Supplier Quality Engineer responsible for all plastic parts, tires, glass, and paints used in the manufacture of Raymond fork trucks and order pickers. Responsibilities include:- Day to day resolution of quality issues with suppliers.- Working with existing suppliers to improve part quality, reduce cost, and reduce non-conformances to zero.- Supplier audits of potential and new suppliers.- Supplier development in the Toyota Production System for existing suppliers.- Qualifying new parts at existing suppliers as well as new suppliers themselves.

Apply comprehensive skills in the engineering, maintenance and repair of semiconductor maskwriters valued at $3 million to $30 million.Position Highlights:1. Serve as a pivotal point of contact with customers during diagnostic processes to understand system development, changes and usage. Work with hardware, software, optic and other engineers to develop enhancements to reduce downtime and maximize yields.2. Recognized for ability and resourcefulness as lead diagnostician. Developed and authored standard operating procedures for diagnostics, service, and repair.3. Utilize a wide range of diagnostic tools including precision metrology tools. Interpret diagrams, blueprints, SOPs and technical specifications for fault isolation.4. Found a source for research scale maskwriters that resulted in almost $2 million in sales for Mycronic.5. Serve as a technical resource to other engineers and sites across the US and Asia for diagnoses of tool problems and failures.

Lead Engineer, Photo Tool Department, Supported photo lithographic processes in the production of photo masks used in the manufacture of laminated chip carrier products and fine pitch printed circuit boards, including the maintenance and repair of 2 laser maskwriters. Position Highlights:1. Designed models for department to increase capacity.2. Managed a $3.4 million expansion, efforts resulted in improvement in capacity by 50%, increased yields by 15% and decrease in downtime by 25%.Photo Engineer, Subtractive Circuitization Line Managed cleanroom certification activities, and identified and isolated sources of contamination. Position Highlights: 3. Proposed an alternative dry film photo resist structure to improve resolution and yield with reduced costs and submitted a patent application4. Provided engineering support in the dry film resist apply and expose processes of a subtractive circuitization printed circuit board manufacturing line.

1. On site representative for Rockwell to the subcontractor employed to manufacture novel optical filters for LCD displays.2. Managed the trial activities among R&D, subcontractor, and vendor groups involved in the development program.3. Led substrates development, in-process test development, coating process development, and raw material specification/standard operating procedure teams.

1. Facilitated the transfer of the Verde Digital Film manufacturing process from XRCC, Canada to the subcontractor employed to manufacture the product.2. Provided engineering support for manufacturing process and test development.3. Evaluated potential substrate suppliers and performed on site audits.4. Invented a new film base structure for the product and submitted a patent application for it.

1. Responsible for incoming quality control on 600+ raw materials used in the manufacturing process, with special attention paid to film and paper substrates.2. Resolved quality issues with vendors.3. Developed and maintained specifications for the raw materials used in the process.4. Developed and maintained standard operating procedures for substrate tests.5. Responsible for optical defect analysis, contaminant identification, and root cause analysis for the coating process.