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Andover, Massachusetts, United States

• Collaborate with design engineers on new product development and prototype builds
• Create visual work instructions for production team.
• Ensure production uptime with preventative maintenance program and identify, assess, and select new production equipment.

Westborough, MA

Consulting on new product development and technical feasibility of residential lighting designs.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Build and mentor engineering team to grow individual skills and focus on business results.* Create, build, and deliver thorough production specifications process to insure product meets customer requirements.* Reduce dwell time of incoming inspections and increase vendor credits by automating flow of quality documents.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Identified gaps in engineering knowledge and effectiveness and created and executed on plan to build out the product engineering team by hiring into new skills. * Collaborated with cross-functional team to reboot product development cycle using value stream mapping and PD production board.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Made design and technical decisions based on refined knowledge of design intent, vendor capability, production capability, and cost requirements.* Led small product engineering team in design and creation of CAD assets and technical documents for products.* Visited domestic and international vendors to communicate on quality expectations and design.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Designed customized lighting product for commercial and hospitality markets.* Created quality specification and work instructions for various products including blown glass vessels, stamped parts, and plated parts.* Educated engineering and non-engineering team members on NPI process, Autodesk Inventor best practices, and ERP system.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Created new product designs by specifying components using spinning, forging, casting, and machining processes.* Managed production routes and bills of materials.* Modeled 3D solids and 2D technical documentation for manufacturing new lighting and hardware components.

Portland, Oregon Area

* Practiced concurrent engineering to implement design changes in the manufacturing of auto transport vehicles. * Applied knowledge of lean principles.* Improved designs to increase product quality and manufacturing efficiency, generate manufacturing content for production teams, write service bulletins, and act ascengineering point-of-contact with vendors.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

* Managed production of flexible circuit material on a reel-to-reel copper electroplating machine.* Designed and implemented process improvements for electroplating equipment resulting in increased production yields by 12% over the course of one year.* Provided troubleshooting for QA equipment including XRF, pull testers, optical inspection equipment, and.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.A., Economics