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Develop and maintain cost effective manufacturing processes and procedures from customer drawings, specifications and part models ensuring conformance to customer requirements and quality.Establishing a thorough and complete manufacturing plan to achieve the most efficient and high quality products for our customersAssist other departments by providing ongoing technical support of projects including the manufacturability and cost estimates throughout projects.Coordinate activities of assigned projects including support of the MRB process, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), operations, quality and problem solving manufacturing process issues.Provide recommendations for equipment, fixtures, tooling and automation equipment as necessary to produce products and assemblies.Supervise, maintain and verify fabrication processes, including machining, orbital welding, hand TIG welding, electro-mechanical assembly, ultrasonic cleaning, pressure testing, He leak checking and residual gas analysis (RGA).

Plan, organize and implemented product development projects. Manufacturing Engineering, responsible for maintaining and verifying the fabrication processes used in the standard production environment, including all facets of orbital welder training, weld schedule development and weld process control, machine shop support, ultrasonic cleaning, electro polishing, clean room assembly and leak checking. Development of work instructions and manufacturing operational procedures. Member of Change Control Board and involved with the Engineering Change Process

Development of the High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) Project. The instruments were mounted on the NASA XTE space satellite launched 8/95. Created all deliverable assembly documentation and drawings.Mechanical engineering representative for mass properties and vibration testing at Wyle Labs, El Segundo, CA. Thermal vacuum, EMI-EMC and component vibration testing at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.