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Jessup, Md, Us

Jessup, Maryland, Us

• Closely collaborate with and directly report to the President/CEO with 6 direct reports and a total team of 24 personnel.• Tasked with overseeing design engineering, manufacturing engineering, factory operations, and procurement.• Achieved substantial success with direct reports consistently scoring in the 95th percentile compared to similar companies in overall engagement measured over 6 years and across 3 company surveys.• Served as a project manager and technical lead for the company’s most ambitious project in its history, to completely reimagine and implement a new Lean factory capable of handling operations for the next 5 years, a $2.5M project successfully completed in 2017.• Orchestrated the replacement of an antiquated, paper based order to ship process with a completely paperless process, resulting in a 40% reduction in cycle time and a change in service levels from 2-5 days to same day ship.• Spearheaded the development of the company’s strategic deployment methodology based on the Lean concept of Hoshin Kanri with an emphasis on all levels of the company in the same direction with defined projects, responsibilities, deliverables, and KPIs.• Administered a kaizen event to drive improvements in the speed of vendor invoice processing and to more consistently take advantage of term discounts, leading to a reduced payment cycle time for the accounts payable team and a savings of $50,000 annually• Drove a reduction in customer facing shipping defects from 2.4% to 0.3% through employment of Jidoka concepts and techniques.• Carried out the effective implementation of a Kanban-based inventory system through utilization of visual buffers to allow production personnel to plan their daily work without a schedule, knowledge of the ERP system, or a production planner.

• Cooperated effectively with and directly reported to the Division President and oversaw 4 direct engineering reports.• Leveraged Lean principles to successfully direct and complete a $1.8 million factory project, including the installation of new CNC machines and a complete overhaul of manufacturing processes.• Instituted a significant reduction in product changeover times in factory from 8 hours to one minute, shifting the way the company operated and eliminating the batch processing of parts to achieve one piece flow.• Led the establishment of the company’s first production metric that provided a common measurement for the entire company to understand factory capacity and output.• Played a key role by operating diligently to become the company’s Lean champion and subject matter expert.

• Served as project manager and lead engineer for aerosol photometry equipment projects and sustainment engineering.• Effectively employed analytical skills developed during project management certification to recover a troubled project that became the company’s most profitable product line.• Orchestrated all elements of the design and prototyping a photometer through utilization of quick manufacturing techniques, including 3D printing and short life molds to reduce time to production launch and fast track the schedule.• Operated in a pivotal capacity by patenting the first intelligent probe used in photometry, resulting in a drastic decrease in the time necessary to test a HEPA filter by eliminating unnecessary process steps.• Carried out the effective administration of multiple vendors in multiple industries providing a broad knowledge of manufacturing techniques, including PCB/PCBA, sheet metal, CNC machining, membrane switches, wire harnesses, etc.• Advocated for and championed the layout of the factory manufacturing cells using Lean principles, leading to a reduction in material transportation waste from 1.1 miles in previous layout to less than 200 ft.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

• Oversaw the design, commissioning, and installation of a custom agar filling machine capable of producing $5M parts per year, including pucks with embedded RFID tags carrying glass tubes and digital batch information along a continuous conveyor where the tubes were filled, packaged, and labelled.• Directed all aspects of a $1.4M project to design, install, and validate machine capable of filling $45M bottles a year in Cayey, Puerto Rico, with a granulated resin being dispensed into glass jars through vibration before being filled with liquid growth media, capped, and packaged.

Munich, De

• Provided supervision and leadership to direct reports consisting of two engineers, four technicians, and 12 machinists.• Led the effective implementation of a CAD/CAM software for the machining department, achieving a 10% reduction in yearly operating expenses.• Spearheaded the creation and development of inline quality monitoring of machining operations to ensure success.• Oversaw an ongoing manufacturing process that produced over 8,000 parts per day with tolerances on the micron level.

Munich, De

• Six direct reports - two engineers and four technicians• Accountable for $1.2 million department budget and $1 million in capital equipment• Successfully completed project to design and build custom test bench capable of operating fuel injectors at -20 degrees Celsius with Labview control system• Accountable for maintaining ISO 9001 and TS16949 standards in department• Promoted to Prototype Machining Manager in 2006

Munich, De

• Utilized hydraulic, kinetic, magnetic, and electro-mechanical principles to design and test next generation diesel fuel injector concepts capable of 45,000 psi• Tasked with design and construction of custom equipment to test proof of principle concepts and complete comprehensive test reports• Incorporated piezo-electric technology in fuel injector design to create a prototype that reached 7 injections per second• Responsible for preparing Pro-Engineer CAD models for computer simulation• Capitalized on Six Sigma tools, especially DOE’s, to find problems with designs and concepts • Performed all testing on fuel injector prototypes and regularly presented results to upper management• Promoted to R&D Test Manager in 2005

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Pmp Certification