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Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Dassel, Minnesota, United States

• Extensive background in developing solid process/product development plans through technical and business phase gate reviews and demonstrating high volume manufacturing readiness.
• Able to document and communicate technical and business reviews to ensure that the process/product meet high volume manufacturing requirements.
• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and organizational skills with a proven track record in process development.
• Proven ability to identify the root cause of process opportunities and implement permanent solutions at domestic and offshore manufacturing sites.
• Highly capable of utilizing statistical methods, Gage R & R’s, troubleshooting techniques to formulate and direct improvement plans.
• Consistent use of Six Sigma Methods, FMEA, and statistical analysis of process and final audit data to understand current conditions and establish relationships between key input variables and key output variables.

Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States

Facilitated the collaboration between the external customer offshore design groups and diverse internal teams during DFM reviews. Cataloged and tracked DFM items throughout the negotiation process and verified that acceptable solutions were incorporated into the customer design drawings. Customer support was the highest priority and our team goal was to.

Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States

Led projects for multiple complex and strategic initiatives for cost reduction, capacity, yield, or capability improvement. All required the use of statistically valid data analysis, attention to detail, FMEA, Six Sigma methodology (DMAIC), mentoring, cost control, teamwork, strategic implementation, and technical and business reviews.Cost Reduction.

Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States

Product Development: With a team of 3 process engineers and 4 technicians, I led the process development activities from initial design to transfer for mass production. We maintained and completed development plans and demonstrated high volume readiness with multiple technical and business reviews. With the help of manufacturing and industrial engineering.

Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States

I was a member of a measurement system project and contributed resolution requirements, error source evaluations, tested, and verified sub-assemblies by working with Machine Design, Controls Design engineering, and Calibration groups. We worked through Measurement System Analysis (MSA) to define and demonstrate repeatability and reproducibility.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Materials group team member that provided production support in the development of the next generation mainframe computer. I worked with the east coast development team to implement updates to the Bill of Operations, Bill of Materials, and initiated change request activities. Created, maintained, and communicated the Factory Operations Plan to achieve.