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Lowell, MA, US

Andover, Massachusetts, United States

• Successfully executed multiple Cost Improvement Projects that lead to major savings plant wide including coolant replacement for entire CNC machining floor and a primer replacement that allowed a production stoppage to.
• Drive execution and continuous improvement of Global Substance Program Group that was implemented to ensure compliance to REACH and RoHS with program material procurement
• Experience with writing SOPs, FAls, PFMEAs, control plans, and validation plans including IQ, OQ, PQ
• Performs market research on materials that are obsoleting and finding replacements using various test methods {I.e., FTIR, Tensile, Hardness, etc.)
• Part of design groups to review and adjust part designs for easier manufacturability to ensure molding house can successfully complete the manufacturing of new/changing parts

Amesbury, Massachusetts, United States

• Primary engineering lead on multiple products and up-scaling them from development to full productions status.
• Implementing work instructions and creating routers for processes along with operator training and SOPs.
• Lead on liquid injection, metal tooling effort. Took program from material development to full rate production.
• Implemented fixtures and tooling, while using lean manufacturing techniques, to take labor intensive process to be consistent and repeatable
• Experienced in Quoting, Process Control Documentation and Technical Writing, Product Development, Supplier Interaction, Technical Drawing, Microsoft Project Scheduling, Customer Reviews, and Production Programs.
• Global Shop Solutions ERP used for planning manufacturing, demand, and documentation control.

Killingly CT

o Product Realization (holding meetings and improving communication in order to transfer items from development to production)o Helped reduce the amount of products that were in process of being transferred from around 100 to under 15 in three months by leading meetings weekly to coordinate with sales, quality and configurationo Knowledge of FDA.

Plastics Engineering Student

Danvers, MA

• Mainly focused on assisting engineers running products o i.e. Finding materials and resources, dismantling, cleaning, and assembling extruders, and helping run products (catheters) by monitoring parameters of the.
• Started a project to implement a new computerized system for inventory rooms to make it easier and faster to find resins and other resources used in manufacturing of catheters.
• Manufactured small tips of stints in a “Mini-jector” injection unit and solving problems with new designs of tips and defects being present (warpage and sink-holes)

Lawrence Mass

- Assisted on implementation of new computer system to track, save, and review data for fabric samples between the knitting and dying phase.- Tabulated daily efficiency and total reports to help manage entire plant and check the status of all the machines.- Lead/Co-Lead Engineering teams to help improve "Shearing" operation step of the fabric process to.