Main Responsibilities: Roofing Test Method Development Lead (Shingles & Components), Pilot Line SupportTest Method Development: Led the creation and modification of 6 statistically validated lab test methods. These methods support the validation and verification testing for all granulated shingle products in the North American market.• Negotiation: Regularly negotiated with members of the Shingle Innovations group, focusing on enhancing associate safety, manpower efficiency, repeatability, and system reliability.• Benchmarking: Collaborated across the Owens Corning S&T site to benchmark processes and policies, consolidate best practices, and implement those within the RTL.• Documentation: Created new documents and processes within the RTL to increase overall development efficiency, align priorities, document methods, and distribute learning across the division.• Equipment Management: Handled equipment selection, design, and fabrication; process controls, operating procedures, and outside vendor negotiations.• EHS & Facilities Coordination: Coordinated with site EHS & Facilities to approve Job Hazard Analysis, Energy Source Determination, and Lock Tag Try for over 20 pieces of equipment.• Shingle Design Support: Involved in key initiatives supporting shingle design, focusing on reducing variation, increasing performance, and test analysis. Initiated cross-division collaboration and benchmarking of process and documentation.• Process Improvement: Designed and implemented new processes within the lab. Some of which increased FTE efficiency by over 800%.• Presentations & Publications: Delivered technical and poster presentations and published 5 internal memos & technical reports.• Intern Management: Led a summer intern, managing their schedules, performance reviews, and daily tasks.

Provide leadership and technical guidance for product performance and verification of function, durability, comfort and overall marketability of automotive seating products.

Active role with the ‘Master Seat’ development with a focus on customer comfort specifications and negotiations. International travel to correlate and complete the global development. Problem solving with a focus on product design, feasibility, functionality and manufacturing. Assisted in the development and implementation of product specifications negotiated internally and with the customer. Led the development of a new customer test specification and internal process and capabilities. Supported tech show demonstrations and ‘Proof of Concepts’ to development associate ideas into presentable and patentable technologies.

Test Engineer and New Product Development (Master Seat)Coordination efforts between multiple internal departments (domestic and international) and suppliers to complete validation testing on automotive seating products.

Engineer:I was responsible for updating part drawings, creating parts to print from old PDF drawings, modifying existing parts, using the PDM vault within SolidWorks 2014/15, creating and submitting engineering change requests, and using Catavolt. Part materials included polymers, metallic and sheet metal.Wet Lab Technician:My main duties included monitoring and testing products for lifetime testing and new product validation, dilution testing, soak testing and data acquisition.

• Utilized Matlab to determine process time for Additive Manufacturing as a Student Researcher.• Created display posters for the lab highlighting the success and achievements the members have attained.

• Implemented automated manufacturing cells.• Lead the research of a factory program and rewriting it for increased performance and functionality; presented it to the department. • Created an educational Excel document for Conditional Formatting and Calculating CPK & CP; distributed to the department.• Improved 5S practices (Sort, Straighten, Sanitize, Standardization, Sustain) in the facility by 20%. • Utilized SolidWorks and MasterCam to analyze and modify tool paths for multiple parts. • Attended several training classes.• Collaborated with Application Engineers, Integration Engineers and Service Engineers, Quality Control department, Makino management and Customers.

• Traveled internationally for new installs, option installs and warranty work. • Utilized SAP and Metrix to process paperwork.

• Designed control systems and system components as a Student Researcher. • Prepared, ran and analyzed various experiments while organizing data and contributing to academic reports. • Lead the group in designing several lab components to be used for experiments. • Utilized SolidWorks, LabView and ImageJ in the lab on a weekly basis.http://www.min.uc.edu/ucman/whats-new/ryan-buffington-joins-ucman/http://www.min.uc.edu/ucman/people/alumni

• Processed pre-install documents and assisted with customer relations. • Utilized SAP and Metrix to gather various documents to be distributed to the appropriate parties.