Steven Duff Email & Phone Number

Everett, Washington, United States

Contract Industrial Engineer for Boeing 777x flight test program responsible for leading the development of data bases and spreadsheets to analyze data and providing expert analysis and metrics to Manufacturing, Quality and Engineering to successfully certify the aircraft.

Fort Worth, Tx

Industrial engineer responsible for producing and analyzing metrics to eliminate shortages- improve availability of commodity across Aeronautics enterprise via enhancements to ordering methods, data analysis and user feedback

Camarillo, Ca Facility

Contract Manufacturing Engineer for EATON responsible for all phases of manufacturing, including, tooling, MRP data, work instructions, and general technical leadership and shop floor support.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Provided daily logistical support delivering food and beverage to major airlines at LAX for one of the world's largest in-flight caterers. Responsible for the receiving, inspection, storage and verification of proper documentation for all deliveries.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Contract Industrial Engineer for leading aerospace manufacturing companies. Identified inefficiencies, made recommendations for improvements and worked with manufacturing team members to integrate solutions.- Remained on staff after CEO order to cut all contractors not meeting SpaceX standards of excellence.- Identified two days of prep work prior to paint that was being done both in-house and at the vendor.- Proposed deleting non-value added 2D drawing from the build package to reduce the cost of future changes.

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for increasing product quality, improving costs while maintaining highly dynamic costumer demand for flight critical avionics and actuators for the Unmanned Air Vehicles. Determined the cause and corrective action related to part defects by working with QA and the responsible party.- Reduced time to test circuit boards 60% by linking PCs with test meters automatically logging test results.- Transitioned avionics for the latest unmanned air vehicle (UAV) into production on time and within budget (1M).- Reduced lead-times up to 50% by eliminating non-valued inspections by applying six sigma and lean principles.- Reduced labor by 6% per air vehicle by offloading the cutting of 1000+ wires to a NC wire-cutting center.

Greater San Diego Area

Represented operations in the engineering change process with final signed-off on all EOs and ECNs. Tracked plans and schedules, performed risk analysis, identified, and resolved critical path by creating workaround plans.- Took over a 6 month old failing shop floor reporting project, completing it in 1 month using OOP techniques.- Managed the incorporation of 20 ECN for the OT&E of the latest UAV by providing daily status for each ECN.- Doubled the # of ECN's reviewed each week by creating a dashboard with real-time info and metrics.- Avoided $1.6 M in rework by using data from line checks to show the root cause was wrong.- Led repair for a Notice of Escape on delivered and in-production vehicles without disruption.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Designed, developed, implemented, and managed Project Management Information systems used by Operations Project Managers to assess issues and identify deviations and/or impacts to the program-controlled baseline. Performed system integration and application development support under the direction of the sector Program Management Office. Provided crucial program information on demand, drafted action plans and led meetings with IPT and functional managers to review project status and proposed changes.- Avoided implementation of Microsoft Project Server by using Microsoft SQL Server instead for scheduling data.- Eliminated weekend OT of four input clerks required to update ECDs by automating the process with a Windows API and VB script.- Created metrics and procedures used to reduce the number of behind schedule designs to less than 50 from 500.- Reduced scheduling errors from 5% to <.1% by creating automatic check using MS project VBA.- Offered a permanent position after two months as a contractor by demonstrating the power of custom Microsoft Office applications.- Nominated for Sectors' President Award for creating a report with delivery and ECN status allowing material org. to be proactive.

Chula, Vista, Ca

Investigated and analyzed manufacturing process, methods, manpower, facilities, tooling, schedules, and other factors that associated with fabricating the components needed to build nacelles, thrust reversers, and pylons for large commercial and military aircraft. Led Value Stream Mapping Standard Work, 5S, TPM, and Set up Reduction, Kaizen events.- Applied lean principle to acquire an additional $5M to rebuild machinery rather than outsourcing.- Saved $7M dollars of recurring rework t by managing the re-engineering of 5000+ tools.- Reduced the time required to update evolving budgets by converting linked Excel worksheets to Access.

Greater San Diego Area

Developed and improved manufacturing processes by studying product and manufacturing methods

Palmdale, Ca

Established and improved work systems by studying facility layout, work flow and work methods

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial And Systems Enginereing

Master'S Degree, Mangement Information Systems