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• Process engineering and project management consultant.
• Direct the design and installation of capital improvements.
• Analyze production capacity requirements and develop expansion plans.
• Evaluate site infrastructure suitability for manufacturing readiness.
• Conduct cost-benefit analysis for production equipment capital improvements.
• Analyze production processes and recommend changes to maximize efficiency.

Hayward, CA, US

• Managed the engineering and maintenance team for a fast-moving consumer goods startup when growth doubled revenue.
• Managed a $6M capital improvement budget at two production facilities that allowed the company to increase service levels from 60% to 95%.
• Headed the team that devised a new cream cheese production process that yielded an 8x increase in production capacity, a 40% reduction in labor costs, and a 99% reduction in quality-related losses.
• Streamlined a critical packaging line that increased throughput by a factor of two.
• Led a team that installed a real-time data collection system at two facilities that established the framework to collect 95% of all production floor data electronically.
• Cultivated service-oriented culture among the maintenance and engineering team that established better interdepartmental working relationships and reduced downtime.

San Leandro, California, US

• Directed the brewery engineering and maintenance activities during a period of rapid growth that saw a tripling of production.
• Guided a technical team through a $7 million expansion that boosted throughput capacity 10x.
• Coordinated the design and construction of a new cellar. The improvements expanded capacity by 3x and lay the groundwork for future growth.
• Built expandable fermentation temperature control system from scratch that standardized fermentation temperature profiles.
• Refurbished cleaning equipment control system at a 80% savings compared to new. Automated cleaning reduced chemical usage by 75% and improved worker safety.
• Analyzed operations efficiency and promoted improvement projects with an ROI of less than one year.

San Leandro, California, US

Operate all brewhouse equipment in production.Brewhouse operations: Milling, Mashing, Lautering, Boiling, Whirlpooling, Knockout, Grains out, Brewhouse Vessel CIP (incl Heat Exchanger and Hot Liquor Heat Exchanger)Cellar-Related operations: Fermenter CIP/Scrub/Sanitation, Cell Counting, Checking Gravities/Monitoring fermentation(Incl. Glycol Controls).

San Leandro, California, US

Cleaning and operation of all packaging equipment including bottling line and kegs. Prepackaging product conditioning.

• Principal for luxury residential property development
• Conceived the project development plans and concrete timelines.
• Negotiated partnership agreements.
• Secured construction financing that assured the projects’ financial success.
• Brokered sales for an average 50% profit.

Designed and developed software and hardware for dual axis, high precission positioning system.* Designed ad-hoc multi-tasking operating system for system control.* Wrote all software including serial communications, device drivers and control algorithm.* Developed high order path planning algorithms motion trajectory. * Designed, produced and tested logic.

Managed DSP-based embedded computer products* Directed R&D of a DSP-based embedded computer.* Managed production of DSP-based motherboard, and interface daughterboards. * Developed hardware and software for embedded computer systems.

Designed DSP-based embedded systems.* Designed a set of software development tools for DSP-based controller. Tools include a software debugger for the DSP, PC-based user interfaces for DOS and Windows, and a library of device drivers and utilities. Software written in C/C++.* Consulted with major disc drive manufacturer and wrote failure diagnostic.

US

Designed process control software for manufacturers of production machine tools.* Developed process control software for eight axis machine used to produce high quality fiber-optic cable at ten meters per second.* Engineered software for an eleven computer distributed control system to control forty-nine axis drilling machine for aircraft production. Wrote.

Data Science Bootcamp Certificate, Data Science And Machine Learning

Ms, Mechanical Engineering, Control Systems

Bs, Mechanical Engineering