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Scaling Big Data and Analytics to IPG manufacturing sites.

Blythewood, South Carolina

Blythewood, South Carolina

Provide web handling and process development support to a new tape manufacturing facility.

Rochester, New York Area

Provide winding, conveyance, lamination, and nip mechanics process development, consulting, and training to worldwide manufacturing clients. Lead in house process development initiatives, fundamental modeling, as well as on-site process audits tailored to customer needs. Summarize data, generate summary technical reports, recommend / execute key initiatives to improve process robustness and decrease waste.• Highly successful training and process consultant initiatives have saved clients millions of dollars / year by improving client process capability, streamlining start-up costs, decreasing quality issues, and reducing waste. • Web Handling Trainer for 4-6 web handling workshops per year. These workshops were attended by process engineers and technicians from the US and abroad. These training workshops, which are held at the Optimation Media Conveyance Facility, are conducted 6 times / year and combine classroom theory with live demonstrations to illustrate important winding, conveyance and nip mechanic concepts. • Co-authored ‘Wireless Monitoring of Internal Wound Roll Pressures’ Technical Paper Received ‘best paper award’ at the 2013 International Conference on Web Handling, which was held at Oklahoma State University.• Authored and presented ‘Practical Process Considerations for Lamination’ paper at the 2010 Applied Web Handling Conference, held May 17-20, 2010 in Rochester, New York.

Provided process development and manufacturing process support for $20M/year optical film manufacturing factory. Recognized as a micro-replication process expert and instrumental in the process development of light management display films.• Successfully developed new processes and procedures which eliminated web induced apex defect generation during machine start-up, which saved in excess of $100,000K / year.• Leader of transfer reliability team which reduced transfer related downtime by 93% for a savings of $282,000 / year.• Key contributor to the attainment of an "industry best" 99.7% customer quality by integrating an on-line micro replication nip roller cleaner.• Developed process understanding which greatly improved product planarity and developed fitness for use planarity specifications.• Provided winding, conveyance and nip mechanics development and manufacturing support. • Web winding modeling led to a reduction of roll core waste and generating robust tension specifications for each product.• Nip pressure modeling was instrumental in the development of pressure roller specifications.• Co-developed and taught a conveyance and winding training course, specifically tailored to the micro- replication process, to Rohm and Haas technicians and engineers. AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS• Received Corporate Recognition Award (2002) from Eastman Kodak Company for work that avoided a supply crisis which threatened to shut down the manufacturing of professional film, saving Eastman Kodak millions of dollars.• US Patent Application 2006/0225827A1, 10/12/2006, “Process for forming polarizer plate,” patent pending.• US Patent Application 2006/0225831A1, 10/12/2006, “Process for forming polarizer plate,” patent pending.• Eastman Kodak Manufacturing Research and Engineering Certification in Design of Experiments and Advanced Statistical Analysis.

Product Development Engineer / Technician /Optical Display Team 2004 – 2007Provided product / process development of a lower cost method of manufacturing light management displays, which lead to the very successful development of a $15 million manufacturing / development facility, built in Rochester, New York. First full year sales exceeded $20 million. • Performed nip pressure characterization trials on prototype test equipment.• Defined critical machine requirements for conveyance, winding, and nip mechanics. o Used wound roll winding models, nip force modeling, and web to roller traction modeling to aid in defining machine requirements. • Was an integral part of the successful debug and commissioning of the new manufacturing / development equipment. • Analysis of machine process data using JMP, Excel and Matlab, delivered essential process understanding which systematically overcame many scale up challenges, to successfully deliver quality product.• Developed and documentation many machine processes and maintenance procedures.• Made significant improvements to the resin drying and vacuum delivery system improvement, which resulted in the product defect rate.

Performed process development experiments on prototype equipment and theoretical modeling to enable design of new product processes, improve manufacturing efficiency, and reduced waste. • Provided winding, conveyance, and nip mechanics support for worldwide manufacturing and converting.• Worked with the worldwide process club to create tension models of all Kodak sensitizing sites worldwide. o This intranet based model paid large dividends by uncovering a significant design flaw in a major capital upgrade in Kodak’s sensitizing plant in Brazil. • Taught bi-yearly classes in web conveyance and winding to Kodak engineers and technicians. • Modeled manufacturing processes to aid in defining design requirements, leading to more efficient manufacturing facilities, with less waste.• Prototyped capital manufacturing solutions to minimize risk and develop process understanding.• Published technical reports to enable efficient technology transfer. • Received an Eastman Kodak Corporate award for helping Kodak avoid a supply crisis which threatened to shut down the manufacturing of professional film. Kodak’s only supplier of film light lock material was unable to deliver material which met the dimensional specifications, which was causing film fogging.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Electrical Engineering Technology, 3.5

Aas, Business Administration And Management