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Wayne, New Jersey, United States

Clifton, Nj

• Successfully managed a team of essential employees during the COVID-19 crisis, maintaining focus on employee safety and customer deliveries while participating in the contingency planning during the ongoing pandemic.• Served as the first MCA Value Stream Manager (VSM) after a restructuring of the Assembly, Test, and Manufacturing Engineering departments.• Generated the standard work and deliverables for all Value Streams: capacity plans, cross training matrices, on time delivery (OTD), work in process (WIP), and nonrecurring engineering (NRE) tasks.• Developed the strategy for the MCA and Final Assembly (FA) Value Streams; staffing, scheduling, overhead, WIP levels, continuous improvement, constraints, and capital equipment to meet the Internal Master Schedule (IMS).• Ensure OTD and direct labor utilization expectations are met through management of schedule and departmental headcount.• Develop high performing teams of bargaining unit and technical staff through hiring, coaching, performance evaluations and training.• Increased customer critical MCA output 25% by focusing on assembly technician training, creating detailed rework instructions, utilizing automation and increasing first pass yield results. • Increased output of Customer Service hardware by 60% while reducing the quantity of Mission Impaired Capability Awaiting Parts (MICAP) for Customer Service hardware by streamlining the process of testing and repairing Customer Service hardware.• Led the efforts to coordinate Manufacturing, Design, Mechanical and Quality Engineering to perform failure analysis, root cause analysis, and create the corrective actions of quality failures.

Clifton, Nj

• Championed the effort to successfully reintroduce a customer critical assembly back into the production area by generating the Value Stream Map (VSM), leading automation initiatives and presenting the Manufacturing Readiness Review (MRR) to the external customer.• Co-Led Clifton’s New Product Development (NPD) program which created the structure for future programs to follow and developed Design for Manufacturing (DFM) guidelines for use by all future designs.• Co-Led a Kaizen effort in the MCA Area to reduce the cycle time on an EMD program resulting in projected total savings of $350,000 for the LRIP contract.• Contributed to the L3Harris Lean Transformation by completing Lean, 5S+1, ergonomics training and applying it to the MCA Area.• Reviewed part drawings, assembly layouts and attended design reviews to ensure the manufacturability of new designs.• Collaborated with mechanical engineers and machine shop technicians to design fixtures for automated assembly that were utilized across multiple process steps to reduce part handling.• Programmed automated equipment to assemble MCAs that improved reliability, reduced cycle time, decreased variability and increased throughput.• Updated outdated operating procedures, generated OPs and process books for new processes and equipment.

Clifton, Nj

• Implemented VBSS project that increased yield 33%, a savings of $62,700 over a 3 year period.• Increased yield due to flatness of substrates by 20% utilizing VBSS principles to develop a new process.• Trained and certified new and existing substrate fabrication employees in all steps of the manufacture of LTCC substrates.• Generated tooling files for various pieces of equipment from CAD model while optimizing manufacturability and providing feedback to design engineer for improvement of future designs.• Repaired and provided preventative maintenance on equipment used in the manufacture of LTCC substrates.• Created custom dicing saw profiles for each substrate and trained assisting engineers on the new saw’s use.• Functioned as department librarian for Cadence schematic layout tool as well as generated schematics and electronic parts lists for multilayer circuit card assemblies• Updated outdated operating procedures and generated OPs for new processes and equipment.• Provided senior staff with weekly status reports detailing the scheduling, conflicts, estimated time to complete, and any deviations from budget.• Ensured a safe workplace so there were no lost time accidents.

Somerville, Nj

• Prepared polymerization reactions utilizing GMP• Processed and tested polymer samples• Conducted experiments varying composition and reaction times• Performed a BSR test that spanned 40 days in vitro• Extruded polymer into sutures and tested their physical properties as well as BSR• Accumulated, analyzed, and presented data on polymer species

Morristown, Nj

May 2000 – August 2000 (3 months) Piscataway, NJ• Planned and tested scale-up techniques and continuous process equipment• Maintained a clean and safe work area in compliance with GMP• Conducted tests on finished products; including free fatty acid, moisture analysis, hardness, use-up, melting point, and cracking

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Corporate Innovation Concentration

Master Of Science - Ms, Management

Bachelors Of Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sigma Nu.