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Tualatin, Oregon, United States

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Work directly with assembly techs, supervisors, and engineers to provide assembly training and manufacturing process improvements to prevent assy. errors, boost reliability, improve yields, speed assembly processes, and ultimately improve the quality and lowered the cost of electric vehicles delivered to customers. Implemented error proofing devices for manufacturing techs and simplified process tools to improve yield and reduce assembly time and reduce scrap. Performed RCA, FAI, FMEA, statistical data analysis, gauge capability studies, and SPC design and charting to meet the quality control plan requirements. Streamlined the NCM review process in order to maintain Odoo inventory accuracy, and completed assembly process inspections as needed to balance manufacturing workstations. Create JIRA tasks for ECO requests to improve quality, assembly speed, and reduce scrap / cost. Track weekly project progress in JIRA. Active team member of NPD team characterizing new Lithium battery components, creating prototypes, and developing processes that ensure robust materials and assemblies for next generation, lower cost, electric vehicles.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Determine reliability of current and future products through life modeling, field data, and testing in environmental lab. Create lean processes and method sheets and spare parts strategy for new test equipment deployed to business partners in Vietnam, Italy, and Slovakia. Design new test equipment to characterize critical product parameters identified via customer feedback and field return data. Designed, conducted, and analyzed test results for Electro / Optical / Mechanical devices used in commercial and industrial environments. Performed test to failure of individual industrial components and repaired and maintained test equipment to a high level of reliability. Mine SAP database for warranty returns, failures and Sales to calculate failure rates over time and Mean Cumulative Functions to estimate warranty cost and rates for repairable systems. NPD core team member rep. Quality, Reliability, and Regulatory for Customer needs. Estimate MTBF for existing and new products based on field data, test data, and component data sheets. Provide FAI and incoming inspection training and backup for Quality inspector. Lead company wide Problem Communication Meeting process and documentation of findings.

Willamette Valley

Diagnose and replace mechanical assemblies on a wide variety of farming equipment, primarily Combines and tractors, to remove and replace worn and broken bearings, roller chain, belts, pulleys, hoses, and electrical components as part of an annual preventive maintenance program. Equipment was returned to a ready to harvest state of repair upon completion of work.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Characterized new product manufacturing economic resources using diverse modeling techniques that provided decision quality information to the program team. Worked directly with Technicians, Managers and Engineers to improve manufacturing efficiency and ergonomics. Extensively used Excel, office suite, JMP, modeling software, and self-created models to characterize unique situations and provide solutions. • Delivered worldwide wafer capacity siting strategy model by deploying lean modeling techniques, beating an aggressive 3 month crunch schedule.• Accurately characterized extensive Corvallis and Singapore fab parameters for 12 products, 100’s of process steps and dozens of IC fabrication tools. Vetted baseline employed for dozens of capacity scenarios that cut capital investments up to $30M.• Assessed ergonomics of 116 workstations, tools, and equipment designs. Summarized solutions for process engineers and managers for improvements in manufacturing that avoided muskoskeletal injuries.• Created 36 detailed resource models for a next generation printhead. Accurately detailed the $78M of investment in manufacturing labor, and capital required to ramp the product from proto to product introduction volumes. Results informed management for annual capital budgeting cycle and semiannual program feasibility checkpoints.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Designed run to failure tests, procured test units, and ran printheads and associated fluidics devices through environmental stress tests until units failed. Test results were analyzed, summarized and reported to business partners worldwide. • Designed and implemented efficient reliability tests for new products and applied test result data to estimate warranty return rates and ultimately printer service and replacement costs for managed services contracts.• Statistical analysis of reliability data mined from proto test units used to predict customer reliability performance. Provided technical inputs on the design of ink devices and package test units. Designed and executed tests to identify failure mechanisms. Determined root cause of failures.• B10 Life model applied to test data used to predict product spec change impact to customer use cases.• Applied lean six sigma methods to Reliability test designs that reduced test cost by 50% compared to historical run rates.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Work center Industrial Engineer / New Business Analyst 2000-13Characterize new, sometimes existing, processes and predict future resource requirements and solutions. Data mine databases. Analyze millions of data records from weekly customer subscriptions and create weekly content delivery system yield reports, and present results and recommendations to Management and Engineering staff.• Developed A3 Thinking training materials for engineers and taught Lean Problem Solving sessions. • Owned and created comprehensive fab resource model that characterized 23 new $10+M businesses.• Lead teams that improved site technology development process, and fab ABC Excel model conversion to a database. Characterize unique problems and solutions using JMP, Factory Commander, Microsoft Office suite, and DbVisualizer.

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Pi OmegaCompleted Fundamentals of Engineering exam

As, Electronics