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Norwalk, CA, US

Cerritos, California, US

Inglewood, California, US

- P&L Responsibility for $60M Business Unit- Contract negotiations for existing and new business- Planning Sales and Bookings Plan for Financial Year- Led Sales and Operations team to submit and negotiate Commercial proposals to Airbus, Spirit, and Bombardier, and Defense proposals to Boeing, and Embraer ($5M). - Plan and Execute yearly Sales and Bookings.

- Technical and commercial bids for Embraer Turboprop and Dassault Aviation’s Falcon Future lightning isolators ($120k NRE). - Led certification analysis program for Global 7500 Aircraft leading to FAA approval of report. Resulted in $250k savings.- Managed qualification efforts for HondaJet HA420 fuel isolators, displacing existing supplier. New Business.

• Successfully designed, qualified and certified Static Dissipative Fuel System Dielectric Isolators for Boeing 777-9, resulting in 322 ship sets of fuel system equipment.
• Qualified equipment for two (2) airframers (Boeing/Embraer), realizing revenues for NRE (upto $500k) and transitioning qualified equipment into manufacturing.
• Continuous improvement programs (Airbus) successfully completed, resulting in savings of $80k every year.

• 75% reduction of sealant rework by utilizing root cause analysis, incorporating automation and training operators on best practices.
• Automating test procedures that resulted in decreasing cycletime by 43%.
• Led continuous improvement projects comprising of design, quality and manufacturing engineers that resulted in 30% reduction in manufacturing defects by incorporating manufacturing improvements, specification changes.

Azusa, California, US

• Decreased turnaround time for concept pump station designs by 70% & increased support for residential, commercial & golf business unit related specifier, proposal & approval requests.
• Implemented standardization projects for commercial & golf pump stations that reduced system lead time by 30 to 50% and (engineering/material/labor) costs by 25 to 30%.
• Reducing design and production times by 24 times by implementing standardization for pump stations that have flow rates ranging from 40 gpm to 2,250 gpm.
• Supported engineering related cost reduction projects resulting in decreased material (~$75,000), labor (~$30,000), design and drafting costs (~$20,000) year-to-date.
• Decreased engineering DMRs by 75% & reduced turnaround time for PRR & CAR.
• Engineered Rain Bird Filter for pump stations to reduce cost by 50%.Awarded Excellence in Engineering for the year 2011-2012 at Rain Bird Corporation.

• Conceptualized & engineered modular water treatment systems (ARS 600) that incorporated AltelaRain technology & yielded 12X increase in treatment rate compared to ARS 4000.
• Engineered and scaled water distillation towers for 6X increased treatment rate.
• Designed tower manufacturing process automation for increased tower production rates and manufacturability.
• Designed SCADA system & automated system operation report generation tool using real time data for multiple systems for management review & system diagnostics.

Albuquerque, NM, US

• Project lead for LENS system with accelerated deposition rates of up to 8 cu. in/hr (850M).
• Engineered custom enhancements for material deposition systems that increased deposition rates, improved process & provided process feedback.

M.S, Mechanical Engineering

B.E, Mechanical Engineering

Advanced Diploma, Computer Programming