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Seattle, Washington, United States

Everett, Washington, United States

Tukwila, Washington, United States

➤ Overseeing key product portfolio consisting of Boeing Ground Support Equipment for the commercial aviation industry.➤ Managing product selection, pricing, and stocking strategies as well as defining lead time, quality, and locality criteria.➤ Committing program resources and making contractual commitments with partners within the scope of agreements.➤ Serving as the primary communication conduit between customer/sales and supplier/production sides of the business.➤ Overseeing profit/loss for program execution including costs/expenses, schedule, performance, and risk management.➤ Driving program management strategies and supporting product development and continuous improvement initiatives.➤ Controlling costs and performing monthly financial analysis of revenue, expenses, and post-absorption margins.➤ Interacting regularly with product owners to ensure clear requirements definition and subsequent development and test.➤ Serving as primary SME on quality, drawing and specification interpretation, production, and supply chain tech support.➤ Performing a cost/benefit analysis of labor, freight, and material probabilities resulting in a 10% gross margin benefit.➤ Developing and maintaining relationships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners, and senior management.➤ Leading efforts to secure retention of a 25% subset of the tool portfolio responsible for 41% of all portfolio revenue.➤ Building a portfolio of 1200+ tools in 16 months driven by self-defined lead time, cost, and competency criteria.➤ Developing custom Excel tools to analyze SAP data to produce an at-a-glance view of historical performance.

➤ Contributed in a dual role as project manager and manufacturing engineer as a member of design engineer department.➤ Oversaw training and overall safety, quality, and performance for the team of systems and software test engineers.➤ Managed the project planning, scheduling, execution, and completion of prototype engine transportation systems.➤ Mitigated risks across departments, suppliers, and stakeholders to maintain schedules, design conformity and budgets.➤ Implemented plans to ensure requirements and goals for productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction were achieved.➤ Used Agile and Waterfall methodologies with a heavy utilization of Scrum and a moderate utilization of Kanban.➤ Reviewed drawing design details and practical manufacturability and process improvements for commercial aircraft.➤ Coached, counseled, and provided developmental opportunities and job assignments to enhance employee performance.➤ Performed a cost improvement study on legacy product lines to identify a 18% cost improvement on a $450K system.➤ Analyzed and improved batch processing corrections, material utilization, and technological and labor reporting.➤ Systematically evaluated and set employee goals and objectives as well as managed and evaluated performance to plan.➤ Implemented a Kanban process to guide the reiterative engineering design process and served as principle interface.➤ Created an equivalent material substitution matrix for the design engineering team to shift default material prescription.➤ Led efforts for utilization and rapid availability of materials to match dynamic prototype development environment.

➤ Developed production plans with instructions for work centers, external fabrication, processing, testing and assembly.➤ Estimated operation setup and run times for all work centers and outside processing and supported quality departments.➤ Executed the production schedule based on the master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation.➤ Created bills of material for all production including raw material utilization, material substitutions and supplier cutting.➤ Coordinated with manufacturing personnel to ensure production plans are executed in accordance with master schedule.➤ Disseminated models and drawings and subsequent generation of detailed instructions for work centers and suppliers.➤ Planned and scheduled workflows for departments according to established manufacturing sequences and lead times.➤ Created an Excel tool that extracted historical SAP data and identified cost outliers in multi-level production orders.➤ Set up routings, lead-times, and material offsets to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.➤ Identified anomalous spikes in raw material, labor reporting, and outside processing as the driver for cost overages.

Auburn, Washington, United States

➤ Oversaw production planning specializing in evaluation and planning of rework and repairs to airworthy assemblies.➤ Developed techniques and procedures for manufacturing processes used in the fabrication of aerospace products.➤ Tasked with reducing a historically overwhelming MRB backlog while continually improving quality and productivity.➤ Conferred with customers and planning concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production methods.➤ Eliminated a $1.4 M/110 day MRB queue to a $0.0/1 day queue in less than 14 months by initiating corrective actions.➤ Created over 500 First Article Inspection (FAI) reports for Airbus details and assemblies to ensure quality standards.➤ Read engineering drawings and specifications while using strong analytical skills to ensure requirements were met.➤ Provided critical supplier base engineering support and interpretation to maintain a high standard of quality/consistency.➤ Conferred with managers, engineering, and other staff regarding manufacturing capabilities and production schedules.

➤ Manufacturing Processor – Primus International, Auburn, WA – 07/2011 to 11/2013➤ Production Planner – Aerostar Engineering, Puyallup, WA – 03/2005 to 07/2011➤ Quality Inspector – Aerostar Engineering, Puyallup, WA – 08/2002 to 03/2005➤ Assembly Lead – Aerostar Engineering, Puyallup, WA – 10/1998 to 08/2002➤ Assembly Tech – Aerostar Engineering, Puyallup, WA – 08/1996 to 10/1998

Bachelors Of Suppy Chain And Operations Management, Business/Commerce, General

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