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General Motors Manufacturing Engineering

• Developing the plan to implement Lean Engineering principles to the ME Stamping Center engineers through teaching, coaching, and mentoring various GMS and Continuous Improvement projects.
• Coaching 5 DFSS projects in Manufacturing Engineering, ranging from reducing landfill waste within Manufacturing plants to streamlined standards and data management.

General Motors Aerodynamics Laboratory

• Coached, led, and participated in over 20 DFSS projects, driving increased accuracy of laboratory instrumentation and increasing efficiency in aero, climatic, and powertrain dynamometer testing.
• Taught Design for Six Sigma and Problem Solving methods as part of the Lean Tools training process for all Centralized Laboratory technicians.
• Launched the Global Manufacturing System (GMS) process within the Aero Lab, incorporating lean tools and refining metrics to determine root cause for inefficiencies, leading to increased productive test time and model.
• Supervised Operations Support staff, providing honest and consistent feedback that increased skill sets and raised performance levels of senior technicians.
• Purchased new instrumentation and developed procedures to ensure items met or exceeded expectations, leading to better baseline calibration data and decrease in troubleshooting issues.
• Utilized DFSS Master Black Belt coaching skills in drive to virtual, guiding correlation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to physical model testing, reducing in-tunnel testing and decreasing physical models.

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Technical Japanese

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Science - As, Mathematics And Computer Science