Responsible for coordination of R&D projects into Manufacturing. Design for Manufacturing. Design for Test. Design for Packaging. Design for Procurement.

Lean Master is Charge of all Lean, Continueous Improvement and Cost Savings activity. Member of the development team on the Sparton Production System.-Achieve COGS of 2% associated with expenditures related to plant operations.-Participate in ALL Lean Initiatives.-Formal submission of and collection of all Lean Events suggested by Staff team members.-Support Quarterly objective on Lean Activity, Margin Management and Six Sigma opportunities.-Support 2010 Key Imperatives.

Engineering Manager•Directly responsible for engineering, test, and new product introduction for a $45M contract manufacturing facility.•Managed 30 engineers, tests engineers and technicians in the day-to-day facility operations to support manufacturing.•Authored the NPI processes and procedures for the facility resulting in an overall reduction in NRE bid costs.•Directly introduction of 191 new products in a 12 month period.•Responsible for introduction and coordination of $20 Million in new product sales.•Responsible to execution and tracking of NRE revenue in excess of $4 Million.•Generation of DFX analysis to customer for lessons learned.•Review and approve NPI Process Work Instructions prior to deployment.•Participate in monthly corporate financial reviews of profit and job margin performance.

Customer Business Manager•Directly responsible for establishing financial estimates and proposals for potential new business.•Responsible for monitoring and reporting financial performance of company partnerships and business status.•Monitor and communicate with manufacturing on budget and job profitability.•Responsible for communicating electronic information necessary for new product introduction.•Working member of the NPI staff, responsible for performing each of the functions of the NPI procedures. •Generate labor bids for new business and perform analysis of labor bid accuracy.•Supervise and advise on configuration management office activities.

Manufacturing Engineering Manager•Supervise manufacturing engineering for a $25 million dollar facility.•Responsible for generating departmental budgets.•Review and analysis Profit/Loss statements on customer.•Responsible for capitol procurement budgets.•Supervise Engineers and Technicians.•Directly responsible for the installation of $3.5 million surface mount assembly line.•Process management of production line utilizing 5 to 15 personnel.•Support SMT design guidelines for PCB layout and manufacturability.•Authored, implemented and supervised Sparton Preventive Maintenance Program.•Responsible for analysis and reporting of product performance and production efficiencies.•Statistical Process Control resulting in significant solder defect reduction.•Responsible for the Adavnced Manufacturing Techniques.

Equipment specifications, equipment procurements, equipment validation, equipment installation. Training in hand soldering, wave soldering, surface mount assembly.

Wave solder assembly and process control. SMT assembly and process control. Cleaning validations. Equipment programming. SPC. Electronic assembly.Training.