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Vancouver, Washington, United States

Improved overall plant reliability by restoring OEM conditions, improving preventive maintenance, introducing condition-based maintenance, and promoting a RCA and fix-it-right mentality to maintenance.Hire, train, and retain maintenance personnel.Implemented and manage eMaint CMMS Capital projects including converting equipment installations air compressors and compressed air system upgrades, obsolescence upgrades including motors and VFD's.Implemented condition-based maintenance.

Clatskanie, Oregon

• Managed automated guided vehicles, a paper towel converting line, chillers, air compressors, cooling towers, air handlers, and exhaust fans. • Assist with troubleshooting, conducted Root Cause Analysis for significant failures. Refine PM’s using data from past failures. , implement operating envelope.• Improved safety and reliability of AGV’s by learning to reliably reproduce failures, then working with supplier to eliminate failure modes.• Worked with AGV supplier to test and implement software, hardware, and firmware upgrades.• Managed projects including machine upgrades, construction projects, large repairs and upgrades for conformance with Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification• Provided support for shipping and warehouse operations.• Significantly improved reliability for steam chillers by upgrades, improved PM's, developing Operating Envelope limits, and operator training.

Clatskanie, Oregon, United States

• Responsible for improving availability, identifying and eliminating waste, and benchmarking and determining costs for converting and papermaking equipment. Duties include conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA's) for failures, analyzing maintenance plans and procedures, calculating cost of maintenance, downtime, and energy usage, analyzing effects on production due to maintenance, operating setpoints or product changes.• Create reports including dashboards, weekly and monthly reports on metrics such as OEE (rate, uptime, yield), production, delivery statistics, centerline adherence. Get data using different front ends to SQL databases, PARCView, or Excel add-ins PI DataLink for pivot tables, or DataPARC.• Perform statistical analysis of process variables on manufacturing using F tests, T tests, correlation, means, or trendlines. • Conduct or facilitate root cause analysis for problems paper machines using either 5 Why’s or Kepner Tregoe analysis. Initiate and track corrective actions for root causes. Use Management of Change system for actions subject to MOC.• Analyze and benchmark costs (corrective maintenance, preventive, labor, energy, and downtime) for equipment in papermaking and converting. Check for data errors in reporting and resolve problems.• Supervision of hourly employees at times.• Prepare current ERP system for conversion to SAP.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Managed the engineering and maintenance activities for equipment including: writing energy control procedures and other work procedures, troubleshooting breakdowns, implementing and managing preventative maintenance plans, analyzing failures, making pareto’s, purchasing and installing equipment upgrades, designing proprietary equipment upgrades, coordinating maintenance activities including shutdowns. Equipment responsibilities were: Gas Room - diborane, phosphine, HCl gas cabinets and TCS saturators, silane and nitrous bunkers; ASM Epsilon Epitaxy Reactors; Centura HT 5200 Epitaxy Reactors. WJ-999R, Mattson Aspen III PECVD, ASM A400 PVD, Thermco Poly PVD, and SemiTool Equinox • Installed new equipment including four ASM Epitaxy reactors, one ASM A400 Poly Furnace, one WJ-999R LTO Furnace, two AMAT Centura Epitaxy reactors, one Mercury Probe.• Assisting in moving laboratories including making or revising equipment layouts, facilities matrix for equipment, coordinating activities with contractors, coordinating shutdowns with contractors and operations, supervising equipment moves to new laboratories.• Supervised a plant-wide safety review for chemical and gas safety of all production processes.• Mentored engineering interns on various tasks: reading schematics, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and equipment modifications.• Installed Retrofitted one reactor hall including rebuilding saturators, gas cabinets and repiping utilities.• Designed, built and installed wafer transfer equipment and metrology equipment.• Completed $8 million in capital projects

Manage projects including the purchase and installation of equipment, construction of warehouses, loading docks, clean rooms, laboratories, office space.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Physics, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi Sigma

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering, 3.73

Activities and Societies: Engineering Honors Program, Magna Cum Laude

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.63