Responsible Engineering Authority for multiple programs with high visibility and challenging customer requirements. Primary technical point of contact for mechanical design. Leading projects to improve product design, reduce recurring costs, and eliminate unnecessary data collections.Managing work assignments for two mechanical engineers and providing project oversight for three manufacturing engineers. Working with cross-functional team to assess non-conformances and provide technical disposition for production hardware. Presenting current project status and proposing new projects in frequent meetings with customers and site leadership.

Directed material procurement, manufacturing build, and delivery for developmental and production infrared detector products with budgets up to $7MManaged cross-functional teams of manufacturing engineers, production material controllers, and supply chain managersFacilitated communication between factory and customer to make data based priority decisions Led development of value stream to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in factory processesNegotiated design for manufacturability improvements to reduce deliverable product cost by 15%Secured $2M in funding to purchase new equipment and to develop new processes to increase throughput rate and reduce touch timeOptimized cost model to understand material and labor impacts from raw material procurement to product deliveryConsolidated material and build status data from multiple sources into one automatically updated file Drove product improvements through failure analysis investigations involving internal subject matter experts, customers, and vendors

Principle process engineer for precision alignment and vacuum thermal cycle for a high mix, low volume infrared detector packaging factoryFacilitated manufacturing flow through precision alignment operations with less than 1% failure rateTrained and managed work assignments for five junior process engineers Drove decisions on where to focus process improvement based on SPC data from production buildsDirected the capital acquisition of adhesive dispense and optical CMM equipmentCreated CMM programs and Excel Visual Basic macros to reduce operator workload and improve data collectionDesigned and ran experiments to characterize and improve processes Wrote process standard for precision alignment and thermal cycle workcell Partnered with a supplier’s operations team at their facility to bring their yield from 0% to 98% over several months following a failed readiness review