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Dixon, Illinois, United States

• Identify and implement improvements along with the Manufacturing/Quality Engineer(s) that reduces annual cost, improve quality, and maximize customer satisfaction.
• Facilitated thru-put improvement processes. With this improvement head count was reduced by 3 giving the company more options for overall production manpower.
• Actively participate in identifying and implementing scrap reduction plans. Achieved scrap goal of 1.5% throughout the year. In addition, created a new scrap process to improve data collection and communication.
• Continually improved health, safety, and environment by leading the continuous research and implementation of “Best Practice” manufacturing/processing methods and processes.
• Ensured maximum safety, quality, capability and utilization of manufacturing/processing equipment and processes. Developed specific work procedures to minimize risks.
• Assist in the development and implementation of the Manufacturing/Quality Engineering Strategic plan.

Normal, Illinois, United States

• Partner with teams across the factory on the implementation, sustainment, and improvement of the Rivian Integrated Operating System (RIOS) through coaching, demonstrating, auditing, and assisting.
• Work with Department leadership to drive ownership of Metric Boards, and Continuous Improvement Boards by supporting and auditing the process of the area.
• Help hold teams accountable across the organization by tracking trends, project status, improvement idea flow, and closure of gaps to goals and audit scores.
• Lead by performing, sharing successes, mentorship/coaching, and becoming a source for problem solving, metric goals, and projects to improve performance.
• The ability to break down problems, understanding the process, and identify a more effective way if needed.

Belvidere, IL

• Ensuring conformance of Quality and processes along with coordinating engineering, tooling, and manufacturing changes.
• Coordinate all safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale initiatives.
• Worked with various departments and team members in preparing and presenting for company audits.
• Provide training and mentoring to Team members, Team Leaders, and fellow Supervisors regarding World Class Manufacturing techniques for problem solving and corrective action implementation.
• Interface with Global Program Management and Product Engineering to assure compliance to build requirements as well as to drive product changes necessary to improve quality.
• Created and modified Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) for various job operations around the plant. Developed station layouts for new processes.

Rockford, IL

• Use project engineering skills and MS Project to establish schedules, plans, manage resources.
• Obtained/coordinate/created various financial avenues such as breaking down cost for different task.
• Prepared weekly status reports for managers.
• Created various SOWs for new and existing parts.
• Oversee several different Obsolescence projects where I worked with suppliers on finding and testing a replacement. As well as create a plan for implementation.
• EVMS: Coordinate budgets, schedules, and manpower to align the work done with the given funds.

Rockford, IL

• Working with Senior Test Engineer to implement updates driven by customer change requests.
• Support troubleshooting of test equipment for the TVA of the THAAD Missile.
• Write and re-work various government documents for different departments and customers.
• Written ePAR+s and requisitions for various space programs.
• Written test documents, procedures, and created drawings/diagrams for various space programs.

Loves Park, IL

• Integration, Test & Validation Team: Lead and organize integration teams to complete time-restricted projects.
• Create and execute validation tests for all integrated projects.
• Projects valued from 100K to 1.5M while staying within budget and saving cost by reducing head count.
• Provide engineering support to all departments and vendors.
• Perform project management duties such as writing proposals, timetables, budgets, setting/meeting milestones and oversee of workers and vendors.
• Create and ran presentations for all levels of management.

Rockford, IL

• Trained existing team members on test equipment.
• Design and created assembly drawings including bills of materials and detail drawings for test equipment.
• Evaluated and adjusted existing designs and detail drawings to ensure products adhere to customer standards.
• Automated existing test equipment to reduce human error in the production environment.
• Daily troubleshooting of new and existing test equipment by using on the job training of LabView.
• Assist Senior Design Engineer with repairs and re-designs of various analog circuits.

Princeton, IN

• Assisted with installation of various telecommunication, power distribution, and plant circuitry projects.
• Worked closely with the Senior Plant Engineer to maximize efficiencies of plant operations while optimizing plant run time.
• Troubleshoot and identify process needs to maintain production levels and assists in the development of preventative maintenance programs.
• Performed assignments under the direct supervision of the Senior Plant Engineer.

Master’S Degree, Mba, 4.0

Masters of Business Administration Concentration: Project Management

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: NSBE Student Alummi Ass. Student Alumni Association Recognized by SIU Honors Program as a scholarship recipient