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Cupertino, California, US

Liberty Lake, Washington, US

Silver Spring was acquired January 2018 by Itron, a $2B revenue corporation with ~8K employees, and operating segments in utility metering (gas, water, electric) and smart grid networks. RELIABILITY CHANGE MANAGEMENT – implemented corporate C-level initiative to stand up a world-wide, multi-campus Global Reliability Engineering organization, adopting best.

San Jose, California, US

(1) CONTRACT MANUFACTURING (CM) RELIABILITY & QUALITY RAMPS – rapidly & successfully hands-on ramped two different Tier-1 CMs from Reliability & Quality perspective, implementing Ongoing PCBA Reliability Testing, weekly PCBA quality reporting, and PCBA yield escalation management (2) NPI PRODUCT SHRINK – hands-on transitioned reliability program from PCBA.

San Jose, California, US

(1) NPI RELIABILITY FIXTURE DESIGN (3D Printing) – sudden disappearance of 3rd party mechanical design consultant, prompted need for me to just pickup knowledge of SolidWorks, designed gear shaft for behind schedule NPI reliability test resulting from designer’s disappearance, printed gear shaft in volume on Stratasys 3D printer, successfully utilized.

Tokyo, JP

RELIABILITY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING – Advocated & implemented extensive Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) of new PCBA core modules at external Reliability Labs. Wrote & executed both HALT & Environmental test plans. Wrote software batch scripts to automate test protocols. Shock, Vibration, & Thermal Reliability Tests. DESIGN FAILURE MODE EFFECTS.

Tokyo, JP

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING - Successfully managed a $7.1M Field Safety Crisis associated with Power Distribution Unit failures. Found root cause. Wrote failure analysis reports. Drove both Vendor and Regulatory Compliance Team to successful containment. Designed Safety Warning Labels.MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING - Solved a PDU spares supplier discontinuance.

San Jose, California, US

Acquired by Beckman-Coulter Jan-2019. My first startup experience (Venture Capital rounds B/C, ~40 employees), many things on both Y!Combinator and Guy Kawasaki's early blog posts make me smile as I look back. Afterward Brad Feld's "Venture Deals" further opened my eyes. DESIGN FOR SERVICE / DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY (DfS/DfR) - Successfully advocated more.

Milpitas, California, US

FACTORY PRODUCT SUPPORT – worldwide long-tool down “fly ‘n fix” escalations and online eDiagnostics iSupport.HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPETITION - experienced head-to-head competition between employer's product and competitor's product. Documented differences that Design for Serviceability, service documentation, training practices, and Design for Reliability (HALT &.

San Diego, CA, US

The most fun at Cymer. Bitten by the New Product Introduction Bug. It was Tracy Kidder's "Soul of the New Machine" applied to a $1.4M large-scale embedded laser system. My first exposure to "Controls Science" and MATLAB."Hands-on" New Product System Integration – coordinated & performed testing, rework & maintenance activity on a $1.4M prototype.

San Diego, CA, US

Reinvigorated stalled core-module Highly Accelerated Pressure-Temperature Stress Screen, improvised a temperature pressure vacuum control and instrumentation recording system, discovered life-limiting fluid cooling component.Developed and managed a core module life test program, discovered core module ceramic insulator pressure boundary catastrophic.

San Diego, CA, US

Technical Instruction - Taught Excimer Laser Theory, System Overview, System Operations, System Maintenance, and System Troubleshooting Technical Training ("hands-on"), drove "hands-on" technical training toward extensive use of analog / digital circuit schematics & system block diagrams, edited troubleshooting guides ("fault isolation.

Washington, DC, US

Held several cross-functional technical positions of increasing responsibility & leadership over 9-years:(1) Field Service Manager & Technical Instructor – shorebased 78MW nuclear reactor (New York)(2) Reactor Operator & Field Service Engineer – Aircraft Carrier (CVN-72) - dual 550MW nuclear reactors (3) Trainee – Naval Nuclear Training Pipeline (Florida &.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Please note: This was a side-gig from June 2011 to March 2021 that a large "fruit company" insisted I could not continue because 'reasons'++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This is/was a side gig, on & off btwn jobs, evenings & weekends - Although working by day, looked for a.

Pasadena, CA, US

While attending Occidental College, worked here as a student intern, including a year long break btwn Junior & Senior Year. During my Senior Year, I attempted to both attend college full-time AND work full-time.DOUBLED SUCCESS RATE - More than doubled Pioneer Venus Orbiter Radio Science Experiment success rate while working as an undergraduate.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please note: This is a list of key-words / buzz-words to aid in searches. This is not to be read, except by your search engine.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Manufacturing Operations, Reliability Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Quality, New Product Introduction.

Professional Certificate, Project & Program Management

Bs, Physics

Graduate, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Instrumentation & Control

Electrical Engineering

Physics

Certificate, Solidworks

Embedded Systems & System Engineering

C#, Verilog, Mysql