Michael Kyei-Baffour, Mem Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Atlanta, GA, US

• Lead cross-functional teams to introduce new products to market. Define project scope, prepare necessary specifications, documentation and schedules, approve engineering design changes, and develop validation plans for.
• Prepare and report project team status including risks, budgetary impacts, schedule changes, development roadblocks, and potential opportunities.
• Conduct and analyze fluid analyses of current and new products using analytical methods, in-house design tools/software and other commercial software.
• Analyze engineering drawings, specifications, and related data and to determine design factors such as size, shape and component assembly.
• Actively engage with vendors of various components and sub-systems in order to successfully develop new technology, components and product through active collaboration, specification, review, testing, evaluation, and.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Review product design for compliance with engineering principles, agency standards, company standards and customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
• Develop evaluation test plans and coordinate with Engineering Drafters and Test Engineers on test set-up, data acquisition, interpretation of data and means for achieving desired test results.
• Evaluate products for ease of manufacturability, potential cost reduction opportunities, and performance enhancements. Execute project to implement design changes.
• Analyze engineering drawings, specifications, and related data and to determine design factors such as size, shape and component assembly.
• Develop agency certification submittals and coordinate available testing with internal and external laboratories.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US

• Managed multiple projects, from concept to implementation, by leading cross-functional teams through project scoping, reliability analyses, DFMEAs, qualification plan development, qualification testing, data analysis.
• Interfaced with various suppliers to capture cost savings, review quality and technical requirements, plan delivery logistics including packaging and shipment methods, and finalize component design.
• Collaborated with design engineers and drafters to create component design with the goal of maintaining factory production and reliability, while reducing component cost.
• Created, managed, and revised Engineering documentation including component drawings, installation instructions, Test Assignment Instructions, and Bill of Materials.
• Incorporated the use of simulation software in order to perform preliminary component qualification.
• Led a team of engineers through a Kaizen Event in order to improve the resources available to the department.

Cupertino, California, US

• Quickly and efficiently diagnose customer concerns with their devices.
• Provide quick, effective solutions for the problems the customer is having with their device.
• Work with large, diverse teams in order to provide excellent customer service.
• Communicate product knowledge and be able to teach customers about the many features products have.

College Park, MD, US

• Investigate individual variations of design process by examining capstone students' design journals.
• Apply specific coding mechanisms to groups of ideas within the design journal.
• Draw correlations between student ideation process and team dynamic to the efficiency of the final product design.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a neural network database that draws correlations between different segments across a group of journals.

College Park, MD, US

• Assist staff in lab sessions for the Product Engineering and Manufacturing course (ENME371) based on excellent class performance.
• Staff labs and HelpMe Center during the semester in order to allow students to finish tool experiments.
• Provide guidance for student assignments by answering questions and providing instruction.

Stratford, Connecticut, US

• Facilitated communication between SAC engineers and customer, including the transfer of product design changes and CAD drawings.
• Inspected CAD Drawings for specific design requirements such as maintenance instructions and UID stamps.
• Maintained and organized multiple spreadsheet based databased containing proprietary design information and Bill of Material.
• Developed a schedule and executed a procedure for technical data delivery CDRL between suppliers, SAC, and customer.
• Communicated with Integrated Project Team (IPT) Leads in order to create, modify, and upload engineering changes (ECs) on to the working Bill of Material database.
• Communicated with DCMA to advise IPTs on changes and implement engineering changes at an accelerated rate.

College Park, MD, US

• Work with a diverse group in order to maintain the organization of the community.
• Constantly communicate important knowledge and actions to other CAs on the staff.
• Provide excellent customer service to the residents of the community.

Washington, DC, US

• Investigated the correlation between vehicle front-end design and the pedestrian fatality rate.
• Refined design data collection method.
• Investigated how vehicle design regulations affected the design of vehicle front-ends over the last three decades.
• Researched possible mediation technology that could be implemented into future vehicles in order to mitigate the pedestrian fatality rate.
• Made use of graphic imaging software to compare fascia designs between continent variants
• Presented research findings and possible solutions in the form of technical report and presentation.

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Minor, General Business