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South Burlington, Vermont, United States

Burlington, Vermont Area

-Provide executive level strategic equipment strategy-Driving predictive monitoring solutions to legacy machinery-Leading cost focused PM initiatives-Working with a high skilled, high experience tenured maintenance tech force-Hands on machine and work culture focused

Waterbury VT

• Develop & execute comprehensive re-commissioning plans for legacy idle high speed equipment, ensuring internal Safety & Quality standards met while conforming to current OSHA & SQF requirements.
• Deliver cost savings through development & execution of New Product Development trials for next-generation primary-packaging materials for network critical projects.
• Proactive analysis of machine performance & quality data from new product development work, to quantify manufacturing impact of new materials & methods.

Waterbury VT

• Agile team lead, tasked with successful rapid integration of new packaging materials, packaging designs, and suppliers into existing Quality and manufacturing supply chain with a result of 6MM savings of annual.
• Redesigned production line waste removal system to improve ergonomic safety risks and decreased equipment downtime by 17%.
• Led RCCA event for a downtime study to determine root cause for "upstream starved" fault alarm on cartoning and case packing portions of production line. Decreased occurrence and time per event.

Rochester, New York Area

-Designed a parts dryer from piece parts to fully integrated machine -Speced out each individual part with suppliers -Met timeline of 3 months within one internship

-Worked on everything from basement to ceiling-Worked independently as a student worker leading other student workers on projects-Worked all shifts from D1 to N1

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

-Created Custom Mounted and troubleshot reverse fifth wheel alignment camera.-Participated in marketing event for D.O.E prototype truck “Super Truck”-Conducted experiments to shape design on battery sizes.-Worked in machine shop to custom make mounts-Coordinated projects between technicians, engineers, and project managers

Bohemia N.Y

• Used DMAIC principles to change kitting processes to Kan ban improving accuracy and traceability.
• Reworked a manual assembly workbench to ergonomic and tool traceability standards.
• Found root cause on inventory surplus and changed BOM through the GE Engineering Change Request process.
• Coordinated incoming inspection of failed component with peers and compiled data to present to leadership.
• Participated in continuous improvement event which resulted in documenting best practices, eliminating 2 specialty tools, saved ~30% on building and testing time.

Optimized the testing of prototype engine components to yield 100% success rate.Created DOE to verify the accuracy of full assembly print contamination spec to get customer approval to start roll out to production.Completed teardown reports for customers and developed process and best practices around assembly.Compiled data from end of line machine through.