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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Promoted to Global Technical Leader to help mentor and develop multiple global teams deliver year over year operational excellence and productivity savings goals of total waste elimination. ➤ Instrumental in increasing product margins by 30% by developing and implementing cost out initiatives and creating conceptual designs to resolve complex system problems.➤ Spearhead and Co-create solutions by facilitating ideation workshops, derive cohesive corporate and business unit strategies, conduct cost walk analyses, and pave the way for implementation by developing business plans ➤ Arrange appropriate assignments and experiences to help team realize their potential and support their long-term aspirations. ➤ Develop and implement alternate designs, advanced manufacturing solutions utilizing a combination of Signify’s Digital transformation initiatives of lean principles, digitalization, and automation technologies to reduce cost by improving quality, efficiency, and productivity. ➤ Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) guidance in support of best practices, digital transformation to improve product life cycle, conversion of plants to smart factory, and improving value chain management by analyzing data and project activities in pursuit of continuous improvement goals.

Pechtree City, Ga

Led research projects for launching differentiated technology-oriented platforms for printed electronics, sensors, thick film, additive manufacturing, and integrated electronics. ➤ Won the Most Innovative Award for “Printed Electronics” at the Eaton Tech Fair in 2017.➤ Additive Manufacturing: Collaborated with Corporate Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence team on the adoption of additive manufacturing technology to solid-state Lighting enabled luminaires. Evaluated the transformational impact from a fully additive manufactured luminaire and contributed to $2M DOE proposal “Additive Manufactured Solid-State Luminaires.”➤ Real-Time Location Services: Liaised with RTLS project team and selected partners (tags and suppliers of location service) for integrating RTLS components and sensors into connected lighting luminaires. Installed and demonstrated the integrated technology in a manufacturing test location with people and asset tracking using employee and asset tags.➤ Center of Excellence collaboration: Execution and commercialization of new technology programs in cooperation with EATON’s Corporate Research team. Improved ability to design systems by creating business requirements and functional specs.➤ Metal to Plastic conversion: Led and implemented projects of converting metal to plastic; modified diecast to the thermal plastic heatsink generating $5M of revenue and $300K of cost savings.➤ MM-RFID G-Tech Project: Developed (with Georgia Tech) advanced concepts for occupant sensing and object location/detection using RFID and mm-Wave wireless technologies. Fabricated test hardware and demonstrated performance for a lighting application up to 30m range (potential of 80m) in a representative indoor environment.➤ Printed Electronics: Increased printed electronics R&D lab yield from 50% to 95% in six months; engineered solutions to improve HTHH tests results from 20 to 1000 hours; automated equipment to increase throughput from 22 to 160 parts/hr.

Peachtree City, Ga

Promoted to Principal Investigator for “Print-based Manufacture of Integrated, Low Cost, High-Performance SSL Luminaires” (DE-EE0006260), of a $5M Department of Energy Government grant which developed novel, insulated metal substrate technology for luminaires with integrated electronics. ➤ Reduced material content by 25% by integrating electronic, mechanical and printing techniques.➤ Reduced Total system cost by 40% to the baseline cost by incorporating advanced LED’s, printable circuits, Print on heat sink, Driver on Board solutions. ➤ Built a printed electronics R&D lab worth $1M and purchased equipment worth $1.2M.➤ Improved manufacturing throughput by reducing print-dry-fire cycle steps from 270 to 110.➤ Developed statement of work proposals for program sub-contractors; executed deliverables and milestones.

Peachtree City, Ga

Served as a vital liaison with Product Manager to ensure all product launches included best in class performance standards by performing competitive analysis, analyzing VOC, and conducting design reviews.Interfaced with the manufacturing team to select manufacturing location, capacity analysis and set up cells for mass production. Worked with the sourcing team to obtain component costs, parts, supplier selection and optimizing supplier based on the manufacturing location.➤ Led the design, development, testing, validation, and implementation of Outdoor Solid-State Lighting Luminaire’s from concept through production of sales in excess of $150M over three years.➤ Improved system efficacy by 20%, a thermal performance by 15%, driver efficiency by 5%; component reuse by 70%, and total system cost by 30%.➤ Reduced capital spending by $600K on tooling by negotiating prices and qualifying new vendors.➤ Recognized by leadership with the Eaton Product of the Year Award in FY’13 for a LED Luminaire product implementation.➤ Acted as a Technical Lead for two acquisitions with diverse cultures; added predictability to the integration processes and shortened product to market cycle by 50%.

Consumer & Industrial, Nc

Promoted to a Lead Manufacturing Engineer; implemented a program to determine optimum inventory levels for production and to allow for the ideal utilization of machinery, materials, and resources.➤ Assisted with a $30M Transfer of Work project implementation of castings, stampings, coil winding, moldings, and ballast manufacturing processes.➤ Led sourcing, technology, quality and manufacturing cross-functional teams using 6s tools to drive a real benefit of $700K vs. plan of $350K for TOW project related to molding operations. ➤ Corrected and reduced drawing errors by 20%.➤ Traveled to China to coordinate the end-to-end project with Chinese tooling vendors on all projects and to review the design for manufacturability with a Chinese assembly house.

Peachtree City, Ga

Brought on board as part of the Cost Out team; supported the Systems Engineer in developing design plans, project schedules, and facilitating project execution. Provided process capabilities and problem analysis to the R&D and Manufacturing Engineer teams.➤ Developed, maintained and implemented cost reduction and continuous improvement programs that saved $1.2M in material cost and $900K on productivity improvement.➤ Performed thermal, vibration and structural analysis using software simulation and implemented changes for material reduction and productivity improvement projects.

➤ Performed Thermal Analysis for the Generic Module of Electronic Transmitting with 50 W of power for each module to be operating at -25C to 50C.➤ Designed 3D models and 2D Drawings for the generic module using Pro/E for different cooling mechanisms (Air Cooling, Liquid Cooling, Heat pipes, Heat sinks, Graphite Foam, Heat spreader plates).➤ Performed thermal analysis using the fluid dynamics software ICEPAK, to maintain the temperatures of the critical components in electronic equipment within safe operating limits.➤ Reduced the number of nodes in the model using advanced meshing techniques to effectively calculate the solution for complex geometry.➤ Validated the designs with the experimental setup.➤ Recommended suitable materials and made design changes to resolve technical design issues to reduce the size and weight of the system.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering