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Mount Pleasant, Pa, Us

Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, United States

WATT fuel cell has successfully demonstrated one of the first commercially viable fuel cell products in the marketplace and we are growing our manufacturing capacity to meet market demands. I am responsible for leading the scale up of our fuel cell manufacturing process by enhancing operational best practice, custom automation, factory systems and control.

Ayutthaya, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand

Leading the build-up of process development organization. The role includes long-term strategy development, talent acquisition, and the development of business processes. Meeting the departments KPIs will ensure MPT can meet technological demands for next generation recording head suspensions that power the worlds Edge and Cloud data centers.Personal achievements include: practical elimination of reliability failure mode by engineering the electrical connection interface, order of magnitude reduction in process variation by eliminating process over correction along with proper training/targeting for process KPIs, developed business process for both process and metrology development to facilitate successful execution to technology roadmap from initial concept through deployment into manufacturing.

Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Expatriate focused on the leadership of process development and integration of advanced manufacturing technology related to metrology, measurement systems, critical dimensions, and the start-up implementation and advancement of process control systems, techniques and architecture within a high volume manufacturing setting.Conceptualized and launched effort for the deployment of FDC (Fault Detection and Classification) across dozen's of machine types on over 1000 individual tools in our manufacturing operation. Implementation of Workflow Automation to drive quality and efficiency improvements across the entire high volume manufacturing landscape.Company first Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to enable high volume automated defect inspection across millions of images/day.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Advanced development of measurement systems, cleaning processes, photolithography, and engineered material handling for high volume manufacturing. Responsible for successful transfer of technology to process teams in southeast Asia.Initiated and steered efforts on the comprehensive review of manufacturing process that solidified the core tenants of our process development strategy to reduce defects and control CTQs though the strategic placement of cleaning and metrology within the production line.Managed and actively engaged in the specifications and requirements for dozens of custom process equipment from Atomic Force Microscopes to proprietary cleaning equipment and advanced pick and place systems. The majority were successfully ramped into high volume manufacturing.

Bloomington, Minnesota

Engineering lead for integration of key mechanical technology 3-5 years ahead of product launch. Notable Deliverables:Developed and executed tribological testing focused on Head Disc Interface with a primary focus on the integration of Advanced Air Bearing designs and next generation suspension technology to deliver aggressive Arial Density and reliability targets. Empirically validated several theoretical interface models by combining multiple internal and external data sources and meticulously controlled design of experiments.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration

Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha Men's Volleyball team Student Government (Sophomore and Junior Class President)