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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.• Interacted with Hotel management and local business owners to promote product features and increase sales.

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 facilities. • 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.• Coordinated the activities of sales, design and manufacturing associates to implement product design changes that reduced field return rates by 10% and saved $50K in scrap cost. • Restructured internal and external product quality control systems and procedures at production sites and suppliers to increase production yields from 90 to 95%. Led Material Review Board (MRB) teams and coordinated the efforts of an international production team, marketing and the end customer to test and yield existing product in the field to avoid scrapping $40K in material cost. Investigated and addressed customer complaints on product field performance. Customer negotiations secured a pending $500K order.

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 product cost, quality and delivery on all manufactured and OEM purchased products.• 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.• Sourced over $2M worth of raw materials from 20 suppliers worldwide.• Purchased and installed over $200K worth of tooling, production fixtures and test equipment.• Created and maintained all manufacturing documentation for sourcing, assembling, testing and shipping 11 product SKUs. • Produced over $800K worth of product forecasted by engineering and sales teams.• Worked with internal manufacturing teams and outside suppliers to investigate and correct problems with existing production processes and equipment that were contributing to low product yields and field failures.• Implemented a quality control system that resulted in 98% line yield and 99% shipped on time performance.

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 including budget, project planning/scheduling, product quality improvements and NPI (New Product Introduction) support. Coordinated the activities of a 10 engineer staff to accomplish planned projects on budget and on schedule.• 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.• Managed 4 lean manufacturing projects that increased manufacturing line yields from 75% to 98%. • Worked with cell leaders and associates to implement lean manufacturing process improvements that increased monthly production by 50% on the highest volume line, generating over $2.5M in additional revenue.• Participated in Material Review Board (MRB) and reduced raw material costs by $1.5M by testing and qualifying 4 substitute electronic components on 2 products.• Worked with purchasing and incoming inspection to define inspection and sampling plans.• Installed a reliability data base for tracking manufacturing rejects and product field return data.• Setup quality stress screen process for a high volume circuit board assembly that reduced workmanship errors and resulting scrap by over 10%.

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, drove continuous improvement and maintained change control. Supervised junior level engineers and technicians.• 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.• Worked with cell leaders and associates to implement JIT, KANBAN and lean concepts that improved line yields by 15%. • Worked with cell associates to perform root cause analysis on products which had failed at assembly or in the field.• Supported IT and software engineers in the deployment of network servers and manufacturing programming stations required for configuring product for customer use.

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 and production qualification. • 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 time electronic vehicle and package tracking.

Bs, Electronics Engineering

As, Communications Engineering Technology

As, Electronics Engineering Technology