Engineering support manager heavily involved with Continuous Improvement & Maintenance Management. Responsible for ISO 9001:2008 Coordination at Amesbury Truth Extruded Profiles Division in Cannon Falls facility.

Design & Manufacturing engineer at Osemi Inc. Redwing Minnesota based semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier specializing Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), custom epitaxial wafers and epitaxial material.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT • Estimated job cost and bid package compilation (Lotus and MS Excel).• Managed customer contracts and contractual changes.• Significantly upgraded personnel and equipment expanding job shop capabilities. • Evaluated vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable suppliers.• Assured financial conditions of contracts were maintained with suppliers.• Scheduled manufacturing operations to meet on time requirements.• Ensured adherence to… Show more PROGRAM MANAGEMENT • Estimated job cost and bid package compilation (Lotus and MS Excel).• Managed customer contracts and contractual changes.• Significantly upgraded personnel and equipment expanding job shop capabilities. • Evaluated vendor quotes and services to determine most desirable suppliers.• Assured financial conditions of contracts were maintained with suppliers.• Scheduled manufacturing operations to meet on time requirements.• Ensured adherence to master plans and schedules among all departments.MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING• Engineering of production processes and protocols (machining, assembly, brazing).• Engineering of thermal processes and protocols (braze and heat treating).• Validation of quality control with customers (AS9100, ISO9000:2001, QS9000, NADCAP).• Managed process improvement Kaizan teams and lean manufacturing implementation efforts via value stream mapping, 5-S, Floor Motion (spaghetti) diagrams, and concepts of six sigma.• Verification of materials, equipment and supplies from vendors.• Preparation of chemical etch cleaning baths and cleaning protocols for vacuum brazed alloys.• Non destructive and destructive testing of thermal processing results utilizing Rockwell hardness, IACS conductivity, percent alloy diffusion in accordance with AMS 2770 and MIL 6088.• Calibration and maintenance of vacuum furnaces, pumps and vacuum monitoring equipment per AMS2750 (Stokes, Varian, PVT, Televac and Fredericks). Show less

Scheduled manufacturing operations to meet on time requirements.Ensured adherence to master plans and schedules among all departments.

Responsibile for all supervisory actvities on office furniture manufacturing Value Stream. Provided supervisory activity to 25 to 30 employees on two shifts.