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Salem Oregon

Salem, Oregon

• Planned, directed and executed product sales and marketing strategies required to grow the existing sales territory and achieve planned financial results.
• Created product sales and marketing plan for supporting a 15 Hotel customer base in 10 Oregon cities.
• Generated all necessary project documentation including business plan, revenue forecast and product literature.
• Researched and reported new industry trends, developments, technologies, market size, competitive analysis, distribution channels, market strategies, and other relevant data within market segments.
• Translated customer requirements into product specifications.
• Developed and implemented strategies to increase market adoption and manage partner relationships.

• Manufacturing Engineering Project Manager, Tualatin, Oregon 2008 – 2009Managed projects that reduced costs, increased operational efficiencies and improved quality on electronic security products at 2 GE production.
• Consolidated manufacturing operations for 20 products that saved $200K in annual labor costs.
• Implemented lean manufacturing improvements in a product returns department that saved $50K in labor costs.
• Specified and coordinated implementation of complex production equipment, gages, fixtures, jigs, tooling and test devices.
• Created and maintained product drawings, bills of material and engineering change documentation.
• Worked with cell associates to perform root cause analysis on products which had failed at assembly or in the field.

• Created Global Production team and coordinated their activities in the U.S., Sweden and Germany to set up manufacturing capability and meet project manufacturing milestones and critical deadlines. Responsible for.
• Created and managed a 25 member international manufacturing team and $3M budget.
• Developed low volume, 5K per month, production capability in Sweden for 11 new electronic security products used to secure cargo in oceanic shipping containers.
• Facilitated quick introduction of new products by hands-on development with engineering, finance, marketing, IT and program management teams.
• Managed all manufacturing operations: planning, purchasing, materials handling, inventory and inventory control, receiving, shipping, and manufacturing engineering.
• Coordinated with OEMs and contract manufacturers on new product introduction and JIT deliveries.

• Planned, directed and executed manufacturing engineering activities to achieve planned results, improve product quality and reduce costs. Oversaw day to day operations of the manufacturing engineering department.
• Managed a staff of 10 with a $2M budget.
• Participated in new product introduction projects, design reviews and concurrent engineering activities. Contributed to the successful development and launch of 12 new electronic security product lines into production.
• Created and maintained product drawings, bills of material and engineering change documentation.
• Specified and coordinated implementation of complex production equipment, gages, fixtures, jigs, tooling and test devices.
• Led cost reduction projects that saved over $2.5M in material and labor costs beating the goal by $100K.

• Provided technical product support in the areas of manufacturing processes, procedures and product design to ensure products were manufactured to required specifications. Identified and resolved product quality issues.
• Provided Manufacturing Engineering support for 7 production lines and concurrent engineering NPI teams.
• Participated in new product introduction projects, design reviews and concurrent engineering activities. Released 5 new security product lines into manufacturing.
• Interfaced with engineering, quality, document control, purchasing, finance, marketing, IT and program management teams.
• Created and maintained product drawings, bills of material and engineering change documentation.
• Specified and coordinated implementation of complex production equipment, gages, fixtures, jigs, tooling and test devices.

• Directed all phases of NPI product testing from initial design up to and including production qualification. Testing responsibilities included product level, system integration, design verification, field acceptance.
• Translated system operational requirements into environmental design and test requirements to allow independent laboratory and field evaluation of critical design specifications.
• Generated all necessary project test documentation including test plans, test procedures and test reports.
• Interacted with project, manufacturing and quality engineers to identify design deficiencies and implement corrective action
• Completed design verification testing on 2 new UPS package tracking systems that were deployed nationwide in 1994 and allowed UPS to compete with rival FEDEX. Both systems replaced UPS’s older paper systems with real.

Bs, Electronics Engineering

As, Communications Engineering Technology

As, Electronics Engineering Technology