Monitor, analyze, guide, and support contract manufacturing of enterprise automated data storage systems. Identify and drive quality and manufacturing improvement activities.• Collaborated with hardware engineering, developing and reviewing manufacturing requirements for complex robotic assemblies and systems.• Acted as key team member, qualifying alternate suppliers, supporting Failure Analysis and Corrective Actions, First Article approvals, and coordinating outsourced activities. • Managed implementation of product, drawing and process changes via Engineering Change Orders (ECO) within production and engineering, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and effectivity of changes, including rework dispositions and instructions.

Managed new product and process development projects and coordinated activities with internal and external customers and suppliers. Represented Manufacturing Engineering at planning and program level meetings to review and provide status and feedback.• Interfaced with Design Engineering, Quality Assurance and additional functional areas, resolving product and process-related problems and implementing design changes into manufacturing. Provided key branding and product support for major library storage OEM.• Originated and maintained process documentation, work instructions, and test criteria, internally and at contract manufacturers, meeting process and product requirements and regulatory compliance, including product labelling.

Determined and implemented production processes required to manufacture and test data storage library products, including fixture and tooling requirements, assembly definition, process documentation and resolution of production problems on released products and new product introduction (NPI).• Reviewed and analyzed data and reports from Operations/Quality Assurance, determining root causes of non-conformances and implementing corrective actions, working with outside vendors and suppliers and evaluating parts and assemblies as part of Material Review Board (MRB).