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Costa Mesa, California, United States

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Senior mechanical parts supplier quality engineer for laser interferometry product line that enables nanoposition measurement. I bridge the gap between procurement, product design and production and lead mechanical parts design for manufacturing, root cause & corrective action, and supplier quality.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Led supplier research and development scoping, requirements and audits for mechanical parts and assemblies from NPI into production for new product line.

Union City, Ca, Us

Lead technical project engineer and mechanical engineer for GCM's robotics surgery division. Responsible for new NPI product launch while increasing internal product yield for legacy product lines, decreasing customer return rate by 30% while deliveries increased by 20% YoY over 3 years.Relevant Responsibilities• Demonstrated manufacturing excellence in: sheet metal, castings, extrusions, robotic welding, horizontal and vertical milling, turning, electo-mechanical assembly (FATP), CMM, and finishing.• Led quality automation effort: built dashboards and queries in Epicor ERP system, connected these to external resources such as data stored in our quality data warehouse, and manipulated this data using common Python libraries, Smartsheets, and Excel for customized rework flows and real-time reporting & weekly/quarterly/yearly data analysis.• Designed and implemented Design-of-Experiment (DoE) to customize setups and flow of more than $1M in purchased material using Minitab. Worked with client NPI and engineering teams to reduce teardowns from 10/year to 0 YoY.• Owned JDM for NPI, Non-Conformance and Corrective Action closure, material and defect dispositions, Production Part Qualification Process (PPQP), Special Process Validations (SPvs), product line sustaining, and supplier industrialization.• Identified and implemented continuous improvement projects with focus on first pass yield, capacity enhancement and cost reduction.• Helped create and present quarterly business & quality reviews to internal and client senior management.

Built and led a cross-functional team of four full-time engineers to develop a patent-pending, inductively charged sports mouthguard to help coaches, parents, and trainers highlight athletes at risk of concussion.Relevant Responsibilities• Designed low-level ARM Cortex-M0 & M4 MCU power profile and IMU sensor data flow using both high-speed i2c and SPI.• Owned layout design, RFQ, EMS, assembly, and test for ultra low-power PCB's, from initial prototypes, which were made in America, into production, which were manufactured at scale. • Decreased height of primary pcb by 10%, raised high-g reliability, and lowering COG/unit from $500 to $50, while replacing BGA components with reliable QFN alternatives.• Led component selection, circuit design, and CAD Altium, Solidworks and Mastercam.• Owned production and supply chain of fixtures, mechanical components, and packaging.• Drafted technical requirements for connected hardware, firmware, mobile, and web subsystems capable of collecting, transporting, storing, and analyzing thousands of sensor outputs per second.• Spearheaded market research, pitch deck creation and relationship building with investors and top-tier sports organizations, including Division-1 and professional football teams.

Worked as a member of a small team of engineers to design, fabricate, and deliver a variety of custom electromechanical and embedded systems products to clients over four consecutive seasonal internships. In most cases design, prototyping, design for manufacturing, supply chain management and fabrication was done in-house.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

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