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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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Pi OmegaCompleted Fundamentals of Engineering exam

As, Electronics