Nicholas Beard Email & Phone Number

Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Santa Clarita, California, United States

I worked as a consultant for a small company to help organize their process. This was a good small job I did while between fulltime companies. I am not one to sit idle for too long!Worked assisting in improving manufacturing process in the company as a hands-on engineer and adviser to manufacturing managers and engineering managers. Supporting project.

Thousand Oaks, California, United States

• Introduced projects per SOPs, ensuring projects are completed on schedule and within established budget.
• Networked with manufacturing, quality and regulatory organizations both internal and external to Amgen
• Coordinated test method development and delivery with selected contractors.
• Excellent leadership of large team of new and mid-level engineers (varied over the years from 5 to 10 staff)
• Multiple projects managed at once and communicated project status and risks to integrated timelines to leadership.
• Supervised work of staff during development and manufacture of test methods in laboratory and work-from-home settings.

Thousand Oaks, California, United States

• Support senior staff in development, qualification, validation, and transfer of GMP test methods for combination products, devices, and containers
• Provide support and lead investigations, new processes, manufacturing developments, and commercial complaints (CAPA/Change Controls, Deviations/Non-Compliance)
• Coordinate test method development and delivery with multiple sites
• Ensure quality standards are met for projects, following site procedures or corporate SOPs
• Network internally and externally, collaborating and communicating to ensure alignment on risks and timelines captured throughout project life, taking preventative actions as needed
• Generate documents for instruction of maintenance and operation of equipment/ processes/ test methods utilized by operators for manufacturing department

Thousand Oaks, CA

• Responsible for design and development of testing containers for drug delivery systems
• Assist in project definition by performing engineering studies and assessments, creating documentation for future reference
• Perform laboratory experiments to acquire data, analyzing the data to provide engineering design/manufacturing recommendations.
• Design and develop physical test methods with respect to container and combination product integration of drug delivery systems.
• Create clear SOP and introduce new machines into GMP manufacturing
• Design and build new machines/fixtures to solve problems in all application tests, improving data acquisition and saving time/costs

Valencia, CA

Three main hats to wear: Manufacturing Engineering - involving creating job process control documentation, creating instructions, quality control, training others to follow procedures, and overall continuous improvement on the shop floor. Project Engineer - Problems are found everyday. I find the issues, understand the system and any solutions. Pick the.

Santa Clarita Valley, CA

I am a private tutor working with anyone that needs help in mainly math and physics. However, I do not restrict myself to those fields. These are just what I am always working with while I study to be an Mechanical Engineer. I began in the late summer of 2012 and am always open to help. Just as long as a planned schedule can be reached!

California State University, Northridge

Once my original job was done as jig table designer, I focused on repairing and improving the Team trailer and tools. Without these in proper working order, the entire team's effort would have never made it to competition. The heavy duty trailer - 7000 pound capacity had 4 electric brakes, none in which worked. tires in poor shape, paint peeling and.

Cal State Northridge, CA

Part of a sub team of Chassis, I am the incharge of the design and manufacting of the jig to assemble the chassis and other parts of the formula car once the designs are complete. Last year's jig is simply a steel frame in which more sections of pre determined steet is welded to the top and a bracing and brackets are welded to that inorder to make a jig.

Cal State University Of Northridge

I was the team lead for a group project in a class. ME 330 Machine Design- Proffessor G. Youssef. This course incorperates material strengths, dynamics, stress analysis and new knowledge taught throught the semester. The project lasted the entire semester. A requirement sheet was given showing the exact details that a "customer" would have for a.

Cal State University Of Northridge

I was the team leader for a large group of fellow engineering students for our class. ME 386 Finite Element Analysis teaches the concepts of FEA. Solidworks was the primary software used and for a full semester project, our team decided to use the software to understand the design of a drum brake. Scheduling and planning the group's combined effort to.

Santa Clarita Valley, CA

This company is a Party Rental company. Anything you want for a wedding, party, dance house, they have it!Here I was in charge of managing the inventory. Cleaning and preparing customer orders. Packing up and shipping orders, I drove the trucks, delievering each order as fast as possible. I worked long weekends due to the large amount of deliveries. Moving.

do everything. and do it as fast as i can. Cleaning, maintainence, organization. customer service, friendly, problem solving, solution thinking 8 hours a day.... and good thing there was coffee!!! making exceptionally good drinks and treats for customers- the good or bad, I helped each make their day a better one with my service!

Bachelor Of Science Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ASME, FSAE 2014, FSAE 2015

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Mathematics