Patrick Reich Email & Phone Number

Hayward, California, United States

Blue Current is a leader in the next wave of battery innovation. The company manufactures 100% dry, safe and high performance silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries to power the new energy economy including electric vehicles and non-automotive applications. Blue Current leads with science, data, and thoughtful IP across the full battery stack.

Fremont, California, United States

Develop, procure and install high volume automated assembly, test equipment and tooling used in the production of unique 3D cell architecture.Responsibilities:Develop customized automation equipment including system design, development, and commissioningWork with supplier partners to optimize system design and performanceSupport manufacturing process scale.

Fremont, California, United States

Mogadore, Ohio 44260

• Mobile application development (measureQuick) for the HVAC industry. measureQuick is a world class platform that bridges the gap between a contractors front office and the field to improve quality and to minimize lost.
• Established business systems for efficient management of operation
• Point of contact for strategic utility partner
• Implemented customer onboarding processes and developed content for the Learning Management System (LMS)
• Created business performance matrixes and builtout dashboards using Smartsheets
• Manage product change orders and developed sales forecasting tools for procurement

Santa Clara, California

• Project manager for NPI programs coordinating all backend activity for pilot scale manufacturing
• Coordinated machining, procurement, and shipment of material for NPI’s
• Guided new product designs and improvements for manufacturability
• Managed a team of 7 engineers consisting of ME’s, PE’s and techs
• Core effort was on back-end assembly yields of silicon MEMS device into primary packagingusing various bonding mechanisms
• Created custom automation solutions (hardware/software) aimed at solving complex highprecision assembly GD&T requirements

Santa Clara, CA

• Created new manufacturing processes using DOE's for next generation ink jet print heads
• High accuracy component placement(+-10um) and complex dispensing requirements
• Implemented a Cognex vision system for inspecting ultra-fine dispensing patterns
• Developed methods and fixtures for accelerated product reliability testing which included data logging
• Created validation and process documents for technical transfer efforts
• Instituted automated data queries and SPC control charting for manufacturing

Santa Clara, CA

• Conducted high level material deposition studies using ink jet nanoparticle solutions
• Debugged new printing platforms, developed corrective actions to improve the usability of new and existing ink jet platforms
• Developed web-based training and support system to facilitate end user understanding and utilization of ink jet platform, this reduced the amount of active engineering support time by 50%

San Jose, CA

Dental equipment repair and sales, specializing in high speed drills, surgical drills, hand instruments, Statim sterilizers, ultrasonic units, inserts, burs, hygiene, water purification, and more office consumables.Built business from owner operator @$18k/month to 3 employees @$40k/month. Sold business back to franchisor for a profit.

Belmont, CA

• Conducted gap analysis to ensure smooth transitions of major equipment format changes for customer’s commercial production equipment
• Fast tracked the development, prototyping and manufacture of an ultrasonic conditioning system which stabilized and increased product performance to specified levels enabling the project to move forward (Patent # WO.

Belmont, CA

• Company on-site technical representative and member of the plant team dedicated to quick isolation and correction of issues relating to product degradation
• Main interface for transferring commercialization of companies dry powder filling technology
• Drafted and executed FAT protocols, analyzed results, communicated findings to senior management, worked hand-in-hand with outside equipment vendors, project engineers, and production personnel to resolve problems
• Designed, debugged, and validated a pilot scale powder filling process which became the foundation for the commercial process
• Developed unique process using ultrasonic agitation to produce small volume, uniform density fills for dry powder products (US Patent # 6,182,712 B1 Feb 6, 2001)

Camarillo, CA

• Controlled staffing and coordinated 24-hour support for three production lines in two facilities.
• Coordinated installation, start-ups, debug, and integration of electronic ballast and DC power supply production lines which included dispensing, SMT, reflow, laser trimming, wave solder and ATE’s.
• Final authority on the maintenance and troubleshooting of production equipment.
• Increased surface mount equipment efficiency from ~87% to 99% through new tuning and maintenance procedures

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Honorable discharge as an E6.