Patrick Ward Email & Phone Number

Warrendale, PA

• Lead Manufacturing Engineer for the Scanning Electron Microscope (S.E.M.) line of products.
• Member of cross-functional teams tasked with new product development
• Facilitated launch of newly developed products seeing them through the phase gating process.
• Developed, evaluated, and improved manufacturing methods for existing product lines.
• Utilized design for manufacturability focusing on how manufacturability influences design, procedures for production, work instruction, documentation, and process optimization.
• Introduced production system for tracking product serialization, genealogy, and manufacturing process data for quality reporting through a business intelligence tool.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Lead Industrial Engineer for the Engineering Consulting, Controls & Automation Manufacturing, and Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Manufacturing Divisions.
• Executed lean methods of manufacturing and continuous improvement across various product lines resulting in significant reductions in manufacturing time as well as manufacturing costs.
• Applied design for manufacturing methodology through the formation of cross-functional teams to estimate manufacturing costs, reduce the costs of components, reduce the costs of assembly, and reduce the costs of.
• Developed upper / lower product specification limits in line with customer requirements through reducing variation to hit the customer’s target specification.
• Utilized 5S methodology to overhaul the production floor layout yielding increases in efficiency as well as effectiveness.
• Implemented Value Stream Mapping to improve flow of materials, parts, and supplies required for production.

Anderson, SC

Senior Industrial Engineering capstone design project conducted at a local world class automotive manufacturing facility. Designed an efficient process for picking and distributing substrate reels used for surface mounting silicon chips during production from the substrate cage inventory to four production lines using Lean Manufacturing, Waste Elimination.