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Kutztown, Pa

Manufacturing of Multi-Function Z-tools in support of retail industry to optimize efficiency and increase productivity.

Kutztown, Pa

Support service operation covering wide spectrum of dental/medical instruments such autoclaves, ultrasonic clearing, X-ray system and high speed fiber optic dental headpiece.

•Lead member of Quality Management Team tasked to maintain ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Program for the design, manufacture, installation and service of wet processing and single wafer cleaning and etching systems.•Implemented and sustained a Customer Complaint/Material Review Board Program interacting with manufacturing and Field Service Groups.•Conducted quality internal audits, issued reports and facilitated corrective/preventive actions.•Maintained supplier quality and incoming materials 1st article inspection program.•Represented Quality Assurance on Product and Process continuous improvement teams.•Performed new supplier evaluation and audit to insure compliance to ISO quality standards

•Initiated, led, and successfully reduced equipment downtime by 30% through proactive implementation of predictive PM program that maintained semiconductors manufacturing equipment of fiber-optics, lasers components.•Managed on time equipment modifications and projects upgrade. Interfaced with engineering and sub-contractors in design and implementation of new equipment installation and service.

•Managed facilities maintenance and process equipment PM programs (Mechanical, Electrical Systems, HVAC, Chillers, Boiler and Process Equipments).•In addition to facility responsibilities was tasked to manage thin film coating manufacturing group with operational responsibility that improved yield and throughput by 30% by initiating continuous improvement program.•Designed and built R&D prototype process gas distribution baffle and spattering protective liner for RF/DLC thin film coating chamber that resulted in the successful implementation of new coating process for medical implant devices such as heart mechanical valves and hip joint implant resulting in three (3) year contract award.•Led technical team that designed and implemented heat exchanger cooling system resulting in adding additional cooling capacity that allowed installing two (2) additional synthetic CVD diamond reactors eliminating the need to purchase $90K process cooling chiller•Led technical team that modified ultrasonic cleaning systems into 3 separate cleaning loops to meet tight cleaning specification before applying surface DLC coating on medical devices and optical lens.