products in MRB• Assist and respond to customer audits and questions

• Perform time studies of high volume piezoelectric, ISOTRON, pressure and piezoresistive accelerometer assembly processes• Develop sequence of events for ISOTRON and electronics assembly process• Assist in setting up kanban for subassemblies of piezoelectric and ISOTRON products• Assist in redesign of floorplan layout for piezoelectric, ISOTRON, and accelerometer calibration testing areas• Assist in standardization of tooling and workbenches