Randy Birchell Email & Phone Number

Lake Charles, Louisiana Area

American Airlines

Weatherford, Texas

Areas of expertise: Computer Integrated manufacturing, Manufacturing Development, Engineering, Quality, Operational Excellence, Reliability, Continuous Improvement, Lean manufacturing, Environmental testing, and Project Management. Areas Served: Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics,Oil Field Services, and Building materialsCurrent Clients: Weatherford.

Denton Texas

Set up reliability programs for copper wire making machinery: Oil Surveys, vibration monitoring, laser alignment, lubricant type reduction. Developed reliability road map.

Fort Worth, Texas

• Reliability Engineering Manager – responsible for reliability improvements to new and existing products through environmental stress screening and design qualification testing. This includes final acceptance testing.
• Developed and implemented Environmental Stress Screening Laboratory to include vibration, thermal, autoclave and well testing. Projected savings of 7 million over a seven year cycle through product and process.
• Developed and implemented Environmental Stress Screening and Environmental Design Qualification manuals for research and development and manufacturing organizations and drove culture changes for reliability improvement.
• Designed and implemented improvements to autoclave facility which greatly enhanced safety and improved efficiency by over 50%
• Authored reliability specifications and requirements for next generation downhole test equipment
• Co-Chairman for Weatherford Manufacturing Safety and Active Caring Program

Weatherford, Texas

• Engineering Manager – Responsible for engineering support activities for Chemical Milling, Coatings, and Finishing for aircraft components for various manufacturers.Key Contributions:
• Significantly shortened lead times for tooling and production part implementation
• Led initiatives to improve part planning accuracy and compliance to AS9100 and NADCAP requirements.
• Improved tooling inventory and document control accuracy by over 65%
• Directed Manufacturing Engineering support for two facilities
• Implemented continuous improvement and preventive action programs at both facilities

Fort Worth, Texas

• Reliability Engineer Senior Staff - Joint Strike Fighter Wing IPT Advanced Quality Engineering Lead responsible for all aspect of reliability and quality assurance engineering for design and operations activities.Key.
• Successfully led efforts to standardize build to packages and create supplier measurement plans for each fatigue / fracture critical, maintenance critical, or safety critical design
• Led variation management efforts and standardized identification of Datums and Key Characteristics for critical designs
• Teamed with composite part design groups and composite part suppliers to develop quality plans and control techniques for critical process parameters
• Partnered with manufacturing technology and operations groups to select, implement, and certify new equipment for wing structures, composite part machining, drilling and assembly

Fort Worth

• Senior Manager, New Product Quality - Responsible for creation, staffing, and management of a corporate new product quality initiative.Key contributions:
• Developed and implemented new product readiness guidelines for design, development, production, and release to customer
• Developed and implemented corporate guidelines for Design Reviews, DFM, DFA, DFMEA and PFMEA
• Led successful relocation of paging and cellular base station manufacturing and test facilities to China
• Led successful relocation of pager and cellular phone manufacturing and test facilities to Mexico and China
• Led efforts to implement standardized methods for root cause identification, analysis, and defect prevention

Fort Wroth

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - responsible for process control and process improvement activities for bonding and composites manufacturing department. Extraordinary Achievement Award Recipient for implementing operator self verification techniques that reduced in process inspection for all fabrication departments by 75% and improved quality levels.

Bachelor Of Science, Industrial Technology

Master Of Science, Industrial Technology