Oversee all QA batch concerns including internal investigations, customer complaintsOversee all batch blend and fix opportunitiesISO trainer for all new hiresRaw material preship approvals including in lab batches, and titrations

- Liaise with suppliers to create parts and various assembly processes from Honda R&D designs that meet specs to be incorporated in new Honda and Acura models.- Manage parts including injection molded garnishes, functional attachment pieces, clips, wheel caps, and engine covers with molded-in color, paint, and chrome. - Manage validation testing, PFMEA, PQCT, data and fixture creation, capacity studies.- Lead technical support, including several trainings for materials, molding, DOEs and capability studies.

Sole process engineer for 49 injection molding lines making housings and lids for car/truck batteries made of polypropylene (PP) and talc filled polypropylene (TFPP). Member of Quality group participating in PPAPs, audits, and control plan/FMEA.

• Provided support for Hostaform/Celcon Polyoxymethylene (POM) translation from development to production, including capability and specification setting, and raw material qualifications.• Technical Lead on all North America public literature for trade shows and published pamphlets.• Developed a qualitative analysis of POM impact modifier mold deposit on tools using Ellipsometry.• Discovered method/chemical for removal of POM and impact modifier mold deposit.• Ran multiple injection molding studies for customers as problems arose in part filling, mold deposit, tool design, and process characterization.• Ran adhesion study for POM label and decal adhesion.• Provided POM technical support to North/South America plants for quality issues. Coordinated with Asian and European plants/suppliers as well as the U.S., Mexico and Brazil.• Provided POM technical support for customer part analysis, including microscopy, DCS, IR, NMR, and mechanical testing.• Created all POM customer specification agreements.• Conducted injection molding trials for optimization of filled materials for use in electrostatic dissipative, impact modified, and metallic pigmented designs.• Conducted periodic Plastics 101 classes for customers. Classes included engineers from many major OEM automobile manufacturers and their tiers as well as major industrial and medical customers.• Provided support for material selection of out-of-kind products, such as Nylon, PC/ABS, ABS, and metal replacement.• Performed R&D work including new fillers, and combinations of existing technologies.• Developed two different electrostatic dissipative (ESD) grades for enhanced surface resistivity and laser weldability. • Conducted a laser weldability study of POM materials for customer literature.• Led T&I safety efforts for two years.

• Managed project to locate and qualify post-consumer PP and PS resin streams. Samples were collected and tested for material quality and mechanical properties by melt flow, color testing, DSC, IR, and GC. Materials were compounded with a twin screw extruder and injection molded for ASTM testing. Unique materials provided challenging injection molding trials. • Designed and managed trials for R&D inline twin screw extruder/thermoformer, and injection molder for the development of new additives for adding strength, and additives to act as filler, as well as bio materials, and high density foams. • Created a new antifog coating and application process for clear OPS containers. Coating was applied by roll coating to the extruded sheet prior to thermoforming. The viscous coating was mixed and delivered to the inline roll coater through an intricate pressure regulated system. The coating prompted more than a 50% increase in business during the developmental stage, and reduced equipment downtime over 15% from the previous antifog system. The system was also a major improvement for plant safety and cleanliness.• Managed project on an antimicrobial coating for clear produce containers to be applied by a label or sachet.• Process engineer in PP, TFPP, and OPS. Worked primarily on thermoforming, as well as in extrusion for new processor trays, roaster domes, and take out containers using design of experiments (DOE), SAP, QAS, and Minitab.• Managed QC for a direct food contact startup on an inline HIPS container. Product required multiple daily inspections, as well as daily and weekly reports to the customer in a GMP area. • Started up new multi-line, inline, clear PP drinking and soufflé cup facility. In charge of Rim Rolling, and team member for thermoforming and initial R&D design work. Scheduled and ran trials on a one up inline thermoformer prior to start up.